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		<title>Michelangelo&#8217;s first painting acquired by U.S. museum</title>
		<link>http://www.newsvulture.com/2009/05/13/michelangelos-first-painting-acquired-by-us-museum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 12:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kimbell Art Museum will soon be the only U.S. museum to display a Michelangelo painting after acquiring his earliest known work, a rare treasure that was tucked away and doubted as authentic for more than a century. &#8220;The Torment of Saint Anthony,&#8221; is a 15th-century oil and tempera painting on a wood panel that depicts scaly, horned, winged demons trying to pull the saint out of the sky. Experts believe he painted it when he was only 12 or 13 years old. And only four such works — including this one — by the artist exist, and two of them are unfinished. Most of his paintings are frescos, the famous scenes on the ceiling and wall of Rome&#8217;s Sistine Chapel. Experts in the Met&#8217;s paintings conservation department carefully cleaned it by removing decades of dirt, as well as paint layers that art restorers had applied through the ages to fill in chips or dull areas, Lee said. When they examined the painting further using X-rays and infrared technology, they were able to see how the artist made certain brush strokes, scraped paint layers to achieve detail and even changed elements of the painting before the final version. The generations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Same-sex marriage bill passed in N.H. Senate</title>
		<link>http://www.newsvulture.com/2009/04/30/same-sex-marriage-bill-passed-in-nh-senate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sunbird</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Hampshire Senate have voted to allow same-sex couples to marry, setting the state in motion to become the fifth in the country to legalize same-sex marriage. New Hampshire&#8217;s House of Representatives has already approved the bill, but the Senate amended the language slightly before passing it on a 13-to-11 vote, meaning the House must approve the changes, reject them, or confer with the Senate before sending the bill to the governor. With House approval expected, supporters and opponents are closely watching Governor John Lynch, a Democrat who has opposed same-sex marriage in the past and has not indicated whether he would sign or veto the latest measure. On a day when the Senate also approved the use of medicinal marijuana, supporters of same-sex marriage hailed yesterday&#8217;s vote as a landmark victory for individual liberty in the &#8220;Live Free or Die&#8221; state. &#8220;It is such an important statement, especially to young people, to say if you are gay, if you are lesbian, you are no different,&#8221; said Claire Ebel, executive director of the state&#8217;s chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. &#8220;You have the same rights.&#8221; But opponents said the vote would undermine traditional definitions of marriage.]]></description>
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		<title>Swine Flu: A new Killer Virus</title>
		<link>http://www.newsvulture.com/2009/04/28/swine-flu-a-new-killer-virus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sunbird</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swine flu emerged in Mexico months earlier than previously thought, the country&#8217;s health minister has said, giving possible clues about the origins of the killer virus. Officials had previously said that the first recorded case of the H1N1 virus in Mexico was from a woman who died in the southern state of Oaxaca on April 12. Jose Cordova confirmed that a four-year-old boy in the eastern state of Veracruz had suffered from the virus as early as February. He survived the influenza. A sample from the boy was sent to a US laboratory for anaylsis after swine flu was discovered in America.The announcement came as the probable death toll from the virus rose to 152. However, Mr Cordova said there had been no evidence that a mutant human-to-human flu strain had emerged at that time. &#8220;We never had this kind of epidemic in the world,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This is the first time we have this kind of virus.&#8221;Mexico&#8217;s Agriculture Department said that inspectors found no sign of swine flu among pigs in the region, adding that no infected pigs have been found yet anywhere in Mexico. Swine flu has hospitalized almost 2,000 people in Mexico and spread to several countries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chrysler and Union enter Deal</title>
