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Faceless 'aliens' spotted in crowd at Wimbledon
News – With the blankest of blank expressions on their faces, these mysterious figures have been popping up in the most unlikely of places. Nobody knows who the faceless figures, who often appear as motionless couples…
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How Jesse Helms Made a Difference
Politics – Jesse Helms was a defiant conservative who rescued Reagan's political career, John Fund writes. If Ronald Reagan was the sunny and optimistic face of modern conservatism, the uncompromisingly defiant exemplar of…
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The 'Right' to 'Own' Knowledge
Science – Two people on opposite sides of the world have exactly the same idea at the same time. Which one of those two people would be most morally justified in claiming to own the exclusive rights to that idea? Should it…
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Moderate earthquake jolts Japan; no injuries
News – Japan's Meteorological Agency says a moderately strong earthquake has jolted the Tokyo area.
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America's Birthday Party
News – The nation's largest fireworks display exploded in a spectrum of color over the East River, temporarily stealing the spotlight from New York's world-famous skyline and helping to create a brilliant end to a day…
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No Retreat: If you Want to Win, Stop the War! Barack at…
Politics – Tom Hayden: Call him slippery or nuanced, Barack Obama's core position on Iraq has always been more ambiguous than audacious. Now it is catching up with him as his latest remarks are questioned by the Republicans,…
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10 Taliban killed while planting bomb
News – Gunmen in a dangerous part of southern Afghanistan assassinated an Afghan lawmaker, while a roadside bomb militants were planting detonated prematurely, killing 10 Taliban, officials said Saturday.
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The Problem With Identi.ca Is That It Is Not Twitter
Gadgets & Tech – The launch of Twitter clone Identi.ca earlier this week caused a bit of a blogstorm because it appears to have a solution to Twitter's all-too-regular downtime. (That problem has reached comical proportions, with…
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A-Rod steps out, Cynthia steps up
Celebrities – Shellshocked Cynthia Rodriguez was hanging tough in Paris Friday as her estranged husband and his rumored gal pal Madonna went to work - separately - on the Fourth of July.
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2 supervisors at raided meatpacking plant arrested
News – Two supervisors at an Iowa meatpacking plant that was raided by federal immigration agents in May were arrested and charged with encouraging people to live in the United States illegally.
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Gordon Brown's 'deeply gloomy' taste in art revealed
Art & Design – As if times were not grim enough for our sleepless Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has now revealed the works of art which he hangs on the walls of his office and flat at 10 Downing Street.
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India's Rich Get the Personal Touch
Money – Like the wealthy anywhere else, affluent Indians love to buy luxurious cars, clothes, and accessories. They also want exceptional service
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Cremated remains part of fireworks show
Do No Evil – One of the fireworks bursting above the city this year will contain a bit of cremated remains Ã;¢ââ;;¬" a fitting tribute, organizers say, to the man who ran the annual event for 40 years.
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Study: Most Self-Abuse Goes Unreported
Humor – THE ONION RADIO NEWS : With Doyle Redland reporting - According to a study by the University of Colorado Sociology Department, approximately 95% of self-abuse cases go unreported.
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Afghan official: US strikes kill 22 civilians
News – The U.S. military said airstrikes by its attack helicopters hit two vehicles carrying insurgents in eastern Afghanistan. The province's governor said 22 civilians, including a woman and a child, were killed.
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Italian Spiderman - Episode 4
Popular Videos – ALRUGO Entertainment joyously presents Episode 4 of Italian Spiderman. Ready for science? Who isn't? Join Italian Spiderman on a lab-tastic journey and beware Captain Maximum!
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Hands-free headsets live up to the task at hand
Gadgets & Tech – Wireless Bluetooth headsets remind me of early seat belts.
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Analysis: HP licenses imaging IP for camera phones
Gadgets & Tech – Late last year Hewlett Packard announced that it was exiting the digital camera market, citing a lack of growth in that business sector. But just because HP has quit the camera business doesn't mean it's abandoning…
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Digital Pens to Write on Any Paper
Gadgets & Tech – Two new digital pens don't need special paper to write on.
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Ask.com closes Dictionary.com deal
Gadgets & Tech – Ask.com, the fourth-ranked search engine, has completed its acquisition of Lexico Publishing Group, which owns Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com.
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Iran remains a threat to Israel's very existence
Do No Evil – Amid the winks and nudges about a reduction of tension between America and Iran, it should not be forgotten that Tehran's policy, enunciated most forcefully by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is the destruction of…
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The century of cheap energy is behind us
Money – The century of cheap energy is behind us - in the future we are all going to have to work longer and harder to pay for it.
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The issue of bankers' pay cannot be ignored
Money – Such are the miseries galloping through western economies at the moment that talk of regulatory reform of the global financial sector inevitably sounds like stable doors slamming. And it is true that no reform our…
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It's always the poor who suffer from sanctions
Do No Evil – Sanctions are pretty blunt instruments, rarely effective and having many unintended effects, some of them wickedly cruel. We should ponder that as Britain, the U.S. and the EU muse on the next stage in isolating…
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The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global…
Books – Are empires as dominant today as they have ever been? It's an ambitious claim, but it's easy to quibble with this work's conclusions, says Niall Ferguson
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