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on Jun 8, 2009 | In Life & Living
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It all started with one man thinking, "What if there was a place where one person could help another in need?" That idea has blossomed into an amazing website that let's you shop for the person you want to help out and become their hero.
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| | | With a few items found in almost any desk or tool drawer, you can make your very own mini hovercraft capable of gliding over any flat surface. |
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| | | Summer 2009 blockbuster movies are on their way to a theater near you and we''ve got the extended trailer for TRANSFORMERS 2 here. Get your fix of Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox in action |
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| | | Laila Ali talks about how she clashed with her father as a young girl. The boxing daughter of the legendary Muhammad Ali was attending the Sports Spectacular at Century City''s Hyatt Regency. |
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| | | George Chamberlin answers a question on the mind of many Calaway Golf stock holders. |
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| | | Get a sneak peak at TV Guide''s inFANity: Wipeout as Lisa Joyner braves the obstacle course (well, sorta) from ABC''s breakout summer hit! Then catch the full show on TV Guide Network Tuesday, May 26th at 8pm. |
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| | | Anthony Swarzak talks with FSN after the Twins beat the Brewers 6-2. Swarzak threw seven shutout innings in his major league debut. |
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| | | SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE''s Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy talk about Season 5''s new styles, funky moves, and, yes, the return of Sex! |
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| | | A federal prosecutor says the four men accused of a New York bombing plot were disappointed the World Trade Center wasn''t around any more to attack. The men are accused of planning to blow up two synagogues and fire missiles at military planes. |
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Thousands gathered in downtown Beirut's Martyrs' Square on Saturday to mark the fourth anniversary of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination, a traumatic event in the nation's post-civil war history. Hariri died February 14, 2005, in a powerful explosion that left a 10-foot crater in a street in |
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Afghan political leaders on Sunday accused President Hamid Karzai of trying to "sabotage" the country's presidential election after he asked the election commission to explore moving the vote up four months. Karzai released a decree Saturday directing the commission to set an election date that adheres to the Afghan constitution, which calls for a vote 30 to 60 days before May 22, |
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An Iranian woman living in Spain said Wednesday she welcomed a Tehran court ruling that awards her eye-for-an-eye justice against a suitor who blinded her with acid. Ameneh Bahrami, 30, told Cadena SER radio, "I am not doing this out of revenge, but rather so that the suffering I went through is not repeated." Late last year an Iranian court ruled that the man — identified only as Majid |
A Canadian judge ordered the government Wednesday to resume efforts to win clemency for a Canadian on death row in Montana. Ronald Smith was convicted in 1983 of murdering two American Indians and has been fighting execution for years. Canada's previous Liberal Party government sought clemency for Smith, but the Conservatives |
President Barack Obama is naming a team of outside economic advisers to help him steer the nation's economy out of the tailspin that has dominated his first two weeks in office. The president was to announce the team members Friday as the White House braced for more bad news in the unemployment report for January. Obama |
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British naturalist Charles Darwin shocked Victorian society when he suggested that humans evolved from animals over millions of years, and his theories still spark controversy. February 12 marks the scientist's 200th birthday and 2009 is the 150th year since he published the pivotal "On the Origin of Species." Expedition organizers |
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Growing up in America, Joshu Harris was captivated by the mystique, music and history of Cuba. So before Harris started law school, he traveled to Santiago in southeastern Cuba -- something very few Americans can do today. While there, he played his trumpet with a local dance band, touring across the Cuban countryside. I wanted to see and experience the country |
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British naturalist Charles Darwin shocked Victorian society when he suggested that humans evolved from animals over millions of years, and his theories still spark controversy. February 12 marks the scientist's 200th birthday and 2009 is the 150th year since he published the pivotal "On the Origin of Species." Expedition organizers |
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When Stefanie Rasimowicz finds out the pool at her resort hotel will be closed during her vacation, she faces the prospect of a ruined honeymoon. The hotel is apologetic, but offers her no alternative except to use another nearby pool. Can it do better? Should it? Q: My fiance and I booked our honeymoon at the Westin Aruba through a |
When Stefanie Rasimowicz finds out the pool at her resort hotel will be closed during her vacation, she faces the prospect of a ruined honeymoon. The hotel is apologetic, but offers her no alternative except to use another nearby pool. Can it do better? Should it? Q: My fiance and I booked our honeymoon at the Westin Aruba through a |
