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Yahoo News |
12:35pm PST |
Spacewalkers hook up new tank
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Summary: AP - Two spacewalking astronauts supplied the international space station with a fresh tank of nitrogen gas Wednesday, one of them a German who was too sick to venture outside a few days earlier. |
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BBC News |
12:34pm PST |
China snowstorms 'to cost $15bn' |
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Summary: China's recent severe snowstorms have cost the economy more than $15bn, says the government. |
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CrossMap |
12:25pm PST |
How To Forgive a Friend |
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Summary: Peter was always counting things. I think he liked math. The Bible says that one day he went fishing and caught 153 big ones - I'm sure he counted each one.. |
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Cnn.com |
12:23pm PST |
Bush inks stimulus; look for May checks |
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Summary: President Bush on Wednesday signed the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008, calling it a "booster shot" for the American economy.
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Cnn.com |
12:23pm PST |
Clemens, ex-trainer tell starkly different tales |
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Summary: Baseball pitcher Roger Clemens said today he received only vitamin shots from Brian McNamee, but the ex-trainer insisted before a House panel that every injection contained steroids or other performance enhancers. Clemens sat mere feet from his chief accu |
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Yahoo News |
12:14pm PST |
Surging Obama whacks Clinton, McCain on economy
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Summary: AFP - Barack Obama Wednesday pinned partial blame for an economic malaise stalking America on stalling White House foe Hillary Clinton, a day after trouncing her in the latest wave of nominating contests. |
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Yahoo News |
12:02pm PST |
Bush signs economic stimulus package
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Summary: AP - President Bush on Wednesday signed a multibillion-dollar economic rescue package on Wednesday that means $300 to $1,200 rebates for many American households. |
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Yahoo News |
12:01pm PST |
Lawmakers pass provincial election law
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Summary: AP - Parliament cleared the way Wednesday for provincial elections this year that could give Sunnis a stronger voice and usher in vast changes to Iraq's power structure. |
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Yahoo News |
12:01pm PST |
Icy storm blows through Northeast
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Summary: AP - A powerful winter storm spread more than a half-foot of snow across parts of the Northeast on Wednesday, closing hundreds of schools and switching off the lights for thousands of homes and businesses. |
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CrossMap |
11:59am PST |
Saying Goodbye to Inertia |
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Summary: When fear or heartache pays a visit, my natural inclination is to sink low. Left to languish, depression will.. |
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BBC News |
11:56am PST |
Bhutto suspects 'confess to role' |
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Summary: Two Pakistani men held over the murder of Benazir Bhutto confess to helping her attacker, police say. |
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BBC News |
11:42am PST |
Bush signs economic plan into law |
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Summary: President George W Bush signs off the two-year bipartisan $167bn (£86bn) US economic stimulus plan. |
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Yahoo News |
11:36am PST |
Iran puts uranium gas in centrifuges
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Summary: AP - Iran's new generation of advanced centrifuges have begun processing small quantities of the gas that can be used to make the fissile core of nuclear warheads, diplomats told The Associated Press on Wednesday. |
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ChristianPost |
11:35am PST |
Apologists Ask Churches to Step Up Response to Militant Atheism |
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Summary: As more atheist-centered books and movies make their way to mainstream culture, two best-selling Christian apologists are encouraging churches to better equip their congregation to respond to what they call a more outspoken and "confident" ... |
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Yahoo News |
11:25am PST |
Ailing astronaut begins spacewalk
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Summary: AP - German astronaut Hans Schlegel floated out of the international space station for his first spacewalk on Wednesday, two days after an illness forced the shuttle Atlantis crew member to skip an outing to install a new European lab. |
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ChristianPost |
10:54am PST |
Baptist Conflict Intensifies with Call to Oust Pastor |
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Summary: Conflict over homosexuality at a moderate Texas Baptist church has become widely public despite the church leadership's hopes to keep the dispute ... |
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Cnn.com |
10:53am PST |
Defense secretary slips on ice, breaks arm |
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Summary: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates suffered a fractured shoulder after slipping on ice Tuesday night at his Washington home, the Pentagon said.
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Yahoo News |
10:53am PST |
Bush presses House on eavesdropping
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Summary: AP - President Bush pressured the House on Wednesday to pass new rules for monitoring terrorists' communications, saying "terrorists are planning new attacks on our country ... that will make Sept. 11 pale by comparison." |
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Cnn.com |
10:52am PST |
Two confess to roles in Bhutto killing |
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Summary: Two suspects arrested last week confessed to a Pakistani judge Wednesday that they helped arm the suicide bomber blamed for assassinating Benazir Bhutto, an Interior Ministry spokesman told CNN.
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Yahoo News |
10:49am PST |
Clemens tells Congress he is innocent
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Summary: AP - Roger Clemens struggled to find the right words under questioning during a congressional hearing Wednesday and denied new accounts of drug use made against him by former teammate and close friend Andy Pettitte. |
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Yahoo News |
10:44am PST |
Iraqi CBS interpreter freed in Basra
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Summary: AP - An Iraqi interpreter for CBS News kidnapped in Basra was freed Wednesday, but a British journalist remained in captivity, police said. |
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BBC News |
10:15am PST |
Nanowires allow 'power dressing' |
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Summary: US scientists develop tiny energy-generating fibres that could be used to create self-powered smart fabrics. |
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BBC News |
10:13am PST |
UK 'ill-prepared' against floods |
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Summary: The UK's disaster management is woefully inadequate, finds a government review into last summer's flooding. |
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Yahoo News |
10:13am PST |
Surging Obama wacks Clinton, McCain on economy
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Summary: AFP - Barack Obama Wednesday pinned partial blame for an economic malaise stalking America on stalling rival Hillary Clinton, a day after trouncing her in the latest wave of White House nominating contests. |
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BBC News |
10:09am PST |
Boy babies 'worse for depression' |
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Summary: Giving birth to a boy can increase the likelihood of severe postnatal depression, a study suggests. |
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Yahoo News |
9:49am PST |
Pentagon chief breaks right arm
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Summary: AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates fractured his right arm in a fall on an icy step at his home in Washington, D.C., and was treated Wednesday at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, the Pentagon said. |
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CTI News |
9:42am PST |
Poll: Are you celebrating Valentine's Day? |
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Summary: Poll: Are you celebrating Valentine's Day?
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BBC News |
9:42am PST |
Bat fossil solves evolution poser |
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Summary: A fossil found in Wyoming resolves a puzzle over when bats gained their sonar-like ability to navigate and locate food. |
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ChristianPost |
9:35am PST |
Megachurch Pastor: 30-Days to a No-Regrets Life |
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Summary: A megachurch pastor and his wife are asking the tough question of how people would live differently if they knew they had only one month left to ... |
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Yahoo News |
9:34am PST |
Clemens pressed by Congress
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Summary: AP - Roger Clemens struggled to find the right words under questioning during a congressional hearing Wednesday and denied new accounts of drug use made against him by former teammate and close friend Andy Pettitte. |
