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February 06, 2010Apple's iTunes Store is the biggest music retailer in the world, accounting for seven out of every 10 legal digital downloads - about 9 billion tracks to date. When you're up against a heavyweight like that, you've got to be pretty fast on your feet to have any hope of competing. That's why mFlow, a British online retailer, has devised a novel concept to tempt music-lovers over to its service. The strategy is to give users the opportunity to earn money by signing up other users. The marketing ploy has been used before by print publications but its application to selling music is new. When mFlow launches in March it will allow people to see what other users...
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February 06, 2010Museums are rarely able to exhibit more than a fraction of the material they own, and even then the best stuff is too often sealed off behind glass or mobbed by school parties. There are no such problems on museum websites, where space is unlimited and objects, scanned in high definition, can be browsed in close-up. Here is the pick of the world's collections. 1 louvre.fr Frequently named the greatest museum in the world, this cornerstone of...
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February 06, 2010Like many working parents, Beverly Flaxington armed her daughter with a cell phone in fifth grade, when the time came for her to venture out alone. At first, it was a great way to stay in touch. That was then. Now 13, Samantha's grades have slipped drastically and she's obsessed with texting, Facebook and her laptop, sometimes falling asleep in her clothes clutching her phone. When her texting exceeded 2,000 messages a day, her parents shut off the function from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. on school nights, and Sam "just went nuts." "She slammed doors. She accused us of being overly conservative when all of her friends are able to do things at night," said the mom in Walpole, Mass. "She didn't speak to...
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February 06, 2010DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Hendrick Motorsports teammates Mark Martin and Dale Earnhardt Jr. have secured the front row for next week's Daytona 500. Martin, the only driver to top 191 mph during qualifying Saturday, earned the first pole of his career for NASCAR's season-opening race. Earnhardt will start...
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February 06, 2010MORE than 65,000 19th-century works of fiction from the British Library's collection are to be made available for free downloads by the public from this spring. Owners of the Amazon Kindle, an ebook reader device, will be able to view well known works by writers such as Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy, as well as works by thousands of less famous authors. The library's ebook publishing project, funded by Microsoft, the computer giant, is the latest move in the mounting...
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February 06, 2010DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Hendrick Motorsports teammates Mark Martin and Dale Earnhardt Jr. have secured the front row for next week's Daytona 500. Martin, the only driver to top 191 mph during qualifying Saturday, earned the first pole of his career for NASCAR's season-opening race. Earnhardt will start second, trying to rebound from the worst season in his Sprint Cup career. The front-row sweep continues Hendrick's domination in the sport. Not only has Jimmie Johnson won the last four Cup championships, but teammates Martin and Jeff Gordon gave Hendrick a 1-2-3 finish in the 2009 points standings. The top 35 drivers from last season are guaranteed starting spots in next Sunday's race, but...
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February 06, 2010DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – This looks awfully familiar. Hendrick Motorsports is picking up right where it left off last season. Two of the organization's driver are set to lead the field of the Daytona 500. Mark Martin won the pole during qualifying Saturday at Daytona International Speedway. His lap at 191.188 knocked his Hendrick teammate, Dale Earnhardt Jr. from atop the order. Martin who has never won a Daytona 500. Rick Hendrick's drivers Jimmie Johnson, Martin and Jeff Gordon swept the top-three spots in the 2009 Sprint Cup standings, in that order. It was the first such showing for an owner in the series' history. Saturday's Daytona 500 qualifying locks in only the front...
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February 06, 2010DUBAI ' The rapidly developing healthcare sector in the UAE faces challenges to its long-term sustainability due to the relatively high cost of medical provision, according to a recent report. Competitor countries, particularly in Southeast Asia, have already established a strong reputation for quality, low-cost healthcare provision, and therefore have significant first-mover advantages compared to the UAE, according to "Transforming the Middle East's healthcare model," a recently published research report by Grant Thornton. Commenting on the report, Farouk Mohamed, Managing Partner, Grant...
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February 06, 2010DUBAI 'Tourism in Dubai continues to look up despite a difficult year 2009. Although the emirate experienced a negligible drop in growth of tourist numbers between January and September 2009 compared to the same period in previous years, Dubai's performance in the domain remained much better than many of its competitors. Nearly 5.64m people of over 200 nationalities visited Dubai between January and September 2009 compared to 5.47 in the same period in 2008, witnessing a growth of 3.2 per cent, which is significantly less than previous years'...
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February 06, 2010CASPER, Wyo. – Authorities say a Casper woman was assaulted at her front door, raped at knifepoint in her living room and left bound on the floor, and they say one of the men charged in the brutal attack claimed that he thought it was invited. Two men are accused in the crime. One is charged with carrying out the rape. The other, the woman's ex-boyfriend, stands accused of posing as the victim online and claiming she harbored a rape fantasy and wanted to be assaulted. The case in the central Wyoming city of Casper, population 54,000, illustrates that middle America isn't immune to the dangers of Internet anonymity and predators who target victims through online ads that hint at sex and...
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February 06, 2010CHICAGO – Online retailer Inc resumed selling hardcover and paperback books from Macmillan Publishers late on Friday in a sign the two companies are getting closer to resolving a pricing dispute over...
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February 06, 2010Rupert Murdoch knows who’s winning the war between big media and the Internet. Unsurprisingly, it’s Rupert Murdoch. “Without content, the ever-larger and flatter screens, the tablets, the e-readers and the increasingly sophisticated mobile phones would be lifeless,” he proclaimed when News Corp. posted unexpectedly strong fiscal 2010 second-quarter earnings. “Devices and platforms are proliferating but this clever technology is merely an empty vessel without any great content.” Murdoch danced a lively jig for investors as he bragged about his company’s ability to thrive in the media tumult caused by the Internet. I’m not buying it. News Corp. may be getting a big lift from...
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February 06, 2010South Africa's polygamous President Jacob Zuma on Saturday said he regretted the "pain" over a love-child, the latest sex scandal to haunt him. Zuma, who has three current wives, said the matter had put a lot of pressure on his family and the ruling African National Congress after it was reported in local...
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February 06, 2010The term "blizzard" is often tossed around when big winter storms blow in. But the National Weather service has an official definition of blizzard: A blizzard as a storm with "considerable falling or blowing " and winds in excess of 35 mph and visibilities of less than 1/4 mile for at least 3 hours. While blizzard conditions may occur for shorter periods of time, the weather service is particular about its warning system: When all...
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February 06, 2010DETROIT – Toyota has told dealers it's preparing a plan to repair the brakes on thousands of hybrid Prius cars in the U.S. In a message sent Friday night to dealers, a Toyota group vice president, Bob Carter, said the...
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February 06, 2010She's starting 12th in a minor race sandwiched between two main events, yet Danica Patrick has commanded as much attention as anything happening this weekend at Daytona. There are five other women in her race, and 15 women have competed in NASCAR's top division. Yet Patrick's debut in stock cars is seen as something, if not historic, enormously compelling. Why? Because Patrick is different. Because the 5-foot-2 firebrand with the exotic looks and molten-lava temper is coming after Jeff Gordon. Because she is coming after Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick, and she isn't afraid of Brad Keselowski or Tony Stewart. OK, maybe Stewart, but Patrick is coming anyway. You know Danica Patrick by now. She's...
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February 06, 2010Ramzy Baroud's "My Father Was A Freedom Fighter" is more than a book, it is actually a masterpiece. In an overwhelmingly evoking personal style Baroud manages to bring to light the history of the Palestinian people and their battle with Israel and Zionism. Through the story of the Baroud's family the book outlines every event in the history of the conflict and reflects on the way it transformed the Palestinian reality. The book is a heart breaking depressing story of the Baroud family's journey from paradise to hell. It is a flight that starts in Beit Daras, a small pictorial village in the south of Palestine. It ends in a Gaza refugee camp. It is a tragic journey of a rural self-sufficient...
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February 06, 2010It's often said that adolescents are fearless and see themselves as...
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February 06, 2010Archaeologists in China say they have discovered more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, all facing the same way. The footprints - thought to belong to at...
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February 06, 2010Radiologist reports 90 percent radiation reduction in cardiac CT scans CHICAGO, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dr. James Earls, a radiologist from Fairfax Radiological Consultants in suburban Washington, D.C. will present the findings of a study that shows a 90 percent reduction in the amount of radiation heart patients received from CT scans compared to scans performed two years ago. Dr. Earls will present the study to the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, at The McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, Ill....
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February 06, 2010Soichi Noguchi, an astronaut on board the International Space Station, has been sending Twitter pictures from space documenting the stunning views he has seen while in orbit. The active tweeter has snapped and sent TwitPics of the full moon, Haiti after the recent earthquake, Rome, Kilimanjaro, and much more. Check out some of his pictures from space in the slideshow below! Maldives Rate Photo Stellar Out Of This...
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February 06, 2010BEIJING – Authorities in China's Xinjiang region Saturday restored access to 27 Internet sites that had been blocked following last July's ethnic unrest in the province, state media reported. The...
