The first hint of trouble in trying to save endangered sea otters and protect fishermen competing for the shellfish the creatures eat was when bureaucrats drew a line in the ocean separating the two. That was followed by an unsuccessful attempt to create a…

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Hungry otters stray into fishermen’s territory

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will propose making a popular stimulus bond program permanent and expanding its use in the budget plan he presents on Monday, a U.S. Treasury Department official said on Saturday.

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Republican gubernatorial hopeful Meg Whitman is severing ties with an elected official who described himself as a “proud racist.” The Whitman campaign issued a statement Saturday disavowing Santa Clarita Councilman Bob Kellar. The statement comes one day…

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Former Philadelphia Eagles star Tom Brookshier has died at 78. The Eagles said he had cancer and died Friday night. Brookshier was an All-Pro defensive back who played on the Eagles’ 1960 championship team. He had 20 interceptions in seven seasons with the…

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Republican gubernatorial hopeful Meg Whitman is severing ties with an elected official who described himself as a “proud racist.” The Whitman campaign issued a statement Saturday disavowing Santa Clarita Councilman Bob Kellar. The statement comes one day…

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Whitman disavows ‘proud racist’ councilman

Lleyton Hewitt hobbled into a news conference on crutches Saturday to announce he had hip surgery and doubted he’d play again before the French Open. Hewitt’s hopes of ending a local drought at the Australian Open were stopped by top-ranked Roger Federer, who…

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Hewitt has hip surgery again; Court honored

Oregon’s state legislators are sitting pretty. At least prettier than most. When they go into session Monday, they do so with voters having approved new taxes on the wealthy and on businesses, adding about $727 million in state revenues during the next two…

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Oregon legislators say ‘Whew,’ go back to work

GETTY IMAGES The credit card industry will undergo its most sweeping overhaul in history when new regulations kick in next month. The new rules coming Feb. 22 don’t go so far as to prevent card issuers from raising your interest…

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New credit card rules are consumer friendly

RIYADH (Reuters) – The Saudi bourse regulator has ordered six investors to pay a total 278.1 million riyals ($74.16 million) for trading violations, it said in a statement on Saturday.

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Saudi regulator fines six investors for bourse violations

Below is the intro and link to an extract from the January S&P 500 MarketAttrubutes

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January, Oh The Fun We Had

Thousands of protesters from across Japan marched Saturday in central Tokyo to protest the U.S. military presence on Okinawa, while a Cabinet minister said she would fight to move a Marine base Washington considers crucial out of the country. Some 47,000 U.S….

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Toyota Motor Corp.’s handling of defective gas pedals that led to a record recall of vehicles in the U.S. will be investigated by Congress amid criticism that the automaker may not have acted quickly enough.

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PARIS (Reuters) – French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen said on Saturday it would recall nearly 100,000 cars because they have the same accelerator-related problems currently afflicting Japan’s Toyota .

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Treasury two-year notes fell for the first time this month after a government report showed the U.S. economy grew at the fastest pace in six years and the Federal Reserve upgraded its outlook on the recovery.

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s metals giant Norilsk Nickel expects to book a $2 billion net profit for last year after it ended 2008 with a loss of $449 million, Russian media reported on Saturday.

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Norilsk eyes $2 billion 2009 profit after loss: reports