CURRENT NEWS ITEM: WILL A COMPLIMENT TURN INTO THE INAUGURAL GOWN?

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1. Will a Compliment Turn Into the Inaugural Gown?

   Designer Kai Milla and husband Stevie Wonder in 2005. (Photo by Russell Hirshon) Kai Milla, like everyone in the fashion business, has her eyes on one very special assignment: Michelle Obama's inaugural gown. "That would be a dream come true for any designer," said Milla, who brought her inaugural...

2. Researchers turn cancer friend into cancer foe

   The Bcl-2 protein has long been implicated in protecting cancer cells from apoptosis, which means programmed cell death. This peptide (called NuBCP-9) and its mirror-image molecule work on Bcl-2 like a molecular switch, converting it into a killer of of

3. Suniel Shetty to turn hotelier too

   Suniel Shetty is surely turning jack of all trades and master of them too. Acting, producing, event ...

4. Politics in Canada turn ugly - and dangerous

   Several supporters of the Liberal Party in Toronto found their cars sabotaged and their homes vandalized.

5. Funds Turn To Treasury Guaranty

   Fifteen of the largest money-market mutual fund companies, which together account for three-quarters of the market, said this week that they would take up the Treasury Department on its offer of a temporary guaranty in an attempt to regain their status as one of the safest places to park cash.

6. Harlequins pass character test to turn tables on Scarlets

   So this Harlequins side are the real deal. This was quite simply a stunning victory against the odds.

7. I'm ready to turn it on: Harbhajan

   HARBHAJAN Singh has warned Australia he will "perk up" when the tourists bat again after struggling through the opening two days of the first Test.

8. EU tells music lovers to turn down MP3 players

   The European Union told music lovers Monday to turn down the volume of MP3 players, saying they risk permanent hearing loss from listening too long at maximum levels.

9. Rooms: When It’s Really the End, It’s the Embalmer’s Turn

   A peek into life — and death — in a small embalming room at the Owens Funeral Home on Lenox Avenue and 121st Street in Harlem.

10. Dodgers To Turn to Lowe on Short Rest

    LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12 -- At a point in the series where the need to win trumps the need to rest, the Los Angeles Dodgers have decided to start Derek Lowe for Monday's Game 4 on three days' rest.

11. EU to youth: Turn down your MP3 players!

    Millions of youngsters across Europe could suffer permanent hearing loss after five years if they listen to MP3 players at too high a volume for more than five hours a week, EU scientists warned Monday.

12. EU warns youth: turn your MP3 players down!

    BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Millions of youngsters across Europe could suffer permanent hearing loss after five years if they listen to MP3 players at too high a volume for more than five hours a week, EU scientists warned Monday.

13. Turn your iPhone into an organ

    (Credit: Very Cool Software Company) If you're a fan of retro music instruments, I've got some good news. The Very Cool Software Company, a U.K.-based Mac OS developer, recently announced its first iPhone application: Dubreq iStylophone. Dubreq Stylophone is an electronic musical instrument, originally invented by ...

14. Naming rights could turn Dodger diamond into gold

    The stadium won t get a new moniker, but the bullpens might. Welcome to Dodger Stadium! Come see the pitchers warm up in the Red Bull Bullpen. Sit in the Bicycle Playing Cards top deck! Leave your car in the Hertz garage for preferred parking, or the Avis lot, where they try harder to find you a spot.

15. Can Slater turn 'Worst Enemy' into first Emmy?

    Reviews: "...a convoluted premise that is cleverly wrought and holds up well, and Mr. Slater does a remarkable job of only subtly signaling each personality."

16. Waiting for sheep Now it's Godot's turn to hang on

    Having paid good money to see a play only to attend 'Waiting for Godot', a group of militant sheep threatened to bring a successful nationwide tour of the production to a halt.

17. Playoff Analysis: Inspiration Can Easily Turn to Folly

    This October, managers have been particularly aggressive against the Red Sox, raising the question of whether teams feel the need to be more assertive against the big kids on the block.

18. Turn down personal music players, EU warns youth

    Music lovers risk permanent hearing loss from blasting their MP3 players too loud for too long, according to a European report, and authorities are considering a reduced limit on sound volumes.

