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Where are the acorns? — CNN reports: Scientists baffled by mysterious acorn shortage: Up and down the East Coast, residents and naturalists alike have been scratching their heads this autumn over a simple question: Where are all the acorns? Oak trees have shed their leaves, but the usual carpet of acorns is not crunching underfoot. In far-flung pockets of northern Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and other states, scientists have found no acorns whatsoever. But closer reading reveals that it is lay people and amateur naturalists who are baffled, while scientists are not. Scientists are well aware that the oaks produce corn in cycles -... [Tags: 13 years, acorns, amateur naturalists, chipmunks, cnn]

VideoSift Clips of the Week — (Links open in a new browser window/tab) Wouldn't It Be Cool if US CEOs Were Like This? Here's a story of how the CEO of one of the world's top 10 airlines, Haruka Nishimatsu of Japan Airlines, deal with hard economic times. When JAL sliced jobs and asked older employees to retire early, Nishimatsu cut every single one of his corporate perks and for three years running slashed his own pay. In 2007, he made US$ 90,000, less than what his pilots earned. Kyung Lah of CNN reports: Link This Reptile is Pimpin' Mother Nature, it turns out, is... [Tags: armed robber, beauty school, caterpillar, ceos, chameleon]

ufo cnn reports on roswell again — CNN again on its Roswell special. The probably noticed their ratings going up after discussing the topic and decided to continue - just goes to show the media that their is a growing public interest in the ufo topic:... [Tags: cnn, cnn reports, public interest, roswell, ufo topic]

Over 100 Dead in Mumbai Terror Attacks — Photograph of the Taj Hotel, one of the buildings attacked, continuing to burn in Mumbai, India by Gautam Singh/AP Yesterday, a series of coordinated terror attacks in India's financial capital Mumbai left over 100 dead and hundreds injured. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the attacks probably had "external linkages," which the NY Times reports is the "first official indication that the authorities were likely to blame outsiders." The attackers have taken hostages, many of them foreign tourists; some have been released. The terrorists used automatic machine guns and grenades at two luxury hotels, a train station, the Jewish... [Tags: bruce hoffman, chabad center, cnn, cnn reports, dark forces]

Andy Worthington: Bin Laden's Driver To Be Released From Guantanamo; Government Defeated — Citing "several US sources," CNN reports that Salim Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden, who was convicted in a trial by Military Commission at Guantánamo during the summer for providing material support for terrorism, is to be flown out of Guantánamo on Monday, to serve the rest of his sentence in his native Yemen. At the end of his trial, a military jury refused to convict Hamdan on the more serious charge of conspiracy, and gave him a five and a half year sentence. His judge, Navy Capt. Keith Allred, then decided to take into the account the... [Tags: cnn, cnn reports, dictators, enemy combatant, half year]

Verizon cans workers who snooped Obama's cell phone, CNN reports — Verizon Wireless has fired an undisclosed number of employees who snooped into the cell phone records of President-elect Barack Obama earlier this year, according to CNN.... [Tags: barack obama, cans, cell phone records, cnn, cnn reports]

John Ridley: Obama and the End of the Military's Ban on Gays — Wouldn't that be novel; gay soldiers serving openly in the military. People willing to fight and perhaps die for freedom allowed to freely be themselves. With Barack Obama as president it's not just possible. Thankfully, it's probable. Out on the stump candidate Obama promised to work toward lifting the ban on gays serving openly, calling the ban is a "counterproductive strategy." A typically Obama-esque way to intellectualize what is a moral imperative: the obligation of the government to fight discrimination which, obviously, includes the institutionalization of "separate but equal." While this will not be an easy fight -- the passage... [Tags: abc news poll, barack obama, bizarro world, california congresswoman, clinton presidency]

Markets Continue Plummeting As Recession Fears Persist — The Dow and the S&P 500 both closed down about 5% today in a day of heavy losses. The Dow was down 443 points and closed below 9,000 amidst fears of a prolonged recession that even superhero President-elect Obama may be not be able to turn around. "Everything is so dismal right now, it's just an endless flow of bad news and no one wants to buy," despaired equity trader Dave Rovelli, who could really benefit by reading today's heartwarming good news about the Starbucks wedding proposal! CNN reports that investors are fearful about tomorrow's big monthly jobs report. Also,... [Tags: bad news, cnn, cnn reports, consumer spending, drag on]

Top McCain Aide Secretly Fired Last Week For "Trashing" Staffers — CNN reports that senior McCain aide, and chief foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann was fired a week before Election Day for "trashing" McCain staffers to the press over their handling of Sarah Palin: Randy Scheunemann, a senior foreign policy adviser to John McCain, was fired from the Arizona senator's campaign last week for what one aide called "trashing" the campaign staff, three senior McCain advisers tell CNN. One of the aides tells CNN that campaign manager Rick Davis fired Scheunemann after determining that he had been in direct contact with journalists spreading "disinformation" about campaign aides, including Nicolle Wallace and... [Tags: arizona senator, bill kristol, campaign advisers, campaign aides, campaign staff]

