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Entries for September, 2009

President Barack Obama will go to Denmark for Olympics pitch

President Barack Obama will travel to Denmark this week to support Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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Pirates rout Dodgers, prevent clinching of West

ormer Dodgers prospect Andy LaRoche homered twice, doubled twice and singled, driving in six runs as the last-place Pittsburgh Pirates romped 11-1 Monday and again prevented Los Angeles from clinching the NL West.
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Texas Tech’s Mike Leach bans players from Twitter

Texas Tech players have been banned from having Twitter pages.
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Tate Forcier OK to play for Michigan Wolverines with sore shoulder

Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez says quarterback Tate Forcier’s sore right shoulder will not prevent him from playing Michigan State this week.
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Alabama Crimson Tide linebacker Dont’a Hightower to miss rest of season

No. 3 Alabama linebacker Dont’a Hightower will miss the remainder of the season.
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Theo Fleury drops comeback try, retires as a Calgary Flame

Theo Fleury has decided to give up his comeback attempt and retire as a member of the Calgary Flames.
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Rollout

Russian security officers walk along the railroad tracks as the Soyuz rocket is rolled out to the launch pad Monday, Sept. 28, 2009 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz is scheduled to launch the crew of Expedition 21 and a spaceflight participant on Sept. 30, 2009. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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The DNC wants you to make the case for health reform through YouTube

This weekend, Organizing for America and the DNC launched the “Health Reform Video Challenge,” which asks Americans to state their case for passing health care reform in 2009 through a 30-second YouTube video. All or part of the winner’s video may be used in a television ad associated with the DNC’s health reform campaign.
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Back to school with Google Docs

As interns on the Google Docs team this past summer, we were excited to be able to work on making Google Docs that much more useful for students like us. We’ve now added a bunch of back to school features which should help our fellow students make the transition from summer to school that much [...]

More insight into claimed content on YouTube

(Cross-posted from the YouTube Biz Blog)
We announced last week that we now have over 1,000 partners using our content identification and management tools to control how and where their videos are distributed on YouTube. Every major U.S. network broadcaster, movie studio and music label is …
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