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Top news on 24 September 2009

20 Highest NBA Salaries for 2009-10 Season
You may be surprised at some of the players who are the highest paid in the league and how big their salaries are.

The Future of Budget Airline Design? (w/pic)
Can the seating arrangement in an airplane lead to more affordable fares? Apparently, the answer is yes. A new aircraft seating design is being developed in the UK for just that reason.

CNN's Sanjay Gupta Gets the Swine Flu While In Afghanistan -
As CNN's chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, gets the swine flu, or H1N1, while on a trip to Afghanistan.

Top news on 23 September 2009

Solar Technician Training to Be Given to Laid-Off Workers
Three job agencies in the Jacksonville area will help train displaced workers as solar energy installation and maintenance technicians. The program is being paid for in part by $396,000 in federal stimulus funds.

Dennis Quaid On Pandorum, And The Other Enemy Mine
Dennis Quaid has starred in many of our favorite science fiction movies, so we're excited that he's back in deep space with the space-horror movie Pandorum. He talked to us about Pandorum's disorientation... and the Enemy Mine you never saw.

Redskins Player Deletes Twitter Account After Bashing Fans
Smart athletes have turned to Twitter to engage with fans and raise their online profiles. But with the immediacy of the status updating platform also comes the need for commonsense and delicacy.Redskins rookie linebacker Robert Henson lacked both of those qualities late Sunday night, and instead tweeted his way into social media infamy.