"As the most controversial torch relay in Olympic history comes to an end, folks here wonder: Who will light China's fire? Guessing the person who will light the huge flame inside the National Stadium has become the...
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Our condolences."Milwaukee — Gary Gygax, who co-created the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons and helped start the role-playing phenomenon, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva. He was 69.
He had...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorMany of us had seen the Da Vinci Code, many believed based on conspiracy theory and conjecture. Now a researcher discovered something by accident. ...
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Jewish people around the world have long embraced a mythical view of Israel as a benevolent, modern-day David fighting off the menacing Goliath of the Arab nations. Israel, as the myth goes, is like a weak and tiny island statelet surrounded by an ocean of hostile...
A British man celebrated his 100th birthday with 25,000 pounds, or
$50,000, in winnings on Tuesday after he beat the bookmakers with a
wager that he would live for a century. Alec Holden, from
Epsom, south west of London, had placed a 100 pound bet with bookmaker
William...
If you think diamonds are a girl's
best friend, think again. The majority of expensive stones are bought
by men, who purchase them for their personal collections. "Marilyn
Monroe had it all wrong," says Stanislas de Quercize, chief executive
of jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels,...
Go to the bottom of many social bookmarking sites and you'll see a minefield of tiny icons - Del.icio.us, Technorati, Digg, NowPublic, etc.Altogether, these are being called "Iconistan" and according to Wired...
Bigfoot - The original Patterson-Gimlin footage can be seen here Jeffrey Meldrum (homepage) is a tenured professor of anatomy at Idaho State University and has recently been in the news (see "Professor's Bigfoot...
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"The youngest of eight siblings growing up as part of a working- class family in an upper-class town, the now 36-year-old Mr. Chater considered himself an average teen.
But history has offered a slightly different appraisal.
In the two decades since his high school years, his...