Preliminary Election Results By State (Update11) — Obama appears to have won with 338 electoral votes to McCain's 155, CNN reports.... [Tags: cnn, cnn reports, election results by state, electoral votes, mccain]

Funeral in Phoenix — CNN reports that attendees at McCain's "victory rally" have been cut off from the news. So unless they're checking their Blackberries and iPhones, they don't know the race is over. Update by MissLaura: This was emblematic of the McCain-Palin campaign's approach to information: Dana Bash is reporting on CNN from the campaign party. The campaign party where they have turned off the news and are just listening to Hank Williams Jr. as every possible path to a McCain victory is cut off. And then, right at the end of the segment, someone must have noticed CNN was discussing this, and... [Tags: attendees, blackberries, campaign party, cnn, cnn reports]

Palin Draws Favorable Interlocutor For 'Situation Room' Sit Down — Sarah Palin is set to give CNN their first interview, but by the looks of things, I wouldn't expect it to be a particularly rigorous one. As Mark Halperin reports, "Tuesday she'll be interviewed by CNN's Drew Griffin, to air on all three hours of the 'Situation Room.'" Naturally, Halperin's not clued into any of the relevant details, so here's what you need to know about Griffin: he's an investigative reporter, not the typical type to be doing a candidate interview. But it's not necessarily an odd fit, because Griffin was the reporter behind CNN's prior hagiography on Palin, Sarah... [Tags: annenberg challenge, barack obama, candidate interview, challenge fund, cnn]

McCain in Disarray, Iowa Edition — I think the McCain camp is in full-blown disarray. This reminds me a lot of the end-stages of another high-profile campagin earlier this year, with different "senior advisors" cracking wildly out of turn and deliberately seeking to undermine each other in the news media. Note that these remarks were made on the same day. Rick Davis (10/20/08): "We make decisions based on where we think we can play," Davis said, noting that polls he has seen place McCain closer to Obama. "The Iowa numbers look pretty good to me." CNN (10/20/08): CNN reports that top officials of Sen. John McCain's... [Tags: cnn, cnn reports, decisions, disarray, high profile]

Palin Admits Voters Irritated By Campaign Robocalls — CNN reports that Palin has admitted her campaign's robocalls have irritated voters, another instance of Palin going off-message: Wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and standing on a breezy tarmac, Palin said that if she had her way, the McCain campaign and the Republican National Committee would not be flooding battleground states with automated phone calls tying Barack Obama to former radical William Ayers, as they have done over the last week... "If I called all the shots, and if I could wave a magic wand," Palin said, "I would be sitting at a kitchen table with more and more Americans,... [Tags: attention span, barack obama, battleground states, campaigning, cnn]

Printed Sheets of OLED Lights Will Light Up Your Life [Oled] — CNN reports that General Electric has created a giant OLED panel printer to be specifically used for lighting. The "semi-trailer" sized machine prints out thin layers of flexible plastic, covers them with chemicals, and seals them with foil, so they'll glow a frosty blue-white if an electrical current is applied. But these OLED sheets aren't exactly lightbulb substitutes. Our current incandescent and CFL bulbs are super bright and super small, which is why we have to artfully cover them with lampshades or, in my case, a purple silk scarf, because I know what the ladies like. These new OLEDs are... [Tags: caveats, cfl bulbs, chemicals, cnn, cnn reports]

Wall Street Gets Sucker Punched By Main Street Via CNN iReporter — A hoax heard around the world traveled through the Mac community fast enough on Friday to have an immediate effect on Apple's already battered stock, causing as much as a 5.4 percent drop after a false story was posted on CNN's iReport website. The iReport in question claimed insider information that Steve Jobs was taken to the emergency room by paramedics after suffering a major heart attack. News that caused Wall Street to flinch first. (see iReport screen capture above) Apple's stock quickly rebounded into positive territory after Katie Cotton, Apple's Vice President of Worldwide Communications, replied to the... [Tags: buffoonery, business economy, cnn, cnn reports, eyeballs]

Daylighting: Working More Than One Job at a Time — CNN reports on a growing trend: daylighting. Kind of like moonlighting during the day, it’s the practice of working jobs on the side while you are at another. They give examples of a cocktail waitress who works on her graphic design business when sales are slow, and a salesman who’s brokering mortgage deals in his office bathroom. People’s reasons for daylighting vary, from trying to live a lavish lifestyle to just trying to get by. As you could imagine, the HR department is not too happy about all this bonus work going on. CNN: “Sneaky ‘daylighters’ risk firing by... [Tags: bonus work, cnn, cnn reports, cocktail waitress, gould]

Biden-Palin Debate: Updates, Video, Highlights — SEPT 29: Obama adviser David Axelrod says they expect a tough fight: "I fully expect her to be ready for this debate, and I think there will be a great deal of interest in this. I think it will be a well-watched debate, so it's going to be important... She's very skilled and she'll be well-prepared. I know she's preparing this weekend. As you saw at the convention, she can be very good, so I think it would be foolish to assume that this going isn't going to be a really challenging debate. We're preparing for that, on that assumption."... [Tags: adviser, biden, cnn, cnn reports, correspondent]