Archive for July, 2007

Did Donaghy fix Game 3 of Suns-Spurs?

The FBI thinks Tim Donaghy was fixing NBA games. Kevin Hench can’t believe a crook may have decided the Suns-Spurs series.
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Saturday, July 21st, 2007

Rwanda launches key test of WTO drug patent waiver (Reuters)

Reuters - Rwanda plans to import a generic
HIV/AIDS medicine made in Canada, making it the first country
to test a World Trade Organization waiver on drug patents, the
WTO said on Friday.
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Saturday, July 21st, 2007

Ohio man tells of Hawaii shark attack (AP)

AP - All the way back to shore after an eight-foot tiger shark chomped into his left leg, Harvey Miller thought he might die. “I just remember saying, ‘Oh God, not like this, no way,’” Miller said Friday, a day after the gray animal attacked him off Oahu’s Bellows Beach.

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Saturday, July 21st, 2007

[NEWS] U.S. WEATHER FORECASTING: Satellite Kicks Up a Storm Looking Out for Hurricanes

An 8-year-old NASA weather satellite called QuikSCAT sits improbably at the center of the latest scientific storm raging in Washington, D.C.
Author: Eli Kintisch
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Saturday, July 21st, 2007

Canadian valley aims to keep cellphone-free quiet (Reuters)

Reuters - Officials in a
rural valley in British Columbia hope that keeping out
cellphones will help attract residents and tourists who want to
escape to the quiet of nature.
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Saturday, July 21st, 2007

Sen. Clinton Fires Back at Pentagon Over Withdrawal Plans

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton hit back Friday at a Pentagon aide who charged that her questions about Iraq withdrawal planning have the effect of helping the enemy — calling the accusation a spurious dodge of a serious issue.
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Saturday, July 21st, 2007

Jane Martin, Steppenwolf, U.S. and NYC Premieres Punctuate 59E59 Fall Season (Playbill)

Playbill - 59E59 Theaters' artistic director Elysabeth Kleinhans and executive producer Peter Tear announced fall programming for their cluster of Off-Broadway venues on East 59th Street.
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Saturday, July 21st, 2007

Stars fall in Women’s World Match Play (AP)

AP - Paula Creamer lingered on the 18th green to take one more look at her putting line. Still trying to figure out how her 10-foot birdie try failed to break to the left, she shook her head and punched the air in disgust.

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Saturday, July 21st, 2007

Taliban claims to kill German hostages (AP)

AP - A purported Taliban spokesman said the hard-line militia killed two German hostages on Saturday because Germany didn’t announce a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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Saturday, July 21st, 2007

When asked, Ask to stop data retention (AP)

AP - Ask.com became the first major search engine to promise users it won’t store data on their queries, giving the privacy conscious the option of conducting research on the Internet in relative anonymity.
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Saturday, July 21st, 2007