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White House still lacks solid intel on bin Laden- Osama bin Laden may be slipping back and forth from Pakistan to Afghanistan. Or the U.S. might not have a clue, more than eight years after the al-Qaida leader masterminded the terrorist attacks on America.
Obama urges Dems to pass health care overhaul- Casting health care overhaul as a legacy for the American people and failure as politically unthinkable, President Barack Obama on Sunday rallied Senate Democrats to deliver on their party's half-century quest to expand the social safety net by providing access for all.
UN says climate finale may have happy ending- Delegates converged Sunday for the grand finale of two years of tough, sometimes bitter negotiations on a climate change treaty, as U.N. officials calculated that pledges offered in the last few weeks to reduce greenhouse gases put the world within reach of keeping global warming under control.
Bolivia's president wins easy re-election- President Evo Morales easily won re-election Sunday, according to unofficial results, getting an overwhelming mandate for further revolutionary change on behalf of Bolivia's long-suppressed indigenous majority.
4 detained in Russian club fire; death toll at 112- Grieving relatives on Sunday begin to bury the victims of a nightclub fire that left at least 112 people dead, as four people were ordered held pending an investigation into the country's worst blaze in decades.
- Tiger Woods and his marital problems proved a tempting target for "Saturday Night Live."
Warner throws 3 TDs, Cards lead Vikings 21-10- Kurt Warner connected with Anquan Boldin and Larry Fitzgerald for three first-half touchdown passes Sunday to give the Arizona Cardinals a 21-10 lead over the Brett Favre-led Vikings in a prime-time duel of the two veteran quarterbacks and former Super Bowl winners.
Top-ranked Ala., No. 2 Texas to play for BCS title- Alabama and Texas get to play in a national title game. For TCU, Cincinnati and Boise State, the math doesn't quite add up but they still get a spot in a BCS bowl.
U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for Nov. 10
WASHINGTON (Map) - Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090226/CENSUSLOGO)
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10: AREA CODES
Profile America -- Tuesday, November 10th. A key part of daily life was first demonstrated on this date in 1951 -- when telephone area codes were introduced. The mayor of Englewood, New Jersey, made the first official call, picking up the phone and directly dialing his counterpart in Alameda, California. At the time, all long-distance calls went through operators, but in a few years, every customer in the U.S. could directly dial long-distance calls. To begin with, there were 87 exchanges, but with the explosion in faxes, modems, and cell phones, the U.S. is fast running out of 10-digit phone numbers. Every day in the U.S., we make 420 billion local calls and that does not count our cell phone calls. Profile America is in its 13th year as a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau.
Sources: Chase's Calendar of Events 2009, p. 544
Statistical Abstract of the United States 2009, t. 1110
Profile America is produced by the Public Information Office of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on a monthly CD or on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look under the "Newsroom" button).
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