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POPSPalin E-mail May Have Been Hacked 
For a backgrounder on these anonymous internet groups, check out the NY Times profile from August: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?bl&ex=1217736000&en=729a61d7e004a7dd&ei=5087%0A
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by Joshua Zumbrun Today 1:29 PM
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POPSFirst Google Phone Due Sep 23 
Google's got a lot of catch-up to do in the mobile phone space, and it's important that these early devices make a big splash.
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by David M Ewalt Today 1:02 PM
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POPSFringe Forges Ahead 
In an era of sagging ratings and increased competition, FOX should be reveling in its ability to score 13 mil-plus viewers in two back-to-back hours of prime-time real estate. Looks like JJ Abrams and his first-place network home are back on track.
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by Lacey Rose Today 12:50 PM
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POPSInStyle Editor Promoted 
Charla Lawhon, managing editor of InStyle, will now oversee all InStyle titles, including special weddings and makeover editions. Editor-at-Large Ariel Foxman will replace her. Check out where Lawhon landed on our Most Powerful US Fashion Editors list: http://www.forbes.com/2008/09/04/style-editor-magazine-forbeslife-cx_ls_0904editors.html
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by Lauren Sherman Today 9:55 AM
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POPSOffshore Drilling Passes House 
Pair this story, off our AP feed, with a Washington Post front pager on oil's price retreat over the past two months: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/16/AR2008091600247.html?hpid=topnews
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by Andrew Gillies Today 8:41 AM
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POPS10 Bright (Political) Ideas for the Economy Oh is something wrong with the economy in the middle of a presidential election? I thought we were having an umbrage competition, and the only issue facing the nation was lipstick.
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by Joshua Zumbrun Yesterday 6:38 PM
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POPSJohn McCain And His BlackBerry 
To be fair, John McCain is a dedicated BlackBerry user--check out the photo above. (He goes for the consumer-friendly Curve.) And it appears that his adviser merely said he helped promote telecom advances, not that he invented one of the world's most iconic phones. Even so, I wonder what they're saying up in Waterloo about this.
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POPSNew U.S. Air Force Tanker Six Years Away? Via govexec.com. Story quotes another U.S. Air Force general, who says it's "unconscionable to ask people to fly in combat in 50-year-old airplanes." Note: as of 3:22pm, Northrop Grumman shares were down 2.5%. They've fallen 15% thus far in 2008.
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by Andrew Gillies Yesterday 3:45 PM
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POPSWhat If Genomics Is, Like, Really Complicated? 
A great piece from Nicholas Wade at the NYT explaining why it might be much harder to connect genes to disease than many people though. A very thoughtful profile of David Goldstein.
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by Matthew Herper Yesterday 2:55 PM
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POPSPrediction Markets And The Election 
An economist's take on prediction markets that draws a nice distinction between them and gambling; worth the read for the comments, too.
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by Forbes Markets Yesterday 12:56 PM
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POPSTwo Lists Of The Top 10 Economics Blogs Pick your poison, but seven of the blogs appear on both lists.
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by Forbes Markets 9-15-2008
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POPSThousands Stranded as UK Tour Operator Goes Bust 
Compared to what happened on Wall Street today, the news that the third-largest UK tour operator collapsed last week seems insignificant. But within the British travel industry, it's becoming a huge deal. Many are blaming a weakened travel market and high oil prices, and according to this article, this won't be the last firm to go under.
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by Rebecca Ruiz 9-15-2008
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POPSIs More Regulation the Answer? 
No, but better regulation would help. If only Congress could attempt to think beyond the next election.
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by Victoria Barret 9-15-2008
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POPSTopshop's US Debut Delayed The IHT's ace fashion editor, Suzy Menkes, reports on the delay of the opening of British retailer Topshop's first US store. Check out our story on the what trends retailers are betting on this fall: http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/2008/09/11/style-trends-fashion-forbeslife-cx_0912trends.html
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by Lauren Sherman 9-15-2008
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POPSTrying On Sears 
Leave it to a staid, old line retailer to shake up the way young shoppers try on clothes. Sears goes high tech to allow virtual try-ons.
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by Tom Van Riper 9-15-2008
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POPSWhen The Lipstick Fades Palin's earmark spending ranks HIGHER than Obama's. She's going to have to do more convincing to prove herself as a reformer.