		<link>http://www.newsvulture.com/2009/04/27/chrysler-and-union-enter-deal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sunbird</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. automaker Chrysler showed signs of progress with its unionized workers in its battle to stay alive on Sunday with just days left to complete deals to slash labour and debt costs or face bankruptcy. No. 1 U.S. automaker General Motors is also restructuring in an effort to secure the government funding it needs to stay in business, and was expected to announce a fresh round of cost cutting on Monday. Chrysler &#8211; 80 percent controlled by private-equity firm Cerberus Capital Management CBS.UL &#8211; has been given until April 30 by the Obama administration to agree on cost-cutting deals with its creditors and the unions, plus cement an alliance with Italian automaker Fiat SpA. Failure to meet those goals could shut off access to U.S. government aid for Chrysler, leaving it facing potential liquidation. In a first significant step towards meeting those goals, the Canadian Auto Workers union on Sunday ratified a new collective agreement with the automaker that will save Chrysler about C$240 million (135.1 million pounds) annually. The union said its members voted 87 percent in favour of the new agreement. Chrysler has 8,000 unionized workers in Canada.]]></description>
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		<title>Chrysler preparing to file Bankruptcy</title>
		<link>http://www.newsvulture.com/2009/04/24/chrysler-preparing-to-file-bankruptcy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sunbird</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chrysler LLC is preparing to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as soon as next week, whether or not it reaches a deal with its lenders or forges an alliance with Fiat SpA, said several people familiar with the matter. If an agreement with the car maker&#8217;s lenders can be reached, Chrysler would file for bankruptcy protection to rid itself of some liabilities. That would let Fiat pick and choose which operations it wants, these people said. The U.S. government would provide bankruptcy financing while the reorganization plays out. The United Auto Workers union is on board with the plan and likely would end up owning a sizable stake in the restructured car maker, said these people. A relatively orderly bankruptcy filing along these lines would represent a measure of success for the Obama administration. But if a deal with Chrysler&#8217;s banks and Fiat cannot be reached, the company would begin the process of liquidation, with assets potentially sold to many buyers or shut down, said these people. Chrysler has shrunk radically in recent years but still employs 66,000 people in the U.S. Meantime, Fiat has begun talks with General Motors Corp. about joining forces in Europe and Latin America, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hackers didn&#8217;t steal critical data about the latest fighter jet</title>
		<link>http://www.newsvulture.com/2009/04/22/hackers-didnt-steal-critical-data-about-the-latest-fighter-jet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sunbird</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pentagon and Lockheed Martin, the lead defense contractor for the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, suggested yesterday that cyber-attacks had not caused any serious security breaches in the Pentagon&#8217;s most expensive weapons program. Still, defense and corporate officials said attacks on the Pentagon as well as the F-35 program are constant and former defense officials familiar with the program said some of the F-35&#8242;s less sensitive systems have been infiltrated by cyber-intruders. &#8220;We know we are probed on this every day. We have very aggressive defensive systems. The more sensitive the information, the greater the safeguards are,&#8221; said Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman. He said he was not aware of any sensitive F-35 technology having been compromised by a cyber-attack. The comments came in response to a Wall Street Journal story Monday reporting that cyber-attackers copied and siphoned off data related to design and electronics systems, &#8220;potentially making it easier to defend against the craft.&#8221; The F-35 is the Pentagon&#8217;s most expensive, complex and ambitious aircraft program. According to program estimates, the total investment required in the F-35 exceeds $1 trillion &#8212; more than $300 billion to buy 2,456 aircraft and $760 billion to keep them flying beyond their expected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British Treasury Chief to unveil recession budget</title>
