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Malaysia sniffer dogs find second pirated-DVD haul

News – Two Malaysian dogs trained to sniff out DVDs have made their second big discovery of pirated movies, leading investigators to a hidden stash worth more than $430,000, a local newspaper said on Sunday.

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Submitted and Voted for on March 31, 2007 10:27pm

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Obesity high among Puerto Rican kids

Health & Fitness – Thirteen percent of Puerto Rican children entering kindergarten are obese according to a new study, a health official said Saturday

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Submitted and Voted for on March 31, 2007 10:19pm

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AP Diary Adds Clue to Amelia Earhart Mystery

News – It's the coldest of cold cases, and yet it keeps warming to life. Seventy years after Amelia Earhart disappeared, clues are still turning up. Long-dismissed notes taken of a shortwave distress call beginning, "This is Amelia Earhart...," are getting another look. The previously unknown diary of an Associated Press reporter reveals a new

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Submitted and Voted for on March 31, 2007 10:14pm

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Gear shortage to haunt U.S. military years after Iraq war

News – The U.S. military is so short of equipment that it will take years after the war in Iraq ends to bring it up to normal levels, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Peter Pace acknowledged. "It will take end of war plus two years to work off the backlog," said one of Pace's latest testimony to the Congress which was quoted by Friday's online edi

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Submitted and Voted for on March 31, 2007 10:13pm

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Mall shooting leaves 3 wounded

News – Three people were shot during an attempted robbery at a shopping mall Saturday, police said. One person was critically wounded.

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Submitted and Voted for on March 31, 2007 10:11pm

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Data Theft Grows To Biggest Ever

News – At least 45.7 million credit and debit card numbers from customers in the United States, Britain and Canada were stolen over a period of several years from the computers of TJX, the discount retail giant disclosed in a regulatory filing this week.

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Submitted and Voted for on March 31, 2007 10:09pm

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Bush attacks Iran over captives

News – President George W Bush has condemned Iran's "inexcusable behaviour" after its capture of 15 Royal Navy personnel.

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Submitted and Voted for on March 31, 2007 10:06pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 61 votes / 1 sink

USNews.com: News: Bad Guys

Gadgets & Tech – Online security is a nightmare these days, with all the viruses, phishing, drive-by downloads, pop-ups, and other malware out there. How bad is it? The Bad Guys blog was struck by an intriguing study this month by SiteAdvisor, the Web security firm owned by McAfee. Researchers set out to chart the Internet's worst "domains"-those suffixes

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Submitted and Voted for on March 31, 2007 10:05pm

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Bush Press Corps in an E-mail Blunder

Politics – A mundane trip manifest of reporters who traveled to Latin America with President Bush has turned colossally controversial because the White House mistakenly included personal ID info on the E-mail sent to news bureaus and accountants. The key ingredients of identity theft-Social Security and passport numbers and dates of birth-were included in the

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Submitted and Voted for on March 31, 2007 10:04pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 53 votes / 1 sink

The FDA Warns: Don't Buy Accutane Online

Health & Fitness – If you do a Google search for isotretinoin, also known as Accutane, a new Food and Drug Administration website is apt to figure high among your hits. The site warns consumers about the risks of buying the highly potent prescription acne medication and its generic versions-Amnesteem, Claravis, and Sotret-over the Internet. FDA officials were prompte

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Submitted and Voted for on March 31, 2007 10:02pm

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Barack gets bookish

Books – Cormac McCarthy's 2006 novel The Road is Oprah Winfrey's 57th book club selection, the talk show host announced Wednesday. "It will not disappoint. It's mysterious - it's post-apocalyptic, it's very unusual for me to select this book. It is so extraordinarily haunting and inspiring," Winfrey said. "This story about a father and young

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Submitted and Voted for on March 31, 2007 09:59pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 62 votes / 1 sink

Secret history of 'The Secret'

Books – It's selling like an elixir that promises everything but eternal life. Rhonda Byrne's book tops USA TODAY's best-seller list for the seventh consecutive week, and the companion DVD is No. 1 on Amazon's sales chart. It has captured wallets and water coolers like nothing else since Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown suggested Jesus was a daddy

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Submitted and Voted for on March 31, 2007 09:58pm

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Nancy Cunard: Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist

Books – In his 1928 novel "Nadja," AndrÃ;Æ;Ã;© Breton cites an old French adage: "Tell me whom you haunt" - whom you befriend -"and I'll tell you who you are." Judged by this criterion, the English heiress Nancy Cunard, who "haunted" Breton's Surrealists and countless ot

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Submitted and Voted for on March 31, 2007 09:57pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 80 votes / 1 sink

Japan sex slave fund ends amid fresh controversy over 'comfort women' - MSN-Mainichi Daily News

News – A fund set up by Japan to help Asian women forced into prostitution by its military during World War II will expire Saturday amid new denials from Tokyo that the government is to blame for putting thousands into sexual slavery. The Asian Women's Fund was created by Japan in 1995 to aid what are euphemistically known as "comfort women." B

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Submitted and Voted for on March 31, 2007 01:57am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 38 votes / 2 sinks

Japan orders history books to remove reference to forced wartime suicide - MSN-Mainichi Daily News

News – Japan's government ordered changes to seven history textbooks that said the country's army forced civilians to commit mass suicide at the end of World War II, amid moves by Tokyo to soften brutal accounts of its wartime conduct.

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Submitted and Voted for on March 31, 2007 01:56am