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Music – The 57-year-old Richard Thompson is hardly the sole remnant of modern pop's Pleistocene era. Yet Thompson, even as he approaches eligibility for Social Security and Medicare, is actually getting better. Is there another Sixties survivor, another wheezing titan, of whom this can be said?
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Voted for on June 25, 2007 04:44am
Gadgets & Tech – NVIDIA's first step of providing innovative GPU computing products, under the Tesla brand, will offer more computing power to every engineer and scientist. Today, NVIDIA announced the release of a new set of microprocessors that are functionally based on an innovative graphical processing unit (GPU). This is a promising turn of events since it can
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Voted for on June 24, 2007 07:39am
Movies – A review of Stephen King's latest film adaptation.
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Voted for on June 24, 2007 07:38am
Politics – The CIA will declassify hundreds of pages of long-secret records detailing some of its worst illegal abuses - the so-called 'family jewels' documenting a quarter-century of overseas assassination attempts, domestic spying, kidnapping and infiltration of leftist groups from the 1950s to the 1970s, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said yesterday.
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Voted for on June 24, 2007 07:38am
News – Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced tonight that he is quitting the Republican party and changing his affiliation to independent.
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Voted for on June 20, 2007 06:38am
Health & Fitness – Onye, 62, waited four hours to be seen. Still, going to the emergency room was faster than getting an appointment. For that, "you have to wait months," Hawkins says
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Voted for on June 20, 2007 06:38am
News – An enormous bomb ripped through a police academy bus at Kabul's busiest transportation hub Sunday, killing at least 35 people in the deadliest insurgent attack in Afghanistan since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001. The Taliban claimed responsibility.
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Voted for on June 19, 2007 08:21am
News – A state ethics panel on Saturday disbarred Michael B. Nifong, the Durham district attorney who pursued a false accusation of sexual assault against three Duke University lacrosse players, shortly after Mr. Nifong said through his lawyer that he thought disbarment was appropriate.
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Voted for on June 19, 2007 08:21am
Do No Evil – If we continue down this road, there can be no surprise about what awaits us at the end. After all, it is a tale that has been told time and again throughout history. For example, over 70 years ago, the citizens of another democratic world power elected a leader who promised to protect them from all dangers. In return for this protection, and under
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Voted for on June 19, 2007 08:20am
Politics – Our government has become a contest between an incompetent and obstinate President and a Congress that is satisfied with changing nothing - no matter how bad things gets - no matter how many people die - no matter how much tax money is wasted on wars - no matter how many of our civil rights and freedoms are violated - no matter what.
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Voted for on June 19, 2007 08:20am
Politics – The Bush administration on Monday lifted its economic and political embargo against the Palestinian government, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced. The move follows the expulsion of the militant Hamas movement from the Palestinian Authority, and is meant to strengthen Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas by resuming direct U.S. aid.
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Voted for on June 19, 2007 08:17am
Politics – Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has regained a double-digit lead over Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) in a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll two weeks after the survey found the rivals more or less tied.
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Voted for on June 19, 2007 08:17am
Science – The populations of 20 common American birds--from the fence-sitting meadowlark to the whippoorwill with its haunting call--are half what they were 40 years ago, according to an analysis released Thursday. Suburban sprawl, climate change and other invasive species are largely to blame, said the study's author.
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Voted for on June 18, 2007 05:06am
Humor – As candidates rush to lock up the endorsements of key special interest groups, none is more highly coveted by Republicans than that of abortion foes.
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Voted for on June 15, 2007 03:06am
Humor – The revelation appears in Subway spokesman Jared Fogel's new autobiography, "Porn & Pickle Chips: My College Years," which hits bookstores in two weeks.
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Voted for on June 15, 2007 03:05am