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christs...i've gotta make that massive drive back to kentucky in about two hours...no cable, no 'net, no turntables, no alcohol...i think even my xbox is verboten...loves and cheers...

A taste for meat prompted early humans to wean their children at a young age. The idea explains why we now wean our infants years earlier than other great apes.

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The most powerful magnetic objects in the universe - rare stars called magnetars - are created by the titanic explosions of very heavy stars, new research has revealed.

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A spherical roving robot designed...
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A woman found dead behind a shrine in western Tokyo with a stab wound to her chest may have committed suicide, investigators said.

Police are trying to confirm the identity of the woman, who appears to be in her 20s and was wearing navy blue clothes and white sneakers.

At around 10:15 a.m., a passer-by found a woman collapsed on a hillside behind a shrine...
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Small clouds of dark matter pass through Earth on a regular basis, suggest new calculations. The clouds may be remnants of the first structures to form after the big bang and could be detected by future space missions.

Dark matter interacts gravitationally with normal matter and appears to be seven times more abundant in the universe. But physicists do not know what the mysterious matter...
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kentucky i'm comin' home to see you...and the weather channel says it's six degrees but feels even colder...christs, what are you doin' to me?

A panel of pro baseball experts has decided to eliminate disruptions caused by organized crime groups and ill-mannered cheer squads in ballparks.

In a bid to crackdown on unruly behavior, panel members agreed to make "spectator rules" to be distributed to baseball fans after questioning baseball club officials and ballpark workers.

"We want to make ballparks an enjoyable place to watch games," Katsuhiko Kumazaki, the...
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if you missed yesterday's inaugural address, please, tak a minute, go here and read it...

"In America's ideal of freedom, the public interest depends on private character - on integrity, and tolerance toward others, and the rule of conscience in our own lives. Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self. That edifice of character is built in families, supported by communities with standards, and sustained in our national life by the truths of Sinai, the Sermon...
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"We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it is human choices that move events. Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills. We have confidence because freedom is the permanent hope of mankind, the hunger in dark places, the longing of the soul. When...
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A woman in her 30s who illegally used her boyfriend's online username and password to access an Internet game and delete his game data faces charges, police said.

Police reported the woman, of Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, to the Fukushima District Public Prosecutors Office accusing her of violating a law banning illegal access. She has apparently admitted to the allegations against her.

"I did it as...
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during dr. rice's confirmation hearings yesterday:

Biden had blunt advice for European critics: "I have one simple message: Get over it. Get over it. President Bush is our president for the next four years. So get over it and start to act in your interest, Europe."

Tiger, tiger, burning bright...

A new atmospheric phenomenon was caught on video by the crew of the space shuttle Columbia just days before the shuttle broke apart, new findings suggest.

Astronauts relayed the video to NASA in real-time during their 16-day flight. But the agency did not release the full data to researchers until several months after the mission's tragic end on 1 February 2003....
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