Proud to be an American!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/world/middleeast/26egypt.html?ref=world


Citizens of America: Be glad that you live in such a great country.  It could be like this, but it's not.
  
There was no immediate count of arrests or injuries, but the clashes in Cairo left dozens of people bleeding in Tahrir Square, one of Cairo’s best-known settings, near the Egyptian Museum and a Ritz-Carlton Hotel under construction. Tourists gawked, and older protesters said they had never seen anything like the defiant demonstration.  
At least six young Egyptians have set themselves on fire in recent weeks, in an imitation of the self-immolation that set off the Tunisian unrest.  Egypt has forbidden gas stations to sell to people not in cars and placed security agents wielding fire extinguishers outside government offices.

Apple Loses Jobs:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/technology/18apple.html?bl

The question arises to the public will Jobs return? This outcome will determine the future of Apple and its products to come.  If Steve Jobs falls will Apple fall with him?

Analysts noted that unlike his previous leave, when Apple said Mr. Jobs would be gone for six months, this time Mr. Jobs did not specify how long he would be out. “It raises the bigger question about whether he’ll ever return,” A. M. Sacconaghi Jr., an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Company, said.
According to statistics compiled in 2009 by the federal government, among patients who receive liver transplants, 20.7 percent die in the first three years, on average.

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