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Iraq PM did NOT back Obama troop exit plan: government

Politics – Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki did not back the plan of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq and his comments to a German magazine on the issue were misunderstood, the government's spokesman said on Sunday.

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Why Democrats Love the Pickens Plan

Politics – When anyone invests $300 million dollars into promoting alternative energy sources, the Democrats usually take notice. When that person is an oil tycoon, brother of a "Bush Pioneer", and someone who was a major contributor to the 2004 Swift Boat ads, that person gets an invitation from Nancy Pelosi to speak before the House Democratic Ca

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The First Negative Review of The Dark Knight
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The First Negative Review of The Dark Knight

Movies – Everyone I've talked to who has seen the film thinks its nothing short of brilliant. But it was bound to happen eventually, the first negative review of The Dark Knight has hit the web.

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Laugh at High Gas Prices With a 282-MPG VW

Autos – With gas prices going through the roof and regulators requiring cars to be ever more miserly, Volkswagen is bringing new meaning to the term "fuel efficiency" with a bullet-shaped microcar that gets a stunning 282 mpg.

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Big tech companies band together to fight patent trolls

Gadgets & Tech – Fed up with patent holding companies suing them, a consortium of high-tech companies is taking a different approach: beat them to the punch. According to The Wall Street Journal (subscription), the business heavyweights behind the move include Google, Verizon, Cisco, and Hewlett-Packard.

View Story Discuss (1) (arstechnica.com) 24 days ago by 123_xyz

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7 Features we'd like to see in Firefox 3
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7 Features we'd like to see in Firefox 3

Gadgets & Tech – Now, we love Firefox 3 - we really, really do, but the problem is it just doesn't have all the options we want. So we thought we'd list a few features we want to see them implement before the next release.

View Story Discuss (2) (popfail.com) 33 days ago by DiffeeOnline

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$2.75 Cigarette Tax Hike Quadrupals Calls to Smoker's Quitline

Health & Fitness – The number of calls to the state's Smoker's Quitline quadrupled to nearly 10,000 calls during the week of June 2, when the full $2.75-a-pack tax kicked in, New York Health Commissioner Dr. Richard Daines said. Fewer than 2,300 people called for help during the same week in 2007.

View Story Discuss (2) (time.com) 38 days ago by DiffeeOnline

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China Reveals Restrictions on Olympic Visitors
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China Reveals Restrictions on Olympic Visitors

Sports – Visitors to China for the Olympics may not bring in "anything detrimental to China." This includes documents on freedom and human rights, other documents, videos, CDs movies and the like.

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Bill Gates Produces 10,000 Times More Carbon Than Average People
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Bill Gates Produces 10,000 Times More Carbon Than Average People

Science – Bill Gates, specifically chosen for the study, has a carbon footprint about 10,000 times the average. Of course, he also has produced a great deal of wealth and growth for the world. In general, the researchers found that as income rises, so do emissions.

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Obama says he would impose oil windfall profits tax

Politics – Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Monday he would impose a windfall profits tax on U.S. oil companies as he sought political gain from Americans' pain over high gasoline prices.

View Story Discuss (25) (reuters.com) 45 days ago by DiffeeOnline

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How Obama Did It

Politics – "That, I think, was probably one of the biggest surprises of the campaign, just how powerfully our message merged with the social networking and the power of the Internet."

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Kennedy to have brain surgery Monday

Health & Fitness – Sen. Edward Kennedy announced Monday he will undergo surgery to treat a malignant brain tumor.

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Is Bush Becoming Irrelevant?

Politics – When loyalists defect and seek to profit from that defection, it is usually a sign of a failing presidency. And, indeed, events suggest that history is passing Bush by.

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Teacher arrested on drug, gun charges

Do No Evil – Fullerton police have arrested a teacher at Sunny Hills High School after discovering illicit drugs and an unloaded shotgun in his car in the school parking lot.

View Story Discuss (54) (latimes.com) 57 days ago by DiffeeOnline

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Top Things You Should Never Loan Your Friends
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Top Things You Should Never Loan Your Friends

Do-It-Yourself – "Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loseth both itself and friend." True when Shakespeare wrote it, still true today. Stuff you should never lend out, and some tips on how to get the stuff back.

View Story Discuss (15) (cosmoloan.com) 58 days ago by nightcrawlerX

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