"San Francisco Department of Technology employee Terry Childs was in a jail cell Friday, accused of illegally locking out fellow authorized network administrators from the city computer network he helped build. But as the case against Childs entered its sixth day, questions...
The set of the film 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest', Oregon State Hospital, is going to be torn down. Most of the dilapidated, 125 year-old building will be torn down and replaced this fall."Although mean Nurse...
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Some of the world's biggest football stars have joined the 'Goal4Africa' campaign to raise funds for charity before the 2010 World Cup in South Africa."Germany's Michael Ballack and England's Steven Gerard were among...
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"Yahoo Inc. will introduce a tool for Web developers Thursday that is designed to expand the scale of its struggling search business and help create new competitors to Google Inc. The company said the free tool will allow developers to build customized search services based...
An island in the shape of a dragon is to rise from the world heritage Ha long bay "The project that will cost around 5 trillion VND (roughly 294.1 million USD) will be launched by the Tuan Chau Group and the T&H...
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"Pura Uluwatu (temple of the stone head) or Pura Luhur Uluwatu temple is located in the edge of stone cliff in southern part of Bali. This ancient temple is dedicated to the spirits of the sea. Built in the eleventh...
British researchers have invented something out of Star Trek: a printer that can print out plastic pieces of itself, that can be assembled into a complete unit...that can then print out pieces of itself. It's a...
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"According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 67 percent of people with disabilities are unemployed, making them the largest unemployed population in America. To create employment opportunities for this population, Disaboom...
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Any research including the words "cloak" and "impervious" is automatically awesome. Actually, even without those words of power, this is pretty cool."Scientists have shown off the blueprint for an "acoustic cloak", which could make objects impervious to sound waves.The...
" Lawmakers are joining the calls for the government to rid the Attorney General's Office (AGO) of corrupt prosecutors in a move to build up the institution's credibility. A major bribery scandal involving...
"The US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, yesterday accused Israel of undermining peace talks as Israel announced plans to build thousands more homes in settlements in east Jerusalem.Upon arrival in Jerusalem to...
Tireless advocate of Vancouver's most vulnerable, David Eby puts forward a few suggestions to address the needs of Vancouver's homeless aboriginal population."he City of Vancouver, home to B.C.'s largest off-reserve aboriginal population in the Downtown Eastside, is...
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A young boy in Middlesex (north of London) is facing the demolition of his treehouse due to a denied retroactive building permit. This is not a joke." In a last ditch effort to save the treehouse, James' father Neil is appealing to the independent planning inspectorate. ...
If Donald Trump finds it tricky dealing with British councils, what hope is there for the rest of us."Trump clashes with resort opponents US property tycoon Donald Trump has clashed with the councillor whose vote led to the rejection of his £1...
I just learned the other day, (through a very bad movie, whose title I won't tell you), that there are actually two Statues of Liberty in the world - one in New York and one in Paris. Well, now there may be one off...
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