"Hundreds of mourners gathered at a church here on Friday to remember an eighth-grade boy who was shot to death inside a junior high school computer lab by a fellow student in what prosecutors are calling a hate crime."
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Clinton Camp Threatens to Boycott NBC Debates Because of Comments About Chelsea Being "Pimped Out"
February 08, 2008 2:09 PM - On a conference call Friday afternoon, Clinton campaign communications director...
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As an avid fan of q-tips (technically called cotton swabs), this was an especially disturbing story. A montreal man is dead after perforating his eardrum with a cotton swab, which caused an infection from his...
"Government to roll-out national anti-fraud scheme after successful pilot schemes net rogue traders
The Government is to invest around £7.5m in new Scambuster teams across the country.
The specialist Trading Standards teams will work with police across local authority...
That seems to be the DOJ position. Where is the NYTimes on this? Why aren't they writing more about it?"Ever since the President's illegal warrantless eavesdropping program was revealed by the New York...
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"Doctors are calling for NHS treatment to be withheld from patients who are too old or who lead unhealthy lives.
Smokers, heavy drinkers, the obese and the elderly should be barred from receiving some operations, according to doctors, with most saying the health service...
"Most carnivores bred in captivity and released back into the wild fail to cope and die, according to a study published on Monday.
Researchers are calling for a complete rethink of such reintroductions before...
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"The words ‘green’ and ‘Hummer’ don’t usually occur together, except when compiling a complete list of oxymorons. But earlier today at the Saab/Hummer press conference, GM debuted it’s concept H-X Hummer, calling it the “Green Hummer”. The new model is...
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"The words ‘green’ and ‘Hummer’ don’t usually occur together, except when compiling a complete list of oxymorons. But earlier today at the Saab/Hummer press conference, GM debuted it’s concept H-X...
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"BAGHDAD (AP) — After weathering nearly five years of war, Baghdad residents thought they'd pretty much seen it all. But Friday morning, as muezzins were calling the faithful to prayer, the people here awoke to something certifiably new.
For the first time in memory, snow...
We'll be covering this as the week progresses. The first main protest is set for Monday night in San Fransisco. "This week, people all over the world celebrated the coming of a new year, a new start. At the...
This A breaking news story from MSNBC"Oscar Peterson, whose early talent and speedy fingers made him one of the world’s best known jazz pianists, died at age 82.
His death was confirmed by Hazel McCallion, mayor of Mississauga, Ontario, the Toronto suburb where Peterson...
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"Big Oil's Profit and Plunder
By Ralph Nader
While many impoverished American families are shivering in the winter cold for lack of money to pay the oil baron their exorbitant price for home heating oil, ex-oil man, George W. Bush sleeps in a warm White House and relishes his...