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News – Japan's government ordered changes to seven history textbooks that said the country's army forced civilians to commit mass suicide at the end of World War II, amid moves by Tokyo to soften brutal accounts of its wartime conduct.
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News – A fund set up by Japan to help Asian women forced into prostitution by its military during World War II will expire Saturday amid new denials from Tokyo that the government is to blame for putting thousands into sexual slavery. The Asian Women's Fund was created by Japan in 1995 to aid what are euphemistically known as "comfort women." B
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Books – It's selling like an elixir that promises everything but eternal life. Rhonda Byrne's book tops USA TODAY's best-seller list for the seventh consecutive week, and the companion DVD is No. 1 on Amazon's sales chart. It has captured wallets and water coolers like nothing else since Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown suggested Jesus was a daddy
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Books – Cormac McCarthy's 2006 novel The Road is Oprah Winfrey's 57th book club selection, the talk show host announced Wednesday. "It will not disappoint. It's mysterious - it's post-apocalyptic, it's very unusual for me to select this book. It is so extraordinarily haunting and inspiring," Winfrey said. "This story about a father and young
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Health & Fitness – If you do a Google search for isotretinoin, also known as Accutane, a new Food and Drug Administration website is apt to figure high among your hits. The site warns consumers about the risks of buying the highly potent prescription acne medication and its generic versions-Amnesteem, Claravis, and Sotret-over the Internet. FDA officials were prompte
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Politics – A mundane trip manifest of reporters who traveled to Latin America with President Bush has turned colossally controversial because the White House mistakenly included personal ID info on the E-mail sent to news bureaus and accountants. The key ingredients of identity theft-Social Security and passport numbers and dates of birth-were included in the
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News – President George W Bush has condemned Iran's "inexcusable behaviour" after its capture of 15 Royal Navy personnel.
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News – At least 45.7 million credit and debit card numbers from customers in the United States, Britain and Canada were stolen over a period of several years from the computers of TJX, the discount retail giant disclosed in a regulatory filing this week.
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News – Three people were shot during an attempted robbery at a shopping mall Saturday, police said. One person was critically wounded.
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News – The U.S. military is so short of equipment that it will take years after the war in Iraq ends to bring it up to normal levels, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Peter Pace acknowledged. "It will take end of war plus two years to work off the backlog," said one of Pace's latest testimony to the Congress which was quoted by Friday's online edi
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News – It's the coldest of cold cases, and yet it keeps warming to life. Seventy years after Amelia Earhart disappeared, clues are still turning up. Long-dismissed notes taken of a shortwave distress call beginning, "This is Amelia Earhart...," are getting another look. The previously unknown diary of an Associated Press reporter reveals a new
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News – Two Malaysian dogs trained to sniff out DVDs have made their second big discovery of pirated movies, leading investigators to a hidden stash worth more than $430,000, a local newspaper said on Sunday.
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Do-It-Yourself – Here's a cool little DIY on how to run an AVR MCU on battery made out of lime!
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Popular Videos – Spring is here and love, love, love is in the air!
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Travel – Check out this cool Alcatraz cam you can move around and see stuff near Alcatraz!
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