tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40796156154081295622012-01-31T21:11:38.892+07:00There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soulnaknikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.comBlogger1551100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079615615408129562.post-86109107990605408242012-01-31T21:08:00.001+07:002012-01-31T21:11:38.904+07:00

Mysterious gelatinous spheres rain down in England - The discovery of mysterious, blue, gelatinous spheres in an English backyard has captivated the imagination of scientists and the public alike. What the heck are the spheres? And where did they come from?The unscented, water-insoluble spheres were first found in the yard of former aerospace engineer Steve Hornsby. Since the discovery was made

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Calories count, but source doesn't matter - People trying to lose weight may swear by specific diet plans calling for strict proportions of fat, carbs and protein, but where the calories come from may not matter as much as simply cutting back on them, according to a study.Researchers whose results were published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found there were no differences in

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Corruption Costs Indonesia $238m in 2011 - Indonesia lost as much as Rp 2.13 trillion ($238.6 million) to corruption in 2011, although authorities should have been able to easily detect the methods used for graft, a watchdog revealed on Sunday.Danang Widoyoko, the coordinator of Indonesia Corruption Watch, said a study by his organization showed that embezzlement accounted for most of the money

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10 ways to boost your relationship - Even if you don't like all the fuss around Valentine's Day, take this opportunity to make some long-term changes in your relationship, to ensure a happier, more loved-up future1. Share an activity According to Devika Singh, psychologist at Dubai Herbal & Treatment Centre, a great way to focus on the future of your relationship

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The ghost at the window: Dead owner 'returns to haunt' builders demolishing her beloved guesthouse - Frances Grimshaw would stand for hours at the guest house window awaiting visitors and taking bookings on the phone - Her son believes she appeared to protest against the demolition of the building she lovedWhen a demolition team began work at a derelict Victorian guest house they all agreed that

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Has Bigfoot Been Found? - Two Bigfoot hunters claim they have the body of one and plan to release a photo and what they claim is DNA evidence at a news conference in Palo Alto on Friday. The Bigfoot is claimed to have been found in the woods of northern Georgia by Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, and the claim is being supported by a Bay Area Bigfoot researcher Tom Biscardi, a multiple local

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Euro zone may yet escape recession as services jump: PMIs - The euro zone may yet escape recession thanks to a surprise upturn in the service sector that outweighed the ongoing contraction in manufacturing this month, surveys showed on Tuesday.Markit's Flash Eurozone Purchasing Managers' Composite Index (PMI), often seen as a growth indicator, jumped to 50.4 from December's 48.3, its highest

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Voltaire Letters Shed Light On Years In England - A French author's English alter ego has been unmasked by new letters, according to Oxford University.Professor Nicholas Cronk, director of the university's Voltaire Foundation, said two of the 14 letters shed light on the extent of Voltaire's interactions with the English aristocracy.In one letter the author even signs his name Francis Voltaire -

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Leonardo Da Vinci may be at the heart of a real art mystery - Modern science may reveal whether a long-lost work by the Renaissance master was hidden decades later by another painting. And then what?At three o'clock on a cold December morning, a team of researchers huddled together on scaffolding 25 feet high in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio, holding a tablet computer up to a huge 16th century

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North Korea transition "smooth," economy the real test - North Korea's new leadership under the inexperienced Kim Jong-un appears to be functioning "relatively smoothly," but he has to look beyond key ally China to rebuild its shattered economy, South Korea's senior most official on the North said on Monday.Unification Minister Yu Woo-ik told Reuters that despite Kim Jong-il's sudden death last

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Alexander Graham Bell recordings played from 1880s — Alexander Graham Bell foresaw many things, including that people could someday talk over a telephone. Yet the inventor certainly never could have anticipated that his audio-recording experiments in a Washington, D.C., lab could be recovered 130 years later and played for a gathering of scientists, curators and journalists."To be or not to be...