		<link>http://www.newsvulture.com/2009/04/22/british-treasury-chief-to-unveil-recession-budget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sunbird</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[British Treasury chief Alistair Darling presents the government&#8217;s budget on Wednesday, with his options constricted after pumping billions into stabilizing a foundering economy. Some tax breaks intended to stimulate spending may be introduced or continued, but the government&#8217;s mounting debt has sown caution about any further big gestures &#8212; and some sort of tax increases appear inevitable. Economists&#8217; forecasts for the rise in borrowing for each of the next two years range from around £150 billion to £175 billion. That could push the budget deficit to as much as 12% of GDP, the highest since World War II. During the last recession in the early 1990s, debt peaked at 8% of GDP, but that downturn was nothing like this one. Since Mr. Darling presented his previous budget, the Treasury has had to rescue Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, taking a more than two-thirds stake in the business, and take a majority stake in Lloyds Banking Group PLC, which got into trouble after a government-encouraged takeover of Halifax-Bank of Scotland. The government spent £37 billion ($54.28 billion) to shore up those banks, and has insured £585 billion worth of their most risky assets. The International Monetary Fund reported Tuesday that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Govt, Fiat to Decide Chrysler Future</title>
		<link>http://www.newsvulture.com/2009/04/17/us-govt-fiat-to-decide-chrysler-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sunbird</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chrysler LLC&#8217;s future leadership will be determined by the U.S. government and Fiat SpA if Chrysler succeeds at merging with the Italian auto maker. Chrysler Chief Executive Officer Bob Nardelli, in a note to employees obtained by Dow Jones Newswires, said a new board of directors will be appointed by the federal government and Fiat once a deal is completed. The majority of the directors will be independent. &#8220;The board will have the responsibility to appoint a chairman,&#8221; Nardelli said in the letter distributed to employees via e-mail on Thursday. &#8220;The board also will select a CEO with Fiat&#8217;s concurrence.&#8221; Nardelli&#8217;s comments clarify speculation on who will control Chrysler if a merger deal with Fiat is completed and what role Nardelli might play in that new company. Chrysler is racing to secure new union cost-cutting deals, reduce its debt and ink a Fiat partnership before the federally mandated April 30 deadline. The Obama administration said it would not provide Chrysler additional access to low-interest loans if the requirements are not met, which could result in the third-largest U.S. auto maker filing for bankruptcy protection.]]></description>
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		<title>First puppy for the Obamas</title>
		<link>http://www.newsvulture.com/2009/04/12/first-puppy-for-the-obamas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sunbird</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The identity of the first puppy &#8212; the one that the Washington press corps has been yelping about for months, the one President Obama has seemed to delight in dropping hints about &#8212; leaked out yesterday. This despite White House efforts to delay the news until the big debut planned for Tuesday afternoon. The little guy is a 6-month-old Portuguese water dog given to the Obama girls as a gift by that Portuguese water dog-lovin&#8217; senator himself, Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. The girls named it Bo &#8212; and let it be noted that you learned that here first. Malia and Sasha chose the name, because their cousins have a cat named Bo and because first lady Michelle Obama&#8217;s father was nicknamed Diddley, a source said.]]></description>
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		<title>Chrysler has 19 days to decide on debt plan</title>
		<link>http://www.newsvulture.com/2009/04/11/chrysler-has-19-days-to-decide-on-debt-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sunbird</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With 19 days to go, talks among Chrysler LLC, the Obama administration and Chrysler&#8217;s creditors have yet to produce a firm proposal for how the company&#8217;s debt should be reduced, people familiar with the process said on Friday. President Barack Obama&#8217;s auto task force says it believes reducing the debts of Chrysler and General Motors Corp. is the key to making them viable, warning it could use bankruptcy to force whatever cuts it seeks. Chrysler has until April 30 to bring back a new viability plan; GM has until May 31. The automakers and the task force still haven&#8217;t given new proposals to the bondholders, but their pitches will be less generous than the automakers&#8217; previous offers that aimed to reduce overall debts by two-thirds. Chrysler&#8217;s debt talks pose a greater challenge than GM&#8217;s, and not just because its deadline is first. About 50 firms hold $6.8 billion in loans to Chrysler backed by the company&#8217;s assets, known as secured debt, which would be paid back in bankruptcy before the government&#8217;s $4-billion loan made last year. In its February plan, Chrysler warned that secured debtors might get between 11% and 43% of the value of their debt in a bankruptcy, [...]]]></description>
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