Archive for May, 2008
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Sign of Bush Cheney economy? While gas station drive-offs and siphoning are far more common methods of stealing gas, reports of tank and line puncturing are starting to trickle into police departments and repair shops across the country. Some veteran mechanics and law enforcement officers say it's an unwelcome ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
The article doesn't seem to mention overfishing of shark prey as a possibility but I suspect this is involved as well.Read the full story
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Foreclosure filings in 10 towns and cities within 10 miles of military facilities, including Norfolk, Virginia, home of the Navy's largest base, rose by an average 217 percent from January through April from a year earlier. Nationally, the rate was 59 percent in the same period, according to RealtyTrac, which ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
As we say in the legal profession, 'issue has been joined' in Viacom v. YouTube. In its answer to Viacom's complaint (PDF), filed Friday, YouTube says Viacom's lawsuit is intended to 'challenge... the protections of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") that Congress enacted a decade ago to encourage the ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Three of the resolutions, to be voted on Wednesday at the company's shareholders' meeting in Dallas, are considered unlikely to pass, even with Rockefeller family support. They would demand that Exxon take the threat of global warming more seriously and look for alternatives to spewing greenhouse gases into the air.Read ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
On Monday, NASA released a black-and-white image captured during Phoenix's descent by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which had a bird's-eye view of the lander hanging from its parachute. It's the first time a spacecraft had taken an image of another craft during landing.Read the full story
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
On Monday, NASA released a black-and-white image captured during Phoenix's descent by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which had a bird's-eye view of the lander hanging from its parachute. It's the first time a spacecraft had taken an image of another craft during landing.Read the full story
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
An American-owned Boeing 747 cargo plane crashed as it took off at Brussels airport on Sunday and broke apart, but the five-strong crew escaped without injury, airport officials said.Read the full story
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
How can blog about Novak without mentioning his role in the CIA Leak Case?Read the full story
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
As an Army sniper, Higgins was one of the select few toting an M14. The long-barreled rifle, an imposing weapon built for wars long past, spits out bullets larger and more deadly than the rounds that fit into the M4 carbines and M16 rifles that most soldiers carry.Read the full ...
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