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February 06, 2010DONATE NOW + Return to full article Comments Sort: Oldest to Newest Newest to Oldest Highest Rated Lowest Rated Most Controversial lildic007 ? 0 0 There is such confusion in Haiti as to how food and supplies are given to the people. Who's in-charge? There doesn't seem to be anyone organizing it successfully. Wouldn't it work better if there was an organization simular to FEMA only run a little better. W.E.M.O. (World Emergency Management Organization.It could be headed by an organization like the U.N., an undersecretary in charge. There is so much confusion in that country, looting, gangs stealing and controlling. Your thoughts. Posted 1 week ago Reply Abusive DickCampbell...
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February 06, 2010SEATTLE - U.S. customs officials say nearly 17,600 Fox Sports NFL robot action figures seized at the Seattle waterfront last month were contaminated...
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February 06, 2010Posted on: Saturday, 6 February 2010, 08:15 CST Within a virus's tiny exterior is a store of energy waiting to be unleashed. When the virus encounters a host cell, this pent-up energy is released, propelling the viral DNA into the cell and turning it into a virus factory. For the first time, Carnegie Mellon University physicist Alex Evilevitch has directly measured the energy associated with the expulsion of viral DNA, a pivotal discovery toward fully understanding the physical mechanisms that control viral infection and designing drugs to interfere with the process. "We are studying the physics of viruses, not the biology of viruses," said Evilevitch, associate professor of...
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February 06, 2010Texas woman's...
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February 06, 2010British scientists who have made stunning discoveries about Saturn and its moons will have to abandon their...
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February 06, 2010Scientists have mapped out the full colour pattern for a feathered dinosaur for the first time. They found that the species in question looked...
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February 06, 2010By TODD NEALE Staff Writer Feb. 6, 2010 Public health experts say they're concerned about the low number of U.S. adults who receive recommended vaccinations -- and in particular about seniors who aren't immunized against pneumonia. Doses of H1N1 influenza vaccine sit in a basket at Rush University Medical Center Oct. 6, 2009 in... Doses of H1N1 influenza vaccine sit in a basket at Rush University Medical...
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February 06, 2010February 6, 2010 Most of Long Island is likely to escape the punch of a powerful winter storm that was forecast to dump 2 feet of snow along East Coast cities to the south, according to the National Weather Service. Forecasts, updated after 7 a.m., predict that Suffolk County will get less than 2 inches, with portions of southwest...
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February 06, 2010Companies like to call their new gadgets revolutionary. Amazon did it when it introduced its Kindle e-book reader in 2007, and Apple CEO Steve Jobs used the word often last week while unveiling his company's new iPad - a tablet computer that also doubles as an e-reader. Jobs even threw in a "magical" here and there when describing the device. Corporations aren't the only ones predicting that the digitization of books will bring great change. Take author and journalist Steven Johnson, who's Kindle moved him to envision a paperless future: "I knew then that the book's migration to the digital realm would not be a simple matter of trading ink for pixels, but would...
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February 06, 2010It may be one small flip, but the coin that will decide whether the Indianapolis Colts or New Orleans Saints possess the ball at the start of Sunday's Super Bowl XLIV will have already made a giant leap when it hits the field at Miami's Sun Life Stadium. In a move that at the time was known only to a few people at NASA, the NFL, and The Highland Mint of Melbourne, Fla. where the coin was created last August, the was flown on space shuttle Atlantis' STS-129 mission in November. Over 11 days and 171 orbits around the Earth, the silver coin logged four million miles. The coin's spaceflight was revealed in advance of a Jan....
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February 06, 2010CHENNAI: The government expressed hope that the multi-crore rupee Satyam fraud case would move on the "fast track" in courts as the investigation is almost complete. "I hope it moves in fast track. As far as the...
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February 06, 2010A technological innovation centre which aims at establishing a training centre for the manufacture of high precision capital goods and machine components will be established in Ghana soon. The Minister of Trade and Industry, Ms. Hannah Tetteh, who said this during question time in Parliament on Friday...
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February 06, 2010Ms. Hannah Tetteh, Minister for Trade and Industry, on Friday said the operational problems surrounding the Toyota Camry cars were limited to those manufactured in United States of America . She said this in Parliament in an answer to an emergency question from Mr. Andrew Adjei-Yeboah, member for Tano South on measures the ministry was taking to check the importation of Toyota Camry cars from the US since...
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February 06, 2010Send this story to a friend Email address of friend : Your email address: Add a brief note: Enter words from the security image above: Get new image | Audio verification | reCAPTCHA™ FACT appeals drink tax decision GAO report finds not all of Pa.’s stimulus has been tapped into Stimulus yields $418M for Allegheny County groups Lenzner Coach Lines preps shuttle service for Rivers Casino runs Allegheny Conference holds annual meeting In response to the snow storm that swept across the region, Allegheny County declared a disaster emergency early Saturday morning. The county is requesting that all non-essential and non-emergency vehicles stay off...
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February 06, 2010the Food and Drug...
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February 06, 2010The Pentagon's advanced research division has set aside $6 million from its next budget for research on the...
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February 06, 2010The Associated Press thefresnobee_994:/state_wire/business/story/1811454.html E-Mail Print Text Size: tool name...
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February 06, 2010Gov. awarded $20 million in stimulus money so two Massachusetts companies can install solar-energy equipment at 12 public wastewater treatment plants across the...
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February 06, 2010Canadian Inuit dogs pull a sled using traditional harnesses Thursday, Feb.... The town of Iqaluit, Nunavut is shown Wednesday Feb. 3, 2010. Iqaluit, popu... The Frobisher Inn, the site of the impending G-7 meetings, is shown in the... IQALUIT, Nunavut - A crisis in Europe over budget belt-tightening has upended global markets and seized the attention of financial leaders meeting in the Canadian Arctic. Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven major industrial countries also planned to try on Saturday to settle differences on banking industry changes....
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February 06, 2010The Airbus A400M military transporter lands after its first test flight in ... The head of EADS on Saturday called for seven countries that have ordered the Airbus A400M military plane to provide "a clear idea" on the future of the troubled project "by the end of next week." "We need to...
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February 06, 2010BRISBANE, Australia - Australian company Resourcehouse Ltd. said Saturday that it has struck a $60 billion, 20-year agreement to supply coal to China Power International Development Ltd., calling it Australia's biggest export contract. The deal is the latest...
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February 06, 2010Google surprised Nexus One owners this week by releasing an update for the Android-based phone. The Nexus One has only been on the market for a month, but the update added a fair bit of functionality — notably...
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February 06, 2010Longevity is rare in an industry of ready-made stars and one-hit-wonders, but Sade of "Smooth Operator" fame is back after a decade away with a new album out February 9. Before "Soldier of Love", her latest album, "Lover's Rock" in 2000 was the last outing by Sade and her band, a time when number one hits stayed weeks at the top of the chart and piracy was something that happened at sea. Times change. Sony Music did not allow "Soldier of Love" out of their sight for more than 24 hours when the disc came to Paris for preview listens, as the record company tries to avoid tracks being leaked to the many...
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February 06, 2010Posted on: Friday, 5 February 2010, 07:00 CST SINGAPORE, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SINGAPORE AIR SHOW -- Hong Kong Airlines has selected Pratt & Whitney's PW4170 Advantage70 engine to power six new Airbus A330 aircraft. The memorandum of understanding, valued at approximately $470 million at list prices, includes two spare...
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February 06, 2010Posted on: Friday, 5 February 2010, 07:30 CST PHOENIX, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Republic Services, Inc. announced today that it has notified the registered holders of its 6.125% Senior Notes due 2014 that it will...
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February 06, 2010Posted on: Friday, 5 February 2010, 08:09 CST HARLEYSVILLE, Pa., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Raymond J. De Hont, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Met-Pro Corporation , announced today that the Company's newly-formed Environmental Air Solutions business unit has received three orders for its Duall brand air pollution control systems. The first two systems are for industrial applications, including treatment of industrial acid gas and particulate emissions from a plasma arc furnace at a U.S. Army munitions facility, and treatment of sulfur dioxide emissions from a carbon and graphite manufacturing facility. The third system is...
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February 06, 2010Posted on: Friday, 5 February 2010, 09:00 CST MAUMEE, Ohio, Feb. 5...
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February 06, 2010Posted on: Saturday, 6 February 2010, 07:55 CST An recent inter-agency report states that air passengers should be made aware of the health risks of airport body screenings and governments need to explain any decision to expose the public to higher levels of cancer-causing radiation. The Inter-Agency Committee on Radiation Safety’s report said pregnant women and children should not be subject to scanning, even though the radiation dose from body...
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February 06, 2010Posted on: Saturday, 6 February 2010, 08:06 CST Google announced Thursday that it has added an Ocean Showcase and WW II era aerial photographs to its free, interactive online atlas, Google Earth. "The historical imagery feature gives people a unique...
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February 06, 2010Posted on: Friday, 5 February 2010, 09:33 CST NEW YORK, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Residents of...
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February 06, 2010Posted on: Friday, 5 February 2010, 10:54 CST HOUSTON, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Kirby Corporation ...
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February 06, 2010Posted on: Friday, 5 February 2010, 11:58 CST STUTTGART, Germany, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Daimler AG (stock-exchange...
