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Garfield, Morris and the Aristocats get the fame, but look to the origins of today's furry felines and you find "lybica," a Middle Eastern wildcat. Domestic cats can be traced to wild progenitors that interbred well over 100,000 years ago, new research indicates...

A new study compares the level of a tobacco-specific carcinogen in nonsmokers who work in restaurants that allow smoking with that of employees in restaurants that ban it. Restaurant workers exposed to tobacco smoke on the job were more likely to have a detectable level of NNK, a carcinogen...

I started watching this Sunday nights but missed the first episode. Guys doing their normal job, running big rigs over a frozen lake to drop supplies at a diamond mine. A sort of reality / contest show, to see who gets the biggest paycheck. They run it a few times every week...

Decent airshow vids http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=635919&cache=1 http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?ei=UTF-8&cache=1&gid=848019&vid=724205&b=1 http://youtube.com/watch?v=APiiKsH0dR4http://youtube.com/watch?v=FG3GX5JG0HA...

Despite tried and true methods to quit smoking, young adults do not take advantage of these proven smoking cessation treatments that can double their chances of quitting, University of Illinois at Chicago public health researchers report...

After six to nine months of abstinence from *******, recovering alcoholics who were also chronic smokers showed a significantly lower rate of improvement in tests of memory, reasoning, judgment and visual/spatial coordination than non-smoking recovering alcoholics in a study conducted by...

"If they don't cooperate, yes I'll go that far," said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. He was asked in a broadcast interview whether he would seek a congressional vote on contempt citations if President Bush did not comply. That move would push the matter to court...

Just my speed! :) The Carver is a tilting three wheeled vehicle using an automatic balancing technology to balance the passenger compartment under all conditions. Its first commercial product, the Carver One, seats two people, and is manufactured and distributed by Carver Europe (formerly named...

I know Putin will be in Kennebunkport tommorrow. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070630/ap_on_re_us/us_britain_airport_crash

12 minutes ago LONDON (AFP) - Britain raised its threat level to "critical" Saturday amid fears of a new Al-Qaeda-style ******, after a blazing car slammed into a Glasgow airport terminal the day after a foiled double car bombing in London...

All rural states where I guess people can drive faster. Just in time for the most dangerous days of the year to drive -- July 3 and 4 -- the national Center for Excellence in Rural Safety (CERS) at the University of Minnesota today released a list of the states where Americans are more likely...

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http://youtube.com/watch?search=&mode=related&v=FfNWmQiYb5I :rubbel:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7gB3Czv0vbw&mode=related&search= :jester:

Jupiter is easy to spot to the South. Moons and all the brightest thing out there. Jupiter is changing its stripes, perhaps because its seasons are changing, scientists reported Thursday. The orbiting Hubble Space Telescope is capturing some of the most dramatic atmospheric changes ever...

I'll bet there are some big golden parachutes opening about now. Workers at the bankrupt Delphi Corporation approved an agreement today that would eliminate a long-time job security protection program and steeply cut their hourly pay. Delphi was the nation’s biggest parts supplier before it...

More contaminated food concerns from China The Food and **** Administration today issued an alert challenging imports of five major types of ****-raised seafood from China, including shrimp and catfish, because testing found recurrent contamination from carcinogens and antibiotics...

Scientists have taken a giant leap toward making possible the ***** of building a powerful telescope on the moon that could withstand even the harshest of lunar conditions. http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/06/22/moon.telescope.reut/index.html?eref=rss_space

ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil refused on Tuesday to meet Venezuela’s deadline to reach an agreement on ceding control of their major oil production ventures, in what could be their imminent separation from billions of dollars in investments...

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The mummy of an obese woman, who likely suffered from diabetes and liver cancer, has been identified as that of Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt's most powerful female pharaoh, Egyptian archaeologists said Wednesday. http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/06/27/egypt.mummy.ap/index.html?eref=rss_space

:) Researchers will visit Michigan's Upper Peninsula next month to search for evidence of the legendary creature known as "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch." "We'll be looking for evidence supporting a presence. ... We hope to meet local people who might have seen a Sasquatch or heard of someone else...

Two arrested over Madeleine case An Italian man and a Portuguese woman are being interviewed by police investigating the disappearance of four-year-old Madeleine McCann. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6251266.stm 2 Arrested in Missing British Girl Case Spanish police said Thursday...

