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Man in India Marries Dog
2007-11-14 09:00:00
As an 18-year-old Selva Kumar had stoned and clubbed to death two dogs he found engaged in mating. He then hung their carcasses from a tree. That's when his personal suffering began.
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War costs could total $1.6 trillion by 2009
2007-11-14 08:58:00
The total economic impact of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is estimated at $1.6 trillion by 2009, a congressional committee said in a report released Tuesday. The estimate was released as Democrats launch a new effort to force a withdrawal from the widely unpopular conflict.
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Schwarzenegger Acts to End Hollywood Writers' Strike
2007-11-14 08:56:00
Striking television and film writers took their fight to the money men Tuesday, marching on Wall Street to complain that the nation's media giants aren't sharing the wealth from their efforts to put content online.
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Indian 'Goddess' Re-Born
2007-11-13 15:46:00
Nearly a week after surgeons removed the extra limbs from an Indian girl born with four arms and four legs, the bright-eyed 2-year-old made her first public appearance Tuesday after leaving the hospital's intensive care unit.
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Ms Earth Air Pooja wants to sleep!
2007-11-13 15:31:00
She was contestant No. 13 at Pantaloons Femina Miss India, but Pooja Chitgopekar has been riding on good luck. On Sunday, November 11, India?s Pooja Chitgopekar was crowned Miss Earth -Air in Manila.
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Georgia Governor Prays for Rain Amid Drought
2007-11-13 15:28:00
As Georgia descends deeper into drought, Gov. Sonny Perdue has ordered water restrictions, launched a legal battle and asked President Bush for help. On Tuesday, the governor will call on a higher power.
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New technique creates cheap, abundant hydrogen
2007-11-13 08:44:00
US researchers have developed a method of producing hydrogen gas from biodegradable organic material, potentially providing an abundant source of this clean-burning fuel,
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The Dinosaur Conspiracy Theory
2007-11-13 08:42:00
The extinction of the dinosaurs has long been considered a crime committed by a lone gunman: an incoming asteroid that struck the earth 65 million years ago, filling the air with sun-blocking dust. Now, however, controversy is being stirred anew as evidence suggests that the asteroid might have had a partner in crime: volcanoes, massive ones, blasting clouds of toxic gas from the bowels of the earth and poisoning much of the planet's life.
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Weak dollar helping some Web businesses
2007-11-12 23:32:00
Merchants seeing a greater percentage of foreign customers
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Could We Live Forever? Or Even Come Close?
2007-11-12 23:30:00
Technology, Along With Lifestyle Changes, May Extend Our Already-Increasing Lifespans
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Will the Writers' Strike Solve Anything?
2007-11-10 15:22:00
In practical terms, the strike is about money: how much, if anything, writers get as the Internet and DVDs replace TV reruns, for which they get bigger residuals. But in a larger sense, the studios and writers are forcing a question that every other form of media is facing: How much is content worth in the digital age?
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STRIKEBREAKER ELLEN BLASTED
2007-11-10 15:20:00
David Letterman, Jay Leno, Jon Stewart and Conan O'Brien all are supporting the striking members of the Writers Guild - but not Ellen DeGeneres.

Hollywood writers' far-from-glamorous lives
2007-11-10 15:18:00
Among high rollers at work, they live paycheck-to-paycheck at home
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Pakistan Opposition Head On House Arrest
2007-11-09 07:25:00
Pakistani police backed by armored vehicles surrounded the Islamabad home of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Friday, and a security official said she had been placed under house arrest ahead of a major protest.
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Tidal wave heading for England's east coast 'threatens homes and lives'
2007-11-09 07:24:00
Tens of thousands of householders are today preparing for some of the worst coastal floods in decades.
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Dollar Devalued? Paul vs. Fed Chairman
2007-11-09 07:22:00
When you are Ron Paul , your public enemy No. 1 is the chairman of the Federal Reserve.
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Eruption in Indonesia
2007-11-08 15:29:00
Anak Krakatau, built on the same lava plume as the Krakatoa volcano that killed tens of thousands in 1883, continued to spew lava, hot gas and rocks Thursday into the Sunda Strait between the Indonesia n islands of Java and Sumatra.
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Clinton lags in quest for male voters
2007-11-08 15:25:00
More than eight in 10 Republicans and more than half the married men in a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll say they definitely wouldn't vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton for president.
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Dow Plunges 360 Points; Dollar Slides
2007-11-08 15:23:00
Wall Street suffered its second big drop in a week Wednesday, with investors worried about spreading fallout from the credit crisis at banks and about a dollar that just keeps getting weaker.
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Indonesian volcanos spit dark ash, lava
2007-11-06 09:05:00
Several Indonesian volcanos spewed hot ash, molten rock and clouds of dark smoke Monday, and scientists warned a violent eruption could come at any moment.
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Kucinich: Impeach Cheney
2007-11-06 09:00:00
Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich is planning to make a procedural move on the House floor Tuesday that would call up a vote on the Democratic presidential candidate's resolution to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney .
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Gisele Bundchen Doesn't Want to Be Paid in Dollars
2007-11-06 03:28:00
Gisele Bundchen wants to make a lot of money ? just not in dollars.
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Tennessee Town Has Run Out of Water
2007-11-02 15:46:00
The severe drought tightening like a vise across the Southeast has threatened the water supply of cities large and small, sending politicians scrambling for solutions. But Orme, about 40 miles west of Chattanooga and 150 miles northwest of Atlanta, is a town where the worst-case scenario has already come to pass: The water has run out.
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Israel Warns World War III May be Biblical War
2007-11-02 15:37:00
On one side were Israel , the United States, Britain, France and Germany. On the other were Iran, Russia, China, Syria and North Korea.
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Going with a modular home
2007-11-02 15:35:00
The Hoyts are part of a growing trend of home buyers who are purchasing modular - or factory-built - residences. But the trend is growing slowly.
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Are We Happier Facing Death?
2007-11-02 15:33:00
Here's one for the annals of counterintuitive findings: When asked to contemplate the occasion of their own demise, people become happier than usual, instead of sadder, according to a new study in the November issue of Psychological Science
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Mexican flood strands thousands
2007-11-02 15:29:00
Rescuers in boats and helicopters worked early Friday to evacuate people stranded by a flood the president called ?one of the worst natural disasters? to hit Mexico.
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Report: Pilots slept on overnight flight
2007-11-02 15:26:00
Two commercial pilots allegedly fell asleep on a flight between Baltimore and Denver, with one pilot waking up to "frantic" calls from air traffic controllers warning them they were approaching the airport at twice the speed allowed.
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Hello, India? I Need Help With My Math
2007-11-01 15:53:00
Kenneth Tham, a high school sophomore in Arcadia, Calif., strives to improve his grades and scores on standardized tests. Most afternoons, he is tutored remotely by an instructor speaking to him on a voice-over-Internet headset while he sits at his personal computer going over lessons on the screen. The tutor is in India .
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LA Fire Started by Boy With Matches
2007-11-01 15:26:00
A boy playing with matches started a fire in north Los Angeles County that consumed more than 38,000 acres and destroyed 21 homes last week.
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