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Cnn.com |
12:31pm PDT |
Pilots: Cockpit dangers being ignored |
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Summary: The pilot says his cockpit window "shattered like a spider web" during flight two years ago, and he immediately put on goggles and an oxygen mask before making an emergency landing. It's a problem, one pilot group says, the industry has virtually ignored. |
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Yahoo News |
12:19pm PDT |
NATO expansion rifts widen as summit opens
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The United States pressed for Ukraine and Georgia to be put on track to join NATO as a summit of the alliance began here Wednesday, while key European nations objected to the move. |
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BBC News |
12:05pm PDT |
Three 'eco-town' sites rejected |
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Summary: Ministers have rejected plans for three "eco-towns" in Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Derbyshire, the BBC learns. |
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BBC News |
12:04pm PDT |
UK cruise ship is held in Madeira |
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Summary: Efforts have begun to secure the release of a UK cruise ship being detained by police in Madeira. |
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BBC News |
12:00pm PDT |
Alitalia boss quits as talks end |
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Summary: Alitalia boss Maurizio Prato resigns as talks about a takeover by Air France-KLM are abandoned. |
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BBC News |
11:58am PDT |
Tancock races to new world record |
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Summary: Liam Tancock sets a new world 50m backstroke record of 24.47 seconds at the British Olympic trials in Sheffield on Wednesday night. |
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Cnn.com |
11:30am PDT |
FBI: Airport suspect planned to build bomb |
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Summary: The man accused of trying to sneak bomb-making materials on a flight from Orlando to Jamaica admitted he planned to build a bomb after he landed, according to an FBI agent.
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Yahoo News |
11:22am PDT |
Mugabe loses control of Zimbabwe parliament
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President Robert Mugabe fought to
survive the biggest crisis of his rule on Wednesday after
losing control of Zimbabwe's parliament for the first time
since taking power after independence. |
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Cnn.com |
11:20am PDT |
'Pig Book' names congressional porkers |
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Summary: A watchdog group critical of pork barrel spending released its latest findings Wednesday targeting the top Congressional "porkers."
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Yahoo News |
11:20am PDT |
Obama: I'd hire Gore
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democrat Barack Obama said Wednesday he talks regularly with former vice president Al Gore and would consider putting him in a Cabinet-level position or higher. |
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Yahoo News |
11:18am PDT |
McCain compiles list of possible veeps
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sen. John McCain is in the "embryonic stages" of selecting a vice presidential running mate and he hopes to unveil his choice before the Republican National Convention to avoid the type of problems that plagued Dan Quayle's debut two decades ago. |
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BBC News |
11:14am PDT |
Church rejects women bishops bill |
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Summary: Leaders of the Church in Wales vote against a bill to allow women priests to be ordained as bishops. |
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Yahoo News |
11:13am PDT |
"Ask Zawarhi" responses coming soon from Qaeda leader
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Al Qaeda deputy Ayman al-Zawarhi's
responses to Internet questions submitted by the public will be
released soon, probably within the next three days, a terrorism
monitoring service said on Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:41am PDT |
iPhone shortage: supply woes or new model?
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Apple's iPhone is in short supply
at many of its U.S. stores, which could indicate a component
shortage or a clearing of shelves for a new model, analysts
said on Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:40am PDT |
Military feels fuel-cost gouge in Iraq
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Think you're being gouged by Big Oil? U.S. troops in Iraq are paying almost as much as Americans back home, despite burning fuel at staggering rates in a war to stabilize a country known for its oil reserves. |
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BBC News |
10:39am PDT |
Losing his grip? |
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Summary: Is Robert Mugabe on the way out, or ready to fight? |
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Yahoo News |
10:36am PDT |
Mariah Carey surpasses Elvis in No. 1s
(AP)
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Summary: AP - With her 18th chart-topper "Touch My Body," Mariah Carey has passed Elvis Presley for the most No. 1 singles on the Billboard singles chart, and is now second only to the Beatles. |
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BBC News |
10:28am PDT |
Afghan assistance |
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Summary: Could Nato's summit be the key to Afghanistan? |
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Yahoo News |
10:24am PDT |
Knicks hire Walsh as president
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Donnie Walsh is the new president of the New York Knicks, and he says he'll wait a few days before deciding on Isiah Thomas' future with the organization. |
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Yahoo News |
10:23am PDT |
'High School Musical 3' films in April
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The "High School Musical" gang is returning to Utah this month for their senior year. |
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Yahoo News |
10:23am PDT |
Bush pushes NATO on Afghanistan, Georgia, Ukraine
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush went
into his final NATO summit on Wednesday urging his European
allies to send more troops to Afghanistan and to set two former
Soviet republics, Georgia and Ukraine, on a path to membership. |
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Yahoo News |
10:20am PDT |
Obama ties Clinton to corporate interests
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama on Wednesday
rejected Hillary Clinton's claims to be a champion of working
families and portrayed his presidential rival as a defender of
corporate interests and the status quo. |
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DJ Chuang |
10:05am PDT |
roaming at day 2 of AWAKEN |
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Summary: Today I’m roaming on the perimeter of AWAKEN, and working from the outside courtyard. Not attending the conference itself. Should be meeting up w/ Ben Arment, Cynthia Ware, Steve Choi, Dan Kimball, maybe others. The content is mostly recycled from w |
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BBC News |
10:04am PDT |
Genetic link to smoking addiction |
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Summary: Scientists pinpoint genetic variations that raise smokers' risk of lung cancer - possibly by getting them hooked. |
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BBC News |
10:02am PDT |
Iraqi army shows force in Basra |
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Summary: An Iraqi commander leads a convoy through the stronghold of the radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr in Basra. |
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Yahoo News |
10:00am PDT |
British scientists make human-cow embryos
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - British researchers say they have
created embryos and stem cells using human cells and the egg
cells of cows, but said such experiments would not lead to
hybrid human-animal babies, or even to direct medical
therapies. |
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Yahoo News |
10:00am PDT |
Genetic link tied to smoking addiction
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Scientists say they have pinpointed a genetic link that makes people more likely to get hooked on tobacco, causing them to smoke more cigarettes, making it harder to quit, and leading more often to deadly lung cancer. |
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CTI News |
9:57am PDT |
Debate: Christian Evangelism and Judaism |
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Summary: An exchange of views between a rabbi and a columnist.
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CTI News |
9:57am PDT |
Election 08's 'False Clerics and Schismatic Spirits' |
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Summary: The ubiquity of religion in this campaign season is distinctly un-Lutheran.
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Yahoo News |
9:48am PDT |
Polls: Obama gains on Clinton in Pa.
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama has gained ground on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in Pennsylvania by drawing more support from men and younger voters, according to presidential polls in the state. |
