Archive for July, 2006
Thursday, July 27th, 2006
A top Iranian envoy was in Syria on Thursday for talks on the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict, in a gathering of the Lebanese guerrilla's two key sponsors, according to Iranian news reports. Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah was taking part in the session, according to Kuwait's Al-Siyassah newspaper, known for its ...
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
This advertisement from Mont Blac indeed reflects a fantastic piece of creativity that highlights the sustaining power of expression of ink in the wake of computing revolution.Link
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Israel pummeled south Lebanon with bombs and shells on Thursday and Israeli media said Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's cabinet favored heavier air strikes against Hizbollah guerrillas rather than a big ground offensive.Link
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Israel is reportedly using artillery-fired cluster munitions in the civilian area of Lebanon. Researchers of Human Rights Watch have confirmed that a cluster munitions attack was carried out on the village Blida killing 19 civilians. Cluster munitions should not be used in a populated area, as it is quite lethal.Link
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Richard Jewell pauses during his interview with the Associated Press in Atlanta, on July 22. Since the Olympics, Jewell has worked in various law enforcement jobs, including as a police officer in Pendergrass, Ga., where his partner was killed in 2004 while pursuing a suspect.Link
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Big Dig tunnels were closed for several days for inspections and repairs after ceiling panels fell, killing 38-year-old Milena Del Valle as she and her husband drove through the tunnel July 10 on their way to the airport.Link
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Ayman al-Zawahri, considered Al-Qaida's No. 2, weighed in on the conflict in Israel and Lebanon in a message aired Thursday.Link
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
As we said in our previous article India-US Nuclear Deal: Still Long Way to Go,, there are more steps ahead to get final approval from the US Congress on the nuclear bill. Hence, the first barrier is crossed. Link
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Jaswant Singh claimed in his book, �A call To Honour’ that a mole was working in the PMO during the regime of PV Narsimha Rao government and was leaking nuclear secrets to the US.Link
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
�A Call to Honour’ is the book, which shook Indian politics. Mumbai Mirror has published some parts of the book that recollect the horrible memories of IC-814 hijacking. Here you may find some parts of the story from �Jaswant’ writings.Link
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Being avid consumers of news, most of us are aware of the consistent stream of negative reporting coming out of Iraq. Death, violence, terrorism, precarious political situation, problems with reconstruction and public frustration (both in Iraq and America) dominate, if not overwhelm, the mainstream media coverage and commentary on Iraq. ...
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Ralphs Grocery Co. formally entered guilty pleas in federal court Wednesday to several charges stemming from the grocery chain's hiring of hundreds of workers under fake names during a 2003 strike and lockout in the Southern California supermarket industry.Link
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Imagine, a boy barely 12-years-old running an entire militant group. This is how, Johnny Htoo, the child militia leader of the small but notorious gang of God’s Army would like to introduce himself.Link
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
With congressional midterm elections less than four months away, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that candidates will be facing a public that has grown increasingly pessimistic, as nearly two-thirds don't believe life for their children's generation will be better than it has been for them, and nearly ...
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
This one stirs up memories of Cheech and Chong! :-)Link
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
A helicopter crashed in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, killing all 16 people on board, including at least two American civilians, officials said Thursday.Link
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Al Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al Zawahri warned his group would not stand by and watch Israel bombard Lebanon and the Palestinians, calling on Muslims in a video aired on Thursday to fight attacks on their countries. Link
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
A mortar barrage followed minutes later by a car bomb blasted Baghdad's upscale Karradah district Thursday, killing at least 27 people and wounding 63, police said.Link
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Afghan women beware: Taliban regime knocks again Since decades, the barbaric rule of Taliban has crippled the Afghan society and more specifically, it has almost destabilized the women community. Link
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Al Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al Zawahri called on Muslims to join forces and fight what he called the Zionist-crusader war against Lebanon, the Palestinians and other Muslim nations.Link
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Slate: How baseball cards lost their lusterLink
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Pictures of Ground Zero two days after the attacks.Link
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
The British government’s incapability to adopt the proposed legislation that was meant to declare forced marriages illegal is going to aggravate the life of Muslim women across the globe.Link
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday detailed the next steps of his organization's restructuring — ongoing since the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks — including a new business-side position and a weapons of mass destruction division. Link
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
The 2200 residents of Van Horn, Texas, US, seem to be embracing the idea of having a spaceport in their backyard. Blue Origin, a company headed by Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, has applied to build a launch site for its planned New Shepard space rocket about 40 ...
