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Woman's record-length fingernails broken in crash (AP) February 12, 2009 at 9:14 pm AP - A Utah woman listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for her long fingernails has lost them in a car crash. Lee Redmond of Salt Lake City sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries in the accident Tuesday. Skilling to seek Supreme Court review of sentence (Reuters) February 12, 2009 at 7:04 pm Reuters - Former Enron Corp Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling will ask for U.S. Supreme Court review of his 2006 felony conviction stemming from the energy trading giant's collapse, his attorney said on Thursday. Obama eyes home loan subsidies in rescue plan-sources (Reuters) February 12, 2009 at 6:52 pm Reuters - The Obama administration is hammering out a program to subsidize mortgages in a new front to fight the credit crisis, sources familiar with the plan told Reuters on Thursday, boosting financial markets. Gregg withdraws as commerce secretary nominee (AP) February 12, 2009 at 6:51 pm AP - Saying, "I made a mistake," Republican Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire abruptly withdrew as commerce secretary nominee on Thursday and drew a testy reaction from the White House, suddenly coping with the third Cabinet withdrawal of Barack Obama's young presidency. Usher's wife recovering after cardiac arrest (AP) February 12, 2009 at 6:46 pm AP - The wife of R&B singer Usher continues to recover in a Sao Paulo hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest shortly before undergoing plastic surgery, the spokeswoman of the doctor who was to perform the procedure said Thursday. Billions in tax cuts for families and businesses (AP) February 12, 2009 at 6:44 pm AP - Millions of workers would soon see an extra $13 in their weekly paychecks and thousands of small businesses operating in the red could get tax refunds under the economic recovery bill nearing completion in Congress. World economic crisis is top security threat: U.S. (Reuters) February 12, 2009 at 6:22 pm Reuters - The global economic crisis has become the biggest near-term U.S. security concern, sowing instability in a quarter of the world's countries and threatening destructive trade wars, U.S. intelligence agencies reported on Thursday. When toddlers point a lot, more words will follow (AP) February 12, 2009 at 6:03 pm AP - Don't just talk to your toddler — gesture, too. Pointing, waving bye-bye and other natural gestures seem to boost a budding vocabulary. Scientists found those tots who could convey more meaning with gestures at age 14 months went on to have a richer vocabulary as they prepared to start kindergarten. And intriguingly, whether a family is poor or middle class plays a role, the researchers report Friday. Food stamps, tax breaks for poor in stimulus bill (AP) February 12, 2009 at 6:02 pm AP - More than 37 million Americans live in poverty, and the vast majority of them are in line for extra help under the giant stimulus package coming out of Congress. Millions more could be kept from slipping into poverty by the economic lifeline. Investigators think missing Fla. girl was abducted (AP) February 12, 2009 at 6:02 pm AP - Investigators were treating the disappearance of a 5-year-old north Florida girl as an abduction and continued searching for the child Thursday.