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Deals of the Hour / June 23, 2010, 12:11 pm

Arts Commission sells replicas of City Hall's Milk bust

Just in time for the annual Pride Celebration (and budget season), the city's Arts Commission announced today that replicas of the City Hall bust of gay rights pioneer and former Supervisor Harvey Milk are going on sale ... (Source: San Francisco Gate 2010-06-23T18:43:41Z)

Ford Adds Soy Foam Seat Cushions to Ford Explorer; Expands Use of Eco-Friendly ...

The new 2011 Ford Explorer will offer more eco-friendly features including soy foam in seat cushions and seatbacks as well as at least a 25 percent increase in fuel economy over the current model Ford is expanding its ... (Source: Yahoo Finance 2010-06-23T18:50:50Z)

Now Scientists Read Your Mind Better Than You Can

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Brain scans may be able to predict what you will do better than you can yourself, and might offer a powerful tool for advertisers or health officials seeking to motivate consumers, researchers said ... (Source: ABC News 2010-06-23T18:58:00Z)

Macquarie Power & Infrastructure Income Fund to Acquire 20 Megawatt Solar Project in ...

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - 06/23/10) - Macquarie Power & Infrastructure Income Fund (TSX: MPT.UN - News )(TSX: MPT.DB.A - News ) ("MPT") and SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWRA - News )(NASDAQ: SPWRB - News ) ("SunPower ... (Source: Yahoo Finance 2010-06-23T18:43:41Z)

Ultimate Rooftop Golf Challenge in NYC with Golf Legend Annika Sorenstam and PGA Tour ...

Each player will hit 10 floating golf balls from the rooftop of a 40-story building at Waterside Plaza in an attempt to reach a floating bulls-eye target in the East River. Based on the golfers' accuracy, P.F. Chang ... (Source: Yahoo Finance 2010-06-23T18:15:03Z)

Please, please, keep vuvuzelas out of America

Would you like to see vuvuzelas infiltrate American sports? In 1997, Gregg Henson and I scored a couple of tickets to the World Series in Cleveland. We drove down and back in one night and watched the Marlins beat the ... (Source: Detroit Free Press 2010-06-23T18:58:00Z)

New-home sales suffer record plunge

The housing market took another hit today. New-home sales tumbled by a record 33% in May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 300,000, the Commerce Department said this morning. It was the lowest level since 1963 ... (Source: MSN Money 2010-06-23T18:07:53Z)

World Cup 2010

The eyes of the African continent will be focused on Ghana as their only representative with a realistic chance of making it to the second round. After some good displays in their win and draw thus far, facing the ... (Source: ESPN Soccernet 2010-06-23T18:29:22Z)

Donovan injury-time goal puts US in 2nd round

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- Over and over, everything seemed to go against them. A referee took away a win last week, and a linesman disallowed another goal Wednesday. Now there was just 3 1/2 minutes left in their ... (Source: Associated Press 2010-06-23T18:58:00Z)

Developers Favor Android Over Apple's iPhone OS

Other operating-system platforms were 30 percentage points or more behind Apple and Google in the level of interest by developers. The second tier consists of BlackBerry at 34 percent and Windows Phone 7 at 27 percent ... (Source: YAHOO! 2010-06-23T18:50:50Z)

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