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<td valign="top" height=390 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I><B>New Years 2010</B></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>World News Headlines 01 01 2010</B></div> <div> <B>New Years 2010</B></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="8" CELLSPACING="2" WIDTH="714" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#EEEEEE > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 2227 WIDTH="334"><div> <B>Revelers' cheers mark new decade in Times Square</B></div> <div> Culled from <A HREF="http://isp.netscape.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://isp.netscape.com/">Netscape.com</A>    <B>By SAMANTHA GROSS and VIRGINIA BYRNE     </B>Associated Press Writers     NEW YORK (AP) -</div> <bR> <div> Hundreds of thousands of revelers in chilly weather in Times Square cheered when an 11,875-pound crystal ball covered with more than 32,000 bulbs dropped at midnight, ushering in the new decade and ending 10 years marred by war, recession, terrorism and threats of environmental catastrophe.</div> <bR> <div> ``Much happiness and for the world, much peace,'' said Joao Lacerda of Brazil, 58, one of many who came from around the world to celebrate in midtown Manhattan.</div> <bR> <div> Many people wore conical party hats and 2010 glasses that blinked colorfully, and some were jumping up and down to keep warm as a cold rain fell Thursday night. </div> <div> Cell phones were brought out to document the last few hours of a decade many wanted to leave behind.</div> <bR> <div> Gail Guay of Raymond, N.H., came to New York City with two friends to celebrate her 50th birthday. The trio carried a huge white hotel towel with ``Happy New Year New Hampshire 2010'' printed on it.</div> <bR> <div> Reflecting on the past decade when she had buried her mother, Guay had this advice: ``Don't look back.'' </div> <div> But a sense of starting fresh remains elusive for many, who wonder what sort of legacy begins on Jan. 1, 2010.</div> <bR> <div> David Fraley, 56, of Las Vegas, attended a party in Sin City's downtown where 35,000 were expected.</div> <bR> <div> ``This decade's over. Let's get a better one going,'' said Fraley, who said he lost his job as a supermarket liquor clerk in March.</div> <bR> <div> ``The meaning of the new decade is going to be diminished by the hangover of the last decade,'' says Bob Batchelor, professor of mass communications at Kent State University and author of ``The 2000s,'' published before the decade was even done. ``That makes it tough to be as optimistic as Americans usually are.'' </div> <bR> <div> But New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was more tempered in his assessment. </div> <div> ``If you put it in the context of what people are suffering around the world, we're in very good shape,'' he said from Times Square.</div> <bR> <div> Ramona Vlada of Romania, 28, echoed that sentiment. ``I have many wishes for 2010!'' she said. ``I wish to be healthy, love and to be loved at the same time.'' </div> <div> Celebrations took many forms, with concerts, fireworks, and the timed drop of favorite local symbols.</div> <bR> <div> In the Tennessee cities of Memphis and Nashville, organizers dropped a 10-foot red guitar. In Atlanta, an 800-pound fiberglass peach took a 138-foot plunge. In North Carolina, Brasstown, near the Georgia border, planned its annual opossum drop, a 3-foot glowing pickle dropped in Mount Olive and the capital city of Raleigh lowered a 1,200-pound steel and copper acorn. In Eastport, Maine, an 8-foot wooden sardine was to be dropped.</div> <bR> <div> In Boston, more than 1,000 artists and performers participated in the ``First Night'' celebrations. Artists were to display six ice sculptures, including a replica of one of the Boston Museum of Fine Art's 4,000-year-old Egyptian sculptures.</div> <bR> <div> And in Chicago, the city's Transit Authority offered rides for a penny to help residents and visitors get in place for fireworks displays planned during the evening and at midnight. Bus and light rail service was free in Denver, where two fireworks displays were planned.</div> <bR> <div> And around the world, from fireworks in Sydney to balloons sent aloft in Tokyo, revelers at least temporarily shelved worries about the future to bid farewell to the first decade of the century.</div> <bR> <div> The partygoers in New York City brought out heightened police security, displayed a day earlier when police evacuated several blocks around Times Square to investigate a parked van without license plates. Only clothing and clothes racks were found inside.</div> <bR> <div> New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, speaking from Times Square on a Webcast, said the department had ``many, many'' police officers in the crowd, both uniformed and plainclothes.