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Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:07:46 +0200

.::US 'Last Lecture 'professor Randy Pausch dies (AFP) ::.

AFP - US professor Randy Pausch, who shot to global fame because of the inspirational "Last Lecture" he delivered just weeks after learning he had terminal cancer, died Friday, the university where he taught said.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:04:55 +0200

.::SemGroup's $3.2 billion failure shocks backers (Reuters) ::.

Reuters - The dramatic collapse of energy trader SemGroup LP shocked the privately held firm's backers who until last week had little idea of the extent of the oil trading losses that sank it, sources said this week.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:55:42 +0200

.::Massive oil spill clogs Mississippi River (AFP) ::.

AFP - Cleanup efforts were underway Friday after a barge collided with a tanker in the Mississippi River, spilling around 419,000 gallons (1.6 million liters) of fuel oil, the US Coast Guard said.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:23:03 +0200

.::Woman bumps burglar on bike, suspect drops items (AP) ::.

AP - New Castle Police say a woman chased down a burglar she caught carrying her property out of her house, and got her stuff back. It happened Tuesday morning in a home on Pennsylvania Avenue in Manor Park.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:35:19 +0200

.::Report urges overhauling how passports are issued (AP) ::.

AP - The State Department insisted Friday it can handle the growing demand for passports, despite congressional investigators' findings that the agency has not overhauled the system to avoid repeating last summer's backlog fiasco.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:11:43 +0200

.::Utah mine collapse caused by faulty design: probe (Reuters) ::.

Reuters - A 2007 Utah coal mine collapse that killed six miners and three rescuers was triggered by a faulty mine design, federal investigators said on Thursday, rejecting the owner's claim that it was caused by an earthquake.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:56:34 +0200

.::Deputies intercept text message to capture suspect (AP) ::.

AP - After catching one of two people wanted in a series of break-ins, deputies in North Carolina let their fingers do the chasing to catch a second suspect.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:25:16 +0200

.::Pentagon agency faulted for jeopardizing ID data (Reuters) ::.

Reuters - Personal data collected on military, civilian and contractor employees seeking federal security clearances between 1997 and 2005 could be at risk due to inaccurate record-keeping by the Pentagon agency that did the investigations, an audit showed on Thursday.

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:35:49 +0200

.::Unknown insects found in 110-million-year-old amber in Spain (AFP) ::.

AFP - The remains of several unknown insect species which became extinct long before dinosaurs stopped roaming the earth have been discovered in pieces of 110-million-year-old amber found in Spain, researchers said Thursday.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:44:44 +0200

.::Comic-Con: Keanu Reeves, Robert Rodriguez, More (E! Online) ::.

E! Online - We're there on the ground getting you all the Comic-Con intel you need to know—and plenty of photos in our Comic-Con gallery. Here are the highlights from day one:

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:34:23 +0200

.::Hackers get hold of critical Internet flaw (AFP) ::.

AFP - Internet security researchers on Thursday warned that hackers have caught on to a "critical" flaw that lets them control traffic on the Internet.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:33:19 +0200

.::A baby's impulse to cry saves him after NH tornado (AP) ::.

AP - The cries of a baby led rescuers to him in the wreckage of a home flattened by a tornado that killed his grandmother and blew his grandfather into the yard, officials said Friday.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:36:40 +0200

.::Rights group wants US officials probed for ordering torture (AFP) ::.

AFP - A Nobel-prize-winning rights group said US officials committed war crimes by ordering what the group says was torture of detainees, and called for them to be probed and prosecuted.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:02:57 +0200

.::HIV Patients Living Longer (HealthDay) ::.

HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 24 (HealthDay News) -- Since 1996, the life expectancy of HIV patients in developed countries taking antiviral therapy has increased more than 13 years, and deaths have dropped by almost 40 percent, researchers report.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:51:20 +0200

.::Pope tells Iraqi leader Christians need protection (Reuters) ::.

Reuters - Pope Benedict told Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Friday that minority Christians in Iraq needed more protection but the Iraqi leader assured him that Christians were not being persecuted.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:51:42 +0200

.::Boy, 11, bites pit bull to fend off attack (AP) ::.

AP - An 11-year old boy is in Brazil's media spotlight after sinking his teeth into the neck of a dog that attacked him. Local newspapers reported on Thursday that Gabriel Almeida was playing in his uncle's backyard in the city of Belo Horizonte when a pit bull named Tita lunged at him and bit him in the left arm.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:25:06 +0200

.::911 calls released in case of missing Orlando girl (AP) ::.

AP - The grandmother of a missing 2-year-old Orlando girl told an emergency dispatcher that a car driven by the girl's mother smelled like there had been a dead body inside, according to recordings of 911 calls released Thursday.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:41:50 +0200

.::Maria von Trapp returns to "Sound of Music" home (Reuters) ::.

Reuters - Maria von Trapp has taken a trip down memory lane to see her old family home just before it opens as a new hotel.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:22:00 +0200

.::Our view on energy: Ethanol production soars, but its allure plummets (USATODAY.com) ::.

USATODAY.com - For the past quarter-century, U.S. energy policy has been generally non-existent. To the extent there has been one, it has been to keep gasoline cheap. But one element stands out as a dramatic exception to this minimalist approach. Through a series of generous tax subsidies and production mandates, the use of corn-based ethanol has soared.