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February 06, 2010Posted on: Friday, 5 February 2010, 12:57 CST SCOTT DEPOT, W.Va., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- International Coal Group, Inc. today announced that its ICG Beckley subsidiary received West Virginia's highest honor for environmental excellence in coal mining. The coveted Greenlands Award was presented to ICG Beckley's Beckley-Pocahontas underground mine complex in Raleigh County,...
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February 06, 2010Posted on: Friday, 5 February 2010, 13:33 CST EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- IntelliChoice.com, the leading provider of automotive ownership cost and value analysis, will announce the winners of its 23rd annual "Best Overall Value of the Year" or BOVY awards at the...
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February 06, 2010Posted on: Friday, 5 February 2010, 10:08 CST SEATTLE, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Steve Kallick, director of Pew...
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February 06, 2010Washington, DC: A study has suggested that CoRoT-7b, which is the most Earthlike world yet found outside our solar system, may really be the first in a new class of exoplanets known as a "super-Io", like the volcanic Jupiter moon. CoRoT-7b is considered to be the most Earthlike world yet found outside our solar system. It was found using the French-led planet-hunting mission CoRoT,...
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February 06, 2010Washington - Speed, stability, compatibility - these are the headline features for which Windows 7 has been praised. But Microsoft has also stuffed Windows 7 full of little productivity-enhancing features that few are aware of. Here's a rundown of some of the niftiest. --- Access Projector Mode Work in an office, and sooner or later you're going to need to hook your PC up to a projector. When you do this with older versions of Windows, you invariably end up in the Display Properties dialog box or hunting for key combinations on your notebook computer that allow you send an image to a projector, to your notebook screen, or both. With Windows 7's new Projector Mode, you'll have one less thing...
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February 06, 2010Politicians may quible...
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February 06, 2010How many hours have you wasted on Facebook? Do you like social networking? I had a plan to use it to...
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February 06, 2010WAUSEON - The Fulton County Crime Stopper program is...
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February 06, 2010RALEIGH -- At today's Krispy Kreme Challenge, each participant will consume a dozen glazed doughnuts, sandwiched between a pair of two-mile runs between N.C. State University and the doughnut shop downtown. Folly, yes, but for a good cause. Last year, the Challenge raised $40,000 for N.C. Children's Hospital. No wonder it ranks 85th on Sports Illustrated's list of "102 More Things You Gotta Do Before You Graduate" - and with this year's long-sold-out field capped at 6,000 entrants, some people have even been scalping their registration bibs. The race draws lots of less-than-serious runners, many in costumes. Elvis, Santa Claus, Superman and Wonder Woman have put in appearances in years past....
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February 06, 2010Next » 1 2 3 The Stormers players who took part in the recent tri-series fixtures at Newlands might be forgiven for feeling that by missing out on Saturday's historic match at the Cape Town Stadium they drew the short straw. With a crowd of 40 000 guaranteed for the occasion and the Boland Invitation team not exactly packing the class and experience to have opposition quaking in their boots, this might have seemed a perfect...
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February 06, 2010Next » 1 2 Former Springbok captain and World Cup winning team manager Morne du Plessis has issued an interesting challenge to the men who will be the first to play a rugby match at the new Cape Town Stadium. "Take a wager among yourselves without coming to any sort of behind the scenes arrangement on who will become the player who will make history by becoming the first rugby player to score a try at the Cape Town Stadium," said...
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February 06, 2010South Africa lost their third successive Plate final and the second against Australia as they were beaten 26-22 in the Wellington leg of the IRB Sevens World Series on Saturday, after leading 17-0 five minutes into the game. South Africa had the perfect start as Chase Minnaar...
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February 06, 2010Sydney - Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd says another one of its ships has collided with a Japanese harpoon boat off Antarctica. No one...
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February 06, 2010Submit your comment Next » 1 2 London - Rio Ferdinand's appointment as England captain completes a long road to redemption for the player who once represented much that was wrong with the modern game. "I knew I had to change the opinions people had of me," the 31-year-old Ferdinand said recently. "I think I've done that."...
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February 06, 2010Next » 1 2 It will be a bitter-sweet return to the Mother City for Franklin Cale. A little more than a month ago, the 26-year-old Ocean View-born winger was still an Ajax Cape Town player. Tomorrow afternoon, he is back in his home town, this time in the yellow colours of Mamelodi Sundowns, to take on his former club, Ajax, at the Athlone Stadium ....
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February 06, 2010Next » 1 2 Benni McCarthy's last chance to gain form and fitness ahead of the 2010 Fifa World Cup begins on Saturday afternoon when he makes his debut for West Ham United at Burnley in the English Premier League. Bafana Bafana's leading all-time goalscorer has spent most of this season lounging around on the Blackburn Rovers bench, netting just one league goal, and his lack of fitness was only too evident...
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February 06, 2010Nagpur, India - Jacques Kallis struck his third hundred in five Tests and shared a double century stand with Hashim Alma to put South Africa in control of the first Test against India on Saturday. Kallis crafted a magnificent 159 and added an unbroken 285 for the third wicket with Amla, who scored 115, to help the visitors reach 291/2 after winning the toss. Left-arm...
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February 06, 2010By Sanjay Rajan Nagpur, India - Jacques Kallis struck his third century in five tests to help South Africa recover from the loss of two early wickets on the opening day of the first test against India on Saturday. The 34-year-old put up 120 and shared an unbeaten third wicket stand of 187 with Hashim Amla , guiding the visitors to a confident 193-2 at tea after...
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February 06, 2010Next » 1 2 Rotterdam, Netherlands - Novak Djokovic will strive to show that his recent Australian indigestion incident was just a case of bad luck, with the Serb world number two returning to action as top seed at the Rotterdam Open starting Monday. Djokovic, who moved up to second in the world behind Roger Federer after the Australian Open, was almost forced to quit but soldiered on with his stomach problems in a...
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February 06, 2010Paris - World number one Serena Williams has withdrawn from next week's Paris Indoor...
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February 06, 2010Next » 1 2 Gael Monfils is known as tennis's "Great Entertainer" but - at Montecasino at least - he only gives one-hour shows. On Friday night the 23-year-old Frenchman took just 54 minutes to destroy the hopes of Taipei's Yen-Hsun Lu in the quarterfinals of the 2010 SA Tennis Open, winning 6-1, 6-4 following a breathtaking display on Centre Court....
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February 06, 2010Next » 1 2 3 4 Lance Armstrong will not be the first Tour de France champion to ride in the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour, but he will be the only one who will ride the world's biggest race in the same year as he rides the world's biggest timed race....
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February 06, 2010Zagreb, Croatia - Defending champion Marin Cilic reached the semifinals of his third successive tournament this year when he edged compatriot Ivo Karlovic, 7-6 , 6-4 at the Zagreb Indoors on Friday. Cilic improved his 2010 record to 13-1, with an eye on his second title of 2010 and the...
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February 06, 2010WARSAW: Europe's footballing aristocracy gather in Warsaw on Sunday with the fates of Russian coach Guus Hiddink and scandal-hit England captain John Terry overshadowing the Euro 2012 qualification draw. While England's Italian coach Fabio Capello is expected to lead the 'Three Lions' into September's opening qualification games for Euro 2012, it remains to be seen whether Chelsea's Terry will remain as England captain. The centre-back's extra-marital...
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February 06, 2010NAGPUR: India's left-arm paceman Zaheer Khan picked two wickets in successive overs to rock South Africa early on the opening day of the first Test on Saturday. Zaheer sent back openers Ashwell Prince and Graeme Smith in a fiery opening spell before the tourists reached 90-2 at lunch at the Vidarbha Cricket...
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February 06, 2010Kiradech Aphibarnrat of Thailand celebrates an eagle putt on the 18th green... Pakistani Shiite Muslims mourn next to a coffin prior to offering funeral p... Kiradech Aphibarnrat of Thailand celebrates an eagle putt on the 18th green... Thailand's Kiradech Aphibarnrat shot a superb eagle on the last hole to open up a two-shot lead after the...
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February 06, 2010LAHORE: Admitting to flaws in the whole cricket set-up of the country, Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt has urged the selectors to prepare a solid ground for under-19 cricketers, who have performed brilliantly...
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February 06, 2010Paris: World number one Serena Williams has pulled...
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February 06, 2010NAGPUR: The experienced Jacques Kallis and Hashim Amla struck unbeaten centuries as South Africa recovered from two early jolts to take control of the first cricket Test against India here today. Kallis notched up his 34th Test century and found an able ally in Amla as the duo put on a marathon 285-run partnership to steer the visitors to a comfortable 291 for two at close on the opening day. It was a remarkable recovery for the South Africans, who were reeling at a precarious six for two within the first half an hour of the contest with pace spearhead Zaheer Khan claiming both the wickets. But that turned out to be the only moments of success for the injury-hit...
