Who knew...I always thought the Russians were in the dark!!!"A shadow swept across Russia on Friday, delighting skywatchers who flocked to Siberia from around the world to see a rare total eclipse of the sun. ...
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"PENGUIN populations have plummeted at a key breeding colony in Argentina, mirroring declines in many species of the marine flightless birds due to climate change, pollution and other factors, a study shows. ...
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Disney gave an impressive show at the World Science Festival today, talking about all the science that goes into Disney magic."And there was science — physics, chemistry, biology, computer science and...
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Sexual Predators To Be Tracked By GPS
Victim's Father Testifies That Lives Will Be Saved
Steve Saunders, 7NEWS Anchor
POSTED: 3:58 pm MST February 20, 2008
UPDATED: 10:08 pm MST February 20, 2008
DENVER --...
"This year's 52 Miss America contestants haven't just been getting judged, they've been getting zinged in "Miss America: Reality Check," a four-part reality series leading up to Saturday's 8 p.m. EST crowning on TLC.
The series, whose final installment airs Friday, has...
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I think this story is best summed up by 'We're treating schoolchildren like we treat our criminals'.Considering police in Canada don't even have the right to fingerprint you, even if you're arrested, this is shocking to me."Ten schoolchildren in the United Kingdom are being...
Protestors rejoiced when Christian Von Wernich was convicted in Argentina for his collaboration with the military government during the country's 'Dirty War'.Survivors at the trial said that Von Wernich won the trust of prisoners and then gave material from their confessions...
This isn't a magic trick, the coral reef really is disappearing. It's hard to keep track of all the things going wrong with the planet, but this one seems quite real and undisputable. "Coral reefs in the...
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Headphones contain metal filaments at their core, which enables them to act as antennae for radio-enabled devices. Conversely, they also act as electrical conductors, regardless of the device to which they are...
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It's a lot easier today to know every detail of your favorite star's life and work than it was, say, when Thriller came out. The issue I take with this study, though, is that it's measured amongst "fans" of given...
"Saturday, May 12 2007 marks graduation at Virginia Tech the end of the media stake-out of Blacksburg Virginia. Since the April 16 shootings in Ambler Johnston and Norris Halls, every news organization from BBC to...
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I was gonna post this on my blog, but I kinda don't feel like it.But seriously, I think that blogging as a zeitgeist will definitely have a shelf-life, but purpose-based blogs and serially-updated watchdog sites will live on: basically, blogs with no reason to live will...
"Osama bin Laden, charismatic founder of al-Qaeda, died of typhoid earlier this month in Pakistan, according to a highly classified intelligence brief given to the King of Saudi Arabia and President Chirac this...
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"WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is at risk of squandering significantly more money in an Iraq war and reconstruction effort that has already wasted, overcharged or poorly tracked $10 billion in taxpayer money, federal investigators said today.
The three top auditors...
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Let's call this the good karma news item of the day--I mean, I know there are a lot of bad things happening, and a lot of people who do terrible things to one another, but this guy proves that human beings are...
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