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An Austin-based startup called EEStor promised "technologies for replacement of electrochemical batteries," meaning a motorist could plug in a car for five minutes and drive 500 miles roundtrip between Dallas and Houston without gasoline...

We're not talking about the so-called "neighborhood electric vehicles," which have top speeds of about 25 mph. We mean the fast and fully functional vehicles that can provide everything you need in a car—without the global warming gases and other tailpipe pollutants...

What's new? More policital corruption. More than 100 public officials in the state have been convicted on federal corruption charges in the last five years. http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/wireStory?id=3566255

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Officials at Nepal's state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft, the carrier said Tuesday. http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/wireStory?id=3557340

Surely you've heard the saying "the best things in life are free." Some people are using that principal to reduce waste on the planet by getting their basic necessities from supermarket dumpsters and online bartering sites. Known as freegans, as in "free" and "vegan," they don't eat meat and...

The war in Iraq is coming to a theater near you. In the next few months, as many as eight movies about the Iraq War will be released in theaters, including two that are rumored to be favorites at this week's Venice Film Festival. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=3558055&page=1

Doctor Warns Consumers May Be in Danger From Fumes From Buttery Flavoring in Microwave Popcorn http://abcnews.go.com/Health/WireStory?id=3557771&page=1

Exposure to smoking in movies appears to be associated with adolescents' risk of becoming established smokers who have used at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetimes, according to a new report. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070903204841.htm

An estimated 8.7 percent of U.S. ******** age 8 to 15 meet diagnostic criteria for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, but fewer than half receive treatment, according to a new article. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070903204843.htm

At nearly 50,900 square feet, the Chase home will be slightly larger than billionaire Bill Gates' home in Washington, about 4,000 square feet smaller than the White House and 20 times larger than the average-size home in America. :eek: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_re_us/mammoth_mansion

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20070831/sc_space/russiapreparesfor2009spacetouristflightfuturespacecraft

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_re_us/mega_millions_jackpot

WASHINGTON - Offering federal aid for strapped mortgage holders, the White House outlined proposals Friday to help borrowers hard hit by credit problems and the housing slump. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070831/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_housing_slump

For the second year in a row Angela Merkel, the first woman to become chancellor of Germany, ranks No. 1 on our list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women. http://www.forbes.com/home/business/2007/08/30/most-powerful-women-biz-07women-cz_em_cs_0830power_land.html First 25 1 Angela Merkel...

I've eaten here. :rofl: An angry Florida man is taking his dispute with a local restaurant public. Doug Kinney is outraged that he was recently charged for a lemonade at the King House Buffet, even though he ordered and received a glass of ice water with one slice of lemon...

I know earlier sections used less sophisticated techniques than later when engineering technology grew. This might be the areas of more or less packed Earth. BEIJING (Reuters) - Sand storms in northwest China are reducing sections of Great Wall to mounds of dirt and may cause them to disappear...

Global Study Says Civilians Now Hold 650 Million Small Arms; About 270 Million in U.S. http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=3533907 "There's no clear relationship between more guns and higher levels of ********," Krause said, pointing to low ownership and high crime rates in...

Volatility returned to Wall Street Tuesday, sending stocks plunging as investors grew more uneasy about the economy and whether the Federal Reserve will take the steps needed to prevent credit market problems from spreading further. The Dow Jones industrials fell 280 points...

It was suggested to forget the levees to fight nature and to stop building in flood prone areas. After $1.7 billion worth of work on a patchwork of levees, pumps, flood walls, canals and floodgates, New Orleans as a whole remains alarmingly vulnerable to another Katrina-like catastrophe...

If you think the decline in home prices is bad now, just wait. Two reports out his week show the once high-flying housing market is quickly losing altitude and that prices are likely to head still lower. http://www.cnbc.com/id/20477558 I don't have a link but ABC World News had a story...

In the current credit crunch, the supposedly sober and staid credit markets have done some rather predictably silly things. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=3518513&page=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

ATLANTA (AP) -- The Atlanta Falcons apparently are not through with Michael Vick yet -- not when the team still hopes to recover millions of dollars it already paid the quarterback. http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-falcons-vick&prov=ap&type=lgns

CRAWFORD, Texas - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has resigned, ending a months-long standoff with Republican and Democratic critics who called for his ouster over the Justice Department's botched handling of FBI ****** investigations and the firing of U.S. attorneys, officials said Monday...

