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Golden Globes preview: from Red Carpet to acceptance speech

Arts, Culture & Media

This Sunday, awards season officially kicks off with The 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards, which will be broadcast at 8 p.m. eastern time on NBC. Also known as the happiest awards show in Hollywood, the Globes is an event where alcohol is served throughout the night, TV stars and movie stars mingle, and comedies and […]

Texting while walking: Public health concern

Global Politics

BirdNote® – New Year Dawns

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Golden Globes: predicting the winners, losers, and envelope pushers

Arts, Culture & Media
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Can the Globe stay afloat?

Business, Economics and Jobs
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Finance chiefs meet in Washington

Global Politics

Finance ministers from around the globe are in Washington today. They’re trying to fine-tune their responses to the economic crisis and implement some of the steps agreed upon at the G20 summit in London. Anchor Katy Clark speaks with John Authers, Investment Editor of the Financial Times in New York.

YouTube clones around globe

Cyrus Farivar reports that the video-sharing website YouTube has a lot of international competition. In some countries, like China, video-sharing sites are allowing people to criticize their government without being out on the streets. In other places though, it’s government who controls the sites.

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