President Obama Meets Owners of Small Businesses At Sandwich Shop In New Jersey Everytime President Obama has a lunch meeting it is dubbed a "summit" of some sort - first we had the "hamburger summit" at Ray's Hell Burger in Maryland between Obama and Russian President...
So I wake up this morning and see there is snow from Palmdale to Malibu. Plus a helicopter accident and traffic backed up for hours. Is this global warming, or global cooling?"December 18, 2008 (by Otto Smyth) Car accident lawyers in Los Angeles, California have...
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Thomas Edison knew what he was talking about... I wonder why we didn't listen"Thomas Edison, father of the electric light, saw the value of renewable energyBy Larry West, About.com American inventor...
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"The networks will follow strict rules Tuesday on projecting election results, examining not only the data from exit polls but actual vote tabulation and turnout data. NBC — which keeps its decision desk isolated from the calls made by competing networks — will call a...
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Hong Kong (ANTARA News) - The Hong Kong singer/ actor at the centre of a scandal over sex photos showing him with a string of young starlets Thursday admitted taking the pictures and said he was giving up his show business career.Hundreds of pictures of Edison Chen, 27, naked...
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Congress this week passed legislation designed to boost energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The measure raises fuel-efficiency for passenger vehicles to 35 miles per gallon (mpg) by 2020, up...
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Remember back in the summer when that steam pipe exploded in Manhattan. ConEd has finally released the findings of the investigation; the steam pipe was clogged. See here for NowPublic coverage from that day...
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Nikola Tesla actually worked on this, way back in the day (1890's), when he wasn't busy getting punk'd by Thomas Edison..."A team of scientists from MIT has come up with a way to light a 60-watt lightbulb. The...
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A system bringing high winds has taken out power and felled trees all over Southern California. The storms have also risen a lot of dust (see photos) and generally made a mess in the region, which includes Los...
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"Muscutt said the ruin, located in the cloud-forested eastern slope of the Andes, is believed to belong to the ancient Chachapoya, a civilization that flourished in the upper Amazon between the ninth and 15th centuries.
Muscutt made the announcement this month during the...
"Today is Sunday, Dec. 31, the 365th and final day of 2006.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Dec. 31, 1879, Thomas Edison first publicly demonstrated his electric incandescent light in Menlo Park, N.J.
On this date:
In 1775, the British repulsed an attack by Continental Army...
" NEW YORK - A five-day blackout affecting tens of thousands of New Yorkers is worse than the power company had previously reported, Con Edison said. As many as 25,000 customers are without power in Queens and Mayor Michael Bloomberg estimated that translates to 100,000...
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