Japan quake strains supply chain from chips to ships (Reuters)

Reuters - Automakers, shipbuilders and technology companies worldwide scrambled for supplies after the disaster in Japan shut down factories there and disrupted the global manufacturing chain.

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Gmailers: Skinnier and smartier than Yahoo! users? (The Week)

The Week - A new study shows that Gmail users are more likely to be young, thin, career-minded men, while Yahoo! is more typically home to overweight, older women

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Hundreds of bodies wash ashore in quake-hit Japan (AP)

AP - There are just too many bodies. Hundreds of dead have washed ashore on Japan's devastated northeast coast since last week's earthquake and tsunami. Others were dug out of the debris Monday by firefighters using pickaxes and chain saws.

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Quake is 5th biggest, but Japan best prepared (AP)

AP - Take the world's most earthquake-prepared country, jolt it with one of the biggest quakes in history and add a devastating tsunami minutes later. In the classic battle of Man vs. Nature, Nature won again.

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How pigs are getting pensioners to open up (Reuters)

Reuters - Residents of senior homes here are often skeptical when Daan Vermeulen walks through the door with his pig grunting by his side.

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Japan quake: live report (AFP)

AFP - 1445 GMT: Here's an update on the impact the disaster is having on the US stock markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has fallen 53.74 points (0.45 percent) to 11,990.66 at 1425 GMT and the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite dropped 10.72 points (0.39 percent) to 2,704.89. The S&P 500-stock index, a broader measure of the markets, shed 7.54 points (0.58 percent) at 1,296.74.

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Che's companion on noted '52 motorcycle trip dies (AP)

AP - Alberto Granado, who accompanied Ernesto 'Che' Guevara on a 1952 journey of discovery across Latin America that was immortalized in Guevara's memoir and on-screen in "The Motorcycle Diaries," died in Cuba on Saturday. He was 88.

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