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Early Alexander Graham Bell recordings played — Early sound recordings by Alexander Graham Bell that were packed away at the Smithsonian Institution for more than a century were played publicly for the first time Tuesday using new technology that reads the sound with light and a 3D camera."To be, or not to be..." a man's voice can be heard saying in one recording, the speaker reciting a portion

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16 black students cleared of wrongdoing for sit-in protests - Fifty years ago this Sunday, on Dec. 11, 1961, the United States Supreme Court reversed the convictions of 16 black college students who had been arrested in a civil rights demonstration in Louisiana.It was the high court's first decision regarding sit-in protests throughout the southern states.The students had been arrested in the

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Gold Falls Off A Cliff As Margin Calls Cream Speculators - We warned you that gold falls when the dollar rises-- and you might have noticed the dollar rising as the euro falls -- along with European sovereign bonds and European bank stocks. Gold you see trades in an inverse relationship to the dollar about 70% of the time.My gold guru, who was bullish all the way from $950 an ounce in June,

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Down Goes Gold As Dollar Flexes, Euro Toasted - Whether you trade the market by charts or by fundamentals, you have good reasons to be bearish on the yellow metal.First on the fundamentals, it looks like the printing presses of the central banks have paused from their money printing efforts, at least for now. Both the European Central Bank last week, and now the Federal Reserve this week, have

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Panic Sellers May Be Sorry - Those who were frightened by news out of Europe and dumped gold this week could soon wind up sorry, as a known seasonal period of strength for the metal is right around the corner.Once again, the European debt crisis hit global stock markets on Monday, but share prices are trying to stabilize early Tuesday. Even though the major US stock market averages lost around

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Ten Ultimate girlfriend mysteries solved! - In this day and age, mankind has figured out how to engineer a nanoparticle to walk the dog, post a letter and empty the crumbs from the kitchen toaster.And yet, your lady (or the lady you want) can still confound you with wants and needs you just don't understand.Is there some way to hack into this FOS (Female Operating System)? Maybe an online

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Get the 'message' (Thinkstock photos/Getty Images)Get the ‘message’ - Some messaging habits can cause a bad impression. We tell you all about them...Don't keep it too short:If you are messaging a girl/boy you want to impress, then don't send messages that may make you uninteresting. Sending 'k' as a reply is absolutely unacceptable. You definitely need to take the effort to add 'o' to make it 'ok

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Mysterious Manuscript's Code Has Been Cracked, 'Prophet of God' Claims - Written in "alien" characters, illustrated with sketches, and dating back hundreds of years, the Voynich Manuscript has puzzled cryptographers, historians and bibliophiles for centuries.And now the mystery has finally come to an end, according to a businessman from Finland named Viekko Latvala, a self described "prophet of

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Scientists Link Diamonds in Strange Quantum Entanglement - Scientists have linked two diamonds in a mysterious process called entanglement that is normally only seen on the quantum scale.Entanglement is so weird that Einstein dubbed it "spooky action at a distance." It's a strange effect where one object gets connected to another so that even if they are separated by large distances, an action

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PayPal lets Facebook friends send cash - Online financial transactions powerhouse PayPal released an application on Thursday that lets friends send one another cash at leading social network Facebook.A "Send Money" application tailored for Facebook by PayPal lets members of the online community tie money to occasions such as birthdays or send it in an unadorned online transfer."We are bringing

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Five things hiring managers won't tell you -- Boy, wouldn't the ability to read minds come in handy during the job interview? At the risk of stating the obvious, who wouldn't love to know what hiring managers really think about your qualifications or what they consider the perfect answer to a certain question? Armed with this information, you'd be a step ahead of other job

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Employers want to hire people who are positive and focused16 job search errors often made -- Over the years, hiring managers have born witness to every hiring, interviewing, résumé, cover letter and negotiation mistake there is.You know what these blunders are. Yet you (and hundreds of other job seekers) continue to make common job search mistakes.From those who see your mistakes over and over,