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Japan's health minister on Thursday announced the resumption of U.S. beef imports, ending a ban imposed in January due to concerns about mad cow disease. Health Minister Jiro Kawasaki announced the lifting of the ban after the Agriculture Ministry's mad cow advisory committee approved a resumption in imports.Link
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
The dual mode, triband GSM (900/1800/1900MHz) and WCDMA (2100MHz) compatible MOTORAZR XX includes both EDGE and HSDPA high-speed data connectivity, plus Bluetooth (with A2DP stereo headset support) and mini-USB for shorter range connections.Link
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Analysys International, a leading Internet based provider of business information about technology, media and telecom industries in China, says China's Web2.0 market, including Blog, SNS, P2P Streaming, Category Information, Personal Portal, WiKi services, etc., will reach RMB165 million in 2006 and will reach RMB2.1 billion by the end of 2008Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
This week's hearing is in anticipation of the September deadline for turning ICANN into a private entity, not responsible to the U.S. government in its handing out of domain names. Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
How to make a thorny constitutional question disappear.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Every day for 89 days in a row, you can get one lesson, delivered via email, on how to write and distribute a press release. Each day, you'll also have one opportunity to write a release. For example, if you’re rolling out a new product, that’s one opportunity. Each day’s ...
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
NAIS is being developed through the integration of three components-premises identification, animal identification, and animal tracking. Our government officials support NAIS. NAIS is great for big agri-businesses and the tag identification companies. Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
A jetliner carrying more than 250 people lost power in one of its two engines Wednesday but landed safely at a nearby airport.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
(CBS) The war in Lebanon has had plenty of victims, but CBS News' Vicki Barker reports that it now has a hero — a brave young Lebanese-American woman who helped rescue dozens of her fellow citizens. Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
The Hakone Hotel Kowkien in Japan has added curry spices to its hot spring, such as red pepper and turmeric, which can improve blood flow and make skin beautiful.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Saddam Hussein, who had been on hunger strike, has said in his trial today that he was taken to court from his hospital bed against his will.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Diplomats attending a crisis summit on Lebanon in Rome on Wednesday pledged to do their best to help achieve a lasting ceasefire between Israel and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah .Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Seven score and five years ago, Abraham Lincoln put his John Hancock on letters to the nation's governors, asking them to support a 13th amendment to the Constitution -- one that would enshrine slavery as the law of the land.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Love them or loathe them, you only need to take a quick glance over popular social link sites to see that 'Top 10' pages are incredibly prevalent. Here's a list of 10 reasons why such lists are so popular.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
U.N. observers in Lebanon telephoned the Israeli military 10 times in six hours to ask it to stop shelling near their position before an attack killed four observers and sparked international anger with Israel, U.N. officials said Wednesday.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
(WCCO) Maple Grove, Minn. A 51-year-old man accused of groping children in at least two department stores has been arrested in Todd County, authorities said Tuesday morning.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
More than 60 Iranian volunteers set off Wednesday to join what they called a holy war against Israeli forces in Lebanon.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
At the rate newspapers are dropping Ann Coulter's column she may have to start hand delivering her screeds to what few readers she has left. Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
YouTube co-founder and CEO Chad Hurley, who appeared on a panel at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit today, says that the company isn’t for sale.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
The first and second stages of the rocket failed to separate correctly after 86 seconds of flight, causing the Dnepr -- a converted intercontinental missile -- to crash.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Two students each face up to a year in jail for a prank that involved hacking into a professor's computer, giving grades to other students and sending pizza, magazine subscriptions and CDs to the professor's home. Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Keep on top of this Cat Fight Between the top men of Digg and Netscape!Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
a news worthy new story.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
For years, Amazon.com Inc. has insisted that its hefty investments in cheap shipping deals, mysterious technology or new retail offerings would please its customers and ultimately pay off for its long-term shareholders. But nine years after the company went public, some investors are getting fed up.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
U.N. observers in Lebanon telephoned the Israeli military 10 times in six hours to ask it to stop shelling near their position before an Israeli attack destroyed their border outpost, killing four observers and sparking widespread international anger with Israel.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
