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SOME NEWS NOTED TODAY (10#) -

OPEC meets today with the price of crude oil at a little over $100 a barrel. The rad states are claiming there's a glut and want a cut in production, which is unlikely to happen. Royal Dutch Shell is set to return to Basra.

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# Former Mouse Houser: The DOJ has hired outside lawyer Sanford Litvack to study a prospective Google/Yahoo advertising arrangement and, possibly, broader aspects of online advertising.

# Google is moving beyond
the Internet to broker ads for television.

"Internet advertising sales... probably will surge to $65 billion this year, according to... researcher IDC. More than a third of that will come from searches."

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Much chatter about the possibility
of kidnapping Iran's Ahmadinejad.

# Some intelligence suggests that N.Korea's 66-year-old Kim Jong Il suffered a stroke on Aug. 14 and may be incapacitated. He was absent from a national celebration on Tuesday and hasn't been seen in public for a month.

# CERN atomic collider
set to fire up on Wednesday.

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Man is suing American Airlines
for allegedly losing his wife's corpse for four days.

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