</div> <bR> <div> ``This is something we do every year,'' he said. ``We change it somewhat so it's not that predictable.'' </div> <div> Associated Press writer Oskar Garcia in Las Vegas contributed to this report. </div> <bR> <div> 01/01/10 00:55 © Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained In this news report may not be published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="334"><div> <B>Top 10 Things the Internet Killed</B></div> <bR> <div> How did you ever live without the Internet? We know, it gives you the shivers to think someone might unplug your connection. After all, you'd have to go to the library to look up answers to your questions or even buy your own porn magazine. </div> <bR> <div> London's Telegraph newspaper examined how the Internet has changed the way we work, play and even think. "Tasks that once took days can be completed in seconds, while traditions and skills that emerged over centuries have been made all but redundant," writes reporter Matthew Moore.</div> <bR> <div> So while the Internet has offered us much and greatly enriched our lives, it has also taken away things--things that used to be precious or at least an ingrained part of our daily lives.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Top 10 things the Internet has killed or is in the process of killing:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1. The art of polite disagreement</B></div> <div> The tone of debate has greatly sharpened and thanks to the anonymity, people can post cruel messages they never would dare say aloud to someone's face. </div> <bR> <div> <B>2. Telephone directories</B></div> <div> It's easier and faster to look up a phone number or address online than it is to dust off the White Pages. </div> <bR> <div> <B>3. Music stores</B></div> <div> No one wants to pay for music anymore since they can get it for free on the Internet. </div> <bR> <div> <B>4. Letter writing and pen pals</B></div> <div> A handwritten letter--ink on paper with a postage stamp--is fast becoming a relic since e-mail is faster, easier and cheaper. The death of the handwritten letter has also taken with it the valediction, "Sincerely yours." Now we have "Best" and "Cheers." Or nothing at all. </div> <bR> <div> <B>5. Memory</B></div> <div> Can't remember the name of that actress who popped up in a new TV show? In just seconds, Google or Wikipedia will answer any question you think up, no matter how obscure. There is no need to remember facts when we can find them so quickly and easily. </div> <bR> <div> <B>6. Doing nothing</B></div> <div> When you have nothing to do, chances are you get online. Back in the day, you would have picked up a book, taken a walk in the park, played with your kids, hit the couch for a nap or just stared out your window watching the sun set. Now you check your e-mail and the status messages of your Facebook friends. </div> <bR> <div> <B>7. Photo albums and slide shows</B></div> <div> Printed photos are so old-fashioned. Now you post your digital photos online to share with friends and family. (Hint: Grandma still likes to get the printed photos. Be nice and print a few for her.) </div> <bR> <div> <B>8. Respect for doctors</B></div> <div> Thanks to all the health and medical information available online, we all think we know as much as the people who actually went to medical school. </div> <bR> <div> <B>9. Privacy</B></div> <div> It's not the government that takes away your privacy! You do that yourself when you post every little detail about your life on Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.</div> <bR> <div> <B>10. Newspapers</B></div> <div> It's hard to sustain a business model where the news is always a day old and subscribers have to pay for it. Instead, you can get your news right now and free on the Web. </div> <div> <I>--From the Editors at Netscape</I></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><IMG SRC="fbb5f8c0.jpg" border=0 width="95" height="140" ALT="New Years Kiss" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> <I><B>New Years Kiss</B></I></div> <div> <A HREF="http://channels.isp.netscape.com/men/package.jsp?name=men/pm/blissinkiss/blissinkiss&floc=NI-slot1c" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://channels.isp.netscape.com/men/pac"><I>Guys, Put Bliss in Your Kiss</I></A></div> <div> <I>A woman's lips are a top erogenous zone. 