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February 06, 2010Jacques Kallis hit his third hundred in five Tests and shared a double century stand with Hashim Alma to put South Africa in control of the first Test against India in Nagpur. Kallis crafted a magnificent 159 and added an unbroken 285 for the third wicket with Amla, who scored 115, to help the visitors reach 291 for two after winning the toss. Kallis struck 13 fours and two sixes on his way to his 34th Test century that brought him to No. 3 spot in Test cricket's top century-makers. The Kallis-Amla partnership is the highest for the third wicket in all Tests since the...
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February 06, 2010Washington DC: Tried every plan in the diet book but love handles still giving you nightmares? Well, here's a tip: Move to a mountaintop. In a study, detailed in the...
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February 06, 2010After ignoring and dodging the issue for years, the US army is being forced to face the alarming numbers of soldiers who are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder . The suicide rate among troops on active duty is at an all time high and rising, while veterans are bringing the war home to their families and communities in the form of addiction, abuse and even murder. They are committing suicide at the rate of 18 a day. Al Jazeera's The War Within programme examined the toll repeated deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan are taking on soldiers. To understand the symptoms and causes of PTSD from a medical perspective, Al Jazeera spoke to Barbara Van Dahlen, a clinical psychologist...
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February 06, 2010London: A team of mechanical engineers has designed a 1-centimetre-square spacecraft that could give an early warning of dangerous space storms well before a conventional craft can. According to a report in New Scientist, the craft, which is 25 micrometres thick and weighs less than 7.5 milligrams, has been designed by Mason Peck, a mechanical engineer at Cornell...
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February 06, 2010Washington DC: Biochemists at the Monash University in Australia have found a critical piece in the evolutionary puzzle that explains how life on Earth evolved much earlier in the evolutionary timeline than previously believed. The team, from the School of Biomedical Sciences, has described the process by which bacteria developed into more complex cells and found this crucial step happened much earlier in the...
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February 06, 2010London: Autism and related conditions were underdiagnosed in women and teenage girls, UK researchers have observed. Experts due to speak at Britain's first academic conference on the issue noticed that up to 80% of diagnosed cases of autism were in boys. Richard Mills, research director of Research Autism, found that doctors and...
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February 06, 2010Audio Attachment A social justice advocate, Aglagskomah Asakey, has called on government to reverse the construction of a...
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February 06, 2010New Delhi: Lack of proper planning by the central government has shot up food prices, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal said here Saturday. "Price rise is...
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February 06, 2010Kolkata: West Bengal legislative assembly speaker and senior Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Hasim Abdul Halim was admitted to a hospital in Singapore Saturday after he...
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February 06, 2010Mumbai: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, under fire from the Shiv Sena for favouring Pakistani players in the Indian Premier League , said Saturday he had been misunderstood and he had nothing against meeting Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray. After being defiant for days, Shah Rukh made the conciliatory remarks -- "If he wants me to meet him, I will do that" -- when he returned...
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February 06, 2010WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama, who had insisted that he would succeed where other presidents had failed to fix the nation's health-care system, now concedes the effort might die in Congress. The president's newly conflicting signals could frustrate Democratic lawmakers who are hungry for guidance from the White House as they try to salvage the effort to extend coverage to millions of uninsured Americans and hold down spiraling medical costs. Obama's comments Thursday night came hours after Republican Scott Brown was sworn in to replace the late Edward M. Kennedy, leaving Democrats without their filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, and Obama's signature health legislation with no...
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February 06, 2010Medical-malpractice claims continue to fall in Ohio, which doctors say is proof that state limits on damages passed in 2003 are having a positive effect. And it shows that Ohio's setup can serve as a model for the nation in the contentious health-care debate, said Tim Maglione, spokesman for the Ohio State Medical Association. In 2008, 3,080 closed claims were reported; that was a decline of nearly 40 percent from 2005, according to a report issued this week by the Ohio Department of Insurance. "We get these trends from these annual reports, and they're all moving in the right direction," Maglione said. He also...
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February 06, 2010State officials say they need more money to analyze data in the trauma registry to save lives, but the former state legislator who wrote the law said there should be enough to do the work. When the law was passed in 1999, the General Assembly increased seat-belt fines and the percentage earmarked for the Emergency Medical Services Division to fund a state trauma system and registry. "I...
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February 06, 2010PRINCETON, N.J., Jan. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Covance Inc. today announced that it will present at the 28th Annual J.P. Morgan...
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February 06, 2010Download image LAKE FOREST, Ill., Jan. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hospira, Inc. , a leading global specialty pharmaceutical and medication delivery company, today announced that the company will present at the J.P. Morgan 28th Annual Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, in San Francisco....
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February 06, 2010PARSIPPANY, N.J., Jan. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Survival of the fittest? In the highly competitive pharmaceutical industry your survival depends on not only what you know today, but what you need to know tomorrow. Pharma market research is key. Whoever has the right insight and accurate forecasting skills will excel. Though the U.S. pharmaceutical industry is the largest market in the world, its sheer size also presents challenges and opportunities. Pharmaceutical companies must figure...
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February 06, 2010US National Security Advisor James Jones, seen here in January 2010, appeal... US National Security Advisor James Jones Saturday appealed to the European parliament not to block a deal allowing a transatlantic exchange of data considered vital to combat terror financing. "This programme has safeguards. It protects privacy. It has prevented terrorist attacks and saved lives, including here in Europe," he told security experts...
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February 06, 2010US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates, seen here, expressed doubt Saturday t... US Secretary of Defence...
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February 06, 2010You'll receive impeccable service in either room. It's nice to experience a restaurant where the elements of good service are known and practiced. These elements, so quietly on display at Saddles, include punctiliousness, perspicaciousness and a demeanor that's neither obsequious nor officious. And yes, I'm throwing big words around — not just for the sheer love of the language, mind you, but because these words accurately describe the service. The building that holds the restaurant was once the barn of a 300-acre ranch in 19th-century Sonoma where, among other ventures, horses were raised. As you enter, you walk past a lot of interesting tack — mostly saddles — that should...
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February 06, 2010WASHINGTON - Two favorite American pastimes — politics and football — are on President Barack Obama's weekend agenda. The president ventures out into an epic Washington snow on Saturday to address the winter meeting of the Democratic National Committee. That event is being held in a hotel not far from the White House. On Sunday, the president and Mrs. Obama will host a Super Bowl party at the White House. Among the guests expected are nine Cabinet members and eight members of Congress. The first family has also invited some service members who were injured in Iraq or Afghanistan and their families. Recent Politically Connected stories - February 6, 2010 - Sen. Al Franken was the...
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February 06, 2010WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Saturday appealed to fellow Democrats and rival Republicans to back a plan to use $30 billion in bank bailout funds to help small businesses. Obama has faced opposition to the proposal from Republicans who want money paid back to the government by big banks returned to the U.S. Treasury for deficit reduction. The...
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February 06, 2010WASHINGTON – Two favorite American pastimes — politics and football — are on President Barack...
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February 06, 2010E-mails shed new light on Todd Palin's...
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February 06, 2010WASHINGTON — Republicans sparred with President Barack Obama over proposals to create jobs in dueling radio addresses Saturday, highlighting the difficulty of reaching bipartisan solutions in a political climate marked by partisan bickering. Obama pushed Congress to use $30 billion that had been set aside to bail out Wall Street to start a new program that provides loans to small businesses, which the White House calls the engine for job growth. Republicans, meanwhile, taunted Obama...
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February 06, 2010Another quote in the Washington Post this morning from an unidentified an unidentified aide in Washington: "We're still going around the circle," said this aide, who asked not to be identified while discussing the Democrats' internal debate. "You run out of gas at some point." That Aide needs to tell his Congressional person that the American people are running out of gas tool More of the quote. "Hours before the fund-raiser, Mr. Obama met at the White House with senior Democratic Congressional leaders to discuss their strategy on health care. The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi,...
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February 06, 2010Numbers don't lie, do they? In the last year of the Bush...
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February 06, 2010Still wonder exactly why Justice...
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February 06, 2010 For the first time, all captured sessions will be publicly available to a web audience MADISON, Wis., Jan. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sonic Foundry, Inc. , EDUCAUSE Gold Partner and recognized market leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management, has once again been selected to webcast the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2010 annual meeting, "Learning Environments for a Web 2.0 World," held this week at the Hilton Austin in Austin, Texas. All keynotes sessions, featured speakers and several concurrent sessions will be captured with Mediasite and available for public viewing at http://bit.ly/5pu5xD....
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February 06, 2010For most people in Illinois, Amanda J. Eneman remains little more than a police mugshot: long, teased blond hair, piercing hazel eyes and a puzzling half smile. The convicted prostitute at the center of the scandal surrounding Scott Lee...
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February 06, 2010It's still too soon to name a winner in Tuesday's Republican gubernatorial primary because thousands of ballots remain uncounted, state Sen. Kirk Dillard said Friday. He trails state Sen. Bill Brady by about 400 votes -- but up to 11,000 absentee and provisional ballots have yet to be tallied, Dillard contended as he refused to concede defeat in the race. » "All of the ballots have not been counted, so the...
