Friday's Daily Brief

Friday, September 2, 2011 U.S. Adds Zero New Jobs In August As Jobless Rate Stuck At 9.1 Percent GREEN Earthquake Hits South Of Alaska BUSINESS U.S. Set To File Suits Against Big Banks Over Mortgages WORLD Turkey Cuts Israeli Ties After Gaza Flotilla Refusal POLITICS White House Requests Billions In Disaster Relief, Setting Up Fight With GOP TECHNOLOGY Apple's New CEO Promotes iTunes Chief BLOG POSTS Jared Bernstein: Brother-In-Law Retorts: Labor Day Edition Labor Day is upon us, that last family cookout or picnic of the summer. So we'd better fire up both the grill and our handy responses to annoying arguments from that brother-in-law with a PhD in Fox TV. Eliza Dushku: Why You Must Visit Albania Looking back at the recent weeks I've spent in Albania, I feel foolish for anticipating I could understand it in less than a lifetime, but the process has been exciting, and at the same time humbling. Jowita Bydlowska: I Cheated on You... Will You Marry Me? I believe in love. And I also believe in men having fire lit up under their asses after dalliances, suddenly panicking and making the gravest of life decisions to save the said asses. Joanna Dolgoff, M.D.: Soda: Does It Fizzle Your Health? So it's okay to switch to diet soda, right? Not so fast. Two new studies presented recently at the American Diabetes Association's (ADA) Scientific Sessions have linked drinking diet soda to weight gain. Greg Mitchell: Revealed: Ayn Rand's Script for Hollywood Movie Glorifying the Atomic Bomb Did Ayn Rand hate the Bomb? Hardly. In fact, she extolled its creation as "an eloquent example of, argument for and tribute to free enterprise."

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