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This doesn't sound all that good to me. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA decided Thursday that no repairs are needed for a deep gouge in Endeavour's belly and the space shuttle is safe to fly home. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070817/ap_on_sc/space_shuttle

Can you match the pictures in the bottom row with those in the top? (no innocent ******* were injured or insulted during the making of this post)

I can still remember Rumsfeld belittling experienced Generals who said we needed 250,000 troops, about how stupid they were that they couldn't grasp we only needed 50,000. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/view/ A**hole! Troops in Iraq to reach record level The number...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese couple tried to name their baby "@", claiming the character used in e-mail addresses echoed their love for the *****, an official trying to whip the national language into line said on Thursday. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/oukoe_uk_china_language

Builders see subprime mortgage woes spreading with no sign of a turnaround until 2008 at earliest for battered new-home market. http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/15/news/economy/builders/index.htm

8/15/2007 Estero, Florida A would-be robber, caught on security cam, wearing an unusual disguise. The man ran into a gas station wearing a mop on his head and demanded money. He gave up and fled the store when the cashier was slow in handing over the cash. Investigators are reviewing...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Former referee Tim Donaghy pleaded guilty to two felony charges Wednesday in an NBA betting scandal that rocked the league and raised questions about the integrity of games. Donaghy faces a maximum of 25 years in prison when he is sentenced for conspiracy to engage in wire...

So, you're not a great chef, but you want to impress someone with your culinary skills. Trick them into thinking the cheap **** you've just poured is really a fine **** from California, and they'll sing praises of your meal. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/DyeHard/story?id=3478896&page=1

Rescuers dug through the muddy wreckage of collapsed clay houses in northwest Iraq on Wednesday, uncovering at least 200 victims of suicide truck bombings that the U.S. military blamed on al-Qaida. http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=3481225

Asian, European Markets Slide Over Credit Crunch Started by Problems in U.S. Credit Sector http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=3481140

Home phone numbers have been available to the public for a long time, so many Americans treasure the fact that their cell numbers can be kept private -- or so they think. Now, all it takes is a few bucks and Internet access to find tens of millions of personal cell phone numbers...

Seccuro Reacts to Beebe Release Date In March, William Beebe was found guilty of sexually assaulting Liz Seccuro at a party at UVA in 1984. The case made national headlines. And it's making headlines again. Beebe is at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Regional Jail now, but not for much longer...

TOKYO - Yone Minagawa, who became the world's oldest person earlier this year, has died at a nursing home in southwestern Japan, an official said Tuesday. She was 114. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070814/ap_on_re_as/obit_oldest_person

New York fixture Brooke Astor dies Philanthropist, civic leader gave away nearly $200 million; she was 105 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20252379/ Brooke Astor, New York Doyenne, Benefactor, Dies Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Brooke Astor, the white-gloved doyenne of New York society who gave away...

The military has taken a number of other steps to keep up its ranks, including some viewed as a lowering of its standards. It has increased the number of waivers it issues for people who wouldn't otherwise qualify because of medical reasons or because of criminal convictions, and it has raised...

Merv Griffin, the big band-era crooner turned impresario who parlayed his "Jeopardy" and "Wheel of Fortune" game shows into a multimillion-dollar empire, died Sunday. He was 82. http://tv.yahoo.com/show/31376/news/urn:newsml:tv.ap.org:20070812:obit_merv_griffin__ER

Dating is a process a lot of us really can live without. It's an emotional rollercoaster that can drive you to ***** four year-old bottles of Mike's Hard Lemonade from the back of your refrigerator. http://dating.personals.yahoo.com/singles/datingtips/24994/7-dating-ups-and-downs

These are the kind of bad taste advertisments I'm seeing on Yahoo. Another with an angry *** asks, "you don't have life insurance"? Like a lot of people can't afford food or health insurance, much less life insurance.

Democrats on Saturday touted legislation to guarantee troops time at home between deployments to Iraq. In the party's weekly radio address, Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Calif., criticized President Bush for threatening to veto the bill, contending his administration's policies on troop deployments...

NASA discovered a worrisome gouge on Endeavour's belly soon after the shuttle docked with the international space station Friday, possibly caused by ice that broke off the fuel tank a minute after liftoff. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070811/ap_on_sc/space_shuttle

A crisis situation. How do you handle it? :dunno: (multiple choice)

China is launching an experimental summer camp for 40 youngsters to try to wean them off their Internet addiction, state media said on Tuesday. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070807/wr_nm/china_internet_dc

Chinese city traffic police have an average life expectancy of just 43 years because of the dire working conditions and pollution, state media said on Tuesday. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070807/hl_nm/china_pollution_police_dc Related...

Japanese girls born last year can expect to live to an average age of 85.8 years, making them the longest-lived in the world, according to figures released by the government on Thursday. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070726/hl_nm/japan_longevity_dc

You ***** when Condi Rice negotiates selling $30B of advanced weapons to Saudi Arabia. The Defense Department cannot account for 14,030 weapons — almost 4 percent of the semiautomatic pistols, assault rifles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and other weapons it began...

