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submitted by Collin Frost for team Batboy's revenge! 30 weeks 1 day 9 hours 50 minutes ago
The Allied airmen and women of World War II were certainly brave and skilled in battle, but even they couldn't win the war on their own.
Plagued in the early, low-tech years of the war by dangerous afflictions such as altitude and decompression sickness, pilots got some...(more)
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submitted by Collin Frost for team Bicyclism 20 weeks 6 days 19 hours 58 minutes ago
High gasoline prices are fueling bicycle sales, and on some days Michael Hall's blood pressure.
At least three times a week, Hall pedals to his job in Hollywood from his home in northern Glendale, a 25-mile round-trip commute that is faster on two wheels than four.
"It's definitely...(more)
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submitted by Collin Frost 60 weeks 1 day 15 hours 44 minutes ago
Myanmar's military leaders said weapons had been seized from Buddhist monatasteries and announced dozens of new arrests today, defying global outrage over its violent repression of protestors who sought an end to 45 years of dictatorship.
Recent raids on monasteries turned up guns, knives and ammunition, though...(more)
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submitted by Collin Frost 60 weeks 1 day 15 hours 43 minutes ago
The shooting death of a 23-day-old baby has sparked what officials hope will be Los Angeles' most vigorous crackdown yet on gang members charging "rent" to merchants and vendors, a practice authorities believe is thriving despite an overall drop in crime.
Los Angeles police detectives and prosecutors...(more)
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submitted by Collin Frost 21 weeks 2 days 5 hours 51 minutes ago
Federal health investigators are now looking at jalapeños and fresh salsas as a possible source of a salmonella outbreak that’s sickened nearly 1,000 people across the United States, according to various media reports this weekend.
Food and Drug Administration spokesman Kimberly Rawlings told the Associated Press on...(more)
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submitted by Collin Frost 84 weeks 1 day 3 hours 17 minutes ago
The World Cup of soccer is still three years away. But in South Africa, the site of the 2010 games, it already feels disturbingly close at hand.
A surveyor on the construction site of the stadium on the outskirts of Soweto. Stadiums must be built or renovated...(more)
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submitted by Collin Frost 60 weeks 1 day 15 hours 41 minutes ago
Today
Car show: "Just Ducky Car Show" features classic cars, muscle cars and more. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. $25-$75. Wild Rivers, 8770 Irvine Center Drive, Irvine. (949) 235-0577
Car show: The 2008-model Orange County Auto Show features hundreds of new cars. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Anaheim Convention Center, 800 W....(more)
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submitted by Collin Frost 30 weeks 2 days 2 hours 59 minutes ago
Thanks to renewed interest in nuclear power, the United States is on the verge of a uranium mining boom, and nowhere is the hurry to stake claims more pronounced than in the districts flanking the Grand Canyon's storied sandstone cliffs.
On public lands within five miles of...(more)
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submitted by Collin Frost 20 weeks 6 days 20 hours 2 minutes ago
Police discovered the tortured and burned bodies of six men in an empty lot Monday morning, ending a period of relative calm in this border city beset by drug war violence.
Eleven bodies have been discovered since Saturday in violence believed to be drug-related, including the corpse...(more)
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submitted by Collin Frost 20 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago
She thought about it for four years. She wanted to try it, but kept balking.
"I was scared," says Francine Choi, a Los Angeles County employee who lives in Long Beach. "I was worried I'd get mugged." And then a couple months ago, filling her BMW at...(more)
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submitted by Collin Frost 21 weeks 2 days 5 hours 54 minutes ago
The birds are dying, but so far, the people aren’t.
Orange County’s animal disease trackers report that they’ve collected 76 dead birds since June — mostly crows, and mostly in Anaheim and Garden Grove.
All tested positive for West Nile virus, said Michael Hearst, spokesman for the...(more)
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submitted by Collin Frost for team Batboy's revenge! 21 weeks 6 days 5 hours 33 minutes ago
From the Hollywood Hills to the Nevada state line, people reported seeing a fireball streaking across the sky and appearing to fall toward the San Bernardino Mountains on Tuesday morning. But explanations of the mysterious object were scarce.
San Bernardino County Fire Dispatch reported receiving dozens of...(more)
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