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- Orioles: The team's new manager came out of Brooklyn on skates, went off-Broadway, and from there back to baseball. |
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- Dolphins also stand 5-4, with strong ground game and run-stopping defense; Both teams to start backup QBs; Billick: 'Team that is more physical' will win; Miami has lost three of past four |
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- 'Mad genius' Dickinson's 7-year-old gelding hadn't raced in nearly four years |
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- N.C. State comes up short, 50-44, to No. 13 Seminoles |
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- With her fellow Texas journalist Lou Dubose, Molly Ivins is the author of "Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America," a comprehensive denunciation of the policies of the current president. |
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- For some Democratic presidential candidates, the idea of connecting with America's young electorate means showing up for events dressed as though they're running for Quiz-Bowl captain of the SS Enterprise. Two weeks ago, for instance, Gen. Wesley Clark wore a black blazer over a mock turtleneck shirt, and Dennis Kucinich wore a variation of the same. The evening, sponsored by Rock the Vote and hosted by CNN's Anderson Cooper, took place before an audience of under-30s, so the emphasis on the pre-debate hype was on youth. |
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- Karen Kim believes a shoebox can change a child's life. |
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- Q: My 26-month-old son will not stay in bed. He goes to bed fine, but he wakes up and calls for us. He is very verbal and yells complete sentences like, "Tom Smith, you're my daddy. It's your job to come get me! |
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- It was literature in a box. |
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- Q: What one piece of advice do you have for those approaching their senior years? |
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- A year after he sold his baby, The Loft Cinema, Joe Esposito can walk into the arthouse theater he once owned and smile. |
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- Lucinda Williams got high Friday night at the Rialto Theatre. |
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- * DEAR MISS MANNERS: I'm a 30-year-old woman, and normally date only one person at a time. However, since I want to get married and have children before I'm too old, I felt that I should branch out. |
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- Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado" has been staged approximately a zillion times since its London premiere in 1885. If you've not managed to see a satisfying performance of this most witty work, Arizona Opera's version should fit the bill nicely. |
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- Carolyn Parkhurst would have been perfectly content if just a few people perused "The Dogs of Babel," her first novel. |
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- Sixty horseback riders participated in a trail ride Nov. 1 in support of two therapeutic riding programs in Southern Arizona. |
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- SHOVELING SMOKE by Austin Davis (Chronicle Books, $23.95) |
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- * Denotes complexes in which at least one theater has equipment for the hearing-impaired. Times listed within parentheses indicate matinee prices. |
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- NEW YORK - Afeni Shakur, the 56-year-old mother of the late rapper Tupac Shakur, does not fit the image of a savvy record executive. |
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- Not everyone gets to narrate a documentary about his own life from beyond the grave, but slain rapper Tupac Shakur gets that privilege in "Tupac: Resurrection." |
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- * Desert gardening: Work with small groups of children during or after school to teach them about plants, wildlife, soil, water, food production and cooking. |
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- There's an interesting discussion over at Slashdot about kids and access to the Internet. Below is the post, the discussion continues here. Kent Brewster writes "Despite dire warnings, we've gone ahead and put computers with Internet access into our adolescent (11, 12, and 15-year-old) childrens' rooms. We've got a nebulous set of rules, which include several like these: Keep the door open when you're on the computer. |
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- Amazon.com Research Services for Microsoft Office System: No more research for creating bibliographies or footnotes. The Amazon Research Pane download for Microsoft Office 2003 allows you to search for Amazon products from within Microsoft Word or Excel documents, and to... |
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- Mellanox Technologies Ltd., the leader in InfiniBand solutions has announced, in conjunction with Virginia Tech, the deployment, performance results and ranking for Virginia Tech's 1105 node InfiniBand computing cluster. The performance result achieves a #3 position on the new Top500 Supercomputer list (www.top500.org) that was released today. |
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- This morning's Ten Commandments-related news and commentary: From Alabama, The Huntsville Times reports here that "Moore's options appear plentiful; Guessing game even includes a presidential bid." That newspaper also offers extensive reader reaction to |
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- gestern abends stand ich gemeinsam mit patrick lindner, marshall & alexander, matthias reim, natural, katja riemann, petra irgendwas band, einem wunderkind, udo lindenberg, anna maria kaufmann, alexander superstar und gunther emmerlich auf einer bühne und sah aus, als würde ich lächeln. |
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- " 'Karachi and Bangalore were considered two of the neatest Indian cities before Independence. Later in 1959-60, I read a press report about a UN survey which identified Karachi as one of the 10 dirtiest cities of the world', Advani said in New Delhi and added that none of the Indian cities was there in the list." |
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- Employees were sorting mail Friday when they noticed something chewing its way out of an Express Mail box. Workers tried to tape the box closed, but whatever was inside bit it open."The nose ... was sticking out with its teeth hanging out," |
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- Detective Mike Kendrick began photographing the body of a little girl on an emergency room table for an investigation of a drowning. Then, through the lens, he saw her chest move. Just spasms, he thought. Then he saw it move again. And again. |
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- "I was in shock," the Phoenix woman said in an interview, particularly after she realized the inch-long critter she found was only half of the worm. |
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- Taxpayers' refund checks will increase nearly 27% to an average $2,500 per family early next year, according to new forecasts from tax experts and economists, who say the windfalls will aid consumers, the economy and President Bush's re-election campaign. |
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- Peter Miller/Perpetual Ocean's strangely beautiful collection of art: errie, original, etheral. (Miller is an artist/composer who has a number of albums, incuding sound design to the movie "The Ring") The erotic mathematical algorithms (room 8) are images created entirely from mathematical algorithms. |
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- Awkward in a group of people? Difficulty starting up new conversations, meeting new folks? Don't know how to break the ice? Or too busy? Let technology take over for you! |
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- Spam gets a lot of attention. Not a day goes by when I don't read a blog entry complaining about it or announcing some new way to stop those unwanted messages ending up in our Inbox or blog comments. Everyone is ANTI SPAM - me included. |
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- WASHINGTON TERRACE, Utah - With the roll of the dice and the flash of cameras, Mark Allen won a third term as this city's mayor. Wasn't sure whether to put this in "gods and government" or "fun and games"... |
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- Sharon a Roma: indesiderato! |
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- Das Drama der "Queen Mary II" |
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- Kylie is threatening to cover her bum for good - claiming she is too old to flaunt it. Spearmintlingerie.com has sponsored www.kyliesbottom.com. |
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- Ce qu’il y a de certain, c’est que la plupart des beaux esprits et savants humanistes qui brillèrent en Italie,... |
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- The winning Re-Useit design has been announced... and I'm somewhat surprised to see Kraftsman get the nod over everyone else.... |
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- As expected, Virginia Tech's "Big Mac" supercomputer cluster, built with 1,100 Power Mac G5s, officially ranks third among the world's 500 most powerful supercomputers... [MacMinute] |
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- Prez in Topless Tabloid - "After coming to office with a vow to restore dignity to the White House, the president yesterday took a brief sabbatical from that effort: He granted an exclusive interview to a British tabloid that features daily photographs of nude women... Posted by abursey at 07:54 AM |
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