I just ran across an article explaining how to get high pagerank backlinks from sites like Google News, American Chronicle and Yahoo. These links can be as high as a page rank 9 and will definitely help your site rank better in the search engines if you're lucky enough to qualify.
Here's a short video on how to get high Google pagerank backlinks:
You can read more about the process from the guys over at Bloglyne:
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