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submitted by Lisa for team Batboy's revenge! 155 weeks 4 days 21 hours 1 minute ago
"Chemistry look what you've done to me," Donna Summer crooned in Science of Love, and so, it seems, she was right. Just in time for Valentine's Day, a panel of scientists examined the mystery of what happens when hearts throb and lips lock. Kissing, it turns...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team Bicyclism 155 weeks 4 days 20 hours 55 minutes ago
On Saturday, the world's top cyclists converge for the 2009 Amgen Tour of California, a 750-mile race from Sacramento to Escondido. Among them will be seven-time Tour de France champ Lance Armstrong. He races for the first time in the U.S. since emerging from retirement. Floyd...(more)
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submitted by Lisa 79 weeks 1 day 7 minutes ago
The government is expected to announce on Wednesday that three-quarters of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak has already evaporated, dispersed, been captured or otherwise eliminated — and that much of the rest is so diluted that it does not seem to pose much additional...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team Obama Watch 127 weeks 1 day 23 hours 26 minutes ago
The United States is having more success fighting terrorism under President Barack Obama partly because of his "radically different" approach to foreign policy, National security adviser Jim Jones said on Monday.
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submitted by Lisa for team kids stuff 156 weeks 1 day 21 hours 39 minutes ago
You might think you're pretty hot stuff because you've figured out how to change your Facebook status from your iPhone, but you've got nothing on nine-year-old Lim Ding Wen.
This young prodigy from Singapore is fluent in six programming languages, according to a BBC report this week,...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team Bicyclism 227 weeks 5 days 23 hours 21 minutes ago
Tomorrow night's Critical Mass in San Francisco marks the 15th anniversary of the rebellious rolling ride that locally has propelled the bicycle movement into the political mainstream and globally has been copied by hundreds of cities.
What began with four dozen bicyclists riding together up Market Street...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team Iraq news 221 weeks 4 days 2 hours 3 minutes ago
The pupils who had been too scared to attend class are now returning.
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submitted by Lisa for team Outdoor news 138 weeks 1 day 22 hours 57 minutes ago
Joseph Williams was a 20-year-old Midwesterner hungry for adventure in 1959 when a hike through Glacier National Park turned into a vicious encounter with a grizzly bear.
Williams tangled with the bear for 45 minutes, getting mauled, fighting back and breaking free before the beast chased him...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team Bicyclism 152 weeks 3 days 4 hours 53 minutes ago
Thousands of bike riders are shedding their clothes in the hopes that they can get us all to stop and think about the negative effects that cars (and the pollution they create) have on people and the planet.
World Naked Bike Ride kicks off on March...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team Iraq news 157 weeks 6 days 15 hours ago
Iraq said Thursday it will bar Blackwater Worldwide from providing security protection for U.S. diplomats because its contractors used excessive force, sanctioning a company whose image was irrevocably tarnished by the 2007 killings of 17 Iraqi civilians.
The move will deprive American diplomats of their main protection...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team Iraq news 165 weeks 5 days 23 minutes ago
Five Blackwater Worldwide security guards have been indicted and a sixth was negotiating a plea with prosecutors for a 2007 shooting that left 17 Iraqis dead and became an anti-American rallying cry for insurgents, people close to the case said Friday.
Prosecutors obtained the indictment late Thursday...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team Breast cancer info 129 weeks 3 days 22 hours 3 minutes ago
Breast cancer survivors have been getting bum advice. For decades, many doctors warned that lifting weights or even heavy groceries could cause painful arm swelling. New research shows that weight training actually helps prevent this problem....
