The game lasted for 4 hours and 50 minutes - making it the longest in 'All-Star' history. I only watched a bit of it (mostly because I don't understand baseball) but it was a pretty exciting game - although my dad...
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Helio Castroneves as he waits to make a run at the pole for the Bombardier Learjet 550 to be broadcast on ESPN at 10:00 pm EST, Saturday night, Texas Motor Speedway. Image Credit: Andy Sallee (2008) Tougher Time...
None of these rankings are too shocking I reckon. Yay Canada for being in the top five!"BRASILIA (Reuters) - Iceland has overtaken Norway as the world's most desirable country to live in, according to an annual...
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The Environmental Protection Agency is checking for high levels of lead in the air after a twister swept through Picher, Oklahoma. Picher was formally a center of zinc and lead mining, and noted as one of the...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorDo you ever wonder who pays for Surveys and Polls? Sometimes Governments e.g. You the Taxpayer!, or Advertisers e.g. You the Consumer! Eventually, through years and years...
Brief Encounters is an amazing interdisciplinary performance series produced by dancers Katy Harris-McLeod, Jennifer McLeish-Lewis, and Mara Branscombe -- the dynamic women of the Vancouver-based Tomorrow Collective....
Imagine an area 30 feet thick twice the size of Texas comprised of plastic wastes floating on the ocean. To put this mind-boggling size into perspective that's an area of about 1,300,000 square miles or...
In the continuing saga that is the transit strike in France, thousands of transit workers are still away from work, forcing hundreds of thousands to walk or take over-stressed taxis and what little transit is...
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File this under "Who'd a-thunk it?"There's no sign of a family reunion planned, but U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama are distant cousins.
So says the vice president's...
"The U.S. Supreme Court decided Tuesday to hear a case that challenges the constitutionality of death by lethal injection, putting Florida’s on-again, off-again death penalty back in limbo and potentially...
"By Phil Dzikiy/dzikiyp@gnnewspaper.com “We’ve never had a child quite like Michael.” According to Rhonda Mangus, an employee of the North Tonawanda School District said this about her son, Michael Mangus, who came out as gay in eighth grade. Michael...
"PARIS - Forty years ago, the world seemed to be singing in tune. On June 1, 1967, in London, The Beatles released their eighth and arguably most influential album, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It marked the beginning of the Summer of Love - which, apart from Jimi...
This is so sad...I really hope the Portuguese authorities start cooperating more effectively. "Portuguese police admitted yesterday they have "zero results" from their hunt for Madeleine McCann and are scaling it down.
The admission came as a businessman offered a £1million...
"At least 110 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 131 Iraqis were wounded in violent attacks today; the largest a bombing in Bagdad that killed dozens. Twelve U.S. servicemembers were also reported killed, nine of them died today. A British soldier was also killed.
Today,...
"Global oil prices have risen on the back of violence and political turmoil in Nigeria, the world's eighth largest crude exporter.
With militant attacks shutting down a fifth of Nigeria's oil production, London's...
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