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By Miller's account that would be between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844. He attracted thousands of followers, called Millerites. Many sold or gave away their possessions, figuring they wouldn't need them. Obviously, the End Times didn't come. The group disbanded, but some of them formed what is now known as the Seventh Day Adventists. </div> <bR> <div> <B>3. Mormon Armageddon, 1891 or earlier</B></div> <div> When Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon church, called a meeting of his church leaders in February 1835, it was to tell them that he had spoken to God and was told that Jesus would return within the next 56 years. Once Jesus did return, the End Times would begin. </div> <bR> <div> <B>4. Halley's Comet, 1910</B></div> <div> It was reported by The New York Times and other newspapers that when the Earth passed through the tail of Halley's comet, the planet could be bathed in a deadly, toxic gas called cyanogen. That generated widespread panic around the world. Eventually, scientists explained there was nothing to fear. </div> <bR> <div> <B>5. Pat Robertson, 1982</B></div> <div> Televangelist and Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson ignored Matthew 24:36 ("No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven...") and told his "700 Club" audience in May 1980 that he knew when the world would end. "I guarantee you by the end of 1982, there is going to be a judgment on the world," Robertson claimed. </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://channels.isp.netscape.com/whatsnew/package.jsp?name=fte/moon/moon&floc=wn-nx" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://channels.isp.netscape.com/whatsne">Uh Oh. We don't mean to turn you into Chicken Little, but an astronomer has some dire predictions about the moon. And the forecast isn't so good for the Earth either.</A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>6. Heaven's Gate, 1997</B></div> <div> What is it about comets? In 1997, rumors surfaced that an alien spacecraft was following comet Hale-Bopp. Despite refutations by reputable astronomers, the claims inspired a San Diego UFO cult named Heaven's Gate to conclude this was the end of the world. Thirty-nine of the cult members committed suicide on March 26, 1997 because they thought this was their only chance to survive before the Earth was "recycled" and wiped clean. </div> <bR> <div> <B>7. Nostradamus, August 1999</B></div> <div> One of the most famous metaphorical writings of Michel de Nostrdame, written more than 400 years ago, has been interpreted as thus: "The year 1999, seventh month / From the sky will come great king of terror." Some thought this would be Armageddon. </div> <bR> <div> <B>8. Y2K, Jan. 1, 2000</B></div> <div> It wasn't just your home PC that could go on the fritz when the year changed from 1999 to 2000. Many thought the date shift, which some computers couldn't recognize, would cause catastrophic problems, including vast blackouts and even a nuclear holocaust. Gun sales jumped and survivalists prepared. They must have been disappointed. </div> <bR> <div> <B>9. 5/5/2000 Ice</B></div> <div> In his 1997 book "5/5/2000 Ice: The Ultimate Disaster," author Richard Noone forecast that on May 5, 2000, the Antarctic ice mass would be three miles thick--the very date on which the planets would be aligned in the heavens. He thought this would result in a global icy death for us all. </div> <bR> <div> <B>10. God's Church Ministry, Fall 2008</B></div> <div> In 2006, God's Church minister Ronald Weinland predicted millions of people would die by the end of 2006 and within two years the world would be "plunged into the worst time of all human history." He said the United States would collapse as a world power and no longer exist as an independent nation.</div> <div> <I>(Source: LiveScience.com)</I> </div> <div> <A HREF="http://channels.isp.netscape.com/whatsnew/package.jsp?name=fte/globalwarming/globalwarming&floc=wn-nx" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://channels.isp.netscape.com/whatsne">Scientists are always making dire predictions about global warming. Well, guess what? Here are 10 that came true!</A></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Absolutely Best Age to Be Is... </B></div> <div> <B>...46.</B></div> <div> Why?</div> <div> It's considered the gateway to a golden age when you have everything you want.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Check it off:</B></div> <div> a loving spouse, a beautiful home, a great career and wonderful children. While most people dread turning 40, that milestone is actually on the cusp of the best part of life, according to researchers from the British insurance company More Than. </div> <bR> <div> London's Daily Express reports that the late 40s also mark the time when people have acquired the most stuff, such as household gadgets and valued personal possessions.</div> <div> And that's because they have the most money.