This was talked about but is now official. I haven't seen any in a few months because of the drought. Interior Department Removes Bald Eagle From List of Threatened Species http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=3325917&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

After weeks of insisting that food here is largely safe, regulators in China said Tuesday that they had recently closed 180 food plants and that inspectors had uncovered more than 23,000 food safety violations...

Really bad. It's not like you can go for a drive to buy a new tube of Crest. Roughly 900,000 tubes containing a poison used in some antifreeze products have turned up in hospitals for the mentally ill, prisons, juvenile detention centers and even some hospitals serving the general population...

Allergies, like the common cold and asthma, have basically defied the best efforts of modern medicine to cure them. Now, a doctoral candidate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of ******** has come up with a new approach that offers hope for getting rid of them...

What a guy! I don't know how I missed this but it is 3 years old; "Fuck yourself," said the man who is a heartbeat from the presidency. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3699-2004Jun24.html

The Senate subpoenaed the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney's office Wednesday, demanding documents and elevating the confrontation with President Bush over the administration's warrant-free eavesdropping on Americans. "If there have been lies told to us, we'll refer it to the...

Which zombie chick is hotter and why? :jester:

I might have seen this before. :dunno: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sm73wOuPL60&mode=related&search=

New technology can do much to improve certain aspects of aviation in terms of sustainable development over the next fifty years, but this will be nowhere near enough to compensate for the expected growth in air travel. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070626115346.htm

Senators, White House React to Calls to Withdraw From Iraq http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3319486&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

A team of U.S. searchers looking for the remains of the Marine who filmed the famous flag raising over Iwo Jima say they've located two possible sites and recommend a larger group excavate them, officials said Wednesday. http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=3320011&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

The little girl's ****** Maria, in keeping with her boxing-mad ******'s bizarre tradition, decided to give her 25 middle names - all culled from the greatest exponents inside the ring. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/lifestylebritainnames

A quick civics quiz: Is the vice president part of the executive branch? You might think the answer is obvious, but apparently not to Vice President Dick Cheney. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3316434&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

The Hauntening :) http://youtube.com/watch?v=tFRhs3-pP8w&feature=dir

All this is just a matter of time before connections are made to human beings. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070623213748.htm

Students With Symptoms Of Mental Illness Often Don't Seek Help Studies show that the incidence of mental illness on college campuses is rising, and a new survey of 2,785 college students indicates that more than half of students with significant symptoms of anxiety or depression do not seek...

**** have a major impact on the degree of interest their ********* develop in math. That's one of the findings of a long-term University of Michigan study that has traced the sources of the continuing gender gap in math and science performance...

I just got this in an email and I'm not sure where to put it. Not so funny, but surely stick with the vid and the narration. http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM

The White House on Friday defended Vice President Dick Cheney's decision not to cooperate with a government office charged with safeguarding national security information and denied that Cheney ever suggested the agency be shut down. Waxman scoffed at the assertion, calling it "an absurdity...

Elwood, a 2-Year-Old Chinese Crested and Chihuahua Mix, Named World's Ugliest Dog http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3308869&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 Elwood

Compared to people with normal vision, those who were blind at birth tend to have excellent memories. Now, a new study shows that blind individuals are particular whizzes when it comes to remembering things in the right order. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070621130052.htm

Scientists and engineers have just completed a successful test of new robotic vehicles designed for use beneath the ice of the Arctic Ocean. The researchers will now use those vehicles to conduct the first search for life on the seafloor of the world's most isolated ocean...

I've been blessed with this experience; Researchers are tracking timber rattlesnakes in the St. Louis area to see how close to civilization the snakes are getting as humans developing subdivisions invade the snakes' turf. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070619125639.htm

Don't you these helpful popups annoying all the time?

******** who have at least one parent who smokes have 5.5 times higher levels of cotinine, a byproduct of nicotine, in their *****, according to a new study. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070619083441.htm

What happens if you deprive a group of 7 and 8 year olds of computers, television and games consoles for two weeks? Even after just two weeks, families found they began to interact more, even to 'rediscover' their pleasure in each other's company. ******** tired from an active evening were more...

Willard Wigan's art is worth tens of millions of dollars. :eek: Vid; http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3298352 Still images; http://www.willard-wigan.com/