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Nader Announces New Bid for White House
Sun Feb 24, 2008 9:18 AM EST
Ralph Nader said Sunday he will run for president as a third-party candidate, criticizing the top White House contenders as too close to big business and pledging to repeat a bid that will "shift the power from the few to the many."
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Japan Launches Internet Satellite
Sat Feb 23, 2008 8:25 AM EST
Japan's space agency launched an experimental communications satellite Saturday designed to enable super high-speed data transmission at home and in Southeast Asia.
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Gates Sees Diminished Role for Keyboards
Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:28 AM EST
People will increasingly interact with computers using speech or touch screens rather than keyboards, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said.
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Mysterious Creatures Found in Antarctica
Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:53 PM EST
Scientists investigating the icy waters of Antarctica said Tuesday they have collected mysterious creatures including giant sea spiders and huge worms in the murky depths.
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Trump to UN: Let Me Do the Renovations
Thu Feb 7, 2008 6:33 PM EST
Real estate mogul Donald Trump says he could do a quicker, cheaper job of finishing the delayed, over-budget renovation of the United Nations headquarters.
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Mrs. Butterworth Gets Makeover
Sun Dec 2, 2007 3:34 PM EST
The talking grandmother-shaped syrup bottle is back on television ads for Mrs. Butterworth's. The bespectacled Vlasic stork is hawking pickles again, too.
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Police: Hershey Candy Looks Like Drugs
Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:13 PM EST
New mint packets being sold by The Hershey Co. look nearly identical to the tiny heat-sealed bags used to sell illegal powdered drugs like crack, heroin and cocaine and glorify the drug trade, a Philadelphia police official said.
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Rockwell Santa Painting Fetches $2.17M
Fri Nov 30, 2007 2:46 AM EST
A Norman Rockwell painting of Santa Claus perched on a stepladder sold for $2.17 million at auction.
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In Search of Lost Time
Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:26 PM EDT
This article has a multiple purpose, the first of which is to tell about my finding of a veritable treasure trove, more valuable than all the world's gold, in my humble opinion.
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Unemployed Colombian Dons Iron Mask
Sat Oct 20, 2007 9:38 PM EDT
Forget going on a hunger strike. In Colombia, an unemployed man has sewn shut his mouth and locked himself behind an iron mask to demand the government attend to his family's desperate economic plight.
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Opens Season
Sat Oct 20, 2007 7:06 PM EDT
Jazz at Lincoln Center kicked off its season with a centennial salute to Benny "The King" Carter, whose prowess as an alto saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, arranger and bandleader earned him the title of "the Renaissance man of jazz."
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Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:27 PM EDT
Quick!! Who said that?.... John Lennon. And it's my sentiments along with many others.
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FBI Probes Copperfield's Vegas Warehouse
Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:48 PM EDT
David Copperfield has been contacted by law enforcement authorities and the FBI has conducted an investigation in Las Vegas, where the magician regularly performs, his lawyer and the FBI confirmed.
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Francis Bacon `rent' Painting Is Sold
Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:49 AM EDT
A Francis Bacon painting the artist donated to an art college in lieu of rent decades ago has sold for $16.4 million at an auction where solid but unspectacular results suggest global financial turmoil may be unsettling the art market.
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Student Spelunkers in Texas Found Safe
Sun Oct 14, 2007 5:30 PM EDT
Three students rescued after spending 30 hours inside a cave they were exploring gave searchers a guide to find them: a trail of leaves they deliberately left behind.
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Explorer Who Found Lost Peru Cities Dies
Sat Sep 15, 2007 10:39 PM EDT
Douglas Eugene "Gene" Savoy, an explorer who discovered more than 40 lost cities in Peru and led long-distance sailing adventures to learn more about ancient cultures, has died. He was 80.
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Death Tax Killing Family Farms
Mon Sep 10, 2007 10:42 PM EDT
You own a vehicle worth a cool quarter mill, your estate is huge and meticulously planted and worth a few more mill, and since your parents just passed on, you should have to pay through the nose to claim your inheritance. Right? Wrong.
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Floods Strike Britain; Thames Rising
Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:24 AM EDT
Emergency workers rescued hundreds of trapped people Monday as water swallowed swaths of central England in the worst flooding to hit the country for 60 years. Officials said some rivers were still rising, with the western section of the rain-swollen River Thames on the verge of bursting its banks.
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Symbol in NYC Building a History Mystery
Mon Jul 23, 2007 4:25 AM EDT
A final thrust of the crowbar cracked the wooden crate open, and the architect, the anthropologist and the mortar expert leaned in to look at the oddity that had drawn them to an out-of-the-way warehouse.
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Groening Reveals Roots of Marge's Hair
Sun Jul 22, 2007 3:55 PM EDT
Marge Simpson's gravity-defying blue beehive is a hybrid creation, Matt Groening has revealed.
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Burned Cat Clings to Life; Girls Charged
Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:14 PM EDT
A 3-month-old cat is clinging to life at a Sonoma County animal hospital after having been set on fire by two teenage girls who now face charges of animal cruelty.
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An empty book published on purpose!
Sun Jul 8, 2007 8:30 AM EDT
The empty book is just that - EMPTY. It is classified as fiction and contains all the parts and pieces of an ordinary book: a title page, a copyright page, a beginning, middle, and even an end. What it lacks is everything in between.
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A Writer's Web of Consciousness
Fri Jul 6, 2007 2:14 PM EDT
This article was created in response to a writing exercise which required me to begin each paragraph with the next letter of the alphabet.
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Prince Harry Will Not Serve in Iraq
Wed May 16, 2007 11:51 AM EDT
Britain's army reversed course Wednesday and announced that Prince Harry will not be sent to Iraq with his regiment due to "specific threats" from insurgents that expose the third in line to the throne to an unacceptable degree of risk.
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Hilton 'Dead' in Provocative NYC Statue
Wed May 9, 2007 6:13 PM EDT
The latest odd statue by artist Daniel Edwards features a naked, provocatively posed, and seemingly dead, Paris Hilton undergoing an autopsy.
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