</div> <bR> <div> The average wealth for this age group is 40 percent higher than that of 20-year-olds and 35 percent higher than those in their 70s, who have retired and are living on savings. </div> <bR> <div> How much we have in terms of money in the bank and possessions in our home depends in great part on our age.</div> <bR> <div> The research showed that this amount increased and then decreased as the decades ticked by and circumstances changed. </div> <bR> <div> The best way to dramatically and quickly increase your monetary value is to move in with a romantic partner or get married. This ups the average value by 65 percent.</div> <bR> <div> Having a child also adds value to the number of possessions you have. On average, we spend nearly $26,000 every five years on things we keep in our home. </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><U>zxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxz</U></B></div> <div> <B><U><IMG SRC="fb2b48a0.png" border=0 width="180" height="138" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></B></div> <div> <B>'Avatar' rules with $68.3M, tops $1B worldwide</B></div> <div> By DAVID GERMAIN </div> <div> <B>LOS ANGELES (AP) - James Cameron's science-fiction epic ``Avatar'' had another stellar weekend with $68.3 million domestically, shooting past $1 billion worldwide, only the fifth movie ever to hit that mark. </B></div> <div> No. 1 for the third-straight weekend, 20th Century Fox's ``Avatar'' raised its domestic total to $352.1 million after just 17 days. The film added $133 million overseas to lift its international haul to $670 million, for a worldwide gross of $1.02 billion. </div> <div> ``Avatar'' opened two weekends earlier with $77 million, a strong start but far below dozens of other blockbusters that debuted as high as $158 million. But business for other blockbusters usually tumbles in following weekends, while ``Avatar'' revenues barely dropped over the busy Christmas and New Year's weekends.</div> <div> ``It's like a runaway freight train.</div> <div> It just keeps doing business,'' said Fox distribution executive Bert Livingston.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><U>zxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzx</U></B></div> <div> <B><U><IMG SRC="fb3b4720.png" border=0 width="180" height="114" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></B></div> <div> <B>No tall tale: Dubai to open world's highest tower</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>By ADAM SCHRECK </B></div> <div> Associated Press Writer </div> <div> DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Dubai is set to open the world's tallest building amid tight security on Monday, celebrating the tower as a bold feat on the world stage despite the city state's shaky financial footing. </div> <bR> <div> But the final height of the Burj Dubai - Arabic for Dubai Tower - remained a closely guarded secret on the eve of its opening. At a reported height of 2,684 feet (818 meters), it long ago vanquished its nearest rival, the Taipei 101 in Taiwan. </div> <bR> <div> The Burj's record-seeking developers didn't stop there. </div> <bR> <div> The building boasts the most stories and highest occupied floor of any building in the world, and ranks as the world's tallest structure, beating out a television mast in North Dakota. Its observation deck - on floor 124 - also sets a record. </div> <bR> <div> ``We weren't sure how high we could go,'' said Bill Baker, the building's structural engineer, who is in Dubai for the inauguration. ``It was kind of an exploration. ... A learning experience'' </div> <bR> <div> Baker, of Chicago-based architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, said early designs for the Burj had it edging out the world's previous record-holder, the Taipei 101, by about 33 feet (10 meters). The Taiwan tower rises 1,667 feet (508 meters). </div> <bR> <div> The Burj's developer, Emaar Properties, kept pushing the design higher even after construction began, eventually putting it about 984 feet (300 meters) taller than its nearest competitor, Baker said. He is keeping quiet about the exact height. </div> <bR> <div> Dubai's ruler will open the tapering metal-and-glass spire with a fireworks display Monday evening. </div> <bR> <div> Security is expected to be tight. Local newspapers quoted Maj. Gen. Mohammed Eid al-Mansouri, head of the protective security and emergency unit for Dubai Police, saying more than 1,000 security personnel, including plainclothes police and sharpshooters, will be deployed to secure the site for the opening. </div> <bR> <div> Work on the Burj Dubai began in 2004 and continued rapidly. At times, new floors were being added almost every three days, reflecting Dubai's raging push to reshape itself over a few years from a small-time desert outpost into a cosmopolitan urban giant packed with skyscrapers. </div> <bR> <div> By January 2007, thousands