Newsgeist: 1/3/10
The spirit of the news
By Eric Pickhartz, 9:00AM, Mon. Jan. 3, 2011
Happy New Year and happy Newsgeist! Check out the latest stories on Robert E. Lee, Pompeii, and the closing of Katz's Deli. Read more for the links.
-An Austin judge is attempting a block on a proposal to dump radioactive waste in West Texas.
-Katz's Deli ran out of food and had to close a day early.
-The debate on the budget deficit could get ugly.
-Facebook received a nice New Year's present.
-The ruins in Pompeii are being destroyed even more by human neglect.
-A PBS documentary on Robert E. Lee is being touted as eye-opening.
-And finally, the new Xbox 360 Kinect introduces some interesting gaming options, if developers can get past Microsoft.
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