Week of September 23, 2007

Iraq - U.S. forces kill Abu Osama Tunist - a top Al Qaeda leader. It’s believed he

was responsible for the capture and killing of American soldiers last year.

The department of Homeland Security has reached its goal of completing 70

miles of new fencing by the end of this month, nearly doubling the length of

barriers on the border to about 145 miles.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton says that every child

born in the U.S. should get a $5,000 ‘baby bond” from the government to help

pay for future costs of college or buying a home.

Mychal Bell - a black teen jailed in the racially combustible “Jena Six” case is

released. Bell who is 17, has spent about 10 months in jail after he and five other

black youths allegedly assaulted a white classmate last year at Jena High in

Louisiana.

Iraqi and U.S. special forces arrest 59 army officers and enlisted men accused in

killings, bombings and kidnappings in the latest case linking elements of the Iraqi

army to sectarian militias and criminal gangs.

U.S intelligence officials say that political turmoil and a spate of brazen attacks by

Taliban fighters are forcing Pakistan’s president to scale back his government’s

pursuit of Al Qaeda.

In New York - Iranian President

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad faces

criticism about his opinions on

women, gays, Israel, nuclear weapons

and the Holocaust in an appearance

at Columbia University.

At the Opening of the U.N. General

Assembly, Iranian President

Mohmoud Ahmadinjad declares his

country’s nuclear issue “closed” while

leaders of France and Germany

issued ominous warnings about his

nation’s alleged weapons ambitions.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton

reinforces her position as the Democratic presidential front runner - appearing on

five weekend talk shows.

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Gasoline prices are up - about $2.8 per gallon nationwide.

Medical - Killer amoebas living in lakes can enter the body through the nose and

attack the brain, where they feed until you die. Though encounters with the

microscopic bug are extraordinarily rare, it is known to have killed six boys and

young men in the U.S. this year and the jump in cases has health officials

concerned. There were about 2.3 average deaths per year.

Passing - Rex Humbard (88) - pioneering televangelist.

Business -

Shares of Bear Stearns jump on speculation that the company will sell a big

stake in itself, possibly to Warren Buffet. Stearns has been hit the hardest by the

collapse of the sub-prime mortgage market.

Radio king Clear Channel approves a $19.5-billion buyout offer from a private

equity group led by Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain Capital partners.

Technology - Behind Apple -

Did you know that SanDisk is the

No 2 maker of digital music

players? Its newest player - the

Sansa Shaker - is aimed at kids

and shaped like a toy bongo

drum.

Amazon.com launches its much-

anticipated digital music store

with nearly 2.3 million songs,

none of them protected against

copying. Songs cost 89 cents to

99 cents and albums sell for

$5.99 to $9.99. iTunes also offers

some songs without so-called digital rights management technology (DRM)

which prevents unauthorized copies form being played. The problem though - it

frustrates listeners because it limits the type of device or number of computers on

which they can listen to music. iTunes generally won’t play on devices other than

the iPod and iPods won’t play DRM-enabled songs bought at rival music stores.

Downloading movies to DVD is that much closer - Sonic Solutions says it has

won approval for its technology, which makes it possible for people to record

homemade DVD’s containing the same copy protection found on professionally

Week of September 23, 2007

made DVD’s. It will open the door to download services to let customers burn

movies they buy to DVD.

Walt Disney Co. says it will end its Disney Mobile phone services at the end of

the year.

The social-networking website MySpace.com is launching a free, advertising-

supported call-phone version as part of a wider bid by parent News Corp. to

attract advertising for mobile sites.

Yahoo Inc will jettison a little-use service for finding and rating audio programs

known as podcasts, the podcast section will be silenced Oct. 31. It joins several

other features Yahoo has scrapped as it tries to snap out of a financial funk that

has depressed its stock price and triggered a reshuffling of top management.

Sports -

Kelly Pavlik stops Jermain Taylor in the seventh round, becoming the WBC and

WBO middleweight champ. He was considered the challenger

NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin says her regrets his off-track spat with Kyle petty

last weekend after the tow Crashed and Hamlin fell to last among the 12 bidding

for the Nextel Cup title. They still haven’t spoken.

Radio news -

New research says that Internet surfers visit a radio station web site at least once

a month.

Entertainment news -

Passing - Marcel Marceau (84) -

the great French mime.

Passing - Actor Michael Evans (87).

Music news -

Jurors fail to reach a decision in the

Phil Spector murder trail - forcing a

mistrial.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street

Band’s new album “Magic” is first

being released on vinyl (on a limited

Week of September 23, 2007

basis). Industry types say - they had to get something out to qualify for the 2007

Grammy Awards. You must to so by Sept

30. It’s the first album by the boys in

five years.

Television news -

First TV interview for Jenna Bush .

Catch her 20/20 this week. She talks

about her fiancé, Henry Hager and

has a new book, “Ana’s story: A

Journey of Hope,’ about a teen mom

with HIV. With Diane Sawyer.

Top TV -

Sunday Night Football -

19.05

Survivor: China - 15.35

CSI - 14.07

NFL Pregame - 13.86

Cold Case - 12.75

Deal or No Deal on Monday - 11.71

Shark - 11.42

60 Minutes - 11.37

Without a Trace - 11.28

Two and a Half men - 10.84

Family Guy - 10.81

Football Night in America Pt. 3 - 10.29

CIS: Miami - 9.65

The Simpsons - 955

Fox Postgame show - 9.50

Back to you - 9.48

Kid Nation - 9.39

CSI: NY - 9.18

Desperate Housewives - 9.02

K-Ville on Monday - 8.93

Top Hip-Hop this week -

I Get It In - Chads That Community Serva

Bed - J. Holiday

Swerving - TIM Boyz

Inside Out - Temar Underwood

Get to the Money - Reec

Until You Come Back to Me- Crystal Dove

Get Me Bodied - Beyonce

Week of September 23,

2007

Top Country -

More Than A Memory - Garth Brooks

Take Me There - Rascal Flatts

These Are My People - Rodney Atkins

Love Me if You Can - Toby Keith

Proud of the House We Built - Brooks & Dunn

Never wanted Nothing More - Kenny Chesney

Online - Brad Paisley

All My Friends say - Luke Bryan

Because of You - Reba and Kelly Clarkson

Everyday America - Sugarland

Modern Rock

Paralyzer - Finger Eleven

Icky Thump - White Stripes

Bled It Out - Linkin Park

Never Too Late - Three Days Grace

Supermassive Black Hole - Muse

Hot hits this week in 2007 -

Stronger - Kane West

Crank That (Soulja Boy) - Soulja Boy

The Way I Are - Timbaland

Big Girls Don’t Cry - Fergie

Hey There Delilah - Plain White T’s

Make Me Better - fabulous

Rockstar - Nickelback

Shawty - Plies

Who Knew - Pink

Umbrella - Rihanna

Wait For You - Elliott Yamin

Bed - J. Holiday

A Bay Bay - Hurricane Chris

Let It Go - Keyshia Cole

So Small - Carrie Underwood

Me Love - Sean Kingston

Hot albums this week in 2007 -

Hustlenomics - Yung Joc

High School Musical 2 - soundtrack

The Altar and the door - Casting Crowns

Now 25 - Various artists

Hairspray - soundtrack