In a scene reminiscent of the Godfather, town councilman finds a horse's severed head in his swimming pool. Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
The father of a Virginia teen seeking an alternative treatment for his cancer says a social worker has threatened to use force to take the boy away from the family for court-ordered chemotherapy.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
An unsealed hatch on the U.S. Civil War submarine H.L. Hunley could have been a factor in the Confederate vessel's sinking, says a team of archaeologists in Charleston, South Carolina.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
A German archive containing millions of documents detailing Nazi crimes during World War Two will be opened to historians and Holocaust scholars for the first time, officials said on Wednesday.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Could Ken Jennings have possibly meant it when, on his Website blog, he criticized Jeopardy! last week for everything from the irrelevance of host Alex Trebek to the electric-blue color scheme to the exclamation point in the title?Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
I love this story but I have to say, I would expect the guy to give him more than $100 freakin' dollars! C'mon. Well, at least the community stepped inLink
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
The USPS provides free Priority Mail shipping supplies for customers sending packages to U.S. military personnel overseas. Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
This really isn't a posting dealing with the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act because the decision of Judge Posner of the Seventh Circuit doesn't technically address CFAA issues. That said, the decision in International Airport Centers, LLC v. Citrin, 2006 WL 2051659 (7th Cir., July 25, 2006) is an interesting ...
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Heterosexuals in this overwhelmingly gay resort town on the tip of Cape Cod are complaining that the oppressed have become the oppressors.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter on Tuesday afternoon cleared the way for the Justice Department Antitrust Division to seek a criminal indictment of a Norwegian ocean shipping company and at least one of its executives in a case involving alleged division of customers among competitors. Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has told his trial he wants to be shot not hanged if he is condemned to die.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
A jury today found Texas mother Andrea Yates not guilty by reason of insanity in the drownings of her five children, ages 6 months to 7 years, in the bathtub of their Houston home five years ago.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled 7-0 Wednesday that a Cincinnati suburb may not use eminent domain to take private property on the sole basis of economic benefit to the community.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
The Washington Supreme Court ruled Wednesday morning that a statute prohibiting same-sex marriage does not violate the state Constitution.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
A floor of the presidential palace in Liberia's capital caught fire Wednesday, the blaze coming as President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf hosted the leaders of Ghana, Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone for celebrations marking the anniversary of her country's founding by freed American slaves.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Israel's envoy complains to Norway over a cartoon showing Israeli PM Ehud Olmert as a Nazi camp commander.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr will send a truck full of medicine and food to Lebanese families affected by Israel's two-week military operations, his aide said Wednesday.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Former President Ford was admitted to a hospital for shortness of breath but was expected to be released later Wednesday, his spokeswoman said. In a statement, spokeswoman Penny Circle did not say when Ford was admitted to Vail Valley Medical Center. She didn't immediately return a phone call.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Even before the bombs fell on baghdad, a group of senior pentagon officials were plotting to invade another Country. Their covert campaign once again relied on false intelligence and shady allies. But this time, the target was Iran. Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Andrea Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity. She will be sent to a mental institution.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Andrea Yates was found NOT GUILTY by reason of insanity after murdering her 5 children.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
A jury found Andrea Yates not guilty by reason of insanity in the drowning deaths of her young children in the bathtub of their suburban home.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
An official Chinese commentary accused the Dalai Lama of collaborating with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, rejecting the Tibetan leader's overtures and casting a shadow over fence-mending talks.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
CNN is accepting your news stories, photos, videos and audio recordings.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Germany, Israel and the United States signed an agreement Wednesday opening to researchers an archive of millions of Nazi files describing how the Holocaust was carried out. The accord was reached in April by the 11-nation governing body of the International Tracing Service, the arm of the International Committee ...
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Italian Premier Romano Prodi said Wednesday he will commit troops to a military force for Lebanon if it has a U.N. mandate. He also called Wednesday's conference on the crisis in Lebanon a success, given what was possible to achieve. U.S., European and Arab officials failed to agree on ...