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February 06, 2010On more than one occasion during his campaign for the U.S. Senate, voters told David Hoffman he was running for the "wrong office" -- the "right" one being mayor of Chicago. The question now is whether Mayor Daley's former corruption-fighting inspector general will parlay his strong second-place finish behind Alexi Giannoulias into a campaign for mayor next year. » The day after the election, an exhausted Hoffman refused to comment on his political future. "I'm just focused on taking a break and spending time with my...
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February 06, 2010JUNEAU, Alaska -- E-mails shed new light on Todd Palin's role while his wife was Alaska's governor, showing that the one-time oil field worker's advice was sought on board appointments and suggesting he was close to matters related to state government, his wife's image and politics. Relatively few of the messages obtained as part of a public records request were sent by Todd Palin himself. Rather, his personal e-mail address is included on messages sent by administration staff, top aides to then-Gov. Sarah Palin and Palin on topics ranging from use of the state plane to day-to-day governing issues and oil and gas legislation that Palin made a hallmark of her 21/2 years in office. » But...
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February 06, 2010PITTSBORO, N.C. -- A judge wants to put a sex tape of two-time presidential candidate John Edwards "under lock and key," demanding Friday that a former aide to the pilloried politician turn over the video by next week. Superior Court Judge Abraham Penn Jones reprimanded Andrew Young during a brief court hearing in North Carolina for not surrendering the video when...
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February 06, 2010WASHINGTON -- No, maybe he can't. President Barack Obama, who insisted he would succeed where other presidents had failed to fix the nation's health care system, now concedes the effort may die in Congress. The president's newly conflicting signals could frustrate Democratic lawmakers who are hungry for guidance from the White House as they try to salvage the effort to extend coverage to millions of uninsured Americans and hold down spiraling medical costs. Obama's comments Thursday night came hours after Republican Scott Brown was sworn in to replace the late Edward M. Kennedy, leaving Democrats without their filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, and Obama's signature health legislation...
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February 06, 2010As with athletes, musicians are at the mercy of age and illness. Peter Oundjian, who spent much of his career as the first violinist of the Tokyo String Quartet in its glory days, began to lose his abilities as a string player in the mid-1980s because of a then little-known neurological condition, focal dystonia. Oundjian had to abandon the violin at just 41 in 1995. But a strong curiosity and a gift for other forms of music-making...
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February 06, 2010New Delhi, Feb 6 : Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday had a spat during the conference on food prices after the former accused Modi of politicising the issue of sale of wheat and rice at concessional rates. Mukherjee intervened at the Chief Ministers' conference on prices when Modi was slamming the Centre for its policies and questioning the...
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February 06, 2010PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria — A Nigerian police spokeswoman says gunmen have kidnapped an Indian citizen living in Nigeria's restive oil region. Spokeswoman Rita Abbey says gunmen kidnapped the man on Friday night. She says the man serves as the general manager of a homebuilding and property management company. Abbey says police had followed kidnappers in hopes of rescuing the man. Abbey also says gunmen kidnapped an 8-month-old infant Thursday night in Port Harcourt. The child has yet to be found. Kidnappings of foreigners in Port Harcourt and the rest of the Niger Delta have become common in recent years as militants and criminals seek ransoms from employers....
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February 06, 2010RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press Writer= SEATTLE — Thousands of cases of whiskey, vodka and rum zip along three miles of conveyor belts inside a massive distribution center in industrial south Seattle, the sole location for shipping booze to liquor stores across Washington state. The 250,000-square-foot warehouse is the nexus from which all of the state's liquor is imported, processed, and moved out to the 315 state and contract stores, the only place where Washingtonians can buy hard liquor for home consumption. As states scramble to deal with gaping budget deficits, many are looking for any opportunity to increase revenue, and Washington is one of a handful of states weighing whether...
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February 06, 2010RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press Writer= SEATTLE — Thousands of cases of whiskey, vodka and rum zip along three miles of conveyor belts inside a massive distribution center in industrial south Seattle, the sole location for shipping booze to liquor stores across Washington state. The 250,000-square-foot warehouse is the nexus from which all of the state's liquor is imported, processed, and moved out to the 315 state and contract stores, the only place where Washingtonians can buy hard liquor for home consumption. As states scramble to deal with gaping budget deficits, many are looking for any opportunity to increase revenue, and Washington is one of a handful of states weighing whether...
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February 06, 2010MUNICH — Germany says a nuclear-armed Iran is "unacceptable" and that Tehran needs to prove to the world that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only. Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle told a gathering of the world's top defense officials in Munich on Saturday that "a nuclear-armed Iran is unacceptable for us" and would "lead to a destabilization of the entire region." Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki suggested the night before that he believed that Tehran was "approaching a final agreement" on its nuclear program. But Westerwelle, Germany's vice chancellor, says if Iran is actually serious it "must take action."...
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February 06, 2010CACERES, Spain — A 16-year-old Spanish matador is taking on six bulls in one afternoon in a feat usually attempted only by seasoned veterans. The average age for matadors in Spain is 25 to 30, and 16 is the minimum age requirement. Jairo Miguel Sanchez Alonso spent about four years fighting in Latin America to escape Spain's age limit. He will fight Saturday here in his home town. The normal format for a bullfight is three matadors taking on two animals each. Aficionados say it is extremely rare for a matador as young as 16 to fight six, a challenge requiring great physical and mental stamina....
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February 06, 2010Munich: Taliban-linked extremism in Afghanistan is blossoming because of Western intervention there and is set to spread to India, Central Asia and Arab states, Iran's foreign minister has warned. Iran is deeply concerned to prevent the spread of the drugs trade and extremism from Afghanistan,...
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February 06, 2010London: Spanish actress Penelope Cruz says she got to know about her Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her role in "Nine" late -- because she recently changed her...
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February 06, 2010Beijing: A US missionary arrived here Saturday after being released by North Korea, which had detained him for crossing into its territory on Christmas Day. Robert...
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February 06, 2010Beirut: Search teams have identified the location of main segments of the Ethiopian Airlines plane that had crashed off the coast of Lebanon last month killing all 90 people on board, the Lebanese transport minister said on Saturday. "We have pinpointed the location of...
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February 06, 2010Washington DC: The more severely obese a person is, the less likely they feel they can reduce their weight, concludes a new study. The Monash University-led study is the first of its kind in Australia. To reach the conclusion, 141 obese Australians were extensively interviewed to try...
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February 06, 2010Filed at 3:44 a.m. ET BEIJING -- Looking pale and drawn, an American missionary was on his way home Saturday after being freed by North Korea, which detained him for illegally crossing its border from China on Christmas Day. Robert Park, his eyes almost closed, made no comment as U.S. consular officials guided him to a transit area after his arrival in Beijing's airport from North Korea. U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Susan Stevenson said Park would leave later in the day for the United States. ''We welcome...
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February 06, 2010Filed at 3:56 a.m. ET SYDNEY -- Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd's ship the Bob Barker and a Japanese harpoon boat collided in the icy waters off Antarctica on Saturday -- the second major clash this year in the increasingly aggressive confrontations between the two sides. No one was reportedly injured in the latest strike. Sea Shepherd said a small hole was torn in the hull of its ship, but it was above the water line and the vessel was not in danger of sinking. Sea Shepherd founder Captain...
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February 06, 2010Filed at 3:40 a.m. ET BEIRUT -- Lebanon's army says search crews have found parts of the Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed...
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February 06, 2010Filed at 3:06 a.m. ET LA PAZ, Bolivia -- After reinventing Bolivia's government to reflect the country's multi-ethnic, Indian majority, President Evo Morales is championing gender parity at the highest levels of government. Women now account for half of Bolivia's Cabinet ministers -- 10 out of 20 -- as Morales embarks on his second term following his Jan. 22 swearing-in ceremony. Announcing the changes, Bolivia's first Indian president called the new arrangement ''fifty-fifty'' -- or ''Chacha Warmi,'' a Quechua-language reference to the indigenous principle of two complementing sexes as the basis of equilibrium in the cosmos. ''We must weave a patchwork of regions, sectors of society...
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February 06, 2010Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd's ship the Bob Barker and a Japanese harpoon boat collided in the icy waters off Antarctica today, the second major clash this year in the increasingly aggressive confrontations between the two sides. No one was reportedly injured in the latest strike. Sea Shepherd said a small hole was torn in the hull of its ship, but it was above the water line and the vessel was not in danger of sinking. Sea Shepherd founder Captain Paul Watson said by satellite telephone that the...
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February 06, 2010Iran officially started production of two new missiles today, state radio said. Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi inaugurated production lines for the Qaem anti-helicopter missile and for the Toofan-5 anti-armour missile, it reported. Iran is embroiled in a dispute with the West over its nuclear...
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February 06, 2010CACERES, Spain - A 16-year-old Spanish matador is taking on six bulls in one afternoon in a feat usually attempted only by seasoned veterans. The average age for matadors in Spain is 25 to 30, and 16 is the minimum age requirement. Jairo Miguel Sanchez Alonso spent about four years fighting in Latin America to escape Spain's age limit. He will fight Saturday here in his home town. The normal format for a bullfight is three matadors taking on two animals each. Aficionados say it is extremely rare for a matador as young as 16 to fight six, a challenge requiring great physical and mental stamina. Recent World stories - February 6, 2010 - Danish special forces disrupted the takeover by pirates...
