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| Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:33:34 GMT Group gets homeless on feet and running | ||||||
| Back on My Feet is a support group for the homeless meant to help them instill discipline and improve their health through running.
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| Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:45:13 GMT Obama proposes $50B for roads, rails, runways | ||||||
| President Obama proposed a $50 billion plan Monday to fix the USA's infrastructure, part of an effort to deal with high unemployment.
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| Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:13:49 GMT Armored trucks cut IED deaths among allied troops | ||||||
| The U.S. military's new armored trucks in Afghanistan are significantly reducing troop deaths in roadside attacks.
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| Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:35:43 GMT Flu vaccine readily available, and free for many this year | ||||||
| Getting a flu shot will be far easier this fall than last, with retailers already stocking millions of doses.
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| Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:05:44 +0000 Man faces prison for attacking boy with a hedgehog | ||||||
A 27-year-old man faces a possible 5 years in prison after attacking a 15-year-old boy with a hedgehog.
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| Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:04:13 +0000 India develops curry hand grenade | ||||||
India has developed a new nonlethal weapon in the war on terror: the curry hand grenade.
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| Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:56:44 +0000 Children in poor countries need more toilets | ||||||
UN Agencies for world health and children are underscoring the need for more toilets for children in poor countries.
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| Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:25:43 GMT2010-09-07T03:20:00Z Australia To Fight iPod Use By Pedestrians | ||||||
| Kilrah_il writes "In recent years the number of people killed on roads in New South Wales, Australia has dropped, but strangely enough, the number of pedestrians killed has risen. Some think it's because of the use of iPods and other music players making people not attentive to road dangers (the so-called 'iPod Zombie Trance'). Based on this (unproven) assumption, the Pedestrian Council has started a campaign in an effort to educate the people, but apparently it isn't enough. Now, some are pushing for the government to enact laws to help eradicate the problem. 'The government is quite happy to legislate that people can lose two demerit points for having music up too loud in their cars, but is apparently unconcerned that listening devices now appear to have become lethal pieces of entertainment,' [Harold Scruby of the Pedestrian Council of Australia] said. 'They should legislate appropriate penalties for people acting so carelessly towards their own welfare and that of others. ... Manufacturers should be made to [warn] consumers of the risks they run.'"
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| Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:21:49 GMT2010-09-07T00:20:00Z Google Says Microsoft Is Driving Antitrust Review | ||||||
| GovTechGuy writes "On Friday we discussed news that Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott opened a probe into whether Google ranks its search listings with an eye toward nicking the competition. Google suggested the concerns have a major sponsor: Microsoft. In question is whether the world's biggest search engine could be unfairly disadvantaging some companies by giving them a low ranking in free search listings and in paid ads that appear at the top of the page. That could make it tough for users to find those sites and might violate antitrust laws. Abbott's office asked for information about three companies who have publicly complained about Google, according to blog post by Don Harrison, the company's deputy general counsel. Harrison linked each of the companies to Microsoft."
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| Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:34:27 GMT2010-09-06T23:25:00Z Aging Star System Leaves Strange Death Spiral | ||||||
| jamie tips a post at Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy blog about an extremely unusual astronomical phenomenon originating from a binary system about 3000 light years away. Quoting: "The name of this thing is AFGL 3068. It's been known as a bright infrared source for some time, but images just showed it as a dot. This Hubble image using the Advanced Camera for Surveys reveals an intricate, delicate and exceedingly faint spiral pattern. ... Red giants tend to blow a lot of their outer layers into space in an expanding spherical wind; think of it as a super-solar wind. The star surrounds itself with a cloud of this material, essentially enclosing it in a cocoon. In general the material isn't all that thick, but in some of these stars there is an overabundance of carbon in the outer layers which gets carried along in these winds. ... AFGL 3068 is a carbon star and most likely evolved just like this, but with a difference: it's a binary. As the two stars swing around each other, the wind from the carbon star doesn't expand in a sphere. Instead, we see a spiral pattern as the material expands."
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| Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:14:37 GMT Obama assails GOP, promotes new jobs program (AP) | ||||||
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| Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:39:26 GMT Tropical Storm Hermine makes landfall in Mexico (AP) | ||||||
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| Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:47:22 GMT Death toll rises to 45 in Guatemala mudslides (AP) | ||||||
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| Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:42:22 GMT Authorities: 1,000 homes evacuated in Colo. fire (AP) | ||||||
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| Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:59:16 GMT Australian Labor Party wins enough support to rule (AP) | ||||||
| AP - Prime Minister Julia Gillard's Labor Party will form a minority government to rule Australia after two independent lawmakers back her coalition. |
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