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
As debate continues over the legality of President Bush's domestic spying program, the administration pressed Congress Wednesday to ease Internet age surveillance restrictions.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Jurors deliberating in Andrea Yates' murder retrial say they have reached a verdict after asking to see a family photo and candid pictures of her five smiling youngsters on Wednesday.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Virus writers have created a spyware package that poses as an extension to the Firefox web browser. FormSpy, which poses as the legitimate NumberedLinks 0.9 extension, is programmed to steal confidential information from compromised machines including passwords, credit card numbers, and ebanking login details. The malware is also capable ...
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
The state Supreme Court upheld Washington's ban on gay marriage Wednesday, saying lawmakers have the power to restrict marriage to unions between a man and woman. The 5-4 decision leaves Massachusetts as the only state to grant full marriage rights to gay and lesbian couples. It was the latest ...
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
A top American diplomat said Wednesday the United States would try to hold a regional security meeting in Malaysia if North Korea continues to boycott six-nation nuclear disarmament talks.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
A bird flu vaccine for humans that uses only a very low dose of active ingredient has proved effective in clinical tests and could be mass produced in 2007, its maker GlaxoSmithKline said on Wednesday. Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Northwestern University officials are trying to contact about 17,000 students and applicants to the school after discovering hackers broke in to nine desktop computers on campus that contained personal information, the school said FridayLink
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
The Federal Voting Assistance Program office is pulling out the stops to ensure all servicemembers and their families who wish to can vote. Polli Brunelli, the program's chief, said the program has learned from experience and has put in place a system to make it relatively painless for servicemembers ...
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
A prized statue of an ancient king that was stolen during widespread looting in Iraq following the U.S. invasion three years ago has been returned to the country's government, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Boeing and the U.S. Army have ensured the continued modernization of the world's most capable multi-role combat helicopterLink
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Cecilia Lucas, a grad student at Berkeley recently penned a love poem to Hizb'Allah.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
The city is using a big slice of the $1 billion it got from the feds post-9/11 to fight first responders who claim they got sick on the site, a lawyer who is suing the city charged yesterday.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon contacted Israeli troops 10 times before an Israeli bomb killed four of them, an initial UN report says.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
U.S. District Court Judge Allen Pepper has rejected a change of venue request from a defendant who wanted to move his trial to get more blacks on the jury. The Judge said that Hezekiah Patton does not have the right to change the venue in hopes of getting a more ...
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
The Senate is taking up an election-year bill that would open a large area of the central Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling. The bill would affect an 8.3 million-acre area believed to contain large amounts of natural gas and 1.3 billion barrels of oil.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
People planning to rebuild in Hurricane Katrina-battered neighborhoods along the Mississippi Gulf Coast can quiz contractors and learn about construction standards during a free expo next month.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
A thinner but combative Saddam Hussein returned to court Wednesday for the first time since his hunger strike and hospitalization, complaining he had been forced to attend the proceedings and asking to be executed by firing squad if the court sentences him to death.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Hezbollah inflicted heavy casualties on Israeli troops as they battled for a key hilltop town in southern Lebanon for a fourth day Wednesday, with as many as 14 soldiers reported killed. Lebanese officials, meanwhile, confirmed that four U.N. observers were killed by an Israeli airstrike on their post Tuesday night.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
A woman who was allegedly severely burned by flaming rum during a Bacardi promotion is suing the wine and spirits producer, claiming the product was defective and dangerous.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Seeking to shore up the U.S. military commitment in Iraq, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki must charm an increasingly skeptical Congress that is wary of his criticism of Israel and concerned about rising violence in Baghdad. During his first trip to Washington since becoming prime minister two months ago, ...
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Investigators are trying to find about 50 women who were photographed decades ago by a man now on death row for murdering two aspiring models in the early 1980s, authorities said Tuesday.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
An abortion bill aimed at stopping people from helping pregnant girls skirt parental-notification laws has gained passage in both houses of Congress, but sticky political and policy disputes stand between it and President Bush's desk.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
The high-pressure system over California that has brought 100-degree weather to the state wasn't budging Wednesday, promising an 11th straight day of sweltering heat, the potential of more deaths and another strain on utilities.Link
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