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A University of South Florida professor of archaeology wants students to know one thing: Archaeology is not just about dinosaurs. In her book "Archaeology for Dummies," Nancy Marie White explains what archaeology is all about. The book provides an overview of the field of archaeology and its different types. It covers prehistoric and historic archaeology |
The Conficker Internet worm could strike at infected computers around the world on April 1, a security expert warned Monday. Conficker is a sophisticated piece of malicious computer software, or malware, that installs itself on a Windows PC's hard drive via specially written Web pages. It then conceals itself on a computer. |
A fossil from famous shale deposits in Canada was thought to be unremarkable, but a new study finds that it's actually the remains of a 500-million-year-old monster-looking predator. The Burgess Shale (a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia) has yielded exceptionally well-preserved fossils that present a |
British intelligence officers scoured hundreds of UFO sighting reports in the 1980s and 1990s looking for top-secret American stealth-plane projects, newly released files have shown. At the end of the cold war, the Ministry of Defense was worried that America was developing mysterious planes but not telling its closest ally. |
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Officials trying to determine how the 150-pound cat got out of its enclosure Officials at a Kansas zoo are trying to figure out how a 150-pound mountain lion escaped from its enclosure. The 14-year-old female was shot and killed by police at the Great Bend Zoo on Sunday evening. Zoo director Mike Cargill tells KAKE-TV the mountain lion escaped |
After eight days together, space shuttle Discovery pulled away from the international space station Wednesday, ending a successful effort to boost electrical power and science research at the orbiting outpost. The two spacecraft went separate ways as they soared above the Indian Ocean. The undocking puts Discovery and its seven-member crew on course |
A British driver has blamed his GPS navigation unit for leaving his car teetering on the edge of a cliff after he followed its instructions. Robert Jones said he trusted his navigational system and continued to follow it when it told him the steep, narrow footpath he was driving on was a road. Jones, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, northern England, now has a court |
Chinese authorities have blocked access to the video-sharing Web site YouTube -- the latest victim of a politically motivated Internet crackdown. Authorities in Beijing have not explained why the site has been targeted for censorship. There is widespread speculation, however, that YouTube has been targeted because of a video showing Chinese police taking |
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After a recent chicken slaughtering workshop in the Redland, Justine Raphael took away the basics of butchering a bird. She also took away the chicken livers, hearts, gizzards, heads and feet. No one wanted them except me, said Raphael, who used the chicken bits for soup stock. More food for us, she added with a shrug. |
Dr. Arthur Agatston, cardiologist and South Beach Diet developer, talks about diet, exercise and Miami's new status as the nation's fattest city: Q: In your newest book, The South Beach Diet Supercharged, you write that the diet debates are over. What do you mean? A: The consensus is that we're beyond low-fat versus low-carb debates . . . The answer is |
In a sparkling new kitchen in the Biltmore Hotel's conference center, five teary-eyed home cooks compared tips for no-cry onion chopping. I heard it helps if you breathe through your mouth, one said. My mother told me to put bread on the cutting board while you do it, offered another. Lourdes Castro chuckled. 'I say, `Chop faster.' |
A prestigious medical journal on Friday accused Pope Benedict of distorting scientific evidence to promote Catholic doctrine by saying that condoms increase the spread of AIDS. The Lancet in an editorial called on the Pope to retract the comments made last week, saying anything less would be an immense disservice to the public and |
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A small piece of Florida hammock near the Redland sat untended for many years. Battered by Hurricane Andrew, it was disfigured by tossed trees and a tangle of jasmine, wood rose and air potato -- three of the meanest invasive exotic plants that would challenge the most skilled professional forester. In 1996, Gladys Chern and her son Danny Reyes |
Malaysia may require women to obtain family consent before allowing them to travel alone outside the mainly Muslim country, state news agency Bernama reported on Saturday, quoting the foreign minister. he foreign and home ministries are considering the idea in response to a string of cases where women traveling alone were used by |
Designer Jil Sander's fashions are making a comeback, not on the runways of Milan or Paris but on the shelves of Japanese budget clothing retailer Uniqlo, which is thriving in the recession. Uniqlo's owner, Fast Retailing, said it had hired Sander as design consultant and to oversee its collection for the next fall and winter seasons, plus possibly create her own line. |
Designer Jil Sander's fashions are making a comeback, not on the runways of Milan or Paris but on the shelves of Japanese budget clothing retailer Uniqlo, which is thriving in the recession. Uniqlo's owner, Fast Retailing, said it had hired Sander as design consultant and to oversee its collection for the next fall and winter seasons, plus possibly create her own line. |
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