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Pete Carroll is the highest paid employee at USC making 4 times what the President of the school makes. Pete Carroll’s pay was $4.4 million dollars in the 2006-07 school year. Next in line is a dermatologist at Columbia named Steven M. Silvers who cleared $4.3 million. Mr. Silvers treats skin cancer helping potentially save lives.

Does USC think Pete Carroll is worth it?

Alex Rodriguez comes clean and talks about testing positive for steroid use in 2003.

Alex Rodriguez tarnishes career with steroid use…

The famous came out to speak about the Chris Brown and Rihanna situation. Many of the stars gave their heartfelt and sincere words of wisdom both to Chris Brown and Rihanna.

Famous celebrities advise Rihanna and Chris Brown…

The world famous Amazon.com announced that in spite of the recession they have had their best holiday season thus far. On December 15th Amazon’s peak day they were bombarded with 6.3 million items ordered worldwide, which amounts to an average of 72.9 items ordered per second!!!

Read more of Amazon.com’s successful 2008 holiday year

What is Black Friday? Otherwise known as the first Friday after thanksgiving. For those shopping fanatics I’m sure they already know, however for those of you who do not know, Black Friday is the first official shopping day of the Christmas season. Most of the major stores begin having sales and although this is not a holiday there are many employees who will actually take that day off to go shopping. In keeping with this sale many retailers open at…

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Approximately 7 months ago we began a recession in states like California, Florida, New Mexico, Michigan and Nevada; now in October we have 27 states that are in a recession. California currently has an unemployment rate of approximately 7% while other places like Rhode Island and Nevada have over an 8% unemployment rate.
However, some of the states are somewhat less affected by the current recession due to their particular economic climate. For instance, you have Alaska which because of their…

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Now that President Bush and Henry Paulson have been given the $700 billion that they have requested, they will use $250 billion to inject into banks. Their hopes are that this will work similar to a vaccine and prevent the ongoing spread of banking and financial failures that have occurred.

The breakdown of the initial $250 billion will be distributed to 9 banks such as:

-Citigroup
-Goldman Sachs
-Morgan Stanley
-Wells Fargo, etc…

Then the rest of the injection will be submitted

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