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February 06, 2010Continued. Read Part I of the article here There are opposing opinions. V. Psalomschikov, an expert on aircraft crashes, and a well-known journalist, stated that the object was manufactured in the USSR, the technology to produce it dates back to 1970's, and that he has similar ultra thin filaments in his possession. However, a Soviet probe would self-destruct immediately, whereas the object reportedly did try to...
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February 06, 2010Munich, Germany – Today Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi, speaking with unusual bluntness in front of 300 leading diplomats – including senior US officials – here in Munich publicly stated that China is getting stronger on the international stage. He said the US was violating international law by a proposed arms sale to Taiwan, offered that China’s TV and radio news service contains “more solid” and reliable news than Western media, and that China is not ready to address sanctions on Iran’s nuclear program, stating instead that the Islamic Republic “has not totally closed the door on the IAEA.” Transatlantic – meet the Pacific. Foreign Minister Yang is the first Chinese official...
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February 06, 2010Singer Dannii Minogue has let out a sigh of relief after being told she would not be delivering twins. The 38-year-old mum-to-be, who is expecting her first child with former...
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February 06, 2010With boy wizard Harry Potter's film franchise about to end next year, much-awaited "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief" is being touted as the next hit fantasy-adventure movie series. Logan Lerman, 18, who plays Percy Jackson, admits he would love his film to be as successful as the Harry Potter wizard series. "Do we want the movie to be as successful as 'Harry Potter' ? Yeah, sure," said Logan during a webcast for the international...
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February 06, 2010Over seven months after his death, Michael Jackson is etched in the hearts of millions of fans - and also in 12 feet of black granite that its maker plans to ship to the late king of pop's Neverland Ranch in California. The statue is drawing curious crowds at the ninth International Granites & Stone Fair being held in the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre , about 20 km from here. "It's a personal tribute to the greatest pop singer of our times! He lives in our hearts as he was on stage for years," R. Chandrasekaran, managing director of RC...
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February 06, 2010Peter Kramer, file FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2009 file photo, Pete Wentz attends the launch party for Vevo, a premium music video and entertainment experience, created by Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and YouTube, in New York. More News Pete Wentz says talk of Fall Out Boy's demise has been blown out of proportion - but he isn't sure when the rock band will performing together again. Earlier this week, lead singer Patrick Stump told Spin.com that the group was done after Wentz tweeted that he didn't see a future for the platinum band. But on Friday, Wentz said band members are just doing things apart and it's not clear where their future lies. "We just haven't had the time to...
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February 06, 2010Colette and I met in our first year...
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February 06, 2010Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen has postponed an upcoming European tour by six months after hurting his lower back while exercising. A statement said his doctors advised the 75-year-old to follow the same...
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February 06, 2010The voice is immediately distinguishable. Think classic country Randy Travis merged with bedroom soulful Barry White. Josh Turner is flattered by the comparisons. And they fit, since he grew up on traditional country music but then gravitated to old-school R&B. Turner's image, casual yet conservative, doesn't match with his penchant for positive love songs such as "Your Man," "Would You Go With Me" and the hit current single, "Why Don't We Just Dance," from his fourth...
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February 06, 2010By David R. Stampone For The Inquirer Has there ever been a bigger sentimental Super Bowl fave than New Orleans this Sunday? Underdogs, sure, but the widespread Saints support also comes from post-Katrina sympathy and overall affection for the Big Easy, so rich in music, always primed to party. Galactic brought the Crescent City funk to the TLA Thursday - rolling and bouncing for more than two hours, exhausting if also nourishing the bobbing crowd. The quintet served up a spicy stylistic stew analogous to the multiple-ingredient soup of their native New Orleans that gives their sixth album its title: . (Galactic was celebrating just getting copies to sell on tour while...
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February 06, 2010By David Patrick Stearns Inquirer Classical Music Critic Very clever, Maestro. Guest conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos assembled just the kind of feel-good concert that audiences need during the dead of winter - with a value-added surprise. On Thursday's start of his second week with the Philadelphia Orchestra, he paired two graphic pieces of musical storytelling, Mendelssohn's incidental music and Rimsky-Korsakov's , and not until the end did you realize the wind writing that begins Mendelssohn's overture is a close cousin to that which ends . Symphonic programs are rarely bookended so neatly. A coincidence? Not with a conductor as...
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February 06, 2010US hotel heiress Paris Hilton's Dubai-based reality TV has got embroiled in law suits over financial obligations. V Producers, an Abu Dhabi based production house, contracted Uniqon Emirates in 2009 to handle the day-to-day production of the filming of the...
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February 06, 2010HACKETTSTOWN, N.J. WHAT is it about New Jersey and buried bodies? While it's nothing new for mobster corpses to turn up in the Meadowlands, a far more curious set of remains has surfaced here, an hour west of New York City: a car buried in Oklahoma in 1957, dug up there in 2007 and then shipped to -- where else? -- New Jersey for cosmetic restoration. The car, a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere, was buried in Tulsa as a vehicular time capsule to commemorate Oklahoma's 50th birthday. The car was put into the earth with much fanfare. The city fathers, in news reports at the time, said they were proud of the care with which they buried the car, confident that it would be in good condition...
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February 06, 2010LOS ANGELES A FEW blocks from the Tesla Motors dealership here is one of California's public charging stations for electric vehicles. But the Tesla Roadster, just the sort of vehicle that planners had in mind when the statewide network was conceived, cannot be charged there. "It's an inductive charging system," Jeremy Snyder, general manager of the Tesla showroom, said of the facility. Translation: the inductive connector is not compatible with the Roadster, whose conductive system uses a plug with metal contacts to carry the electricity that recharges the battery. Dang. Another government program that didn't quite work as planned. Not to worry, the Roadster has a built-in battery charger,...
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February 06, 2010Detroit "SMOOTH and quiet as an electric motor" is a phrase that has been used repeatedly to compliment gasoline and diesel engines that are especially well-mannered. As more hybrid and battery-electric vehicles enter the marketplace, though, the maxim is being transformed. Returning to a role in propelling vehicles that largely disappeared decades ago, electric motors are attracting attention from automakers, who see the need for hybrids and E.V.'s to have personality and character that parallels their brand's image. Electric motors have provided reliable power for everything from kitchen blenders to submarines for so long that they are taken for granted, considered commodity items like the...
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February 06, 2010DELANCO, N.J. ABOUT 12 years ago, David Clelland, who supervises underground electrical repair crews for a utility company, decided to get serious about classic-car restoration. He built a three-car garage behind his house here in suburban Philadelphia. Mr. Clelland had worked on cars nearly all his life, starting with a 1960s Ford van that he bought from a neighbor for $50 and pushed across the street. "I had to get it running so I could drive it," he said. Other cars followed, including a 1969 Buick Gran Sport and a 1960 Chrysler Saratoga, but the garage changed everything. "It allowed me to build concours-level cars," Mr. Clelland, 46, said. Concours d'élégance competitions...
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February 06, 2010Garage, funky, bassline ... put 'em all together and you get Hot Chip You may have noticed that, as of last week, our podcast has had a bit of a makeover. Alexis Petridis is in the presenter's chair, and we've got more live sessions and new features in the pipeline. But that doesn't mean we won't still be doing what we do best...
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February 06, 2010TOKYO - The number of house marketing firms using the Internet has been steadily increasing. This is because an increasing number of people, especially younger generations, are accustomed to online sales...
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February 06, 2010Killswitch Engage’s spasm-inducing metalcore often tackles such bleak topics as shattered relationships, despair and inner turmoil. But onstage, the band rumbles, roars and riots with reckless aplomb and a party vibe that makes you feel like you’re watching your best friend’s group play a kegger. With a massive stage set complete with steel risers, ramps, eye-popping lights and state-of-the-art LED...
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February 06, 2010LIL' WAYNE "Rebirth" It's not as easy to rock as Lil' Wayne thinks it is, as his oft-delayed "rock" record "Rebirth" painfully proves. For a rapper who can cut to the quick and shine with only the sparest of accompaniment, too much of "Rebirth" is bloated with Weezy noodling needlessly on his guitar the way many kids do when they first learn to play. What makes "Rebirth" even more maddening than when he gets everything wrong -- as he does in the faux-Evanescence "Runnin'"' or the overindulgent "American Star" -- is when Wayne gets everything right. "Knockout" sounds like an ambitious update of Prince's great "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" that kicks into a...
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February 06, 2010It’s the comeback that was bound to happen - “Dreamgirls [],” the Motown musical with the diva pipes so big, it can’t be put down. First came Michael Bennett’s 1981 Broadway production, and many iterations later, Bill Condon’s 2006 film. Now we have Robert Longbottom’s touring revival, a version that comes with a flashy LED-lighted set and a bright new bunch of giant-voiced performers. But aside from a few truly show-stopping moments, Longbottom’s production is all glitter and no spark. Though...
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February 06, 2010SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft said on Friday that Bing will power Internet searches for Facebook's 400 million members in an arrangement that returns control of display advertising to the...
