Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Arianna Huffington a

Arianna Huffington and the death of newspapers : The New Yorker: The American newspaper has been around for app... http://bit.ly/dZli71

Arianna Huffington and the death of newspapers : The New Yorker

The American newspaper has been around for approximately three hundred years. Benjamin Harris’s spirited Publick Occurrences, Both Forreign and Domestick managed just one issue, in 1690, before the Massachusetts authorities closed it down. Harris had suggested a politically incorrect hard line on Indian removal and shocked local sensibilities by reporting that the King of France had been taking liberties with the Prince’s wife.

New York Stock Exchange May Be Sold - NYTimes.com

Under the terms being negotiated, the New York Stock Exchange — which began in 1792 when brokers gathered beneath a buttonwood tree in Lower Manhattan to trade five securities of the new nation — would still have a headquarters in Manhattan. But the Deutsche Börse would own as much as 60 percent of the new company, which would be incorporated in the Netherlands.

Snow Is Getting Clos

Snow Is Getting Closer:  Much of Arkansas already has snow. http://bit.ly/h5EZVS

Snow Is Getting Closer

 Much of Arkansas already has snow.