http://topblog.biz Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:34:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Nadine Elsibai April 8 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama trails Hillary Clinton by 6 percentage points among Pennsylvania's likely primary voters, a Quinnipiac University poll found. Clinton, a New York senator, received 50 percent support compared with Obama's 44 percent in the poll conducted April 3-6. That's down from ... http://topblog.biz/2008/04/09/obama-chips-away-at-clintons-lead-in-pennsylvania-poll-finds/ llll("http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/data?pid=avimage&iid=isix8uOwtGCY") By Catherine Dodge and Roger Runningen Enlarge Image/Details April 7 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush went to Russia looking for a deal on missile defense. He left with less: a ``framework agreement'' on principles for the Russia-U.S. relationship and a promise that the Russians will keep talking once President Vladimir ... http://topblog.biz/2008/04/09/bush-putin-narrow-differences-over-planned-us-missile-defense-system/ llll("http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/data?pid=avimage&iid=iXRjULKAl6gs") By Brian Swint More Photos/Details April 7 (Bloomberg) -- The Bank of England may be forced to cut its main interest rate this week as the credit squeeze spreads to the mortgage market, exacerbating the worst housing downturn since the last recession in 1991. HSBC Holdings Plc, Nationwide Building Society and Royal ... http://topblog.biz/2008/04/09/bank-of-england-may-cut-as-mortgage-panic-spreads-update1/ llll("http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/data?pid=avimage&iid=i7TTkWs0aNI8") By Jesse Westbrook Enlarge Image/Details April 8 (Bloomberg) -- Three former leaders of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission say the Bush administration's proposed overhaul of financial regulation threatens to weaken the agency, a process that may already be under way with help from the SEC itself. David Ruder, Arthur Levitt and ... http://topblog.biz/2008/04/09/sec-overhaul-bid-by-bush-condemned-by-sec-chairmen-update2/ llll("http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/data?pid=avimage&iid=iN7bmZ7mzVv0") By Kathleen Chu Enlarge Image/Details April 9 (Bloomberg) -- Akira Mori, Japan's richest man, spent a record 231 billion yen ($2.3 billion) buying Tokyo's Toranomon Pastoral Hotel last September. He now says it's worth closer to 200 billion yen. ``The boom we've enjoyed for the past few years is over,'' said the ... http://topblog.biz/2008/04/09/akira-moris-real-estate-riches-retreat-in-japan-credit-squeeze/ llll("http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/data?pid=avimage&iid=i144XA4hJeAk") By Shobhana Chandra and Kristy Scheuble Enlarge Image/Details April 9 (Bloomberg) -- Economic growth in the U.S. will come to a halt in the first six months of 2008 as consumer spending cools, a Bloomberg News survey showed. The world's largest economy will not expand at all from January through June, according ... http://topblog.biz/2008/04/09/us-economy-to-stall-as-consumer-spending-cools-survey-shows/ DURHAM , England, April 9 (UPI) -- British researchers say men and women can generally judge from photographs who would be more interested in a short-term sexual relationship. Researchers led by Durham University asked 700 study participants to judge the attractiveness and attitudes about sex of the opposite sex -- all ... http://topblog.biz/2008/04/09/men-women-judge-their-sex-odds-via-faces/ Here is a random selection of comments left by the 350 LibDems who have so far taken part in the Cleggover Political Sex Survey. Enjoy... "Well I quite fancy you - if you were straight as it is, I think you are a good gay role model." ... http://topblog.biz/2008/04/09/what-the-libdems-say-about-sex-politics/ Amazing. I was not going to post on here for a few more weeks, but this has really pissed me off. It would appear Muslim criminals >Arn't they all< should not discuss there crimes, well I want to know, as a good Muslim, why are they breaking the laws of England? Could it ... http://topblog.biz/2008/04/09/muslim-sex-offenders-opt-out/ (04-09) 04:00 PDT Washington - -- What emerged from Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker's star Senate testimony Tuesday was the sense that it is the United States, not Iraq, that is at a turning point. As cameras whirred at the rare Washington appearance of all three senators running for ... http://topblog.biz/2008/04/09/us-at-turning-point-on-iraq-strategy/