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Alcoa's 2Q profit sinks 24 percent on higher costs (AP via Yahoo! News)

9 Jul 2008

Alcoa Inc.'s second-quarter earnings fell nearly 24 percent as higher prices failed to offset the costs of raw materials, energy and plant disruptions, the aluminum producer said Tuesday.

Review: Shallow `Journey' gains depth in 3-D form (AP via Yahoo! News)

8 Jul 2008

Hollywood wisdom through the ages has always been that no technological innovation — the transition from silent film to sound, black-and-white to color, hand-drawn animation to digital images — could ever make a bad movie into a good one.

'Dancing,' a near-perfect piece of Internet art (International Herald Tribune)

8 Jul 2008

Matt Harding's Internet spectacle is sweetly touching and uplifting: People of almost every age and color, dancing along with an uninhibited doofus.