Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
A top U.S. biodefense researcher apparently committed suicide just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him in the anthrax mailings that traumatized the nation in 2001, according to a published report. Bruce E. Ivins, 62, who worked for the past 18 years at the ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Scientists have been using the robotic spacecraft Cassini to explore what looked to be large lakes of hydrocarbons on the surface of Saturn's planet-sized moon Titan. But they couldn't be entirely sure that the features were actually liquid lakes, and not simply very smooth, solid material. Now, new findings seem ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
In a submission to court, Google is arguing that in the modern world there can be no expectation of privacy. Google is being sued by a Pennsylvania couple after their home appeared on Google's Street View pages. The couple's house is on a private road clearly marked as private property.Read ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Voting 20-14 along party lines, the House Judiciary Committee said that Rove had broken the law by failing to appear at a July 10 hearing on allegations of White House influence over the Justice Department, including whether Rove encouraged prosecutions against Democrats such as former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman.Read the ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Some International Olympic Committee officials cut a deal to let China block sensitive Web sites despite promises of unrestricted access, a senior IOC official admitted on Wednesday. Persistent pollution fears and China's concerns about security in Tibet also remained problems for organizers nine days before the Games begin.Read the ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Giant sheets of ice totaling almost eight square miles broke off an ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic last week and more could follow later this year, scientists said on Tuesday. In a development consistent with climate change theories, the enormous icy plain broke free sometime last week and ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Vancouver has long had extremely high real estate prices: The number of homes for sale tipped 20,000 on Friday and is still climbing. Paul Boenisch, a popular blogger who runs the North Vancouver Homes blog was the first to announce the turn of the dial: "20,000 listings. Is this the ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
The fees that cell phone carriers charge customers who break service contracts took a big hit in a California courtroom when a judge said such charges by Sprint Nextel Corp. likely violate state law.Read the full story
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator and a figure in Alaska politics since before statehood, was indicted Tuesday on seven counts of failing to disclose thousands of dollars in services he received from a company that helped renovate his home.Read the full story
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
An unemployed man accused of opening fire with a shotgun and killing two people at a Unitarian Universalist church apparently targeted the congregation out of hatred for its support of liberal social policies, police said Monday.
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