iPHONE Daily Blog Buzz 09.28.08

The proposal to bail out U.S. financial markets to the tune of up to $700 billion creates a lot of potential short-term winners, as well as some losers.Complete Story. WASILLA — Though Sarah Palin depicts herself as a pit bull fighting good-old-boy politics, in her years as mayor she and her friends received special benefits more typical of small-town politics as usual, an Associated Press investigation shows.New Washington Redskins coach Jim Zorn was looking for something to help him build up a healthy dose of hate for the Dallas Cowboys. Turns out, he kinds of likes playing his team's archrival. Complete Story... WEST HARTFORD — Paul Newman broached the subject of his philanthropic legacy several years ago while fishing with friends Robert Forrester and David Horvitz off the Outer Banks of North Carolina.Even though he was a Hollywood icon — a 10-time Academy Award nominee known for his performances in such classic films as "Cool Hand Luke" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" — it was a rare moment in which Newman reflected on how he would be remembered after his death, Horvitz recalled Sunday. CONTINUE READING... Mathematicians at UCLA have discovered a 13 million-digit prime number, a long-sought milestone that makes them eligible for a $100,000 prize. Complete Story.. Federal employees and retirees can choose from 269 insurance options, with some plans going up much more than the 8 percent average. For example, the premiums for the most popular choice among enrollees is rising about 13 percent. Meanwhile, about 20 percent of current enrollees are in plans that will have a premium increase of less than 5 percent.About 8 million federal workers, family members and retirees are enrolled in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. Participants can use an open enrollment season that begins Nov. 10 to shop around and change their insurance coverage to fit their medical and financial circumstances. CONTINUE READING. A federal judge in Hawaii has dismissed a lawsuit trying to stop the world's largest atom smasher. U.S. District Judge Helen Gilmor says in a ruling issued Friday that federal courts don't have jurisdiction over the Large Hadron Collider in Europe, near Geneva.Two Hawaii residents sued because they feared the machine could create black holes or other phenomena that could destroy the planet.Most physicists say the collider is safe. It started low-power operation Sept. 10 but suffered malfunctions and will be shut down until spring. CONTINUE READING