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| | | Tim Furlong visits Betty''s speakeasy in Philadelphia for a delicious fudge treat! |
| | | Baltimore''s Adam Jones is only 23 years old. But prior to Thursday''s game in New York, Jones was fourth in the American League in hitting, and tops in slugging percentage. |
| | | People attending a Cinco de Mayo celebration on Olvera Street in Los Angeles say attendance is noticeably down from last year. Some say it''s because the festivities fall on a weekday. |
| | | Are there little things that you think ALL guys should know? Brett Cohen goes over a few basics from his book about the little things that men should know how to do. |
| | | Obama meets with Pakistan''s President; Afghan civilians die in U.S. air attacks; Health insurance industry offers to end practice of charging higher premiums to women |
| | | Mariah Carey shooting her latest video for ''Obsessed'', a not-so-subtle dig at Eminem. |
| | | The uncle of one four New York terror plot suspects says his nephew, Onta Williams, was brainwashed and changed after he became a Muslim in prison. He said his nephew had been shaken by his mother''s death in 2006 and a separation from his wife. |
| | | The quickest way to get a gorgeous lawn is to lay sod, uniform patches of grass-covered soil held together by matted roots. It will go more smoothly if you know a few landscaping tricks |
| | | Being a new mom at 40 used to be almost unheard of, but some very famous women are proving it''s never too late to start a family. TV Guide Network looks at Halle Berry, Salma Hayek, Madonna and others who had children later in life. |
| | | Federal judge orders the 4 men to remain in jail and charges them with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction |
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on Jun 12, 2009 | In Cancer
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Dr. Lori Chap tells Lori how to effectively do a self examination and the importance of understanding that going through cancer is more about thriving than surviving.
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| | | What are the Red Wings'' ''Black Aces''? Watch this clip to find out how hard work does pay off in Detroit. |
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| | | Patrick Kibangou is not your typical Polish politician. He is the country''s sole black candidate for next month''s European Parliament elections. A look at how he is putting that to his advantage. |
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| | | In this footage obtained by TMZ.com, David Hasselhoff says he was drinking the night he was allegedly hospitalized with alcohol poisoning, but says that reports were ''utterly exaggerated.'' |
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| | | The uncle of one four New York terror plot suspects says his nephew, Onta Williams, was brainwashed and changed after he became a Muslim in prison. He said his nephew had been shaken by his mother''s death in 2006 and a separation from his wife. |
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| | | Got video files on your computer? Watch them on your big-screen TV – using your Xbox! |
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| | | Legendary restaurant pioneer Norman Brinker has died at the age of 78 |
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| | | Got video files on your computer? Watch them on your big-screen TV – using your Xbox! |
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| | | Hundreds gather to say goodbye to former Indians owner, Dick Jacobs. |
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| | | Lil'' Kim became a fan favorite this season on DANCING WITH THE STARS, but sadly her time on the show has come to an end. But the bionic booty has no regrets, as she told Hollywood 41 |
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| | | The Supreme Court declared Monday that white firefighters in Connecticut were unfairly denied promotion because of their race, ruling against minorities in a major reverse discrimination case that could affect bosses and workers nationwide. |
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WORLD» |
A bombing in one of the Egyptian capital's busy tourist districts killed a French tourist Sunday and wounded 23 other people, including 18 Europeans, Egyptian authorities reported. The French tourist killed was a 17-year-old girl. The blast wounded 17 other French nationals, one of whom was in critical condition Sunday evening, and one German, Health Ministry spokesman |
Iran offered to stop attacking coalition troops in Iraq nearly four years ago in an attempt to get the West to accept Tehran's nuclear program, a British diplomat told the BBC in an interview aired Saturday. "The Iranians wanted to be able to strike a deal whereby they stopped killing our forces in Iraq in return for them being allowed to carry on with their |
Libya’s ambassador to the United Nations accused Israel of genocide and compared Gaza to Nazi concentration camps. The ambassador also dismissed Wednesday’s possible indictment of Sudanese President al-Bashir for genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur as a Western ploy. "Israeli aggression…is a terrible situation that has never |
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The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday urged Myanmar to admit a top U.N. envoy immediately, but China immediately ruled out calls for sanctions or a U.N. condemnation of the ruling junta's use of force. The United States and the 27-member European Union had asked the council to consider punitive measures and demanded that the junta in the former Burma open a |
The Malaysian government will issue a new decree restoring a ban on Christian publications using the word "Allah" to refer to God, officials said Sunday. Home Affairs Minister Syed Hamid Albar said a previous Feb. 16 decree that allowed Christian publications to use the word as long as they specified the material was not for Muslims was a mistake, the national Bernama news agency reported. |
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 |
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There's a $24 charge for two movies on Keeley Hozjan's hotel bill. Movies that were never ordered or watched. Although the hotel promises an investigation, the charge shows up on Hozjan's credit card only a day after checkout. What gives? Q: What can you do if a hotel is charging you for something you didn't use? I stayed at the Liaison Capitol |
There's a $24 charge for two movies on Keeley Hozjan's hotel bill. Movies that were never ordered or watched. Although the hotel promises an investigation, the charge shows up on Hozjan's credit card only a day after checkout. What gives? Q: What can you do if a hotel is charging you for something you didn't use? I stayed at the Liaison Capitol |
Gas prices nationwide jumped a bit over the past two weeks, according to a survey published Sunday. A gallon of self-serve regular cost, on average, $1.86, said Trilby Lundberg, publisher of the Lundberg Survey. That's a rise of nearly 8 cents over the past two weeks. After breaking all-time-high records over the summer, prices |
