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SYDNEY (Reuters) - He may not have been a serious scientist but eccentric Australian TV naturalist Steve Irwin, who died in a freak diving accident this week, was an extremely effective environmentalist, a survey said on Thursday.ADVERTISEMENTIrwin, the 44-year-old naturalist famed for his quirky "Crocodile Hunter" documentaries, died after the serrated barb of a stingray's tail pierced his heart

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More than one year after engaging in a war of words over postpartum depression, Tom Cruise and Brooke Shields have made peace.The accord was announced by Shields on Friday's Tonight Show. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan presumably was too busy with other stuff to comment.According to Shields, Cruise's former Endless Love coworker, the embattled superstar initiated the settlement last

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Sept. 4, 2006 issue - In the end, it may be the best thing that could have happened to Tom Cruise. Viacom billionaire Sumner Redstone told The Wall Street Journal last week that his studio, Paramount, was not renewing Cruise's production-company deal after 14 years because "we don't think someone who effectuates creative suicide and costs the company revenue should be on the lot." Hollywood and

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N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Chad's president on Saturday ordered oil companies Chevron Corp. and Petronas to leave the country, saying neither has paid taxes and his country will take responsibility for the oil fields they have overseen.In remarks on state-run radio, President Idriss Deby gave the companies — part of the African country's oil production consortium that is led by ExxonMobil — a

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Ricardo Tubbs is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born intel analyst Trudy, as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett is charismatic and flirtatious until-while undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group-he gets romantically entangled with Isabella, the Chinese-Cuban wife of

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Although no adults will believe them, three children realize a neighbor's house is really a monster. They must find a way to stop the house and save the neighborhood. Tags: Monster House

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Ten-year-old Lucas is the new kid on the block--and the local bullies make sure he knows it. Tired of being a punching bag, Lucas takes out his frustration on the ants living in his lawn. But when the ants strike back--shrinking Lucas down to their size with a magic potion and forcing him to live like an ant within the colony--an astonishing new world opens up to him. Lucas learns, first-hand,

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Cleveland Heep, a modest building manager, rescues a mysterious young woman from danger and discovers she is actually a narf--a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the treacherous journey from our world back to hers. Cleveland and his fellow tenants start to realize that they are also characters in this bedtime story. As Cleveland falls deeper and deeper in love with the woman,

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Superman--born on a planet which has long since died--has been raised by adoptive parents on the Kent farm in Kansas. The young boy Kal-El is renamed Clark Kent, and though he has grown up among humans, he is not one of them. Under Earth's yellow sun, he can do two things humans can only dream of, but to co-exist with them he must live a dual life as mild, unassuming Clark Kent, secretly

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Howard Schultz, Vinod Khosla and other top investors are sharing their best startup ideas. And they're willing to give a collective $100 million to the entrepreneurs who can make them happen.(Business 2.0) -- Asking venture capitalists for great startup ideas is a little like asking Curt Schilling what pitch he's going to throw next. When we posed the question to dozens of VCs and investors

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MOSCOW, Russia -- Russia has said it will continue to probe avenues for diplomatic cooperation with Iran over its nuclear program but France said that uranium enrichment must be suspended before talks resume.Speaking a day after Iran responded to a package of incentives offered by world powers for Tehran to roll back its nuclear program, Moscow said it was time for the international community to

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush on Wednesday cautioned against placing too much importance on the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's Gulf Coast strike, saying it will take a long, sustained effort to rebuild the area."It's a time to remember that people suffered and it's a time to recommit ourselves to helping them," Bush said. "But I also want people to remember that a one-year

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Down on the farm, the farmer thinks he's in charge, keeping all the animals safe and sound. But when the farmer is out of sight, the lookout sheep shouts "Clear!" and all of the barnyard animals spring up on two legs, walk, talk, watch TV, and orchestrate practical jokes. For Otis the cow that last one is the most important. He and his best friends--Pip the mouse, Freddy the ferret, Peck the

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The 2006 Pontiac Solstice is a 2-door, 2-passenger convertible sports car, available in one trim only, the Roadster. Upon introduction, the Solstice is equipped with a standard 2.4-liter, I4, 177-horsepower engine that achieves 20-mpg in the city and 28-mpg on the highway. A 5-speed manual transmission with overdrive is standard, and a 5-speed automatic transmission with overdrive is optional.

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The 2007 Saturn SKY is a 2-door, 2-passenger convertible sports car, available in two trims, the Roadster and the Red Line. Upon introduction, the Roadster is equipped with a standard 2.4-liter, I4, 177-horsepower engine that achieves 20-mpg in the city and 28-mpg on the highway. The Red Line is equipped with a standard 2.0-liter, I4, 260-horsepower, turbo engine that achieves 21-mpg in the city

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The 2006 BMW M5 is a 4-door, 5-passenger luxury sports sedan, available in one trim only, the Sedan. Upon introduction, the M5 is equipped with a standard 5.0-liter, V10, 500-horsepower engine that achieves 12-mpg in the city and 18-mpg on the highway. A 7-speed manual transmission with overdrive is standard. The 2006 BMW M5 is redesigned for 2006.Tags: BMW M5

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SanDisk Corp has introduced a new digital music player that stores twice as many songs as the popular iPod Nano for nearly the same price and cut the cost of existing models ahead of the holiday shopping season.SanDisk, which is a distant second to Apple in the digital music player market, said it would sell a model of its Sansa player with 8 gigabytes of storage capacity enabling it to save up

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BRUSSELS, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- Two Dutch F-16 jet fighters escorted a Northwest Airlines flight back to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Wednesday morning, Radio Netherlands reported. The reason behind the escort had not been disclosed. A spokesman for the Dutch military police only said a number of passengers were removed from the plane and interviewed, the report said. The military police had

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Internet Security Systems Inc. has reached a $1.3 billion acquisition with IBM.IBM announced that it has agreed to buy Internet Security Systems Inc. for $1.3 billion, continuing an acquisition drive to fuel growth. The company said it will pay $28 a share for the company, which helps customers protect against Internet threats across networks, desktop computers and servers. Internet Security is a

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Before all the hype, before the Internet craze, before the filming and the press junkets and KRAFT tables, “Snakes on a Plane” existed as an article in Nature Magazine. Fourteen years and more than 25 studios later, it would become one of the most hyped movies of all time (and who said nothing good every came out of Nature Magazine). Its fame started soon after screenwriter Josh Friedman, who had

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