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Those Marleau real-estate rumors, Setoguchi's playoff injury and …

June 13th, 2010

The good news is that you’re already on the right track. You should be commended for digging into the real estate side of this potential story and calling a potential source, etc. You did the right thing this time; it just worries me that you seemingly did it with disdain. ….. If for some reason I’m feeling down and out over a usually mundane situation or “problem” I’ll watch about half of a Jerry Springer show to make me realize, “Hey, my life isn’t so bad after all. …

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Did ‘Fight Club’ Inspire a 17-Year-Old to Bomb a Starbucks?

July 19th, 2009
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Police have arrested a suspect in connection with a May 25 bombing outside a upper-Manhattan Starbucks, charging 17-year-old Kyle Shaw with first-degree arson and first-degree criminal possession of a weapon. His inspiration: Fight Club, a movie with whose anti-corporate politics Shaw was reportedly obsessed. High-five, Hollywood!



India Fears Pressure From U.S. to Mend Ties With Pakistan

July 19th, 2009
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in India amid fears that the United States was too preoccupied with events in Afghanistan and Pakistan.



California Winery First to Earn LEED-Gold Certification

July 19th, 2009
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With solar power, radiant floors and other eco-friendly building elements, Hall Wines’ St. Helena winery has been certified at the LEED-Gold level, one of a growing number of vineyards and wineries that are greening their operations.



How a Public Schoolboy Was Turned into a Muslim Terrorist

July 19th, 2009
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Andrew ‘Isa’ Ibrahim, 20, was arrested just ‘a matter of hours or days’ before he was about to strike at Bristol’s biggest shopping centre.



Ain’t No Stopping It Now: The Return Of Disco

July 19th, 2009
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Thirty years ago this week, in a Chicago stadium, disgruntled rock fans staged Disco Demolition Night, literally creating a disco inferno by setting fire to the records, rioting and getting arrested. Fast-forward three decades, dust off the glitterball and put on the gold dress: Disco music is back, baby, back!



Taliban Video Shows Captive US Soldier

July 19th, 2009
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The American soldier who went missing June 30 from his base in eastern Afghanistan and was later confirmed captured, appeared on a video posted Saturday to a web site by the Taliban, two U.S. defense officials confirmed.



Polly Wants A Banana? [PIC]

July 19th, 2009
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Top 10 Great Social Sites for Movie Lovers

July 19th, 2009
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Want your film experience to extend beyond trips to the theater and DVD rental store? Then join one of these great movie social networks.



Turkmenistan to green its desert with vast manmade oasis

July 19th, 2009
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The central Asian nation of Turkmenistan has cemented its reputation for eccentricity with an ambitious attempt to create a vast lake in the centre of the country’s Karakum desert. In a logic-defying feat that might have appealed to Stalin, engineers have begun pumping water from a network of canals that irrigate cotton fields across the country.