Archive for March, 2008
Friday, March 28th, 2008
yahoo news: SYDNEY (AFP) - Twenty-six major cities around the world are expected to turn off the lights on major landmarks, plunging millions of people into darkness to raise awareness about global warming, organisers said.
'Earth Hour' founder Andy Ridley said 371 cities, towns or local governments from Australia ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
washingtonPost.com: Bearing video cameras, laptops and cellphones, a small army of young activists flooded into a recent federal meeting in protest.
Members of public-interest group Free Press weren't there to support a presidential candidate or decry global warming. The tech-savvy hundreds came to the Federal Communications Commission's hearing at Harvard Law ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Murdz Place
(AP) -- Women who perform the act of fellatio and swallow semen on a regular basis, one to two times a week, may reduce their risk of breast cancer by up to 40 percent, a North Carolina State University study found.
Doctors had never suspected a link between the act ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
msnbc: With millions of Americans at risk of default and foreclosure on their mortgages, Simon in Florida has a question that’s on a lot of readers' minds. What happens if you can only make a partial mortgage payment?
What will happen if I only make a portion (half) of my ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
chicago tribune: An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll taken this month found that former President Bill Clinton, the so-called first black president, is falling out of favor with African-Americans.
More of the poll's respondents view him negatively (45 percent) than positively (42 percent). Compare this to his ratings just last ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
cnn.com: ALTON, Illinois (AP) -- Banished to the basement, the 29-year-old mother with a childlike mind and another baby on the way had little more than a thin rug and a mattress to call her own on the chilly concrete floor.
Dorothy Dixon ate what she could forage from the refrigerator ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
The government of China has claimed that the Dalia Lama is cooperating with Islamic extremists as part of a plot to bring the country into crises before the Olympic Games, which are due to be half in Beijing this Summer. The official newspaper of the government of China claimed that ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
yahoo news: BAGHDAD - The overall U.S. death toll in Iraq rose to 4,000 after four soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing in Baghdad, a grim milestone that is likely to fuel calls for the withdrawal of American forces as the war enters its sixth year.
The American deaths ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
yahoo news: DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co (F.N) said on Monday it would eliminate shifts at four U.S. plants and lay off some 2,500 workers -- or almost 5 percent of its remaining work force -- as part of an effort to cut costs and return to ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
msnbc: GREEN BAY, Wis. - Brett Favre has decided to retire from the NFL after 17 seasons.
FOX Sports first reported Tuesday that the Green Bay Packers quarterback informed the team in the last few days. ESPN.com said that according to Favre’s agent the quarterback told coach Mike McCarthy of ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
As Arwa Hamad strolls a new Wal-Mart, an eight-foot display of olive oil stops her in her tracks. "Oh, wow," she says, marveling at the sight of so many gallons of Lebanese extra virgin. "We could go through one of these in a week in my house." Around the corner, ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
yahoo news: PORTLAND, Ore. - Oregon is conducting a one-of-a-kind lottery, and the prize is health insurance.
The state will start drawing names this week for the chance to enroll in a health care program designed for people not poor enough for Medicaid but too cash-strapped to buy their own insurance.
More ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
The Colombian government says it has recovered documents from the computers of slain FARC rebels that show financial ties between the leftist guerrilas and Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez.
Speaking at a press conference Monday, Colombia's national police chief Gen. Oscar Naranjo said the evidence suggests Chávez had recently given $300 million ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
From Yahoo
NEW YORK - You know that Sharper Image gift card you got for Christmas? Right now, it's worthless. And other gift cards in your wallet could lose their value, too.
As more retailers file for bankruptcy or go out of business, more than $75 million in gift cards are at ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
arsTechnica.com: Virginia's Supreme Court on Friday upheld the first US felony conviction for spamming. The spammer will serve nine years in prison for sending what authorities believe to be millions of messages over a two-month period in 2003.
Jeremy Jaynes is the man who will make history. A Raleigh, North ...
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