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E.T. is out there. Why can’t we find him? ( 2 ) - Somewhere in the cosmos, 36 light years away from us in the direction of the Hercules constellation, a series of electromagnetic waves stretching across 30 million miles of space carries a message from Earth. Each of the 1,679 signals it contains falls in one of two frequencies—an FM signal that translates to a bunch of ones and zeroes.This

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E.T. is out there. Why can’t we find him? - In 2002, a professor at the University of Hertfordshire set out to determine the world’s funniest joke. With help from the British Science Association—that bastion of comic authority—he set up a website where people could submit and vote on the entries.The first runner-up, which only narrowly missed the laurels, was a joke about Sherlock Holmes and

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Five gift ideas to teach kids about money - While children get more holiday presents than most of us, sometimes they lose interest before the batteries die. Why not give a gift that earns interest, or lasts a lifetime?How much money will you spend on presents for the kids this holiday season? And how much of that will be spent on cheap plastic or fabric that will be forgotten in a few short weeks

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Smart money is split on Bank of America - Smart money on Wall Street is split on Bank of America: Soros sells as Berkowitz buys -- The smart money is split on Bank of America.Big investors George Soros and John Paulson are selling shares of the nation's largest bank. But Bruce Berkowitz, Thomas Brown and other fund managers find the stock so attractive that they are buying up boatloads.

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Devil found in detail of Giotto fresco in Italy's Assisi - Art restorers have discovered the figure of a devil hidden in the clouds of one of the most famous frescos by Giotto in the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi, church officials said on Saturday.The devil was hidden in the details of clouds at the top of fresco number 20 in the cycle of the scenes in the life and death of St Francis painted

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Should regulators require banks to hold more capital to insure against another crisis? - Almost everyone agrees that banks need more capital. Christine Lagarde chose to make it her first issue as managing director of the International Monetary Fund. And conventional analyses of the financial crisis focus on the weak capital base of many banks, which left them with insufficient reserves to absorb

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How Sherlock Holmes helped crack the case of a missing father - In 2009, I became a father and lost my father within a matter of weeks. I was lucky and grateful that my son came first. In the months that followed, I was faced with the dual responsibility of getting my own house in order for a child while also restoring a sense of meaning to the rooms my father left behind in my childhood house,

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Moammar Gadhafi’s Female Companions - Moammar Gadhafi was known for surrounding himself with women he considered pretty. Here are some of the many occasions on which Gadhafi made the news - Moammar Gadhafi was known for surrounding himself with women he considered pretty. Here are some of the many occasions on which Gadhafi made the news for his female associations:Virgin BodyguardsGadhafi's

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Which Bank Is the Worst? - If the Occupy Wall Street protesters want to target a single big bank, which should they choose?The decision wouldn’t be easy, given the bad behavior of the country’s biggest brand-name banks. We look at the country’s four largest—Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo—and throw in Goldman Sachs, a natural target of any protest. Here’s a taste of

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US Court Rules in Favor of Colombia in Holy Grail of Shipwrecks Case - A U.S. court ruled in favor of Colombia in a decades-long legal dispute over the ownership of pieces of a sunken galleon found in Colombian territorial waters 300 years ago.The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled the Andean country does not have to pay $17 billion to Sea Search Armada, a U.S.-based salvage

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Who Owns Most of the World's Gold? - With gold prices getting ready to soar, we've decided to find out who owns the most bullion in the world.It's no surprise that governments, central banks, and investment funds are the world's largest holders of gold reserves. These organizations know gold is the ultimate store of value that protects against inflation and offers a safe haven during times of

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Mystery condition makes woman age 50 years in just a few days - Doctors have been left baffled by a strange condition which saw a woman of 23 age 50 years in a matter of days.Vietnamese woman Nguyen Thi Phuong now looks like a septugenarian after the rapid aging affliction took hold following an allergic reaction to seafood.Her sad story began in 2008, when her youthful beauty began to fade over

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The Gold Receiver for Your Solid Gold Records - How cutting edge can you get? If you've got the bucks, there's a world of awe-inspiring gadgets and goodies out there for you. From hundred thousand dollar watches to speakers that sound so good they'll make an audiophile weak in the knees, The Big Ticket is your weekly peek into the best goods gobs of money can buy.Tube amps have long been praised

