Dallas oilman is powering up to break 409-mph record on Bonneville Salt Flats
As Charles Nearburg streaked past 385 miles per hour at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah last month, the canopy on his streamlined racer suddenly popped open, engulfing him in a swirling c...
Dallas Morning News,
Sun Nov 29 00:29:52 PST 2009
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Yoani Sanchez: War Games in Cuba
Someone shoved a piece of paper under my door. A sheet cut in half with instructions about how to evacuate in the case of a...
The Huffington Post,
Sat Nov 28 20:59:45 PST 2009
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Royal Marines could have rescued pirate hostages, but the order to attack never ca...
Revealed: Marines armed to the teeth were on board British supply ship confronting pirates who took yacht Britons
Daily Mail,
Sat Nov 28 17:13:29 PST 2009
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The Misinformation Superhighway
0As much faith as I have in the American public, it
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fri Nov 27 14:16:20 PST 2009
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Defeat of
A tribute has been paid on board HMS Belfast to the late John Ouvry who saved the ship from destruction and Britain from possible surrender to the Nazis.
London SE1,
Fri Nov 27 02:38:49 PST 2009
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THE NEW COLLISIONS
This Boston quintet is too self-aware. Too wannabe '80s new wave. Too we-got-a-cute-girl-like-Debbie-Harry-fronting-our-band-and-we-know-it. But the New Collisions'...
Boston Herald,
Thu Nov 26 21:22:28 PST 2009
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Roper survives airplane crash
April 30, 1944 dawned grey, cloudy and wet ... a typical spring day except that we were supposed to fly. The morning flight was scrubbed, but the afternoon flight went on as usual.
The Camrose Canadian,
Thu Nov 26 11:49:50 PST 2009
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Project Bloodhound
Team begin preparation of land-speed-record breaking car. Project Bloodhound answers the question of what to do when you reckon a land speed record of 763mph isn
AutoExpress,
Thu Nov 26 05:08:22 PST 2009
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Fabricated Textile Products, Misc.: US Industry Cluster Report - New Report Publis...
'This report (detailed spreasheet plus 6-page companion text) report examines industry segment sales, small business vitality, failure and startup rates, sales per employee and other critic...
OfficialWire,
Thu Nov 26 09:26:45 PST 2009
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Communities welcome holidays with Santa visits, tree lightings
Santa Claus has already made visits in the area this month, but beginning today he will be extra busy, stopping at many local towns this weekend to light the community Christmas trees and v...
The Pottsville Republican & Herald,
Thu Nov 26 01:27:13 PST 2009
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Raven Beats, Retains Weak Outlook
Raven Industries Inc. has posted earnings of 40 cents per share in its third quarter, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 38 cents. However, three out of its four segments face a bleak ...
Zacks.com via Yahoo! Finance,
Wed Nov 25 07:28:37 PST 2009
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Boarding Flight 573 - with a sense of foreboding
Dave BarryTribune Media Services We set out with a sense of foreboding. If you ever feel a boding, and later on something bad happens, that was a foreboding.
Tri-Valley Dispatch,
Wed Nov 25 22:33:10 PST 2009
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NASA proposes robotic rocket-plane to explore Mars
London, November 26 : NASA is proposing to build a robotic rocket-plane to explore Mars from the air, and has advertised for help building it.
New Kerala,
Wed Nov 25 23:11:20 PST 2009
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Nasa proposes robotic rocket-plane to explore Mars
Nasa is proposing to build a robotic rocket-plane to explore Mars from the air, and has advertised for help building it.
Daily Telegraph,
Wed Nov 25 08:49:17 PST 2009
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Talking turkey on TV
Set your pop-up timers and test your small-screen knowledge.
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune,
Wed Nov 25 10:22:34 PST 2009
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Dave Searles: Corporate and property taxes, not sales tax, should fund services
Dear Editor: For those people who believe the sales tax is the fairest tax and that it should be raised in Wisconsin to get us out of the budget deficit, fund schools and provide relief for...
The Capital Times,
Wed Nov 25 02:54:07 PST 2009
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Top Five Novels, Connelly to Irving to Nabokov: The Muse List
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- With so many books in the stores, we
Bloomberg,
Tue Nov 24 11:16:39 PST 2009
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Forget Earth - let's move to Mars!
For decades, the most popular destination for migrants the world over has been the United States. It was in America that the downtrodden and the footloose of this world saw their destiny. B...
Independent,
Tue Nov 24 16:12:15 PST 2009
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NASA plans robot rocket aeroplane to fly above Mars
To join nuclear laser tank. Mars defends , actually NASA intends to build a robot rocketplane the size of a light aircraft and send it across space to fly the skies of Mars: and the space a...
The Register,
Tue Nov 24 05:48:49 PST 2009
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