of laborers, many of them brought in on temporary contracts from India, had completed 100 stories. </div> <div> The finished product contains more than 160 floors. That is over 50 stories more than Chicago's Willis Tower, the tallest record-holder in the U.S. formerly known as the Sears Tower. </div> <bR> <div> At their peak, some apartments in the Burj were selling for more than $1,900 per square foot, though they now can go for less than half that, said Heather Wipperman Amiji, chief executive of Dubai real estate consultancy Investment Boutique. </div> <bR> <div> Besides luxury apartments and offices, the Burj will be home to a hotel designed by Giorgio Armani. </div> <bR> <div> It's also the centerpiece of a 500-acre development that officials hope will become a new central residential and commercial district in this sprawling and often disconnected city. It is flanked by dozens of smaller but brand-new skyscrapers and the Middle East's largest shopping mall. </div> <bR> <div> That layout - as the core of a lower-rise skyline - lets the Burj stand out prominently against the horizon. It is visible across dozens of miles of rolling sand dunes outside Dubai. From the air, the spire appears as an almost solitary, slender needle reaching high into the sky. </div> <div> The Burj's opening comes at a tough time for Dubai's economy. Property prices in newer parts of the sheikdom have collapsed by nearly half over the past year. </div> <bR> <div> The city-state turned to its richer neighbor Abu Dhabi for a series of bailouts totaling $25 billion in 2009 to help cover debts amassed by a network of state-linked companies. Burj developer Emaar is itself partly owned by the government, but is not among the companies known to have received emergency cash. </div> <bR> <div> Emaar has said the entire Downtown Burj Dubai development, which includes the tower, will cost $20 billion to build. Sales of properties around the Burj are meant to help pay for the tower itself, which analysts say is unlikely to be profitable on its own. </div> <bR> <div> Jan Klerks, research and communications manager for the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, which tracks world's tallest claims, said the building's real value might be that it is the ``biggest city marketing campaign'' Dubai could have come up with. </div> <bR> <div> ``Put your name and that of the Burj Dubai on an envelope, and no postal service in the world will have problems delivering the mail,'' he said.</div> <bR> <div> On the Net: </div> <div> Burj Dubai: <A HREF="http://www.burjdubai.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.burjdubai.com/">www.burjdubai.com</A> </div> <div> Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat: www.ctbuh.org </div> <bR> <div> 01/03/10 16:00 © Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained In this news report may not be published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Prison population to have first drop since 1972</B></div> <div> By JEFF CARLTON </div> <div> <B>DALLAS (AP) - The United States may soon see its prison population drop for the first time in almost four decades, a milestone in a nation that locks up more people than any other. </B></div> <div> The inmate population has risen steadily since the early 1970s as states adopted get-tough policies that sent more people to prison and kept them there longer. But tight budgets now have states rethinking these policies and the costs that come with them. </div> <div> ``It's a reversal of a trend that's been going on for more than a generation,'' said David Greenberg, a sociology professor at New York University. ``In some ways, it's overdue.'' </div> <div> The U.S. prison population dropped steadily during most of the 1960s, and there were a few small dips in 1970 and 1972. But it has risen every year since, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. </div> <div> About 739,000 prisoners were admitted to state and federal facilities last year, about 3,500 more than were released, according to new figures from the bureau. The 0.8 percent growth in the prison population is the smallest annual increase this decade and significantly less than the 6.5 percent average annual growth of the 1990s. </div> <div> Overall, there were 1.6 million prisoners in state and federal prisons at the end of 2008. </div> <div> In the past, prison populations have been lower when drafts were enacted, including during World War II and the wars in Korea and Vietnam. </div> <div> ``People who go to war are young men, and young men are the most likely to get arrested or prosecuted,'' said James Austin, president of the JFA Institute, a research organization that advises states on prison issues. </div> <div> The ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan haven't