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Google 'optimistic' it won't pull out of China

"I'm an optimist. I want to find a way to work within the Chinese system and provide more and better information," he said. "I think a lot of people think I'm naive, and that may be true."

2010-02-13

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Bill Gates: We need global 'energy miracles'

Long Beach, California (CNN) -- Microsoft Corp. founder and philanthropist Bill Gates on Friday called on the world's tech community to find a way to turn spent nuclear fuel into cheap, clean energy.

"What we're going to have to do at a global scale is create a new system," Gates said in a speech at the TED Conference in Long Beach, California. "So we need energy miracles."
Gates called climate change the world's most vexing problem, and added that finding a cheap and clean energy source is more important than creating new vaccines and improving farming techniques, causes into which he has invested billion of dollars.

2010-02-13

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Olympic opening ceremonies clouded by luger's death

Vancouver, British Columbia (CNN) -- The opening ceremonies for the 2010 Winter Olympics began on a somber note Friday night as members of the delegation from Georgia mourned the loss of one of their teammates just hours earlier.
The seven-athlete delegation, wearing black armbands in tribute to luger Nodar Kumaritashvili, entered BC Place to a standing ovation from the more than 60,000 spectators in attendance. A black ribbon was tied atop the Georgian flag.

2010-02-13

标签： Olympic opening ceremonies cnn

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Poll: Bush still blamed for economy

From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney More Americans blame the Bush administration for the nation's economic troubles than the Obama administration, according to a new poll.(CNN) - More than a yea

2010-02-13

标签： cnn economy Bush

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2009 airline on-time performance best since 2003

(CNN) -- Airlines in the United States did a better job of getting passengers and their luggage to their destinations on time last year, according to the federal government's latest report on airline

2010-02-13

标签： airline cnn

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Help wanted: Obama's Twitterer (filibusterers need not apply)

You spend all your time on tweets and Facebook status updates anyway. Why not do it for your President?With unemployment weighing heavily on the economy, Barack Obama is stressing his ability to creat

2010-02-13

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Why the Olympics matter

Editor's note: Robert A. Kaufman, a recent Brown University graduate, is on a Fulbright scholarship in Norway. He is also learning how to cross-country ski. (CNN) -- Athletes from 97 nations will mar

2010-02-13

标签： cnn Olympics

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Suicide bomber strikes U.S. base

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Five U.S. soldiers were wounded Thursday when a suicide bomber attacked a U.S. base, an Afghan official said.The attacker detonated the bomb about 9 p.m. while in the "slee

2010-02-12

标签：英语新闻 cnn

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Jaycee's journal: 'I want to be free'

CNN) -- Jaycee Dugard kept a journal during 18 years of captivity, at times writing about how she yearned for freedom, court documents filed Thursday reveal."It feels like I'm sinking," she wrote in 2

2010-02-12

标签： Jaycee's journal

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