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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 29 weeks 12 hours 52 minutes ago
Zhang Yimou -- one of the world's greatest film directors ("Red Sorghum," "Raise the Red Lantern,") shot this short about the Chengdu, a city considered by many to be one of China's most beautiful.
Since Chengdu was near the epicenter of today's earthquake it's worth looking...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Batboy's revenge! 45 weeks 5 days 18 hours 58 minutes ago
The bio-modding continues. Exhibit #678 is this: scientists have manipulated mouse genes to give them proto-bat wings (mice and bats share a common ancestor).
Designer animals are here, they're queer (in the old sense of the word), get used to it.
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Green Living 22 weeks 1 day 20 hours 22 minutes ago
As forecasters take that possibility more seriously, they describe fundamental shifts in the way we work, where we live and how we spend our free time.
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 81 weeks 3 days 14 hours 11 minutes ago
AVALON, Calif. (AP) -- Water-dumping planes and helicopters helped beat back soaring flames that threatened this quaint Catalina Island town Friday, giving firefighters a victory that allowed nearly 4,000 evacuated residents to start coming home....
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 27 weeks 3 days 14 hours 29 minutes ago
Hillary Clinton today cited the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy during the 1968 presidential campaign to explain why she was remaining in the race despite long odds.
"We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California," Clinton told the editorial board of a South Dakota...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 51 weeks 5 days 12 hours 14 minutes ago
A gunman killed eight people at a mall in Omaha this afternoon and then killed himself, setting off bedlam and panic among holiday shoppers, the police said.
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 20 weeks 5 days 18 hours 9 minutes ago
Negotiations between Mountain View and Google to build a hotel on the city's east side may have fizzled, but officials are still pushing hard to bring a four-diamond resort to the area.
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 20 weeks 5 days 18 hours 4 minutes ago
Maybe he lost his shirt at a casino. Police in Las Vegas say they arrested a naked man who stole a beer and then hijacked a bus ...
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 22 weeks 17 hours 44 minutes ago
Two of Northern California's more than 1,400 wildfires choked parts of the Sierra Nevada foothills, darkening a 100-mile stretch between Sacramento and Reno with clouds of black smoke.
The fires in the Tahoe National Forest blanketed the Interstate 80 corridor linking the two cities and the foothill...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 28 weeks 3 days 20 hours 5 minutes ago
Former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan has emerged as the best conservative columnist in the nation. And I mean that in the grand old tradition of intellectual and ethical conservatives: a dying breed as the attack dogs and dwarfs took over American conservatism. Anyhow, Noonan is in...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team staff news 48 weeks 6 days 9 hours 59 minutes ago
One San Francisco Zoo visitor was killed and two others injured early this evening after a tiger escaped from its cage.
The tiger that got loose was fatally shot while it was attacking a patron, said San Francisco Fire Department spokesman Lt. Ken Smith.
The attack happened shortly...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 35 weeks 6 days 6 minutes ago
Hillary Rodham Clinton's lies about risking her life under sniper fire during a visit to Bosnia as first lady have infuriated the US military brass and troops.
"She has no sense of what a statement like that does to soldiers," fumed retired Maj. Gen. Walter Stewart, the...(more)
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