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It's again bad news from India. more than 100 Hindu devotees are feared killed and over 200 injured in a stampede in Nainadevi temple in mountain state of Himachal Pradesh. The... Nelson Mandela concert rocks Hyde Park
Twenty years on from a concert that I watched live on TV, as I did this one last night, I was moved by the sight and sound, not of the latest pop-rock star, but a frail, old man helped on to stage but speaking still,... British Shin Kicking Championship
"The crowd that assembled on Dover’s Hill near Chipping Campden last Friday weren’t in the Cotswolds for views of the rolling countryside.They came instead for scenic pleasures of sheer, shinbone-shattering violence that forms part of the Cotswold Olimpick Games.To the...Stuntman scales New York Times Building
I guess this is one way of guaranteeing coverage - climbing a building full of journalists and photographers. " Alain Robert, a French stuntman known for climbing tall buildings, scaled the north face of the New...Tribute to a Poet Laureate - by lawdog
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It will be interesting to see how the post-coup government handles Thaksin's return." Deposed Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra pleaded not guilty Wednesday to corruption charges, in the first case assembled by military-backed investigators to reach court.Thaksin said little...Sun to spend $1B to acquire MySQL, will compete with Oracle, Microsoft
"When discussing enterprise database installations worldwide, as of today, it will be impossible not to consider Sun Microsystems along with Microsoft and Oracle. This morning, Sun announced it has reached an agreement with MySQL -- which by some accounts may have become the...Financial Awareness To Avian Flu Threats Still Key :: MAXINE
"Over the last four years, cases of Avian flu infection have been reported from sixty countries. Through the processes of improved detection and containment these reported threats had been kept in check, but the risk...History Repeats Itself: Muslims Being Profiled
Sixty five years ago in the State of California Americans facilitated the largest modern day racial profiling program against Japanese American Citizens. In that as it may be, history has a knack of repeating...Olafur Eliasson Exhibition at SF Moma: Take your time
"Widely heralded as one of the most important artists of his generation, Olafur Eliasson nimbly merges art, science, and natural phenomena to create extraordinary multisensory experiences. Challenging the passive nature of traditional art-viewing, he engages the observer as... Dan Rather Investigates Voting Machines -- Uncovers New Surprises About ES&S ...
By Kim Zetter"Who would have thought that Manila sweatshops would figure prominently in the manufacture of U.S. voting machines?
It turns out that Election Systems & Software, one of the top voting machine... Another Firefighter Testifies On Explosions Inside WTC
"Another Firefighter Testifies On Explosions Inside WTC We Are Change | August 8, 2007 BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Firefighter John Schroeder, assigned to Engine Company 10 directly across the street from the World Trade Center... CIA uses Sudanese intelligence in Iraq
I asked myself, why is Africa getting so much attention, all of a sudden?? Billy Clinton goes there after he visited Indian Country and made promises he never intended to keep and talked of a GATT for... "Devastating" Moyers Proper of Press and Iraq Coming by Greg Mitchell, Editor...
" New York - The most powerful indictment of the news media for falling down in its duties in the run-up to the war in Iraq will appear next Wednesday, a 90-minute PBS broadcast called "Buying the War," which marks the return of "Bill Moyers Journal." E&P was sent a...Camp Pendleton Marine regiment bids farewell to its 100 dead
"THOMAS WATKINS Associated Press CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - Two weeks after returning from a yearlong deployment to a joyous midnight homecoming, Marines from Regimental Combat Team 5 gathered under the California sun...
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