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How the Internet is changing how people listen - It is fashionable nowadays to talk about personal attention as a commodity or a currency. Many companies are looking for ways to automate the act of "paying attention" to individual customers on a grand scale, even as many of them also confuse attention with intention (to buy). "Attention" is becoming more interesting now that the Internet makes it

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Texting, or e-mailing, while driving doubles reaction time and makes drivers more likely to miss a flashing light, according to new research.In a small study researchers at Texas A&M University’s Texas Transportation Institute studied the impact of texting in an actual driving environment.“Essentially texting while driving doubles a driver’s reaction time,” said Christine Yager, who led the study

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salmon vs. gold — The battle over a copper and gold mine near one of the world's premier salmon fisheries is headed to the ballot in a vote next week that has turned a normally sleepy local election into a national environmental debate.Voters in southwest Alaska's Lake and Peninsula Borough are deciding whether to ban large-scale resource extraction activity, including mining, that would destroy

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Spain's Gold Rush Raises Questions of Risk and Opportunity - Magdalena Gómez knows the solution to her hometown's suffering. Like roughly 20% of the adult population in Tapia de Casariego, the 27-year-old mother of two is unemployed. She has seen many of her neighbors, desperate for work, move away from this corner of northwestern Spain in search of opportunities in bigger cities. Which is why,

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Short Hairstyles for Women over 50 - It's recommended that women over 50 keep their hairstyles short. As you age, you hair loses moisture and shine, and keeping your hair short helps it stay manageable and healthy. If you're considering a short hairstyle after 50, the following article outlines the best choices for you. Classic BobIf your hair still has some thickness and shine, a classic bob may

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Hairstyles For Women Over 40 - Women in their 40s exude femininity, this is why a proper, beauty enhancing hairstyle is a must. Take a peek at the following hairstyles selection perfect for women over 40, so you can look stylish and fabulous every time.Turning 40 scares most women and this determines them to look for a different hairstyle, a hairstyle which is age appropriate and will help them

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Popular Hairstyles for Women Over 40 - So you've turned 40 and are looking for a new, popular hairstyle. In all honestly, you're probably looking for a number of things to help you be a little more excited about that birthday. It's not the easiest one for women, but it doesn't have to be a drag either. 40 is still young and dynamic, if you choose to make it that way. To help remind yourself of

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Mystery Illness Plagues Asian Factories - Researchers from the United Nations recently met in Cambodia to solve the mystery of why large numbers of female workers in that nation have succumbed to an unknown (and temporary) illness. But rather than a physical illness as the source, the scientists may want to look at the mind as the root cause.(It's not that women are the only workers who are

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Astronomers Discover New "Super-Earth" - Scientists say that the planet is right distance from its primary star that it may contain water.Pollution, global warming and overpopulation are a drag. What if we could just start all over on a new “super-Earth?”If you can travel 36 light-years – roughly 212 trillion miles – to a new planet discovered by astronomers, you might just be in luck.The planet,

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Japanese parents fume over Fukushima radiation - Angry parents of children in Japan's Fukushima city marched along with hundreds of people on Sunday to demand protection for their children from radiation more than three months after a massive quake and tsunami triggered the worst nuclear disaster in 25 years."We want our lives back, we want to live like before the quake in happy families," said

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Australia confronts 'crisis' of Aborigine crime — Fabian Brown, known among Aborigines by his tribal name Jabangardi, is usually jobless, addicted to alcohol and has been in and out of prison since he was 17.His story is all too common among Aborigines in Australia's Outback. A parliamentary report last week called the situation a national crisis, noting the imprisonment rate for indigenous

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Human evolution slower than thought, say scientists -- Humans may be evolving a third as slowly as commonly thought, according to an investigation into genetic changes in two generations of families.The genetic code comprises six billion nucleotides, or building blocks of DNA, half of which come from each parent.Until now, the conventional theory among scientists was that parents each contribute

