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Ugandan Tycoon to Purchase World's Largest Private Jet

Money – The A380 is the world's largest passenger jet, with room for as many as 853 passengers in commercial configurations. The green aircraft "without any interior furnishings" is priced at $260 million dollars.

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Holy Relics

Art & Design – Commerce in saints' bits and pieces--long forbidden by the Catholic Church--is thriving.

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Friday: 52 Iraqis Killed, 111 Wounded

News – Iraqi authorities ordered residents of Sadr City to temporarily abandon the Shi'ite suburb of Baghdad as fighting between Iraqi forces and the Mahdi army continue. At least 52 Iraqis were killed and 111 more were wounded across the country. A number of people were also killed or wounded in Basra, but their nationalities were not released. No Coalit

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Love of the Road: James Cowlin and Route 89
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Love of the Road: James Cowlin and Route 89

Gadgets & Tech – I have been experimenting with the technique of making panoramic photographs from multiple digital files stitched together. It was time to see how practical it would be under not exactly ideal conditions. ...

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Usher goes to work in the UK

Music – Aside from the video for Love In This Club, we have mpt seen a live performance from him, no magazine covers and his interviews have been scant.

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The Constitution Protects Us from Them

Do No Evil – The Framers understood the most important point about the nature of government: It constitutes the biggest threat to the freedom and well-being of the citizenry. Unfortunately, it is a point that has been lost among many modern-day Americans, who have come to view government as their friend, protector, provider, and savior.

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Here's Why They Hate Us

Do No Evil – What's more obnoxious than a person who constantly whines about the real and imagined injustices committed against him while ignoring his own injustices against others? A country that does the same thing.

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The Barbaric Lowering of Recruitment Standards

Do No Evil – Overall, the government has sent 1.6 million troops into combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. All this strain for enough fresh bodies, exacerbated by the waning willingness among those who have historically been willing to enlist and the worst failures in reaching projected recruitment targets since the 1970s, has forced the military to steadily l

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Rap the Casbah

Music – Tracing the breadth of the diaspora - from French streetscapes to Gaza slums - Arab youth are seizing hip-hop culture as a platform for self-expression

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Prolonging The Inevitable

Politics – The war in Iraq is over. Despite the fact that we are still fighting, we have yet to define victory, the ultimate outcome is uncertain, and there is no end in sight -- it is over. The only remaining questions are: How many more of our brave troops will have to die? How many more billions will be spent? Both questions are unanswerable but the figure

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Do You Pass The Email Scam Test Watch and See

Do-It-Yourself – Test your skills in the email scam test. Some pretty good tips and alerts on some of the more hi tech phishing scams.

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Astronomers begin search for 'vanishing' stars

Science – Astronomers have started monitoring about a million massive stars to see if any suddenly vanish, seemingly without a trace. Such a disappearing act would support a theory that some massive stars simply implode when they die, rather than exploding in brilliant supernovae or gamma-ray bursts.

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Microsoft Buying Facebook would be like Exxon Buying Greenpeace

Gadgets & Tech – Many, perhaps most, Facebook users do not want Microsoft. They were a little upset when they purchased under 3% of the company. If that becomes 50 %, we will likely see a large-scale exodus. Sadly, it would happen right after Facebook passed MySpace on Alexa.

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The Easy Way To Burn More Fat

Health & Fitness – Burning fat to lose weight is not just a matter of eating less, or worse, eating hardly anything at all. Losing weight is not a matter of merely producing a lot of sweat for many hours everyday. Losing weight is not a matter of taking diet pills with questionable effects...

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Career Search - Get The Best Job Possible

Careers & Jobs – Upon graduation, there is often intense pressure on students to look for a steady job. In a less than robust economy, many graduates are compelled to take the first job offered to them, placing true career choices on hold. This can lead to a wrong decision that can actually retard career advancement...

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