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Vice President Joe Biden speaks about a White House deal with hospitals to help pay for President Barack Obama's overhaul of health care, Wednesday, July 8, 2009, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington. At left is Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds) Health care overhaul bill suffers another setback
23 mins ago - The drive to remake the nation's health care system suffered yet another setback in Congress on Thursday when a pivotal group of House Democrats demanded numerous changes in legislation the leadership was drafting on a fast track.
In this photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran shows Iranian protestors run away from tear gas fired by security in an opposition rally in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, July 9, 2009. Hundreds of young men and women chanted 'death to the dictator,' confronting police wielding batons and firing tear gas in the capital Thursday as opposition activists sought to revive street protests despite authorities' vows to 'smash' any new marches. (AP Photo) EDITORS NOTE AS A RESULT OF AN OFFICIAL IRANIAN GOVERNMENT BAN ON FOREIGN MEDIA COVERING SOME EVENTS IN IRAN, THE AP WAS PREVENTED FROM INDEPENDENT ACCESS TO THIS EVENT Thousands protest in Iran, defying crackdown vow
24 mins ago - Thousands of protesters streamed down avenues of the capital Thursday, chanting "death to the dictator" and defying security forces who fired tear gas and charged with batons, witnesses said.
FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2009 file photo, U.S. Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill. speaks at the City Club of Chicago. A Democratic official says Burris will not run for a full Senate term in 2010. The source says Burris has begun informing Democratic officials about his decision. The official spoke anonymously because Burris had yet to announce his decision publicly. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File) AP source: Burris won't run for full Senate term
39 mins ago - A Democratic official says Roland Burris will not run for a full Senate term in 2010. The source says Burris has begun informing Democratic officials about his decision. The official spoke anonymously because Burris had yet to announce his decision publicly.
Ensign's parents gave mistress's family $96k
54 mins ago - Sen. John Ensign said Thursday his parents gave his mistress and her family nearly $100,000 "out of concern for the well being of longtime family friends during a difficult time," providing his first public acknowledgment that the woman received payments tied to the affair.
A wounded man lies in a hospital bed after a roadside bomb attack near a market in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) Worst violence since US pullback hits Iraq
3 hrs ago - Bombs killed nearly 60 people in Iraq on Thursday in the worst violence since U.S. combat troops withdrew from urban areas last week, and American forces released five Iranian officials suspected of aiding Shiite insurgents.
Family members search for the graves of relatives at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill., Thursday, July 9, 2009, after graves were discovered dug up Wednesday and bodies dumped into unmarked mass graves in an alleged scheme to resell the plots to unsuspecting members of the public. Three men and a woman are facing felony charges after police found what they called 'startling and revolting' conditions at the historic cemetery in the south Chicago suburb. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) 4 Ill. cemetery workers accused in grisly plot
1 hr 28 mins ago - Three gravediggers and a cemetery manager unearthed hundreds of corpses from a historic black cemetery south of Chicago, dumping some in a weeded area and double-stacking others in existing graves, in an elaborate scheme to resell the plots, authorities said Thursday. All four were charged with felonies.
Study: 1 in 3 breast cancer patients overtreated
32 mins ago - One in three breast cancer patients identified in public screening programs may be treated unnecessarily, a new study says. Karsten Jorgensen and Peter Gotzsche of the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen analyzed breast cancer trends at least seven years before and after government-run screening programs for breast cancer started in parts of Australia, Britain, Canada, Norway and Sweden.
In this image released by Discovery Channel, the late TV pitchman Billy Mays is shown in Santa Monica, Calif., on Feb. 8, 2009. On Thursday, July 9, 2009 at 9 p.m. EDT, Discovery Channel will air a one-hour documentary, 'Pitchman: A Tribute to Billy Mays.' Mays had been featured in a 12-part series on the network called 'Pitchmen.' (AP Photo/Discovery Communications/John Chapple) Billy Mays remains a TV pitchman, even in death
2 hrs 27 mins ago - Death won't still the voice of Billy Mays or his mighty powers of persuasion. Viewers will continue to find the boisterous, bearded TV pitchman hawking household products for the indefinite future. And at least one of his commercials is being introduced posthumously.
Brazilian artists Gabriel Primo, left, and Tiago Primo sit in their installation art work, exhibited on the wall of a building, in Rio de Janeiro, Thursday, July 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Ricardo Moraes) Going vertical: Brothers live on building's wall
2 hrs 44 mins ago - Two brothers in Rio are living over the edge - literally: sleeping, working and eating on the side of a building 33 feet (10 meters) up in the air. Twenty-seven-year-old Tiago Primo and his 20-year-old brother Gabriel spend 12 hours a day in the bed, hammock, chair and dining table they've attached to a bright red-and-yellow wall as part of an art exhibit in Rio's old center.
New York Yankees' Mark Teixeira splinters his bat with an RBI single off Minnesota Twins pitcher Scott Baker in the second inning of a baseball game Tuesday, July 7, 2009, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone) Teixeira homers, Yankees top Twins 6-4 for sweep
2 hrs 16 mins ago - Mark Teixeira ended a 23-game homerless drought and the New York Yankees completed a season sweep of the Minnesota Twins with a 6-4 victory Thursday. Teixeira connected on the first pitch of the fifth inning. It was his 21st homer of the season and first in 96 at-bats, dating to June 12 against the Mets.

Blackboard Inc. to Present at the Credit Suisse Annual Technology Conference

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WASHINGTON (Map) - WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) today announced that Michael Chasen, president and CEO and Mike Beach, CFO and Michael Stanton, SVP of Treasury & Investor Relations, will present at the Credit Suisse Annual Technology Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona on Wednesday, December 3, 2008.

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Event: Blackboard Presentation at the Credit Suisse Annual Technology Conference Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008 Time: 2:30 p.m. Mountain/4:30 p.m. Eastern Location: The Phoenician, Scottsdale, Arizona

The audio webcast of this presentation will be available live on the Blackboard Investor Relations Web site, http://investor.blackboard.com.

About Blackboard Inc.

Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) is a leading provider of enterprise software applications and related services to the education industry. Founded in 1997, Blackboard enables educational innovations everywhere by connecting people and technology. With two product suites, the Blackboard Academic Suite(TM) and the Blackboard Commerce Suite(TM), Blackboard is used by millions of people at academic institutions around the globe, including colleges, universities, K-12 schools and other education providers, as well as textbook publishers and student-focused merchants that serve education providers and their students. Blackboard is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia.

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