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by Victoria Barret 9-15-2008
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POPSBuffett Looking At AIG? 
The tumult isn't over yet, but bargain hunters are emerging (or at least rumored to be).
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by Andrew Farrell 9-15-2008
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POPSFor renewables: scientists vs. lobbyists From The Economist's profile of a businessperson. A solar executive who thinks the renewable subsidies (also known as the Investment and Production Tax Credits, depending on your perspective, I guess). Hertzberg says, “companies hire lobbyists to chase subsidies rather than hiring scientists to create a better product.” Well, maybe. But if economies of scale mean that solar power keeps getting cheaper (and if long-term trends continue of hydrocarbons getting more expensive), the solar companies are going to be hiring scientists and lobbyists and masseuses and circus entertainers and whoever else they want, because they'll be booming.
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by Joshua Zumbrun 9-15-2008
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POPSIs wind the new ethanol? I think the differences between wind and ethanol are pretty substantial, to put it mildly. But they do both enjoy subsidies (with the occasionally stated idea that eventually the subsidies will be withdrawn once these infant industries have matured.) There was a similar argument in Friday's Economist from a solar company executive who said that one problem with subsidies is that companies spend their time paying lobbyists to keep the subsidy rather than paying scientists to improve the technology. I'll clipmark that next.
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by Joshua Zumbrun 9-15-2008
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POPSYouTube How-To Videos for Lobbying When they hold legislative advocacy events or Washington "fly-ins," trade associations usually coach their members on how to go about a visit to Capitol Hill. Roll Call reports on a site that's putting some of that coaching online.
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by Andrew Gillies 9-15-2008
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POPSBig Oil as Venture Investor Wall Street Journal, in a special section today, includes a look at how giant oil companies have approached venture investment in energy. Exxon Mobil apparently has no interest. Canada's EnCana regards it as "social investment and supporting innovation." Also discussed is Shell's involvement with Virent Energy Systems, a company we looked at here: http://www.forbes.com/beltway/2008/03/11/virent-ethanol-gasoline-biz-cz_atg_0312beltway.html
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by Andrew Gillies 9-15-2008
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POPSSuper Bowl Ad Slots Filling Up Recession? Not for big time sporting events like the Super Bowl. NBC is charging more and getting it, selling 85% of its ad slots barely a week into the NFL season.
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by Tom Van Riper 9-12-2008
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POPSWhite House: "Very Cautious" on Auto Bailout Let's see how this one plays out. Michigan is perceived as one of Senator McCain's top pick-up opportunities.
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by Andrew Gillies 9-12-2008
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POPSIPhone Takes Screenshots Of Everything You Do This is a really unfortunate security hole --imagine if you were working on a sensitive email when one of these screenshots were taken. Someone could conceivably recover the image from your phone.
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POPSThe most powerful octogenarians A list we can only wish we'd thought of. Thoughts: * Who knew James Lipton, host of "Inside the Actors Studio" (and Warden Gentiles) is 81?! * Who knew James Lipton is more powerful than President George H.W. Bush?!
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by Joshua Zumbrun 9-12-2008
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POPSLatest Bizarre MSFT/Seinfeld Ad Actually Brilliant 
Kind of a Wes Anderson thing going on, but still no sign of actual Microsoft products.
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POPSNewbie Knows Best? 
Palin gets a C+ for clarity in her answers and a B- for delivery. It's obvious political leaders rehearse before media interviews, it's just not supposed to come off as such. Overall, not bad for her first big-time hit.
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by Matt Kirdahy 9-12-2008
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POPSIs The U.S. Going Broke? It's a shame how little attention this issue is getting in the Presidential election.
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by Andrew Farrell 9-12-2008
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POPSAlaska: "Tip of the Spear" on Climate Change This week's National Journal looks at topic of climate change from an Alaskan perspective. Story quotes Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, who describes Alaska as the "tip of the spear" on climate change. Says she: "Clearly, climate change is there; it's real. We can see it happening in Alaska more so than in other parts of the country." Murkowski, the story notes, also advocates opening Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas development, dedicating a portion of the resulting royalties to subsidize new energy sources such as wind, geothermal, and so on.
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by Andrew Gillies 9-12-2008
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POPSZune Is For Babies How do you know your product is a dud? When your marketing strategy requires winning over unborn children.
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by David M Ewalt 9-11-2008
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