Jan
27
2009
President Barack Obama presented a humble and conciliatory face of America to the Islamic world Monday in the first formal interview since he assumed office, stressing his own Muslim ties and hopes for a Palestinian state, and avoiding a belligerent tone — even when asked if America could “live with” an Iranian nuclear weapon.


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Jan
27
2009
A woman has given birth to octuplets at a Kaiser Permanente hospital in Bellflower, hospital officials confirmed today. KCAL Channel 9 reported that the babies were born today and quoted a doctor as saying they were “doing quite well.”


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Jan
27
2009
The Sundance Film Festival is usually associated with quaint and quirky independent films—hardly the kind of features that get geeks lined up for weeks, in costume. But while limited budgets might prevent Sundance directors from pulling out Lucas-esque special effects, they can still ask and answer serious questions about science and technology….


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Jan
27
2009
… or at least in the sky above it. This is just one extraordinary piece of information being sent back to us by the landers, probes and rovers scanning the planet.


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Jan
27
2009
Mons Venus strip club dancer Bernie Notte knows the cash a Super Bowl can bring. It flew at her like confetti during Tampa’s 2001 game. She earned ,000 in four days. She danced so much that her feet bled. Customers didn’t flinch at paying 0 for a lap dance.


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Jan
27
2009
With the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas militants on the edge of collapse, the most dangerous job in Gaza — digging tunnels into Egypt — just got a lot more dangerous.


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Jan
27
2009
Soon we may get the first ever glimpse of the dark side of the sun. Well, no, there’s no actual dark side of a luminous ball of burning gas, but there is an effective dark side, as in, the side of the sun we can’t see at any given time.


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Jan
27
2009
The Windows 7 beta from Microsoft continues to generate lots of positive buzz. In fact, the word of mouth reaction is almost the polar opposite of Vista’s. Here are six things you need to keep in mind about Windows 7 and what it means for Microsoft . . . and you!


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Jan
27
2009
More buttons than you can shake a monkey at…


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Jan
27
2009
Wikipedia’s founder, Jimmy Wales, is proposing a system of flagged revisions, which would mean any changes made by a new or unknown user would have to be approved by one of the site’s editors, before the changes were published. This would mean a radical shift from the site’s philosophy that allows anyone to make changes to almost any entry.


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