19. Reeling Red Sox turn to Wakefield

    Coming off consecutive losses in which two of their best starters were battered by Tampa Bay, the Boston Red Sox send 42-year-old knuckleballer Tim Wakefield to the mound for Game 4 of the ALCS on Tuesday (8:07 p.m. ET).

20. Stocks Turn Mixed After Failing To Sustain Initial Upward Move - U.S. Commentary

    While stocks moved sharply higher at the start of trading on Tuesday, the markets were unable to sustain the upward move amid lingering concerns about the outlook for the economy. The major averages have subsequently moved well off their best levels of the day.

21. Economix: In Credit Crisis, Some Turn to Online Peers for Cash

    While conventional credit markets have frozen, imperiling the entire economy, one nontraditional lending source has become hotter: peer-to-peer lending.

22. It's Wall Street's Turn to Bolster Confidence

    Now, what was that about Hank Paulson having blown it?

23. Video: How can McCain turn it around?

    Oct. 14: TODAY’s Matt Lauer talks to NBC News analyst Mike Murphy and Rachel Maddow, host of ‘The Rachel Maddow Show’ about Sen. John McCain’s strategy for winning the race for the White House. (Today Show)

24. NYT poll: McCain attacks turn off voters

    The McCain campaign’s recent angry tone and personal attacks on Sen. Barack Obama appear to have backfired, according to a New York Times/CBS News Poll.

25. Dial-a-concert? Mobile phones turn musical

    Making music just got easier. A Japanese game maker has teamed up with the nation's leading cellphone network carrier to enable users to play an orchestra with their fingertips.

26. Lloyds' tieup with HBOS could turn out to be the deal of the century

27. NYT poll: Attacks by McCain turn off voters

    The McCain campaign’s recent angry tone and personal attacks on Sen. Barack Obama appear to have backfired, according to a New York Times/CBS News Poll.

28. Crisis, crackdown turn Mexicans off American dream

    ACATZINGO, Mexico (Reuters) - Caught by the U.S. economic crisis and a crackdown on illegal immigrants, Mexican workers are increasingly quitting the United States and coming home, disillusioned with the American dream.

29. Mark Steel: Workers unite! And turn Balmoral into an allotment

    They're not happy, these bankers who've been forced to resign, are they? For example Fred Goodwin, who's lost his £4.1m salary at Royal Bank of Scotland and must now manage on a £580,000 pension, seemed furious, as if he was a sacked docker from the 1980s, and you expected him to shout "Brothers and sisters, I call upon you to oppose this injustice as General Secretary of the National Union of Outrageous Bonus Receivers and Allied Parasitic Trades".

30. 76ers 116, Knicks 109: For Curry, Rotation May Turn Minus Him

    It is probably too soon to judge Eddy Curry’s readiness for the season, or his ability to play in Coach Mike D’Antoni’s frantic offense. But it may also be too late for him.

31. Nigeria: Powell At ThisDay Festival - It's Africa's Turn to Shine

    Former US Secretary of State, Gen Colin Powell, has asked "the big men of Africa" to rise up to the challenge of lifting the continent out of its current state of abject poverty and underdevelopment.

32. Video games turn 50

    Half a century ago this week, scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York debuted Tennis for Two, the first proper video game.

33. Experts say US methods could turn youths from gang culture

    Techniques used to tackle gang culture in the US could work in British cities, experts said yesterday.

34. Can McCain Turn It Around?

    It's all about John McCain in Wednesday's third and final presidential debate.

35. India turn up the verbal heat

    RICKY Ponting believes that India has stepped from defensive batting to full verbal assault in an attempt to unsettle Australia's game plan before the second Test.

36. 5 missing Afghan scholars turn up in Canada

    Five visiting scholars from Afghanistan who disappeared from the University of Washington were found Wednesday morning in Canada.

37. Futures Turn Lower Thursday Morning

    Stock futures were indicated lower Thursday morning in New York. The S&P Futures were down a point, the Nasdaq Futures were down 11 points, and the Dow Futures were down 30 points.

38. Parry expects UEFA u-turn

    Liverpool chief executive Rick Parry is hopeful next week's Champions League clash against Atletico Madrid will be played at the Spanish club's home ground.