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A man says his cell phone saved his life. A stray .45-caliber bullet hit R.J. Richard's chest while he was mowing the lawn — hitting so hard he thought it was a stone kicked out by his tractor. He pulled out the phone. It fell apart.
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 6 weeks 4 days 6 hours 3 minutes ago
Revolutionary nuclear power plant will not come on stream until 2012, announces Areva
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submitted by AB 19 weeks 2 days 7 hours 2 minutes ago
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki tried to step back from comments in which he appeared to support Senator Barack Obama’s plan for troop withdrawal.
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The mayor of crime-ridden, smog-choked Mexico City is trying to do what some might consider impossible: transform his megalopolis into a place that's more healthy, livable and even fun.
And despite much skepticism, initiatives such as "urban beaches" and outdoor movies have become a wild success.
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submitted by Grace 30 weeks 2 days 7 hours 46 minutes ago
Myanmar's foreign minister says the death toll from Tropical Cyclone Nargis could reach 10,000.
Foreign diplomats said Nyan Win made the comment at a Monday briefing given to them and representatives of U.N. and international aid agencies.
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 4 weeks 16 hours 3 minutes ago
LiveScience.com - The 2008 campaign for president was the most vicious in U.S. history, some pundits have said. There were certainly some cheap-shot moments here and there but, relatively speaking, was the 2008 race really that nasty?
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submitted by Christine 54 weeks 5 days 12 hours 18 minutes ago
Coast Guard workers who monitor ship traffic in San Francisco Bay did not warn the crew of the Cosco Busan that it was about to sideswipe the base of a Bay Bridge tower last week, or even that the ship was near the obstacle, federal investigators...(more)
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submitted by Micca 4 weeks 1 day 12 hours 16 minutes ago
With his silver-topped cane, finger-wagging rhetoric and a tendency to refer to himself in the third person, rebel leader Laurent Nkunda is the latest big man to stake his claim in this troubled country.
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Ed Miliband, the new energy and climate secretary, urges Europe's leaders to stick to climate change targets.
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submitted by Ari for team Bushwhackers... dissent ala mode 59 weeks 4 days 26 minutes ago
After the history-making presidential recount of 2000, Palm Beach County sold hundreds of its infamous Votomatic machines to memorabilia seekers, including a group of chiropractors in Arizona, the cable-news host Greta Van Susteren and the hotelier André Balazs. One machine ended up in the Smithsonian Institution....(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 5 weeks 2 days 20 hours 3 minutes ago
This election isn't over for another eight days and the next one is four years away, but the question being asked with some urgency is: will Sarah Palin run for president in 2012?A faint, but audible, chant can be heard among her supporters, to paraphrase the...(more)
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John McCain shrugged aside daunting poll figures yesterday to claim he was placed to win next week's presidential election even as an inquest was beginning inside the Republican party.Interviewed on NBC's Meet the Press, McCain dismissed the polls that showed huge leads for Barack Obama and...(more)
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