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Top 10 Aging Myths - In our youth-obsessed society, most of us are on a constant quest to figure out what food, which exercises and which products can help us look younger longer as well as extend our lives. Here we debunk the 10 most widely believed aging myths. Read on to figure out what you have control over in terms of aging, as well as what works and what doesn't when it comes to

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Mercury's origins may differ from sister planets - Mercury's origins may be very different from its sister planets, including Earth, based on early findings that show surprisingly rich deposits of sulfur on the ground, scientists said on Thursday.Early findings from the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury is forcing scientists to rethink how the planet closest to the sun formed and what has

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Scientists ID mysterious flash in distant galaxy — Astronomers think they have solved the mystery of an extraordinary flash spied in a faraway galaxy, saying it came from a massive black hole that devoured a star after it wandered too close.The awesome energy released by the feeding frenzy was first detected by NASA's Swift satellite on March 28 and was later confirmed by a fleet of space and

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How the Sun's 11-Year Solar Cycle Works - The sun may be 93 million miles (149 million kilometers) away from Earth, but commotions on our nearest star have consequences much closer to home, which is why scientists have a keen interest in studying changes in the sun's activity.The sun's temper varies on an 11-year cycle, typically taking about 5 1/2 years to move from the quieter period of solar

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Afghanistan Becoming War No One Wants: Lawmakers To Press For Strong Drawdown In Coming Weeks - -- The war in Afghanistan is increasingly becoming the war no one wants.Opposition to the conflict is now mainstream, with the vast majority of the American public favoring a substantial drawdown of U.S. troops. With the death of bin Laden, the growing cost of operations and frustrated constituents, an

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Military Families Find Signs of Progress in the Fight Against Financial Exploitation - Military members and their families sacrifice a great deal to keep America safe.The strain of service can take a devastating toll on finances. Fiscal predators prey on this demographic, and military members are more likely to be financially overleveraged than their civilian counterparts.A renewed commitment to

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Absolute beginners in the art of pragmatism - Writing about national character traits is always a tricky matter, but still more so in the case of Russia. In such a vast country you can find dozens of illustrations for any generalization you choose to make.Speak about the “willing serfdom lasting for ages” (the most usual negative stereotype about Russia) and you will have volumes of examples at

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Mysterious waters: from the Bermuda Triangle to the Devil's Sea -- Tales of missing maritime vessels and rumors of drifting, crewless ships have long colored the popular imagination when it comes to legends of the high seas. Certain locations have become synonymous with unexplained disappearances and for intrepid sailors with a taste for the paranormal, these places can hold a spookily

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Mysterious markings discovered at Great Pyramid of Giza -- A robot explorer has revealed ancient markings inside a secret chamber at Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza.The markings, which have lain unseen for 4,500 years, were filmed using a bendy camera small enough to fit through a hole in a stone door at the end of a narrow tunnel.It is hoped they could shed light on why the tiny chamber and the

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The 'Silliest' Excuses Used By Benefit Cheats - A list of the top ten most "ridiculous" excuses used by benefit cheats has been published by ministers.They range from the "I wasn't using the ladders to clean windows, I carried them for therapy for my bad back", to "It wasn't me claiming benefits, it was my identical twin".Others include "We don't live together, he just comes each morning to fill

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Why Obama's Words Matter - The New York Times’s headline on Monday, concerning President Obama’s speech on Israel the day before to the national pro-Israel organization, AIPAC, read:“Obama Presses Israel to Make Hard Choices.”The story, written by Helene Cooper, began with an unusually non-factual, subjective characterization: “President Obama struck back at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of

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Americans Dream of Bigger Homes but Reality Is More Cramped - Some might call it a simpler time. Others might say life was just less comfortable. In 1973, about three people lived in each household in the U.S. The average single-family home built that year was one story, 1,660 sq. ft., and had two or three bedrooms. It was very rare to have more than two bathrooms.Home life transformed in the