This is terrible. I guess with all the talk about *** control, this makes the case that cops shouldn't have guns. A police officer shooting at a snake apparently ****** a 5-year-old boy who was fishing at a nearby pond, officials said...

Housing and the stock market have both been embroiled in the "Greater Fool Theory" that means, no matter how much you pay for something, someone will come along and pay you more. "Flipping", for fast cash in real estate but now record numbers of people are caught in high risk, no money down...

RAMALLAH, West Bank - Most gunmen with ties to President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement have given up their weapons as part of an amnesty deal that seeks to improve ties between Israel and Abbas's moderate Palestinian leadership, a senior Palestinian security official said Sunday...

Afghanistan will produce another record poppy harvest this year that cements its status as the world's near-sole supplier of the heroin source, yet a furious debate over how to reverse the trend is stalling proposals to cut the crop, U.S. officials say...

I'm sure this isn't as sweet as it sounds. Declaring a new direction in energy policy, the House on Saturday approved $16 billion in taxes on oil companies, while providing billions of dollars in tax breaks and incentives for renewable energy and conservation efforts...

What's your favorite flavor and why?

One night. (About all I could stand). :rofl:

The United States and its Middle East allies are expected to raise the ante this week in an intensifying confrontation with Iran. http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3424836&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

More the two centuries ago, when the country's founding fathers gathered in Philadelphia to carve out a nation, they probably never envisioned politics involving discussion of $400 haircuts and senatorial cleavage. Some argue that this year, the quest for good government is too focused on good...

And you believe you think for yourself? :jester: In a new study from the August issue of the Journal of Consumer Research, researchers from Northwestern University demonstrate how advertisements can be manipulated to cause overemphasis of a particular feature and increase the likelihood that a...

At NASA, once again, the problem is its culture — a habit of dismissing the concerns of knowledgeable underlings. Flight surgeons feel so disregarded, in general, that they told the panel they are demoralized and less likely to report concerns of impaired performance. All NASA's leadership...

French newspaper calls for cancellation of Tour France reeled Thursday from the news that race leader Michael Rasmussen had been ousted by his team for lying about his whereabouts during pre-race training, the third blow this week to the venerable 104-year-old Tour. In recent days, two riders _...

This is appropriate, but not strong enough. Virtually a slap on the wrist. Not only was Tillman's ****** lied to, but the entire world. It's time to put an end to this "heroic" spin on everything. Next should be those who concocted the Jessica Lynch story. Lt. Gen. Philip Kensinger, who...

Sorry, but I have to take this with a grain of salt, as it appears as unsubstantiated heresay. Impossible to quantify it's also an unvalidated reason for the Iraq invasion. :dunno: The U.S. military has noted a "significant improvement" in the aim of attackers firing rockets and mortars into...

(Bad or good behavior changes with enough advertising. People need a "model") The more magazine ads smokers see for the nicotine patch and other quit-smoking aids, the more likely they are to try to quit smoking and be successful --- even without buying the products, finds a new Cornell study...

Essential fatty acids (EFAs) are just that; an "essential" part of the total fat intake necessary for a healthy human diet. Most EFAs come from plants, but some are ******-sourced. A new study has found that men who binge ***** have substandard intake of n-3 fats, one of two types of EFAs...

Heading toward a separation-of-powers showdown, House Democrats prepared contempt of Congress citations against two White House aides who have refused to comply with subpoenas for information on the abrupt firings of federal prosecutors...

A grand jury refused Tuesday to indict a doctor accused of ********* four seriously ill hospital patients with **** injections during the desperate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, closing the books on the only mercy-******* case to emerge from the storm...

Experiments using pigs genetically engineered for compatibility with the human immune system have raised hopes that cross-species transplantation could soon become an option for patients with diabetes and other currently incurable diseases. However, many scientific hurdles remain before the...

Native to South and Central Asia, bar-headed geese, named for the dark stripes on the backs of their heads, are often bred in captivity as domestic garden birds. In the wild, they migrate annually between India and the Tibetan plateau in China, flying over the world’s highest mountains on their...

Frustrated by delays in health care, injured Iraq war veterans accused VA Secretary Jim Nicholson in a lawsuit of breaking the law by denying them disability pay and mental health treatment. The lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, filed Monday in federal court in San...

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says he's staying at the Justice Department to try to repair its broken image, telling Congress in a statement released Monday he's troubled that politics may have played a part in hiring career federal prosecutors...

An intense rainfall has ****** evacuations, threatened water supplies and caused expensive flood damage in parts of Britain, which struggled to recover Sunday. More than a month's worth of rain drenched parts of England and Wales in just hours on Friday and more is expected in coming days...

Professor Peter Koopman, from UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) has received the GlaxoSmithKline Australia Award for Research Excellence that offers hope to ******** born with sexually ambiguous genitalia and other sexual development conditions...

Don't I know this is true? :jester: Where humans lower water quality, poor quality stickleback male fish trick unsuspecting females. An increase in nutrient input in the Baltic is compromising water clarity by promoting algal blooms. Under reduced visibility caused by the presence of algae...