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Money – The world had long assumed that Americans were just unrepentant energy pigs. If gas prices went up, well, we kept our Explorers aimed at the horizon, and little changed.
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Voted for on July 03, 2008 10:36am
Gadgets & Tech – Companies seeking to install utility-scale solar plants on federal land in the sunny Southwest found one barrier removed on Wednesday.
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Voted for on July 02, 2008 09:50pm
Do No Evil – On July 2, 1776, Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, signed only by Charles Thompson (the secretary of Congress) and John Hancock (the presiding officer). Two days later Congress approved the revised version and ordered it to be printed and distributed to the states and military officers. The other signatures would have to wait.
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Voted for on July 02, 2008 07:34pm
Money – This community may be an extreme example of how rising gas prices are hitting rural Americans particularly hard, but people in small towns from Maine to Alaska are in a similar bind as those here.
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Voted for on July 02, 2008 07:33pm
News – The head of the foundation building the Sept. 11 memorial told supporters Tuesday it's "essential" to open the memorial by the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, disputing a report that the project couldn't be finished on time.
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Voted for on July 02, 2008 07:33pm
News – Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe is officially sworn in as president after a sharply criticized runoff vote that was boycotted by his only rival, Morgan Tsvangirai
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Voted for on July 02, 2008 07:32pm
News – A former death row inmate was freed from a Nashville prison on Wednesday for the first time in nearly 23 years after an anonymous donor paid his bail. Paul House, 46, is set to be retried in October in the 1985 slaying of Carolyn Muncey.
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Voted for on July 02, 2008 07:32pm
Gadgets & Tech – .Mac subscribers who want to keep any bookmarks they've saved through the online service should sync those bookmarks with their Mac by July 6, Apple said Wednesday. The warning came as part of Apple's transition from .Mac to the new MobileMe online service.
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Voted for on July 02, 2008 07:29pm
Gadgets & Tech – Dell shares rose as high as 4.5 percent Wednesday, following reports that founder Michael Dell acquired nearly $100 million in shares in the computer maker.
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Voted for on July 02, 2008 07:26pm
Gadgets & Tech – Ahh, the power of marketing. Mozilla has announced that they've officially been added to the Guinness World Records for most downloads in a 24-hour period. The final tally: 8,002,530 downloads of Firefox 3 back on June 18th.
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Voted for on July 02, 2008 07:21pm
Gadgets & Tech – The longer the Federal Communications Commission waits to make up its mind on the proposed Sirius/XM merger, the more filings it will have to consider on the controversy.
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(arstechnica.com)
Voted for on July 02, 2008 04:49pm
Gadgets & Tech – A new study suggests that attitude rather than availability may be the key reason why more Americans don't have high-speed Internet access.
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Voted for on July 02, 2008 04:45pm
Gadgets & Tech – Adobe Systems' popular portable document format, or PDF as it's more well-known, has become the latest International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard as of Wednesday morning.
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Voted for on July 02, 2008 04:43pm
Gadgets & Tech – Microsoft has loosened the hardware restrictions that PC makers must adhere to in order to install Windows XP on ultra-low-cost PCs, according to documents seen by IDG News Service.
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(infoworld.com)
Voted for on July 02, 2008 04:09pm
Gadgets & Tech – For the first time, more people around the world are signing up for fiber-optic broadband service than for cable Internet service, according to a British research firm.
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(usatoday.com)
Voted for on July 02, 2008 03:32pm