Fisherman hooks and lands a drowning man

" HALLOWELL, Maine — An angler used his fishing pole to reel in a man who survived a jump from a bridge and was drowning in the Kennebec River.   Bob Greene, 42, of Hallowell, said he heard what he thought was a cormorant making noise in the distance at 4:30 a.m....

McCain wants U.S. weaned from foreign oil by 2025

Presidential candidate John McCain said today that if he is elected he will set the US on a path to wean itself from a dependence on foreign oil by 2025. So he'll be almost 90 by then?"Calling U.S. dependence on...

Battlestar Galactica Final Season Airs Today on the Internet First

Well for online viewers, BattleStar Galactica season 4 starts this afternoon. For those of you in tv-land, you'll have to wait until this evening when the first episode of the final season airs on the Sci-Fi...

Sailing the Sea of Stars

A zero-emisions spacecraft. The genii at Kampula Space Center have submitted documentation suggesting that it's possible: a positively-charged electron sail that would repel the negatively-charged solar wind, driving the craft away from the sun. Such a craft would have to be...

Terror in Terai: Missing Seriousness

"Terror in Terai: Missing Seriousness (Nepalnews Special) - By Sanjaya Dhakal While Nepal basks in the post conflict glow of relative peace and freedom, some districts in the southeastern plains of the country continue to reel under perpetual fear and terror as bands of...

Five Pump Fire In Terraced House

"Firefighters are fighting a blaze in the end house of a row of five terraces in Rivenhall on 10th of November. Five pumps and an Aerial Ladder Platform are all fighting the fire. Reports from the scene say that...

Male prostitution for reel

"For some reasons, Pinoy filmmakers have stopped doing movies about bar girls and female prostitution. Not that there are no more girlie bars and prostitution dens in the Philippine archipelago. It's just that our filmmakers seem bent on making us pay attention on male...

Toronto International Film Festival 2006: Real to Reel Announced

"Documentaries aren’t usually the most hotly anticipated titles at each year’s Toronto International Film Festival, with most people, even by September, still probably a bit burnt out from Hot Docs, but that’s not to say that the documentaries at TIFF are any less...

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