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February 06, 2010Wyclef Jean has been a dynamo in his support for earthquake relief in his home...
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February 06, 2010SAN FRANCISCO – Google has gone techno-chic, debuting fashion designs inspired by the Internet giant. An "old-fashioned magnifying glass pendant" priced at 200 dollars was for sale online at along with a 300-dollar knit scarf in the firm's trademark colors...
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February 06, 2010LOS ANGELES – Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen has postponed an upcoming European tour by six months after hurting his lower back while exercising, his representatives said Friday. A statement said his doctors advised...
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February 06, 2010BRISBANE, Australia – Touring professionals Down Under fear that new alcohol licensing regulations could strangle the vital pub/club scene in Australia's live music capital, Melbourne. Hefty increases in late-night licensing fees on top of costly security requirements for pubs and clubs rolled out last year have already claimed one high-profile casualty, the 330-capacity Tote Hotel, which shuttered January 18 after 27 years. "The Tote was always like our CBGB," Sydney-based EMI Music Australia A&R manager Glenn Dickie says. Jet, the Hoodoo Gurus and Silverchair all played the Tote, as did international acts like the White Stripes and Mudhoney. Such pub venues...
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February 06, 2010Love sushi? Can't afford the high prices of this seafood meal? Is the recession making you eliminate Japanese restaurants from your list? Try making it at home. It's a great dinner idea to share with friends, neighbors and family. Making the sushi and watching each other brings a ton of camaraderie in sharing treasured rolling techniques, sushi dishes and ingredients. The host can offer to make the sushi rice, purchase large quantities of seaweed wrappers and make the side dishes. Guests can bring the sushi-grade fish. A list of retailers in Colorado can be found at the bottom of this article. Check out cook books from the library about sushi making as a guide to...
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February 06, 2010DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Here's something you haven't read in a while: Dale Earnhardt Jr. is in first place. OK, so it was only two laps. And it was a rain-shortened practice at Daytona International Speedway -- the place where Earnhardt is, well, kind of good. Still, in a season in which Earnhardt is facing a new round of intensifying questions about his lack of on-track success, it's better to be fast than slow, even if it doesn't count toward...
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February 06, 2010For a few minutes, at least, Danica Patrick had the fastest qualifying time for her Daytona debut. It didn't last very long. Patrick briefly held pole position early in Friday's ARCA qualifying session, eventually falling to 12th as other drivers posted faster speeds. The IndyCar star will make her widely anticipated stock car debut...
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February 06, 2010 SET EXPANDS HIS 1967 DEBUT ALBUM WITH 12 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED RECORDINGS, STEREO DEBUTS, RARITIES AND THE ALBUM'S MONO MIX UNAVAILABLE FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The most overlooked album of David Bowie's career, his self-titled 1967 debut -- which even he has rarely commented about since its release -- finally receives its due attention with the two-CD David Bowie -- Deluxe Edition , released February 9, 2010. Containing the first CD issue of the original album's...
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February 06, 2010JENNIFER KAY The Associated Press MIAMI - Nearly a month after a devastating earthquake, shock gave way Friday night to a celebration of Haitian culture and pride. Wyclef Jean opened the "SOS Saving OurSelves , Help for Haiti" concert and telethon with the Haitian Creole phrase for "It's all good." "I want to welcome you all to Haiti," the singer and producer told the cheering crowd, before continuing to rap in the language of his Caribbean homeland. His performance began two hours of pleas for donations and pledges of unity with earthquake victims just 700 miles from the AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami. Haiti didn't seem that far away. Former President Bill Clinton said he took the stage...
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February 06, 2010Stars from Chris Brown and Mary J. Blige to Ludacris and Diddy came to Miami's American Airlines Arena for BET's "SOS Save Ourselves. Help for Haiti"...
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February 06, 2010Queen Latifah, Pharrell and Diddy...
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February 06, 2010MEXICO CITY -- Mexico already has many of its monuments on UNESCO's list of protected sites. Now the government is asking for international recognition for the country's cuisine. U.N. officials will decide in April or May whether to add Mexico's food to the organization's list of intangible cultural patrimony, Mexican cuisine expert Gloria Lopez said Friday. She said the methods of preparing traditional tamales and salsas should be protected as much as Mexico's recognized physical heritage, such as the pre-Hispanic city around the pyramids of Teotihuacan or Mexico City's historic center of colonial buildings and remnants of ancient structures. "They are pure culture, pure wisdom about life,"...
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February 06, 2010DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Denny Hamlin came to Daytona International Speedway in 2004 with the ultimate all-access badge. An Internet racing buddy of NASCAR’s biggest personality, Hamlin spent much of Speedweeks lounging around Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s motor coach – although he also would speak with Joe Gibbs about eventually signing with his Cup team – and finished it in Victory Lane. Somewhere there’s a photograph of a 23-year-old Hamlin, several pounds heavier, celebrating Earnhardt’s victory in the Daytona 500. Hamlin returned to Daytona two years later as a rookie for Joe Gibbs Racing and announced his arrival with a stunning victory in the Budweiser Shootout...
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February 06, 2010DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Here's something you haven't read in a while: Dale Earnhardt Jr. is in first place. OK, so it was only two laps. And it was a rain-shortened practice at Daytona International Speedway - the place where Earnhardt is, well, kind of good. Still, in a season in which Earnhardt is facing a new round of intensifying questions about his lack of on-track success, it's better to be fast than slow even if it doesn't count toward anything. Earnhardt led two of his Hendrick Motorsports teammates to the top of the speed chart in Friday's abbreviated practice session, and it could be the first sign that he's back on the right track after the worst season of his career. "His heart...
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February 06, 2010DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – It was only two laps. It didn’t pay a dime or a point. In fact, the practice session was cut short by rain. Yet Dale Earnhardt Jr. still had the fastest car in Friday’s first practice session for the Daytona 500. And coming off the worst season of his Sprint Cup Series career, that has to count for something. Earnhardt posted a lap at 188.679 mph to lead a field of 46 cars that were able to get onto the 2.5-mile Daytona International Speedway before rain halted the session. Eight teams that never got on track will have a half-hour practice session beginning at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Qualifying that will set the front row for the Daytona 500 field is set for...
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February 06, 2010DENVER — Steel workers and Coke and Pepsi bottlers have lined up to oppose a package of tax hikes to balance the state...
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February 06, 2010Technology » Internet giant raises stakes by asking spy agency to probe cyberattacks. Combined News ServicesUpdated: 02/05/2010 06:06:00 PM MST Click photo to enlargeFILE - In this Jan. 15, 2010 file photo, a Chinese Google user presents flowers in front of a Google sign outside Google China's headquarters in Beijing, China. Google's accusation that its e-mail accounts were hacked from China landed like a bombshell because it cast light on a problem few companies will discuss: the pervasive threat from China-based cyberattacks. Beijing » Google's accusation that its e-mail accounts were hacked from China landed like a bombshell because it cast...
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February 06, 2010"Marvel Heartbreakers" tells four stories of love and loss — just in time for Valentine’s Day. The Marvel Comics special is set for release this week. Some of the stories have appeared online at , but it’s the first time for them to see print. "Marvel Heartbreakers" is the brainchild of editor Michael Horwitz. "I was raised on a healthy diet of Betty and Veronica comics, so you could say I’m a sucker for a good tearjerker,"...
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February 06, 2010During his lecture on the opening day of the American Red Cross Designers' Show House in West Palm Beach, decorator Michael S. Smith kept largely mum about his most prominent clients, President and Michelle Obama, who commissioned him a year ago to redo their living quarters in the White House. Because it's a private residence, Smith said, he wouldn't discuss specifics of the project in public until the Obamas did so first - and so far, they haven't done so. "One of the greatest things is that it's private - and it gets to be private," said Smith. It's the same discretion-conscious approach, he...
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February 06, 2010Palm Beach celebrated the presentation of the Golden Globe awards in style Jan. 17 when 110 guests gathered at Trevini Ristorante to watch the awards broadcast. Arriving guests...
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February 06, 2010DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- For a few minutes, at least, Danica Patrick had the fastest qualifying time for her Daytona debut. It didn't last very long. Patrick briefly held pole position early in Friday's ARCA qualifying session, eventually falling to 12th as other drivers posted faster speeds. The IndyCar star will make her widely anticipated stock car debut Saturday -- and, as her crew chief noted, at least she's starting close enough to the front to see the pace car. "Now it's just time to think about how the heck I am going to run this race," Patrick said. For fans and fellow competitors, it will be the first real chance to see whether Patrick has the potential to replicate her...
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February 06, 2010DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The famed No. 3 is returning to Daytona International Speedway, and without an Earnhardt behind the wheel. Austin Dillon, a grandson of Richard Childress, is bringing one of NASCAR's most prominent numbers back to the sport's most storied track. Dillon will race a black No. 3 in next week's Camping World Truck Series season opener at Daytona. He will be the second to drive a car with the number that essentially has been retired since Dale Earnhardt's death on the final lap of the 2001 Daytona 500. Dale Earnhardt Jr. drove a blue No. 3 Chevrolet in the Nationwide race in February 2002, and took it to Victory Lane. The 20-year-old Dillon knows the history of the...
