
Posted on 29 December 2009
Santa’s reindeer only have to work one night a year, yet they can still let Santa down when he most needs them.
Department store Santa Adrian Reed, 53, a father of three from Estero, was due to visit a children’s home to offer gifts and cheer to children without families of their [...]
December 30, 2009 | Posted in
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One of the world’s most respected scientists is embroiled in an extraordinary row after claiming that black people are less intelligent than white people.
James Watson, a Nobel Prize winner for his part in discovering the structure of DNA, has provoked outrage with his comments, made ahead of his arrival in Britain today.
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December 30, 2009 | Posted in
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Two al Qaeda Leaders Behind Northwest Flight 253 Terror Plot Were Released by U.S.
Former Guantanamo Prisoners Believed Behind Northwest Airlines Bomb Plot; Sent to Saudi Arabia in 2007
By BRIAN ROSS, JOSEPH RHEE and REHAB EL-BURI
Dec. 28, 2009 —
Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger [...]
December 29, 2009 | Posted in
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Chalk up one for the defenders. Here’s how a trio of security researchers used a three-step attack to defeat a 250,000-pronged botnet.
December 29, 2009 | Posted in
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Audio-visual installation technicians got more than they bargained for on Christmas Eve.
Installers Ivan Moelleux and James Blaque, both from naples delivered a 50″ plasma screen and a baby boy weighing in at 9 pounds 4 ounces. The unexpected double took everyone by surprise, the mother included, as the baby wasn’t due for another three [...]
December 29, 2009 | Posted in
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The proposal would trade labs seen as benefiting white students for resources to help struggling minority students.
Berkeley High School is considering a controversial proposal to eliminate science labs and the five science teachers who teach them to free up more resources to help struggling students.
The proposal to put the science-lab cuts on the table was [...]
December 28, 2009 | Posted in
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James Cameron’s science fiction ‘Avatar’ may become fact in the coming years, says a leading US astronomer who believes there is every chance a real-life version of habitable alien moons like the one depicted in the movie exists and will soon be found.
The 3D blockbuster shows a race of blue-skinned giants inhabits an Earth-like moon [...]
December 23, 2009 | Posted in
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WASHINGTON — Not everyone thinks imitation is the best form of flattery.
In fact, U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson of Orlando took such offense at a parody website aimed at unseating him that the freshman Democrat has asked that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder investigate the Lake County activist who started the anti-Grayson website “mycongressmanisnuts.com.”
Specifically, Grayson accuses [...]
December 23, 2009 | Posted in
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Kim Peek, the autistic savant who inspired the Oscar-winning film Rain Man, has died, aged 58.
Mr Peek’s father Fran said that his son had suffered a major heart attack on Saturday and was pronounced dead at a hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, the town where he had spent his life.
Mr Peek [...]
December 22, 2009 | Posted in
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The article below was taken from here.
After all the recent events (Copenhagen, the speech by Chavez, the hacked emails, and the daily flurry of stories like the one below) it’s hard to believe that there are still people out there who actually think this so called green movement is about anything other than taxation and [...]
December 22, 2009 | Posted in
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