Tuesday, August 22, 2006

From the day

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The Headlines

What Organizations Don’t Want to Know Can Hurt

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

London Bridge

Fergie

#1 at the box office

$17,031,122

The must-have

Nintendo Wii

On This Day

• Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal.

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• Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Deng Xiaoping (1904)
• Claude Debussy (1862)
• Ray Bradbury (1920)
• Dua Lipa (1995)
• Leni Riefenstahl (1902)

Slang

Tech Check

Twitter, Nintendo Wii & AWS (Cloud Computing).

Cost of Living (2005)