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HP Profit Tops Estimates on PC, Printer Demand

HP Profit Tops Estimates on PC, Printer Demand
Consumers brought home new computers and corporations replaced aging servers in Hewlett-Packard’s fiscal 2Q

French academic freed from Iran, ‘heading home’

French academic freed from Iran, ‘heading home’
Clotilde Reiss, the French academic arrested and held in Iran since last July has been released and is on the way home, the French president’s office announced Sunday.

Chevron’s ‘Crude’ War on Free Speech

Chevron’s ‘Crude’ War on Free Speech
Editor’s Note: Increasingly in the United States, organized money is arrayed against a relative handful of scattered, under-funded individuals fighting for the truth. It is anything but a fair fight.

Iran to ship enriched uranium to Turkey

Iran to ship enriched uranium to Turkey
Foreign ministers from Iran, Turkey and Brazil signed an agreement Monday to ship Iran’s low enriched uranium to Turkey to exchange with nuclear fuel for a Tehran reactor, an AFP correspondent said.

Baseball notebook: A look at the leagues

Baseball notebook: A look at the leagues
With only five days left in the regular season, league championships are being determined every day. Some are still in doubt while others were cemented recently.

Matisse, Picasso stolen in Paris: officials

Matisse, Picasso stolen in Paris: officials
Five works including paintings by modern masters Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso have been stolen from a Paris museum, officials connected to the investigation told AFP on Thursday.

ENT: To iPad or not to iPad – Online column by Bob Vaillancourt

ENT: To iPad or not to iPad – Online column by Bob Vaillancourt
Canadians looking to get their hands on the latest technology out of Cupertino, the home of the iPad, will be able to do that later this month. Apple has announced it will begin shipping its newest technological gadget May 28 to Canada and eight other countries around the globe. Prices for the [...]

Curator’s Defense Series at NWFF Kicks off Sunday

Curator’s Defense Series at NWFF Kicks off Sunday
Imagine you’re a respected local art curator and the Northwest Film Forum emails you one day and asks you to not only choose your favorite film of the aughts, but to get up in front of a house full of movie goers and defend your selection. What would you choose? That’s the question being answered by four local programmers from very different backgrounds starting this Sunday. Frye Art Museum …

MLB: Mat Latos beats San Francisco Giants on mound, at plate

MLB: Mat Latos beats San Francisco Giants on mound, at plate
Mat Latos pitched a one-hitter, allowing just a sixth-inning single that deflected off him, and also drove in the lone run to lead visiting San Diego over San Francisco

Euro hits 18-month dollar low

Euro hits 18-month dollar low
The euro slumped to 1.2447 US dollars on Friday, striking the lowest point for 18 months, as the single currency was slammed by concerns about the eurozone financial crisis, dealers said.