RICHMOND, Ind. -- There was one winning ticket for the Powerball lottery prize of $314.3 million US, and it was sold in this city on the Indiana-Ohio state line, lottery officials said yesterday. http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/World/2007/08/27/4449705-sun.html

Bolstered by windfall oil profits, Chavez's government is now offering more direct state funding to Latin America and the Caribbean than the United States. A tally by The Associated Press shows Venezuela has pledged more than $8.8 billion in aid, financing and energy funding so far this year...

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- As a female voice coos, "Welcome to space," six passengers in skintight spacesuits unbuckle their seat belts and somersault in zero gravity, occasionally peeking back at Earth through the private spaceship's large portholes...

We've all been there: A window display or a recommendation lures us into a store -- and we face unexpectedly astronomical price tags. It seems to happen more often these days as many luxury brands -- selling everything from $14,000 Ralph Lauren handbags to $899 Bugaboo baby strollers and $6,900...

This really annoyed me. I've seen developers destroy an area to sway local government to grant building permits. Twice in a Northern state building permits were held up, one in a natural area and the other with a historic designation. Developers bulldozed acres of trees in the first in...

Take some trading cards picturing a disgraced NFL superstar. Add some dog slobber and teethmarks. What do you get? The most valuable Michael Vick cards — by far — on eBay, that's what. :rofl: http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=20070824/ap_on_sp_fo_ne/fbn_vick_chewed_cards&prov=ap&type=lgns

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/25/AR2007082500836.html

WASHINGTON - Undersea explorer Robert Ballard leans back and smiles at the screens arrayed above his desk. One displays a view of a remote operating vessel, another scans along a seafloor never before viewed by humans. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070824/ap_on_sc/ocean_explorer

http://health.yahoo.com/experts/sexualhealing/18851/why-do-people-cheat

I think this is the all time worst idea for a TV show and really shows how crappy and out of good writers they are. But it figures it comes from CBS, the company that says we needed an 8th series of Big *******, and after, their last, pompous, "social awarenes", (racist), edition, another...

Guys with bulldog-like faces have been chick magnets throughout human evolutionary history. A recent study of the skulls of human ancestors and modern humans finds that women, and thereby, evolution, selected for males with relatively short upper faces. The region between the brow and the...

http://health.yahoo.com/experts/menlovesex/40807/5-secrets-you-should-keep-from-your-partner

http://dating.personals.yahoo.com/singles/datingtips/24995/10-turnoffs-that-make-great-gals-wave-goodbye

Not that I care for him either, but some of these terms, like corroded system and the rhetoric of change I like but think are just salesmanship, a new ad angle. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070823/ap_on_el_pr/edwards_change

I've heard of this and thought it was quite a good idea. :) The $10 Million Giveaway? Move over Sally Struthers. Three young entrepreneurs found an easier way to raise millions for struggling businesses almost anywhere in the world. But don’t call it a handout -- it’s a loan. And, it’s funded...

What can I say? :dunno: http://youtube.com/watch?v=VYSfBAohfc0&mode=user&search=

The devastation caused by a broken heart has been a dominant theme throughout the ages of great literature and pop culture alike. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070820123608.htm

Compared with Caucasians, African-Americans are exposed to more pro-tobacco advertising, according to a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study published in this month's Public Health Reports. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070820122545.htm

This of course would allow the production of fuel in space for long voyages or return from say, Mars. Spacecraft would only need to carry fuel to fly to the next "gas station". The prospect for the wide spread use of hydrogen as a portable energy carrier is dependent on finding a clean...

A lucky break it wasn't in the air. NAHA, Japan - Taiwan grounded its fleet of Boeing 737-800 jetliners after a China Airlines plane exploded in a fireball Monday on the tarmac in Okinawa, and officials said a fuel leak may be to blame. All 165 passengers and crew scrambled down emergency...

WASHINGTON - Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they're getting closer. Experts expect an announcement within three to 10 years from someone in the now little-known field of "wet artificial life."...

These losses in sales of course just reflect on the overall gloom of the economy despite the government painting smilies on everything. http://finance.yahoo.com/******-home/article/103371/automakers-total-recalls&.pf=******-home

:jester: http://youtube.com/watch?v=lCUpXRFloGk

CASTRIES, St. Lucia - Hurricane Dean tore through the eastern Caribbean islands of St. Lucia and Martinique on Friday, ripping roofs from buildings, downing trees and knocking out power. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070817/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/tropical_weather Large, powerful Hurricane Dean hits...

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