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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:54:27 GMT
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Chocolate-powered racecar makes sustainability sexy
(Reuters)
Reuters - Fueled by leftover chocolate and with components made from carrots, potato starch and flax, the world's first sustainable Formula 3 racing car has a top speed of 135 miles per hour and can go from zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:19:12 GMT
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Obama to push climate change in White House meeting
(Reuters)
Reuters - President Barack Obama inserted himself into Senate efforts to pass a climate change bill on Tuesday, gathering Republican and Democratic lawmakers at the White House to jumpstart efforts to overhaul U.S. energy policy.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:39:45 GMT
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Feds to probe cause of runaway Prius in California
(AP)
AP - The government sent investigators Tuesday to examine a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway, and Toyota said it wanted to interview the driver as the besieged automaker dealt with a high-profile new headache that raised questions about the safety of its beloved hybrid.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:54:10 GMT
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NASCAR puts Carl Edwards on probation for 3 races
(AP)
AP - Sticking with its "boys, have at it" attitude, NASCAR placed Carl Edwards on probation for three races Tuesday for deliberately wrecking Brad Keselowski's car last weekend in Atlanta.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:20:38 GMT
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Visiting Biden condemns new Israel settlement plan
(Reuters)
Reuters - Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday condemned Israeli plans to build 1,600 more homes on occupied land where Palestinians seek statehood, announced in the middle of his visit to help revive peace negotiations.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:55:07 GMT
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Cisco unveils system for super-fast Internet
(AFP)
AFP - Cisco Systems on Tuesday unveiled super-fast Internet hardware that promises to boost US competitiveness and bolster economic recovery by moving mountains of data at astounding speeds.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:31:31 GMT
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Obama pitches health plan in spirited appearance
(AP)
AP - Stirring memories of his campaign for the White House, President Barack Obama made a spirited, shirt-sleeved appeal for passage of long-stalled health care changes Monday as Democratic congressional leaders worked behind the scenes on legislation they hope can quickly gain passage.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:43:07 GMT
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Hopeful Signs in Iraq?
(The Nation)
The Nation - The Nation -- Facts are scarce, and spin is everywhere, in the aftermath of Iraq's election on Sunday.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:46:54 GMT
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'I do' in DC: Same-sex couples wed in Washington
(AP)
AP - One bride wore a black suit, the other had on a white one with rhinestones. They walked down the aisle to Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are" and kissed after the pastor pronounced them "legally married."
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:24:21 GMT
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Lindsay Lohan takes swipe at E-Trade babies
(AP)
AP - Lindsay Lohan is feuding with the E-Trade babies.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:02:46 GMT
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Gunshots heard in violence-wracked Nigerian town
(AP)
AP - Automatic weapons fire punctuated by screams erupted after dark Tuesday in a Nigerian city located near villages where massacres just two days ago left more than 200 people dead.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:48:40 GMT
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Increasing Soda Consumption Fuels Rise in Diabetes, Heart
Disease
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) --Increasing consumption of sugary
soft drinks contributed to 130,000 new cases of diabetes, 14,000 new cases
of heart disease and 50,000 more life-years burdened with heart disease in
the last decade, a new U.S. study finds.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:50:11 GMT
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Residents flee Angolan village invaded by elephants
(Reuters)
Reuters - Wild elephants rampaged through a southern village in Angola last weekend, destroying farms and dozens of houses and prompting most of its 4,000 residents to flee to neighboring Namibia, a local official said Tuesday.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:02:32 GMT
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Gibbs brushes off resigned congressman's complaint
(AP)
AP - President Obama's spokesman is brushing aside allegations by a resigned New York congressman who says he was forced out by the administration and Democratic leaders because of his opposition to health care reform.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:19:33 GMT
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Toyota, U.S. officials investigate runaway Prius
(Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. safety regulators and Toyota Motor Corp dispatched investigators to San Diego on Tuesday to inspect a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway a day earlier.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:55:53 GMT
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Iditarod launches drug testing of mushers
(AP)
AP - Every human competitor now running the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race will be tested for alcohol and illegal drugs on the trail for the first time in the history of the 1,100-mile race — a change defending champion Lance Mackey believes is directed at him.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:20:48 GMT
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Congress tries to alter Obama's plans for NASA
(The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - Pushback on President Obama's plans for NASA's human spaceflight program is moving out of testy congressional hearings and into Capitol Hill's legislative inbox.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:39:00 GMT
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Google welcomes chance to export to Iran, Cuba
(AP)
AP - A senior Google executive welcomed on Tuesday a U.S. decision to relax restrictions on exporting Internet communications services to Iran, Sudan and Cuba.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:58:20 GMT
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Israel, Syria pursue nuclear-powered Mideast
(AP)
AP - Is the Middle East about to go officially nuclear?