involved in a draft. </div> <div> Instead, the economic crisis forced states to reconsider who they put behind bars and how long they kept them there, said Kim English, research director for the Colorado Division of Criminal Justice. </div> <div> In Texas, parole rates were once among the lowest in the nation, with as few as 15 percent of inmates being granted release as recently as five years ago. Now, the parole rate is more than 30 percent after Texas began identifying low-risk candidates for parole. </div> <div> In Mississippi, a truth-in-sentencing law required drug offenders to serve 85 percent of their sentences. That's been reduced to less than 25 percent. </div> <div> California's budget problems are expected to result in the release of 37,000 inmates in the next two years. The state also is under a federal court order to shed 40,000 inmates because its prisons are so overcrowded that they are no longer constitutional, Austin said. </div> <div> States also are looking at ways to keep people from ever entering prison. A nationwide system of drug courts takes first-time felony offenders caught with less than a gram of illegal drugs and sets up a monitoring team to help with case management and therapy. </div> <div> Studies have touted significant savings with drug courts, saying they cost 10 percent to 30 percent less than it costs to send someone to prison. </div> <div> ``I don't think they work. I know so,'' said Judge John Creuzot, a state district judge in Dallas. </div> <div> The reforms in many state prisons and courts come even as crime rates continue to drop nationwide. </div> <div> ``It's economically driven, but the science is there to support it,'' Austin said. ``They are saving money, but not doing it in a way that jeopardizes public safety.'' </div> <div> One exception to the trend is Florida, which has enacted a law requiring all convicts to serve a high percentage of their sentences. The law is straining the state's prison resources. </div> <div> ``They know that they are stuck in a time bomb they can't get out of,'' Austin said. </div> <bR> <div> 12/19/09 14:27 © Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained In this news report may not be published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="fb4d5a90.jpg" border=0 width="213" height="169" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> AP – FILE - This Nov. 5, 2002 photo provided by the White House on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006, shows Vice President … </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="fb56a1b0.png" border=0 width="106" height="27" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> What were they thinking? Let's review</div> <bR> <div> By CHRISTOPHER SULLIVAN, Associated Press Writer Christopher Sullivan, Associated Press Writer – Thu Dec 17, 12:30 pm ET </div> <bR> <div> Every decade has its mistakes, of course, but one nice thing about the past 10 years' foibles, foul-ups and flubs is that so often they came with neat, two-word monikers, almost like keepsakes: "Wardrobe malfunction." "Mission Accomplished." "Balloon boy."</div> <bR> <div> Here's a review of 10 what-were-they-thinking moments.</div> <bR> <div> 1. Bernie Madoff has been called many names. </div> <div> For one federal regulatory sleuth, he was ... "a wonderful storyteller." For years, the Securities and Exchange Commission received detailed complaints that Madoff's investment operation was certainly fishy and probably criminal ("Nothing more than a Ponzi Scheme," a tipster wrote in 2000, eight years before Madoff confessed).</div> <bR> <div> SEC examiners found, instead, "a very captivating speaker" who assured them he was not "greedy" and all was OK. An SEC branch's decision to shelve the probe turned out to be a mistake — one of, oh, several billion blamed on Madoff, who's now charming fellow inmates in prison.</div> <bR> <div> 2. White House flight of fancy, 2003: Advance folks had almost everything right: the golden sunset light, President George W. Bush's dramatic landing on the carrier deck, the speech. But that giant "Mission Accomplished" sign, with years of mission still ahead, who came up with that? Reporters launched the "bannergate" investigation.</div> <bR> <div> 3. White House flight of fancy, 2009: We always thought Air Force One takes a good picture in any setting — but an aide to President Barack Obama thought a few snaps with lower Manhattan as a backdrop would be dramatic. How's this for drama: panicked office workers, seeing the low-flying 747 shadowed by a fighter plane, streaming out of buildings, phrases like "stupid and alarming" coming from local officials, and pretty much everybody mad about the taxpayer-funded photo op's price tag: $328,835. The aide was, er, grounded.