Saturday and Sunday - February 14 and 15, 2009 - Is Shane Battier the Real MVP of the NBA?

Alan Taylor's Big Picture Blog looks at Tibet's Great Prayer Festival

Japan to launch fresh Stimulus package

Pressure mounts on novice nurses in over-run ERs, nurse shortage forces hospitals to focus on retention

Crude oil is getting cheaper — so why isn't gas?

Obama, after signing the Stimulus plan, will focus on fixing the nation's foreclosure problem next Wednesday

There could be one hundred billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy, a US conference has heard.

Feds close 4 more banks bringing total this year to 13 . . . latest failures in Florida, Nebraska, Illinois and Oregon

Did pilots err by using auto-pilot in plane which went down in Buffalo?

Chavez argues for a third term . . . feels only he can successfully transform Venezuela into a Socialist state

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand impresses with her Chinese Mandarin

Federal authorities investigating senior U.S. Military officials over "disappeared" Billions of U.S. dollars in Iraq

Europe's decline in the Global Recession is worse than in the U.S.A.

G-7 says downturn to persist for all of 2009
Most interesting read for this weekend is by author of "Moneyball" Michael Lewis titled "The No Stats All-Star" and is about statistics and Shane Battier . . . the best NBA player today you've never heard of

Cycling Enters the Electronic Age With a New Gear-Shifting System

6 Colorado salmonella cases traced to Texas plant

Peanut Corporation declares bankrutcy

Murder caught on videotape: A woman has pleaded guilty to reckless homicide for exercising her 73-year-old husband to death in a swimming pool

Judd Gregg and the Census Counting Feud



FRONTLINE INVESTIGATES HOW THE ECONOMY WENT SO BAD SO FAST

Florida Governor Crist, looking forward to 2010 run for the U.S. Senate, pushes four different tax reductions for Florida taxpayers

A Torture Report Could Spell Big Trouble For Bush Lawyers

Publicists for octuplets' mother quit over death threats

4 dead in shooting spree spanning two counties in upstate New York