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:52:00 GMT
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Kucinich's Health Reform Dissents Merit Consideration
(The Nation)
The Nation - The Nation -- Long before Barack Obama or Nancy Pelosi began talking up health care reform as a top priority for the Democratic Party, Congress and America, Dennis Kucinich was doing so. Indeed, the former Cleveland mayor, Ohio legislator, two-time presidential candidate and now senior U.S. House members has across the past 35 years been one of the country's steadiest proponents of real reform of our broken health-care system.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:00:59 GMT
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U.S. Sitting on Mother Lode of Rare Tech-Crucial Minerals
(LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - China supplies most of the rare earth minerals found in technologies
such as hybrid cars, wind turbines, computer hard drives and cell
phones, but the U.S. has its own largely untapped reserves that could
safeguard future tech innovation.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:39:45 GMT
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Feds to probe cause of runaway Prius in California
(AP)
AP - The government sent investigators Tuesday to examine a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway, and Toyota said it wanted to interview the driver as the besieged automaker dealt with a high-profile new headache that raised questions about the safety of its beloved hybrid.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:26:50 GMT
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A policy change on abortion, but how radical?
(AP)
AP - President Barack Obama's health care bill would change federal policy on abortion, but it would not open the spigot of taxpayer dollars as some abortion opponents fear.
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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:33:55 GMT
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Detroit wants to save itself by shrinking
(AP)
AP - Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swaths of this now-blighted, rusted-out city back into the fields and farmland that existed before the automobile.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:26:56 GMT
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Pope's brother: I ignored physical abuse reports
(AP)
AP - The pope's brother said in a newspaper interview published Tuesday that he slapped pupils as punishment after he took over a renowned German boys' choir in the 1960s. He also said he was aware of allegations of physical abuse at an elementary school linked to the choir but did nothing about it.
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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:40:30 GMT
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Exclusive: "Secret" Giotto uncovered in Florence chapel
(Reuters)
Reuters - Restorers using ultra-violet rays have rediscovered rich original details of Giotto's paintings in the Peruzzi Chapel in Florence's Santa Croce church that have been hidden for centuries.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:22:48 GMT
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Soldier tells how he threw back Taliban grenade
(Reuters)
Reuters - A soldier serving with the British Army in Afghanistan has told of the moment he threw back a Taliban hand grenade, telling himself: "I've really only got one chance to do this."
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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:26:51 GMT
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Palin Crossed Border For Canadian Health Care
(HuffingtonPost.com)
HuffingtonPost.com - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- who has gone to great lengths to hype the supposed dangers of a big government takeover of American health care -- admitted over the weekend that she used to get her treatment in Canada's single-payer system.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:51:29 GMT
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Dozen centuries-old shipwrecks found in Baltic Sea
(AP)
AP - A dozen centuries-old shipwrecks — some of them unusually well-preserved — have been found in the Baltic Sea by a gas company building an underwater pipeline between Russia and Germany.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:37:03 GMT
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Jobless aid measure clears Senate hurdle
(AP)
AP - Legislation to give additional months of unemployment benefits to people who have been out of a job for more than half a year cleared a key hurdle Tuesday that guarantees it will soon pass the Senate.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:26:53 GMT
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Ohio State janitor's gunfire kills co-worker, self
(AP)
AP - An Ohio State University janitor who was about to lose his job walked into a maintenance building for his early morning shift Tuesday and shot two supervisors, killing one of them and fatally shooting himself. No students were hurt.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:00:44 GMT
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Govt to warn on baby slings because of deaths
(AP)
AP - The government is preparing a safety warning about baby slings — those popular and fashionable infant carriers that parents strap around their chests to give the little ones a cuddle on the move.
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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:17:09 GMT
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Gas pipeline probe uncovers shipwrecks in Baltic Sea
(AFP)
AFP - A dozen previously unknown shipwrecks, some of them believed to be up to 1,000 years old, were discovered in the Baltic Sea during a probe of the sea bed to prepare for the installation of a large gas pipeline, the Swedish National Heritage Board said Monday.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:14:22 GMT
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Continental CEO will cancel flights before fines
(AP)
AP - Continental Airlines plans to cancel flights rather than risk stiff fines under new federal rules designed to punish carriers for delaying passengers.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:46:54 GMT
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'I do' in DC: Same-sex couples wed in Washington
(AP)
AP - One bride wore a black suit, the other had on a white one with rhinestones. They walked down the aisle to Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are" and kissed after the pastor pronounced them "legally married."
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:50:31 GMT
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Christians flee after Nigeria's massacre
(AFP)
AFP - Christian villagers in Nigeria fled their homes fearing new attacks Tuesday even as a senior official accused the country's military chiefs of ignoring warnings about last weekend's massacre.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:45:33 GMT
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As Chile shook, cities rolled to the west a bit
(AP)
AP - The Earth really did move during the massive Chile quake: Researchers say cities and islands physically shifted west a bit.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:29:09 GMT
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Chevron to shed 2,000 jobs, sell some assets
(AP)
AP - Chevron Corp. said Tuesday it will cut 2,000 jobs this year and sell some overseas operations as it revamps its struggling refinery, marketing and transportation operations.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:19:33 GMT
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Toyota, U.S. officials investigate runaway Prius
(Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. safety regulators and Toyota Motor Corp dispatched investigators to San Diego on Tuesday to inspect a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway a day earlier.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:51:22 GMT
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Biden condemns new Israeli settlement plan
(AP)
AP - Vice President Joe Biden condemned an Israeli plan to build hundreds of homes in disputed east Jerusalem on Tuesday — a disagreement that tarnished a high-profile visit that had been aimed at repairing ties with the Jewish state and kickstarting Mideast peace talks.
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