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February 06, 2010DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Kyle Busch is getting married. Busch says he asked girlfriend Samantha Sarcinella to marry him on Thursday night at Daytona International Speedway. It was the first night at...
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February 06, 2010DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The talk is over, the anticipation is winding down and the start of the 2010 NASCAR season is finally upon us. As we roll into Daytona for the officially beginning of stock car racing's Speedweeks activities, here are five major stories to watch unfold during the 52nd February gathering at "The World Center of Racing." Daytona Danica Danica qualifies 12th for the ARCA race, her first NASCAR-sanctioned event. Perhaps you heard the rumor about Danica Patrick making a transition from open wheel to stock car racing this year? It's been pretty hard to steer clear of the story that has been going on for nearly eight months, and Patrick gets her...
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February 06, 2010SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft said Friday that Bing will power Internet searches for Facebook's 400 million members in an arrangement that returns control of display advertising to the...
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February 06, 2010An Indian national pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy and aggravated identity-theft charges related to an international fraud scheme to hack into online brokerage accounts in the U.S. and use them to manipulate stock prices, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Jaisankar Marimuthu, 35, a native of...
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February 06, 2010Western governments are facing a potent and ill-understood new threat from terrorists and hostile powers in the shape of cyber warfare, military and security experts have warned. Network attacks, a British government report says, are "growing in seriousness and frequency". And in a timely reminder of the emphasis that states and corporations alike are placing on the problem, Google and the National Security Agency were yesterday said to be finalising the details of a co-operative deal aimed at boosting the search engine's defences after it was hit by sophisticated hacking attacks. The company has stated that it will pull out of its business operations in China where the targeted...
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February 06, 2010Shankar Bennur Accreditation to be given to those offering wellness services It will be given in categories of gold and silver...
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February 06, 2010Martin Amis's new novel shows a regathering of his artistic energies Photograph: Slim Aarons/Getty Images "First it was all moral patterning. And felt life. Then it was all drugs and fucks. Now it's all tits and arses." This pithily reductive progress report on 's new novel is spoken by a character in it, summing up not only her student boyfriend's increasingly boisterous approach to Eng lit, but also, The Pregnant Widow suggests, the unintended consequences of a cultural revolution. She's speaking in 1970 – the year, as the narrator notes elsewhere, of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch and Kate Millett's Sexual Politics. Later in the decade, though not noted by the narrator, there will be...
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February 06, 2010Jack Yeats , Irish impressionist painter, cartoonist and brother of poet William Butler Yeats. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images In his short poem "The Last", Thomas Kinsella catches a late glimpse of two towering figures in Dublin – the political leader Eamon de Valera and the painter Jack Yeats. "Standing stone still on the path, with a...
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February 06, 2010When he was found hanged in his shed at the age of 46 – or was it 44? – Arshile Gorky, a master or reinvention, was perhaps the greatest painter in America. His death left the field open for his rival Jackson Pollock, says William Feaver Detail from Garden in Sochi, 1941, by Arshile Gorky. Photograph: © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London/Museum of Modern Art, New York/Scala, Florence Jackson Pollock was carrying on one night at Jack the Oysterman's fish restaurant on Eighth Street, blasting the lot of them, the art crowd partying there after Willem de Kooning's first solo show. But who to yell at particularly? Who needed harpooning most? Spotting Gorky – Arshile Gorky – standing...
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February 06, 2010The enlightenment, ethics and 'the flying crapper' In Defence of the Enlightenment, by Tzvetan Todorov, translated by Gila Walker The Enlightenment is a more nuanced set of ideas than is often supposed; as Todorov emphasises here, "the thinking was multiple, not one". Hume and Rousseau did not share Turgot and Lessing's "faith in a mechanical march to perfection"; indeed, the notion that this idea was central is one of many "distortions" of the period. Nor did the Enlightenment engender the industrialised killing of the 20th century; and "scientism" (the idea that the world is completely knowable, and that such knowledge...
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February 06, 2010We should let in a little daylight on our nightmares, says Kathryn Hughes You will find every kind of monster lurking within these densely-packed 350 pages. There are two headed-babies, mythical mermaids, a giant, detached mouth, not to mention that horrible thing that bursts out of John Hurt's torso in Alien. In a dizzying if not entirely coherent book, Stephen Asma is determined to look unblinkingly at the creatures that lurk on the edges of our consciousness, those sticky slitherers and orange-tusked grunters which hide in wardrobes or in the deep end of the swimming pool, just waiting to pull us down from our well-lit lives into murky mayhem....
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February 06, 2010Alex Clark is captivated by Andrea Levy's tale of the end of slavery To what extent does the telling of a tale belong to its teller, and how much responsibility does he or she have to their audience? The opening pages of Andrea Levy's fifth novel suggest that when we encourage someone to tell their story, we should be prepared to surrender to their voice, however capricious it may be; the subsequent narrative counters with the idea that this might be easier said than done. "The tale herein is all my mama's endeavour," writes Thomas Kinsman, a Jamaican publisher, introducing the book that he has encouraged his mother to write partly as a way of diverting her constant attempts to speak her...
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February 06, 2010Sean O'Brien on an Irish enigma Although she has long been famous in Ireland, it is perhaps only in the last 10 years or so that Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin has begun to receive due recognition in Britain. Ní Chuilleanáin's work often eludes categories but it might be said that she is a storyteller before she is a moralist, and one who both invites and challenges the reader to accept the primacy of imaginative life. The narrator of "The Polio Epidemic" recalls being allowed out by her father to deliver a message by bike: "I sliced through miles of air, / Free as a plague angel...
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February 06, 2010Would you trust an off licence employee who said he was trying to crack an gang of international jewel thieves? Yes, I probably would, writes Sam Wollaston I'm wondering if I would have fallen for it. My new boyfriend has an awful lot of money for someone who just works in the off licence up the road. Which is lovely, because he takes me out for very expensive meals and on lovely skiing holidays, buys £300 bottles of...
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February 06, 2010Was Roberto Bolaño really the saviour of Spanish-language fiction asks Alberto Manguel Roberto Bolaño: a skilful writer, generous in his praise of others. Photograph: Mathieu Bourgois When died in 2003, aged 50, he could not have suspected that, a couple of years later, he would be hailed worldwide as both the prophet and redeemer of Spanish-language . Prophet, his hagiographers declared, because his early books, which had come and gone unnoticed by critics and readers alike, prepared the way for a new kind of novel; redeemer, these same enthusiasts said, because Bolaño himself effected the change in his last books, notably 2666, which was hailed by the New York Times as "a landmark in...
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February 06, 2010Johnny Dee imagines what happened after the photographer snapped those classic album shots On the hook... Nirvana's Nevermind cover Stefan Gates has a claim to fame that he shares with a woman who covered herself in whipped cream, dozens of babies and several siamese twins: he's appeared nude on a classic album cover. In Stefan's case it was the sleeve to Led Zep's 1973 Houses Of The Holy, which features him aged four, and his sister Samantha, naked and climbing up the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland. On Radio 4's , Gates reveals how the image haunted him, that he's never heard...
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February 06, 2010What happens to children when all attempts to keep them within a 'normal' family setting fail? Amelia Gentleman visits a children's home and meets a few of the thousands of youngsters growing up in these hidden institutions In my room: Christie, one of the girls who lives in the home, tidies up her belongings. Photograph: Steve Peake In an unguarded moment, and perhaps without meaning to, Robert offers an insight into the intense disruption he has experienced throughout his life when he remarks that the 's home where he has spent the last six months is the best place he has ever lived. He says he sees the staff as replacement parents and the two other boys and two girls who live there with...
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February 06, 2010Membership of the Wine Society may cost £40, but for the wines it has on offer that's something of a bargain "Can't speak," I texted my brother. "I'm about to be picked up by someone from ." "That's an alcoholic line if ever I heard one," he texted back. Fair point. The WS's 90,000 active members don't just like to drink, though. They like to drink well, as a rummage through the warehouse at its Stevenage HQ demonstrates. There are several un-surprises: a slew of the society's own labels,...
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February 06, 2010What does the death of three-year-old Tiffany Wright reveal about the growing problem of child neglect? 'The crime scene was everything in this case,' said the police officer in charge about the room in which Tiffany Wright died, 'and it was the worst I have witnessed.' Photograph: South Yorkshire Police The 999 call came in just after midnight. With Saturday sliding into Sunday, the streets of Sheffield ricocheted with the sounds of boozy bravado. On the line was the landlady of the Scarbrough Arms, a quiet pub in Upperthorpe, a nondescript suburb off the inner ring road. Her name was Sabrina Hirst and she was calling about Tiffany, her three-year-old daughter, who had collapsed and...
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February 06, 2010It has been a long three and a half weeks since Google made the dramatic announcement that it will no longer censor its search results in China, even if that means exiting that huge Internet market. The decision, Google said, was prompted by its discovery that a China-originated attack let malicious hackers steal Google intellectual property and partially break into the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. At the time, human rights and free speech activists applauded the decision, and held Google up as an example for other Internet companies to follow. However,...
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