Jan 25 2009

Matador, 11, kills Six Bulls in Mexico

An 11-year-old Franco-Mexican bullfighter killed six young bulls on Saturday in a controversial performance that child protection and anti-bullfighting campaigners had hoped to stop.

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Jan 25 2009

Complete list of 2009 Sundance Film Festival awards winners

The Sundance Film Festival’s 2009 audience and jury awards, presented Saturday in Park City, Utah…

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Jan 25 2009

Poll: Obama’s 68% approval rating is highest start since JFK

President Barack Obama won approval from 68 percent of Americans in his first three days on the job, emerging at the high end of ratings for the last eight first- term predecessors, according to a Gallup poll.

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Jan 25 2009

Dinosaurs could survive cold conditions

Dinosaurs were able to survive colder temperatures than was previously thought, according to new research that casts doubt on theories that they were killed off by plummeting temperatures caused by climate change.

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Jan 25 2009

8 Inspiring Stories Of ASCII Art

Labels are fragile: text and pictures have always been closely connected. From the dawn of written language to the era of microcomputers, much of human creation has explored the relationship between the literal and the figurative, the form and the function. Within this is the future site of retro, ASCII art.

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Jan 25 2009

Lance Armstrong finishes 29th in comeback race

Lance Armstrong departed Australia confident that the two key areas of his comeback are on track. The seven-time Tour de France winner finished 29th overall in the Tour Down Under, 49 seconds behind winner Allan Davis of Australia, but was satisfied with his ability to keep up with top riders after 3 1/2 years out of professional cycling.

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Jan 25 2009

Firefox v. Thunderbird: Talonized!

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Jan 25 2009

NHL to look into fighting, not ready to drop it

The recent death of a Canadian senior amateur player and the hospitalization of an AHL fighter, who had a seizure after a bout Friday night, have raised concerns that fighting has become too dangerous.”I always believed it is an incidental part of the game. But it is a part of the game,” said NHL commissioner Gary Bettman.

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Jan 25 2009

Investors Gear Up For Low Earnings, Biggest GDP Drop in 26ys

Investors this week will face the largest batch of company report cards yet, in what is quickly shaping up to be the worst quarter for corporate profits in a decade.

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Jan 25 2009

Single Brain Cell Can Hold a Memory.

Memory has long been described as a function of brain cells getting together and forming connections. A new study finds single cells can remember things.

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