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Silverbird
10-09-2008, 09:00 AM
NEW YORK (AP) -- The National Debt Clock in New York City has run out of digits to record the growing figure.

As a short-term fix, the digital dollar sign on the billboard-style clock near Times Square has been switched to a figure -- the "1" in $10 trillion.

It's marking the federal government's current debt at about $10.2 trillion....
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/09/national.debt.clock.ap/index.html