Two young Iranian parents smiled at me, showing mock desperation as their little boy and girl eagerly dragged them into a shop famous for its pistachio ice cream sandwiches. Around the corner, filling the side of a 15-story building, a government-sponsored propaganda mural showed a perverted American flag, with skulls for stars and falling bombs for stripes. |
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The Economist Intelligence Unit will publish a report -- The Austere Traveller -- in February that will show that business travelers' expectations are changing. Economic pressures mean executives now care less about luxury. Instead they are going back to basics. In 2009 we will be traveling less, for shorter periods and trading down in hotels, airlines and restaurants. |
What would it cost to stay in a three-bedroom house in the heart of the nation's capital for Barack Obama's inauguration? Absolutely nothing, for those who don't mind bunking and bonding with perfect strangers. Members of a social hospitality network are opening their doors to inauguration-goers this week and |
Kay Pratt's rental car gets a ticket when she stays in a San Francisco hotel. Problem is, the car was under the care of the property's valet services. Now she wants the $85 ticket refunded, but the hotel is stringing her along. Is she stuck with the ticket.? Q: I'm having a problem with a hotel's valet parking service, and could use a little help |
There's a $24 charge for two movies on Keeley Hozjan's hotel bill. Movies that were never ordered or watched. Although the hotel promises an investigation, the charge shows up on Hozjan's credit card only a day after checkout. What gives? Q: What can you do if a hotel is charging you for something you didn't use? I stayed at the Liaison Capitol |
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY» |
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 |
The astronauts aboard the linked shuttle-station complex took a congratulatory call from the White House on Tuesday and told President Barack Obama and schoolchildren all about their adventures in space. Obama got a big laugh in orbit and on the ground when he told the 10 space travelers that at a cruising speed of 17,500 mph, "We're glad that you are using the hands-free phone." |
Confronted with orbiting junk again, NASA ordered the astronauts aboard the linked space station and shuttle Discovery to move out of the way of a piece of debris Sunday. Discovery's pilots fired their ship's thrusters to reorient the docked spacecraft to avoid a small piece from a 10-year-old Chinese rocket body that was due to pass uncomfortably |
She may have ruled like a man, but Egyptian queen Hatshepsut still preferred to smell like a lady. The world may be able to get a whiff of that ancient royal scent when researchers complete their investigation into the perfume worn by Hatshepsut, the powerful pharaoh-queen who ruled over ancient Egypt for 20 years beginning around 1479 B.C. |
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Two Komodo dragons mauled a fruit-picker to death in eastern Indonesia, police and witnesses said Tuesday, the latest in a string of attacks on humans by the world's largest lizard species. Police Sgt. Kosmas Jalang said 31-year-old Muhamad Anwar was attacked on Komodo, one of four islands where the giant reptile is found in the wild, |
The astronauts aboard the linked shuttle-station complex took a congratulatory call from the White House on Tuesday and told President Barack Obama and schoolchildren all about their adventures in space. Obama got a big laugh in orbit and on the ground when he told the 10 space travelers that at a cruising speed of 17,500 mph, "We're glad that you are using the hands-free phone." |
A teenage hacker from New Zealand who helped a criminal network to infiltrate more than 1 million computers worldwide and skim millions of dollars from bank accounts has been hired as a cybersecurity consultant by the country's second-largest telecommunications company. Owen Thor Walker has skills that can help senior executives and |
Monitors say Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano has erupted again with an ash plume shooting about 15,000 feet high. The blast shortly after 5 a.m. Alaska Daylight Time (9 a.m. EDT) Wednesday was considered small and brief at 10 minutes. The plume appeared to be drifting north to northwest. Tom Murray, scientist in charge at the Alaska Volcano Observatory |
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Sixty-two years have passed since her masterwork, The Everglades: River of Grass. Fifteen years since her last significant statement as an activist, an upbraiding of Gov. Lawton Chiles for affixing her name to a Big Sugar pollution law she found sorely wanting. Almost 11 years since her death at 108 in her Coconut Grove cottage. |
Scientists have figured out a way to trick plants into doing the dirty work of environmental cleanup, U.S. and British researchers reported on Monday. Researchers at the University of Washington have genetically altered poplar trees to pull toxins out of contaminated ground water, offering a cost-effective way of cleaning up environmental pollutants. |
A French pole vaulting champion has run naked with his pole through the streets of Paris and posted the video on the Internet, hoping to draw attention to his quest for a new sponsorship deal. Romain Mesnil, who won a silver medal at the 2007 Athletics World Championships in Osaka, used to be sponsored by U.S. sports brand Nike but says his contract expired last year and was not renewed. |
Looking for somewhere new to visit this year that is not going to break the bank? Frommers has released its list of top destinations for 2009, focusing on places that are affordable and interesting. Reuters has not endorsed this list: . Washington, D.C., USA There's the influx of new blood and governing energy from January 21 when Barack Obama is inaugurated as U.S. |
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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. |
If you are trying to save money by scaling back on your beauty products, chances are you'll find some inexpensive treatments -- just like the ones your mother or grandmother swore by -- in your own kitchen. Many of us get caught up in the excitement of new products, said Cheryl Kramer Kaye, beauty director for Redbook magazine. |
Val LaFrance ditched the packed New York theater scene to seek Miami stardom. For 13 years in the late 1940s and 1950s, he produced and acted in plays in the subtropics, earning good reviews -- and a steady girlfriend who wanted to marry. So when a nun in the theater department at Barry College (now University) suggested he turn his |
This summer, daintily-clad toesies are morphing into so-called ``caged feet. Leather straps are radiating over arches, thrust forward by towering, heavy heels and thick shanks. Platforms made of punishing wood are back and in abundance. Heels come shaped like inverted triangles or hefty cylinders. |
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