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Flaming Ferraris: $250,000 cars recalled because they can burst into flames
Filed under: Recalls , Consumer Ally Ferrari is recalling more than 1,200 of its 458 Italia sports cars because of a design flaw that can make them spontaneously combust.To date, at least five of the $250,000 supercars have burst into flames in ...
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Arugula: Superhero of the Organic Farm
Carol Ann SayleI just finished sowing this year's 15th crop of arugula. It was a bit difficult to get the soil moist enough for germination, as the air is dry and the heat is horrific. But motivation drove me. First I walked back and forth ...
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Super Mario All-Stars making a comeback on Wii
Although Nintendo has yet to officially announce it, retailers in Japan have let slip that a new Super Mario All-Stars collection is being released next month in Japan.The reason for the release is to celebrate 25 years of Mario. The original All ...
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Ke$ha-fronted festival cancelled
The promoter of a weekend musical festival outside St. John's has cancelled the event, dashing the hopes of fans of pop superstar Ke$ha and other performers.
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Confined liquid controversies near closure?
New experiments resolve differences in measuring the viscosity of liquids confined to thin films at the molecular level. Published Mon Aug 30, 2010
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Peeling Back the Layers of the Kochtopus
It's known as the "Kochtopus"--the network of conservative political interests funded by the billionaire David Koch, which includes Americans for Prosperity, one of the early organizations involved in facilitating and fomenting the Tea Party movement*. ...
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Hero up! Hands-on with Marvel Super Hero Squad Online
Back in May, I scored Massively's first real look at Super Hero Squad Online , the Marvel-flavored, kid-friendly MMO from Gazillion Entertainment and The Amazing Society . I was smitten with the game at the time, and so when Gazillion offered me the ...
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Cee-Lo Green's New Song Ignites the Web
Superstar alternative soul man Cee-Lo Green has done it again. In 2007 he had the entire planet bopping to his hit`` Crazy, '' as one half of the international sensation Gnarls Barkley, with his other half Danger Mouse. He's done it again, igniting the ...
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Tiger Woods' new $54 million commitment -- to his mortgage
Filed under: Real Estate , Celebs & Money Many have speculated that Tiger Woods has a tough time keeping his commitments. But someone seems to think his word is worth something -- his banker.Today, reports surfaced that Woods signed on to a $54 ...
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EU Reaches Deal on Financial Oversight
The European Union reached a preliminary deal Thursday to set up four new European regulators to strengthen supervision of the region's financial-services industry.
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Strand-Craft 122: It's a boat and a car:
Feel like boating this holiday weekend? Here's what every AutoWeek reader needs: Mega-yacht builder Strand-Craft has introduced its extravagant 122, which the company calls a "high-performance streamlined Open super yacht."
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Australia's FPV Announces Supercharger Program For Ford 5.0 V-8
Hot on the heels of the new ROUSHcharger and Ford Racing supercharger kits for Fords latest 5.0-liter V-8 comes a new announcement from the land Down Under. FPV, Fords in-house tuner in Australia, has announced a new range of supercharged V-8 engines
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The Nice Guy Who Finishes First
George Clooney has mesmerized Hollywood with his penchant for good deeds and (gasp!) good behavior. As his new film premieres, Gina Piccalo talks to his close companions about his singular charm.George Clooney is the guy other superstars aspire to...
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S.F. supe hopeful owes $20,000 in back taxes
BART board member Lynette Sweet, who is running for supervisor in San Francisco this fall, owes the federal government at least $20,000 in back taxes and penalties, records show. The Internal Revenue Service slapped a lien on Sweet's home in the ...
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Higher Meat Prices Are Fueling Food Inflation
Filed under: Consumer Experience , Economic Data , Commodities , Federal Reserve What is happening in the cattle market is directly affecting food prices at your local supermarket. Here are some upsetting numbers. Global meat prices have hit a ...
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K-State research project offers insight into superstitious behavior
People who believe that fate and chance control their lives are more likely to be superstitious -- but when faced with death they are likely to abandon superstition altogether, according to a recent Kansas State University undergraduate research ...
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Supernova Blast Wave Could Shape Galaxy Evolution
A new glimpse of a well-known supernova could provide new clues about how dying stars affect their surroundings.
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NRL Researchers and Universities Collaborate to Win Supercomputing Bandwidth Challenge
NRL team and collaborators win Supercomputing Bandwidth Challenge for effectively extending the local NRL campus InfiniBand network cloud across the country. The demonstration shows substantial functionality for visualization from a distributed Open ...
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AFC North links: Steelers win Super Bowl?
Here are the latest happenings Wednesday in the AFC North: Peter King of Sports Illustrated predicts the Pittsburgh Steelers will win the Super Bowl...
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Networks Upon Networks!
In July I cobbled together a list of the science bloggers who had decided to pull up stakes and leave scienceblogs.com because of a dispute over a blog written by Pepsi. I started the list out of sympathy for bloggers who risk losing lots of readers as ...
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EU states, parliament agree on financial regulation (Urgent)
Brussels- European Union member states and the European Parliament on Thursday agreed on how to set up four new supervisory agencies to oversee the bloc's economic development and financial markets, parliamentary sources said.
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More from Sacramento: Hollywood Lobby May Fall Short on Bag Ban
With a midnight deadline approaching, it appeared as though a California ban on plastic bags at supermarkets was headed for defeat. Hollywood environmentalists lobbied heavily for the bill, and Jeremy Irons narrated a popular viral video that drew more ...
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When Wired magazine began developing...
...one of the very first commercial web sites in 1993, the phrase "unlimited shelf space" was often used by potential contributors. Closely linked to this phrase was "bypassing the editor": the notion that editors were superfluous intermediaries, and ...
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Target to Dabble in Facebook Gift Cards
The social networking superstar known as Facebook is taking its business offline and into brick and mortar stores by selling gift cards at Target locations, Reuters reports .These will come in increments of $15, $25, and $50 and can be used to ...
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Amber Rose: Big Project on the Way!
Amber Rose wears a peach dress as she is spotted out and about in Los Angeles on Tuesday (August 31).The 26-year-old model is back in town after hosting events in New Orleans!been super busy working on a big project!!! I miss u guys! :-) Amber ..
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Is red-hot India too hot?
While most of the world is worried about the prospects of a double-dip recession, India is facing just the opposite problem managing supercharged growth. The Indian economy, oblivious to the meager recovery in the West, is roaring. GDP surged 8.8% ...
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Muslim cleric reviled for interfaith efforts
For the first time in a long while, Feisal Rauf is avoiding the press. The imam behind the planned "Ground Zero mosque" is on a trip to the Gulf states after the United States State Department shelled out US$16,000 ($22,800) to...
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Ferrari recalling more than 1,000 of its 458 Italia supercars after reports of 5 fires
Ferrari says it is recalling 1,248 of its 458 Italia supercars after reports of fires breaking out in five of the luxury vehicles in several countries.
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Supercomputing Brings the Climate Picture into Focus
With recent advances in supercomputing, scientists at Argonne and at other institutions around the world believe for the first time that they can generate models with resolutions down to possibly a single square kilometer, or about a third of a square ...
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Wisconsin GOP Blasts Dem Candidate For Holding A Super-Secret Fundraiser With Pelosi That Never Existed
Wisconsin GOP Blasts Dem Candidate For Holding A Super-Secret Fundraiser With Pelosi That Never Existed Last month, CQ reported that Republican strategists are advising their candidates to target Speaker Nancy Pelosi( D-CA) as a midterm electi
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