U.S. - Just as the House passed a revised version $700 Billion bailout bill 263 to 171 on Friday, the stock market dropped sharply.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the central bank will keep using “all of the powers at our disposal” to ease the credit crisis after Congress approved a $700 billion rescue of the financial industry.
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How I Learned to Love the New World Order was originally published in the Wall Street Journal April 23, 1992 on page A13.
Starting August 16, 2008 the TSA (Transportation Safety Administration) will begin allowing laptops to stay in their bags while passing through security checkpoints at airports nation wide.  Of-course there are new requirements that must be meet before attempting to pass through security with your computer still in the bag.
Oil prices fell on Wednesday to a three month low of $112.31 a barrel before climbing over $3, closing at $116.  For the past few weeks, oil has fallen sharply, dropping more then $34 a barrel from the record high of $147 a barrel on July 11.
On Friday while the worlds attention was focused on the Beijing Olympics open ceremonies, Georgia launched a major military offensive against separatists in the breakaway province of South Ossetia. Russian peace keeping forces retaliated by attacking targets in Georgia.
Keeping your data safe and secure from hackers is one thing, keeping your data safe and secure while crossing the border into the United States just got a whole lot harder. In a recently disclosed policy from the U.S. department of Homeland Security dated July 16, border guards have the authority to seize anyone’s laptop entering the U.S. without a warrant or even probable cause. 




