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An
absolutely terrifying article in the New York Times exposes the felonious
details of what happens to that stolen credit card and personal financial
information we’ve been hearing [...]

Tomorrow, barring delay or mishap, a U.S. filmmaker,
an international association of space buffs and Russian aerospace organizations
will use a leftover Soviet ballistic missile to put the first "solar
sail" into orbit.
[...]

Robotic scientists in China have succeeded in ‘controlling’
live mice.
Experts at the robot research centre in Shandong Technology
University controlled white mice by stimulating micro-electrodes on their
heads.
[...]

Wishing
We Were There….
Catwalk queen Naomi Campbell hit the runway in Brazil
this week, adding her unique brand of glamour to Rio Fashion Week.
The legendary supermodel strutted her stuff with some of the [...]

DAWSON, Yukon Territory – The folks here still roll
their own cigarettes, drink hard and gamble in a casino where ragtime
is played on a stand-up piano.
These days the town is down to a population of 1,200
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As we returned from the
neighborhood sports bar where
we went to watch the Light Heavyweight World
Championship title fight between Antonio
[...]

Iraqi
firemen try to extinguish a burning oil truck, after it was struck by
a suicide car bomb attacker in Baghdad, Iraq Friday, June 17, 2005. The
suicide car bomber slammed into the [...]

RICHMOND,
Va. (June 17, 2005) – People with bigger brains are smarter than their
smaller-brained counterparts, according to a study conducted by a Virginia
Commonwealth University researcher published in the journal "Intelligence."
[...]

It
was born with four eyes, two noses, two mouths and two tongues, but it’s
just one cat.
A two-faced female kitten, named Gemini, was born late Sunday night. The
[...]

THE Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has
criticised the new web-based media for "paranoid fantasy, self-indulgent
nonsense and dangerous bigotry". He described the atmosphere on the world
wide web as a free-for-all that [...]

A
lost Leonardo fresco and tantalizing hints that remnants may still exist
– hidden behind a wall in a Florence palazzo – has the art world abuzz.
For 30 years, art work detective Maurizio Seracini has been searching
[...]