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Please add updates@feedmyinbox.com to your address book to make sure you receive these messages in the future. Reuters: U.S. Phelps handed three-month ban by USA Swimming February 6, 2009 at 4:18 am WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Record-setting Olympic champion Michael Phelps has been banned for three months by USA Swimming amid controversy over a photograph published in a British newspaper purportedly showing him smoking marijuana. Ferrell sends off President Bush with send-up February 6, 2009 at 1:03 am NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - He has left the White House -- a speck disappearing over the horizon in an official whirlybird -- but the most disastrous of American presidents remains fuel for satire, especially in the adroit hands of comedian and film star Will Ferrell. US Airways crew: "We're gonna be in the Hudson" February 6, 2009 at 12:59 am WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The crew of a US Airways jetliner disabled by birds that knocked out both its engines over New York calmly told air controllers: "We're gonna be in the Hudson" before splash landing in the river, according to tapes of the account released on Thursday. Judge drops charges in USS Cole bombing case February 5, 2009 at 11:20 pm MIAMI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The judge overseeing U.S. war crimes court at Guantanamo on Thursday dismissed the charges against a Saudi prisoner accused of plotting the bombing of the Navy warship USS Cole, the Pentagon said. Octuplets' mother dreamed of having "huge family" February 5, 2009 at 9:12 pm LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The mother of six who made headlines last month by giving birth to octuplets said on Thursday she had long craved a "huge family" and tried for years to get pregnant before conceiving her first child through in vitro fertilization. Playing violent video games has risks: study February 5, 2009 at 7:45 pm NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Among young college students, the frequency and type of video games played appears to parallel risky drug and alcohol use, poorer personal relationships, and low levels of self-esteem, researchers report. Did middleman know about Madoff losses beforehand? February 5, 2009 at 7:08 pm BOSTON (Reuters) - When federal investigators first examined whether Bernard Madoff ran a Ponzi scheme 17 years ago, they focused on Frank Avellino, an accountant who had delivered investors to Madoff since the 1960s. Fortunoff files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy February 5, 2009 at 5:56 pm NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. regional luxury retailer Fortunoff filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday and said it will try to sell the business, but if it cannot it will close its doors. Networks to keep TV in analog amid DTV delay February 5, 2009 at 5:44 pm WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major U.S. television networks CBS Corp, General Electric Co's NBC and Walt Disney Co's ABC will transmit TV signals in analog until the new June deadline for a national switch to digital signals, a top regulator said on Thursday. FDA lacks access to food safety records: Congress February 5, 2009 at 5:38 pm WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration lacks access to food safety tests that could have helped identify problems at a peanut plant at the center of one of the biggest food recalls in U.S. history, members of Congress said on Thursday. U.S. survey shows executives delaying retirement February 5, 2009 at 5:17 pm NEW YORK (Reuters) - As the U.S. economy buckles, executives are delaying retirement, cutting back on their pension savings and trimming contributions to their children's college funds, according to a survey released on Thursday. Americans' doubts grow over stimulus bill February 5, 2009 at 5:10 pm ATLANTA (Reuters) - Americans voice growing concern over the cost of President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plans and assail as a weakness the disagreement in Washington over how to spend the money. U.S. charities resisting recession, but hardships ahead February 5, 2009 at 5:10 pm NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks are languishing, jobs are vanishing and experts predict the U.S. recession will grind on for months, but Mark Tuohey figures now would be the worst time to cut back on charitable giving.   This email was sent to autoblogs077@gmail.com . Don't want to receive this feed any longer? Unsubscribe here.