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Elton John Bashes Madonna

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:43:00 +0000

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Cablevision profit rises on Web subcribers

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:08:00 +0000

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Cablevision Systems Corp posted a higher quarterly profit on Thursday as it added more Internet and telephone customers. But the New York-based cable operator also lost more...

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Space station dodges piece of old NASA satellite

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:28:00 +0000

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The International Space Station has steered clear of space junk. Flight controllers fired thrusters on the space station Tuesday morning. That moved the orbiting lab and its...

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Texas heightens border patrols amid Mexico violence

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:52:00 +0000

WASHINGTON — Texas has heightened border patrols in the wake of escalating violence in northern Mexico, the governor's office said Tuesday. "With the growing threat of violence in Mexico spilling...

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Sony Pictures says to lay off 450 workers

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:56:00 +0000

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Sony Pictures plans to lay off 450 employees, or 6.5 percent of its workforce, in coming weeks to combat falling DVD sales, online piracy and other factors hurting long-term...

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Sanyo rolls electric bicycles into US market

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:07:00 +0000

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Japanese electric bicycle titan Sanyo thinks that notoriously car-loving folks in the United States are prime for pedal power. Eneloop "pedal-assist" bicycles that had been...

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Tablets and slates take center stage at trade show

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:01:00 +0000

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Laptops, notebooks, netbooks, smartbooks and now... tablets and slates? Just when you thought you were familiar with all of the various portable computers on the market new...

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Apple App Store downloads top three billion

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:17:00 +0000

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple on Tuesday announced that more than three billion mini-applications for iPhone and iPod Touch devices have been downloaded from the firm's online App Store. "Three billion...

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Follow Santa Claus, courtesy Google and NORAD

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 04:37:00 +0000

WASHINGTON — Santa Claus is coming to your town -- and NORAD is tracking him as he drops off presents around the world. The North American Aerospace Defense Command, which monitors the North...

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Scientists say hominid is greatest hit of 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:15:00 +0000

WASHINGTON — The discovery of a 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, human-kind's oldest known ancestor, was the greatest scientific breakthrough of 2009, the prestigious journal Science said on...

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Panel: Great Lakes not losing extra water

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:14:00 +0000

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Lakes Huron and Michigan are not losing extra billions of gallons of water daily because of navigational dredging as a Canadian group contends, a scientific panel said...

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Clock ticking to get UN climate deal: Miliband

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:23:00 +0000

COPENHAGEN — Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband urged negotiators on Monday to work faster to clear away a thicket of problems threatening the global warming talks ahead of a UN summit here on...

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AP source: Al-Qaida operative killed by US missile

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:37:00 +0000

WASHINGTON — A senior al-Qaida operations planner was killed in an American missile strike this week in western Pakistan, a U.S. counterterrorism official said Friday. Saleh al-Somali was responsible...

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Climate deal certain, but won't be enough: IPCC scientist

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:24:00 +0000

BRUSSELS — The flood of world leaders heading for next week's UN climate summit make an accord certain -- but the new deal will not be enough to truly fight global warming, a top climate scientist...

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Chavez vows to nationalise banks

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:57:00 +0000

President Hugo Chavez has threatened to nationalise Venezuelan banks that broke regulations. The president said he would do whatever was necessary to prevent irregularities amid a scandal that had...

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Astronauts take spacewalk No. 3 after suit snag

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:29:00 +0000

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A pair of astronauts stepped out on the third and final spacewalk of their shuttle mission Monday, helping to install an enormous oxygen tank at the International Space...

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Astronauts inspect space shuttle in case of damage

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:29:00 +0000

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Atlantis' astronauts scoured their ship Tuesday for any signs of launch damage while pursuing the International Space Station. The early word was that the shuttle...

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Canada's space clown got 23 times more world attention than Afghan mission: study

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:42:00 +0000

MONTREAL — Canada's first space clown can brag that his recent trip into the cosmos generated at least 23 times more international news coverage this year than this country's mission in...

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Global pressure mounts ahead of Karzai inauguration

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:42:00 +0000

KABUL — President Hamid Karzai will be sworn in on November 19 for another five years under the scrutiny of foreign leaders who Wednesday stepped up pressure on the Afghan leader to act against...

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Iraq election law delays decision on flash points

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:50:00 +0000

BAGHDAD — After weeks of hard-nosed negotiations, analysts say the election law passed by Iraq's parliament allowing national polls to go forward in January extends compromises to all sides but with...

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Canadian physicist IDs young neutron star

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:36:00 +0000

A physicist from the University of Alberta is part of a team that has identified an unusual neutron star left over from a supernova first seen 330 years ago. Craig Heinke and his colleague Wynn Ho...

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Space station free of swine flu - but Canadian astronaut wary of return to Earth

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:26:00 +0000

LONGUEUIL, Que, — To avoid a deadly flu pandemic, there's no place like outer space. A Canadian astronaut on a lengthy space mission said the International Space Station is swine-flu free thanks to a...

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Clement to review CRTC ruling on Globalive

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:43:00 +0000

Industry Canada says it will review a CRTC decision preventing Globalive from setting up shop as Canada's fourth national cellphone company. Industry Minister Tony Clement said Friday he will...

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Bad weather delays NASA new rocket test flight

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:55:00 +0000

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA tried for hours Tuesday to launch its newest rocket for a shakedown flight, but clouds and high wind kept it stuck on the pad. Liftoff of the Ares I-X rocket — the first...

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NASA is 'go' for crucial rocket test

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:47:00 +0000

WASHINGTON — NASA is set to blast off a prototype rocket on Tuesday that carries hopes of returning humans to the Moon, and for the first time to Mars, despite deep uncertainty about the program's...

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NY deal reached over Monroe's last nude photos - Yahoo! News
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