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Small Glimmers of Sanity Edition [News Bits]
- Obama to order $100 mil in budget cuts, also look for change in couch cushions
- The Hugo Chávez effect: book gift to Obama creates overnight bestseller
- Iran's Ahmadinejad makes unusual intervention in jailed reporter's trial
- "Green" products moving decisively into the mainstream
- General Motors to issue 1,600 pink slips
- Don't make National Public Radio's Michel Martin angry... you wouldn't like her when she's angry...
- Texas Rep. Joe Barton: "Wind is God's way of balancing heat."
- Stephen Hawking hospitalized, reported very ill
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