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The business of podcasting has just garnered some of its first serious venture capital. According to a press release from PodShow, Inc., three investment capital firms have bought an undisclosed share of Adam Curry's and Ron Bloom's new business venture that seeks to commercialize podcasting by aggregating the "large and disenfranchised audience" of podcast listeners. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sequoia Capital and Sherpalo Ventures have bought into PodShow, Inc., for $8.85 million, according to the press release. In the statement, PodShow, Inc., said, "With its new infusion of capital, Management expects to announce additional features, programs and technologies that...

Front Page of Mexican Daily Newspaper "El Sol de Mexico" Headline: "U.S.A. To Offer Visas to 8 Million Illegals" January 4, 2004 The link to the full article is above, in Spanish. Somebody might wish to Babelfish/translate it.The subheads are, as translated in English: "Bush Announces Migratory Plan...Offer is to 8 Million Illegals...by Carmen Flores, Correspondent"The first paragraph:(From original Spanish) "President Bush of the United States has decided in a migratory plan which will result in in temporary employment for three years for 8 million illegal (immigrants), the majority of whom come from Mexico. This plan needs to be...

WASHINGTON — President Bush is proposing to let foreign workers who have U.S. jobs waiting for them enter America. Virtually silent on the immigration issue for two years, Bush was working today on remarks he will make about immigration on Wednesday afternoon at the White House to about 150 people active in immigration issues. White House press secretary Scott McClellan would not say whether the president would announce a detailed proposal, or general outlines of a proposal to match willing foreign workers, mostly from Mexico, with receptive U.S. employers. There are an estimated 10 million undocumented workers in the United...