</div> <bR> <div> 4. Aerial ambitiousness also gave us the balloon boy. When a homemade foil-covered balloon supposedly slipped its tether with a 6-year-old inside, we all held our breath — except some heavy-breathing cable anchors. The balloon finally landed — empty — and the kid was found safe at home, hiding, his father said. But why? "You had said that we did this for a show," the tyke told Dad, a would-be reality TV star, live on CNN. Whoops. Hoax charges followed.</div> <bR> <div> 5. Publishing mistake of the decade, coming in 2006: "If I Did It," O.J. Simpson's book about how the murders of which he was acquitted might have been carried out. Amid furious protest, the project was aborted, the book was ordered "pulped," and the publisher acknowledged its "ill-considered project." And that wasn't the biggest faux pas of the decade for OJ. No. 1 was going to that Nevada hotel with weapon-toting friends to "reclaim" his sports memorabilia. "It was," said the sentencing judge, "much more than stupidity."</div> <bR> <div> 6. In 2006, after former Vice President Dick Cheney shot an orange-clad hunting buddy who looked nothing like a quail, the pockmarked victim graciously allowed that accidents happen. How did others react? A Texas Monthly cover threatened: "If you don't buy this magazine, Dick Cheney will shoot you in the face." A hockey team held a "Cheney Hunting Vest Night" — "Don't Shoot, I'm Human," the vests said. Even Bush joked about his veep's middle initial: "B. stands for Bull's Eye."</div> <bR> <div> 7. Looking for guv in all the wrong places. That's how you might categorize a couple of high-profile statehouse mistakes. South Carolina's family-values Gov. Mark Sanford missed the Appalachian Trail and ended up in Buenos Aires, with his Argentine "soul mate." New York's crime-fighting Gov. Eliot Spitzer turned up far from Albany and as "Client-9" in a hooker's black book.</div> <bR> <div> 8. "So, we were watching the boob tube Sunday..." So began an editorial in the Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News, commenting on the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show during which Justin Timberlake tore away part of Janet Jackson's costume, momentarily exposing her breast in what was later called a "wardrobe malfunction." Knowing the offense given to millions of live viewers (plus those offended again and again as they cued up the YouTube rerun), Federal Communications Commission smut-busters imposed a fine — but that, too, turned out to be a mistake. Arbitrary and capricious, a federal appeals court ruled.</div> <bR> <div> 9. What caused California's energy crisis back in 2000-2001? Deregulation? Too many hands on the AC switch? What about "creativity" by Enron employees? On Jan. 17, 2001, amid rolling blackouts, a fellow at the energy-trading firm told a power plant worker to "get a little creative" and find a reason to shut down, tightening electricity supply. "OK, so we're just coming down for some maintenance, like a forced outage type thing?" the worker offered. "I knew I could count on you," his colleague replied on a tape revealed in a lawsuit. California's grid eventually stabilized, but Enron itself blinked out — under hefty fines and criminal charges.</div> <bR> <div> 10. Finally, it must be acknowledged there were a few mistakes in the entertainment world — and we're not just talking about "American Idol" auditions. No, at least those didn't cost $100 million, the amount investors plowed into the 2002 movie "The Adventures of Pluto Nash." Basically, nobody showed up at the box office. Well, not quite nobody. "I know two or three people that liked this movie," said the star, Eddie Murphy. Who knew there'd be no audience for a comedy about a nightclub arson on the moon?</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="10" CELLSPACING="4" WIDTH="720" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#BF0000" BORDERCOLORDARK="#0000FF" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#EEEEEE > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 18 WIDTH="330"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="18" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="330" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="330"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="18" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="330" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> This web site information was culled from several sources by RadioZX from around the World including The New York Times</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2010/01/01/todayspaper/index.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2010/01/0"><IMG SRC="101498170.gif" border=0 width="152" height="23" ALT="CLICK HERE for full Story by NY TIMES" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>