Nov 17, 2009 -
There are a ton of travel planning sites, but I just found my new favorite. Duffel (find the site at duffelup) calls itself "a trip-planning tool for people who are not planning any trips," but it's pretty handy for actual trip planning, too.
Sign into the site to create trips — real or imagined — to any place in the world.
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Oct 18, 2009 -
The time has gone when people used to wear winter scarf only to protect them from cold. Now people want both style and protection from cold. Therefore a winter scarf these days is a combination of both style and function.
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Oct 22, 2009 -
WASHINGTON — A coalition of mega-bands and singers outraged that music — including theirs — was cranked up to help break uncooperative detainees at Guantanamo Bay is joining retired military officers and liberal activists to rally support for President Barack Obama's push to shutter the Navy-run prison for terrorist suspects in Cuba.
Pearl Jam, R.E.M., and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails are among the musicians who have joined the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo, which launched Tuesday.
On behalf of the campaign, the National Security Archive in Washington is filing a Freedom of Information Act request seeking classified records that detail the use of loud music as an interrogation device.
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Oct 20, 2009 -
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Two Republican county officials in South Carolina have apologized after they disparaged Jews in a newspaper op-ed in support of a fiscally conservative U.S. senator.
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Oct 14, 2009 -
Report: Russia to allow pre-emptive nukes
Oct 14 11:09 AM US/Eastern By DAVID NOWAKAssociated Press Writer
MOSCOW (AP) - A top Russian security official says Moscow reserves the right to conduct pre-emptive nuclear strikes to safeguard the country against aggression on both a large and a local scale, according to a newspaper interview published Wednesday.
Presidential Security Council chief Nikolai Patrushev also singled out the U.S. and NATO, saying Moscow's Cold War foes still pose potential threats to Russia despite what he called a global trend toward local conflicts.
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Oct 14, 2009 -
Report: Russia to allow pre-emptive nukes
Oct 14 11:09 AM US/Eastern By DAVID NOWAKAssociated Press Writer
MOSCOW (AP) - A top Russian security official says Moscow reserves the right to conduct pre-emptive nuclear strikes to safeguard the country against aggression on both a large and a local scale, according to a newspaper interview published Wednesday.
Presidential Security Council chief Nikolai Patrushev also singled out the U.S. and NATO, saying Moscow's Cold War foes still pose potential threats to Russia despite what he called a global trend toward local conflicts.
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Jul 23, 2009 -
I don't know where to post this. I think we need OnSugar community help due to speed and SOME things are definitely answerable by users.
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Oct 01, 2009 -
Sun sets on Saturn: GM kills fading star brand
GM To Shut Down Saturn Brand As Talks With Penske Fall Through
By TOM KRISHER and KIMBERLY S. JOHNSON
DETROIT — For those who expected General Motors' once-funky Saturn brand to live on with a new owner, there has been a sad twist. Saturn, once billed as a different kind of car company, appears as dead as Pontiac and Oldsmobile.
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Sep 08, 2009 -
HSBC, one of the biggest banks on the planet, has taken to calling itself "the world's local bank." Starbucks is un-branding at least three of its Seattle outlets, the first of which just reopened as "15th Avenue Coffee and Tea." Winn-Dixie, a 500-outlet supermarket chain, recently launched a new ad campaign under the tagline, "Local flavor since 1956."
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Sep 09, 2009 -
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/a-skull-that-rewrites-the-history-of-man-1783861.html
A skull that rewrites the history of man
It has long been agreed that Africa was the sole cradle of human evolution. Then these bones were found in Georgia...
By Steve Connor, Science Editor
Wednesday, 9 September 2009
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One of the skulls discovered in Georgia, which are believed to date back 1.8 million years
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The conventional view of human evolution and how early man colonised the world has been thrown into doubt by a series of stunning palaeontological discoveries suggesting that Africa was not the sole cradle of humankind.
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