State rejects colon-scan plan (The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star)

December 22, 2009

Virginia residents who want their colonoscopies done by CT scan in a doctor’s office will have to travel elsewhere for it or wait for the state to change its mind about the idea. Dr. Karen Remley, state health commissioner, has rejected plans for three such integrated virtual colonoscopy centers, including one in Fredericksburg….

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Harsh Realities Stand in the Way of a Leader’s Vision of a New Japan (New York Times)

December 22, 2009

A growing deficit, a spat with Washington, a campaign finance investigation and broken promises: Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s first 100 days in office in Japan have been anything but smooth.

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Bringing Bouquets and Gift Baskets Together (New York Times)

December 22, 2009

1-800-Flowers.com is shifting away from its namesake flower market, which relies on just a handful of holidays for most of its business.

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DonorsResource.org lets people “pay it forward” on the Web (The Oregonian)

December 22, 2009

A Lake Oswego woman creates a ‘virtual warehouse’ to connect donors and nonprofits

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Office for Mac to get Messenger A/V support in March (MacNN)

December 22, 2009

Microsoft has announced that Office for Mac is set to get beta support for A/V content in Messenger for personal users. The company’s MacBU GM Eric Wilfrid admits that the project is running late, as the added functionality was originally expected to be offered as a beta by the end of 2009. The service is currently in the “dogfood” stage of internal testing….

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Young & Hungry Weekly Newsletter (Washington City Paper)

December 22, 2009

Hugs and holiday wishes to Y&H’s virtual pal, Obama Foodorama (can you hug a virtual pal?), for alerting me to this year’s White House gingerbread house. It is a thing of beauty.

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DVD Tuesday: (223) Days of Her (LAist)

December 22, 2009

Young and breaking up. Having just gotten out of a relationship which had eerie parallels to (500) Days of Summer , I have no intention of seeing it anytime soon. You should, though. It’s wonderfully melancholy and real (excepting the amazing musical sequence with the animated musical bird). I was thrilled to see that District 9 made such a large impact at the box-office. It gives hope to those …

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Recession hits sales of Spain’s ‘El Gordo’ Christmas lottery (AFP via Yahoo! News)

December 22, 2009

Ticket sales for Spain’s annual Christmas lottery, the world’s richest in terms of prize money, which was drawn on Tuesday fell for the second consecutive year due to the recession.

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Video games take command of war epics as movies retreat from recent conflicts (Dallas Morning News)

December 22, 2009

Game makers are making huge bucks crafting patriotic entertainment pieces for which the movie industry used to be famous. Most notable of the new virtual epics is Modern Warfare 2 and its predecessor, both from California-based publisher Activision Blizzard.

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Rough Ride for Hatoyama After Landslide Election (New York Times)

December 22, 2009

A growing deficit, a spat with Washington, a campaign finance investigation and broken promises: Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s first 100 days in office in Japan have been anything but smooth.

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