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New Amazon Tablet: 5 Things to Know

Amazon appears ready to release its new tablet, hailed by some observers as a legitimate threat to Apple's global-leading iPad. Amazon's PR firm sent an invitation to journalists Friday afternoon announcing a press conference in New York City on Sept. 28, when the company is expected to reveal its new consumer tech weapon -- the Kindle tablet. But while the tablet hasn't been revealed publicly yet, it is apparently quite real -- seen by one tech journalist already with other strong hint...
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DJIA in Worst Fall Since Depth of '08 Crisis

The Dow Jones industrial average on Friday suffered its worst week since the depths of the financial crisis in 2008, stung by severe anxiety over Europe's spiraling debt crisis and a warning from the Federal Reserve about the U.S. economy.
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Century-Old Hair From Australian Aboriginal Man Unlocks Mystery of Human Dispersal

In the 1920s, an Aboriginal man from Kalgoorlie in Western Australia gave a lock of hair to a British anthropologist. Now, after over a century, scientists have obtained a genomic sequence from that 100-year-old lock of hair, which showed that Aboriginal Australians are descendants of an early human dispersal into eastern Asia, possibly 62,000 to 75,000 years ago.
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Wall Street stabilizes after disastrous week

The Dow Jones industrial average on Friday suffered its worst week since the depths of the financial crisis in 2008, stung by severe anxiety over Europe's spiraling debt crisis and a warning from the Federal Reserved about the U.S. economy.
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Amazon Tablet Ready to Take on Apple iPad; Event Set for Sept. 28

The release date of Amazon's expected new Android-based tablet has yet to be defined, but the company has scheduled an event for next week when the device may be unveiled. Amazon's PR firm sent an invitation to journalists Friday afternoon announcing a press conference in New York City on Sept. 28 when the company is expected to reveal its new consumer tech weapon -- the Kindle tablet.
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Gold Sets Record for One-Day Fall

Gold crashed more than $100 lower on Friday as a slide turned into a freefall, with weeks of volatility, renewed strength in the dollar and talk of hedge fund liquidation wrecking its safe-haven status.
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Global Recession 2011: It's Real, and It's Going to Hurt

Let's face the mounting facts and just say it in plain language: The world is slipping into Global Recession 2011 and governments don't have the gunpowder to ward it off. The U.S. economy is barely growing at all. Companies aren't hiring. The federal budget deficit is above $14.5 trillion. Companies are stockpiling cash because, as Ford CEO Alan Mulally said in a press conference this week, because the consumer has pulled back.
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Paul McCartney's foray into ballet opens in NY

It was hardly rock 'n' roll, but Paul McCartney's debut into the world of ballet with an orchestral score and tale of love set in a royal undersea court premiered at a gala event to stars, music and ballet lovers at a warm reception held on Thursday.
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Gold Falls Hard; Silver Falls Harder

Gold prices plummeted Friday, at one point tumbling to 15 percent below the level of three weeks ago, as investors started buying stocks and, to a lesser extent, euros. Silver is now down 25 percent from its mid-week level.

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