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Brazil dam burst forces thousands from homes BBC News Brazilian authorities are trying to evacuate several thousand people after a dam burst in northern Rio de Janeiro state. Water broke through the dam protecting the town of Campos de Goytacazes, opening up a big crater in a highway. Rio and other parts of south-eastern Brazil […]

Unemployment soars among college majors like architecture By Annalyn Censky CNNMoney January 4, 2012 NEW YORK — If you want the best odds of getting a job after graduation, don’t major in architecture. Among recent college grads, architecture majors by far have the highest unemployment rate at 13.9%. That’s according to a new report from […]

George Lucas’ ‘Red Tails’ salutes Tuskegee Airmen By Marco R. della Cava USA TODAY NICASIO, Calif. – George Lucas is many imposing things. Billionaire lord of a sci-fi empire. Passionate early-education philanthropist. Northern California land baron. But drill down to his core and Lucas is still the same fiercely independent kid from rural Modesto who […]

Japan Seen With First Trade Gap Since ‘63 in JPMorgan Outlook By Eleanor Warnock Bloomberg Japan probably recorded its first annual trade deficit since 1963 last year, part of a shift that may see the world’s largest net creditor come to rely on inflows of foreign capital by 2015, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. […]

Wednesday, January 04, 2012   DNCC deposits funds into local minority oriented banks The bulk of the $17 million payment made to the Democratic National Convention Committee is deposited with Charlotte headquartered Bank of America   WTVD ABC 11 Raleigh-Durham     DURHAM, NC — The Democratic National Convention Committee is pumping $4 million into two Durham-based businesses […]