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Mar 29 2008
The builders of the world’s biggest particle collider are being sued in federal court over fears that the experiment might create globe-gobbling black holes or never-before-seen strains of matter that would destroy the planet. Representatives at...
Mar 28 2008
Hillary Clinton is as good as dead. This became the consensus over the past week, when the media awoke en masse to the dual reality that 1) Clinton can’t close the pledged-delegate gap and 2) Obama has her beat in the popular vote. But the Clinton...
Mar 28 2008
Ultimate fighting was once the sole domain of burly men who beat each other bloody in anything-goes brawls on pay-per-view TV. But the sport often derided as “human cockfighting” is branching out.
Mar 28 2008
Leading contributors to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton intensified their effort to keep the Democratic presidential contest alive on Wednesday and urged Speaker Nancy Pelosi to stay out of the superdelegate fight, admonishing her for suggesting that the...
Mar 28 2008
US audio historians have discovered and played back a French inventor’s historic 1860 recording of a folk song — the oldest-known audio recording — made 17 years before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph.
Mar 27 2008
Phillip Cunio celebrated his wife’s birthday from Mars. He held a card up to his habitat webcam so she could see it online, and fellow crew members baked a cake. Granted, this “Mars” was the Utah desert, but spending two weeks on a...
Mar 27 2008
The ridiculous story of the day is that Frank Milio is one of two 93 year olds that got caught up in a prostitution sting in Florida. The other man is Carlos Underhill, also 93 years old and he will not be charged. According to police records, in...
Mar 27 2008
The U.S. embassy in Cairo is admitting that an Egyptian citizen was killed when a U.S. Navy-contracted ship fired warning shots at approaching motor boats in the Suez Canal. In the immediate aftermath of the late Monday incident, U.S. officials...