22-Year-Old Mississippi Brainiac Wins $100,000 on Jeopardy
wired.com     May 17, 2008            

Are you smarter than a 16th grader? Mississippi State University senior Joey Beachum raked in $100,000 in the 2008 Jeopardy! College Championship finale, airing Friday. The Tupelo, Missippi native said he's tucking the dough away for his upcoming wedding and... [read full story]                

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Charles Warner: Go Get 'Em, Bob!

huffingtonpost.com     21 mins ago          

In this week's Advertising Age Bob Garfield in his "Garfield's Review" column writes a blistering open letter to Omnicom's President, John Wren, for allowing his ad agency to create a blatantly homophobic commercial for...                

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$500 Million Is Offered in Fight Against Tobacco

washingtonpost.com     1 hr ago   7 related          

New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Microsoft founder Bill Gates said yesterday that they will together provide $500 million to fight tobacco use around the world, especially in developing countries where smoking rates are...                

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A Xobni Executive Leaves The Red-Hot Startup. But Why?

techcrunch.com     3 hrs ago          

Xobni, the Y Combinator email startup that turned down an acquisition offer from Microsoft earlier this year, has just lost its VP Engineering and first employee, Gabor Cselle. Cselle joined the company in March 2007, sporting...                

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Factoring in expectations, '08 is the worst

signonsandiego.com     3 hrs ago          

Admittedly a glutton when one of the goodies at baseball's buffet table is all-you-can-eat punishment, I've been watching the major league Padres since their inception in 1969. Are we gluttons witnessing the worst Padres team...                

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