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Preacher says world will actually end in October – A California preacher who foretold of the world's end only to see the appointed day pass with no extraordinarily cataclysmic event has revised his apocalyptic prophecy, saying he was off by five months and the Earth actually will be obliterated on Oct. 21.Harold Camping, who predicted that 200 million Christians would be taken to heaven Saturday

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Harold Camping to apologize to followers, but says end of world comes on Oct. 21 - Just two days after the end was to be nigh on May 21, the man behind the much-hyped prophesy confidently said “our task is done,” and defended the predictions saying the world is now “under judgment.” On most Mondays, Harold Camping hosts an “Open Forum” program on the Family Radio

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What can Christians learn from Harold Camping’s failed May 21, 2011 prediction? - Most Americans dread Monday mornings, but it’s safe to say that no one is languishing more this morning than Harold Camping. The 89-year-old Christian radio broadcaster told the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday that he had “a really tough weekend.” Camping created a media firestorm with his prediction Jesus would

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Autocratic regimes fight Web - savvy opponents with their own tools - For weeks, Syrian democracy activists have used Facebook and Twitter to promote a wave of bold demonstrations. Now, the Syrian government and its supporters are striking back — not just with bullets, but with their own social-media offensive.Mysterious intruders have scrawled pro-government messages on dissidents’ Facebook

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The Other Kennedy Curse - Has Maria Shriver finally bucked her family's addiction to bad marriages?When Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger announced their separation earlier this week, after 25 years of marriage, the news was somehow surprising and yet at the same time entirely unsurprising. As amateur students of Kennedy family history well know, the women of the Kennedy family have a

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White House set to unveil cyber plan – The White House on Thursday is expected to unveil its proposal to enhance the nation's cybersecurity, laying out plans to require industry to better protect systems that run critical infrastructure like the electrical grid, financial systems and nuclear power plants.The Obama administration also is insisting that companies tell consumers when their personal

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Bin Laden eyed small cities as targets – Though hunted and in hiding, Osama bin Laden remained the driving force behind every recent al-Qaida terror plot, U.S. officials say, citing his private journal and other documents recovered in last week's raid.Until Navy SEALs killed him a week ago, bin Laden dispensed chilling advice to the leaders of al-Qaida groups from Yemen to London: Hit Los Angeles

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Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Soil Throughout History - The death of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan was an end to a nearly 10-year manhunt by the United States government to bring the mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks to justice. The worst terrorist attack in our nation's history now has some measure of closure.Terrorism was first used to describe the French Revolution as Jacobite rebels targeted

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Bin Laden's death a tough subject for the pulpit – The killing of Osama bin Laden, a man who was America's face of evil for nearly a decade, left Christians, Jews and Muslims relieved, proud or even jubilant. For their religious leaders, it was sometimes hard to know just what to say.There is at least some dissonance between the values they preach and the triumphant response on the streets of New

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Phone call by Kuwaiti courier led to bin Laden – When one of Osama bin Laden's most trusted aides picked up the phone last year, he unknowingly led U.S. pursuers to the doorstep of his boss, the world's most wanted terrorist.That monitored phone call, recounted Monday by a U.S. official, ended a years-long search for bin Laden's personal courier, the key break in a worldwide manhunt. The courier,

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Eight mysteries about the killing of Osama Bin Laden - What happened at Osama Bin Laden's compound on Sunday night? What led to the assault, and what will follow it? President Obama and senior U.S. officials have given partial accounts, but these only raise further questions. Here are a few of them.1. Aerial surveillance? Despite the compound's high walls, the U.S. knew a lot about the folks

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Do we always bury enemies of state at sea? - The body of terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden was buried at sea, according to U.S. officials, so that his grave wouldn't become a shrine. Do we normally bury enemies of state in Davy Jones' locker?Sometimes. The sea burial of Bin Laden's body—probably in a heavy metal casket with holes drilled in the top and bottom—is a twist on a longstanding practice.

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Celebrations across America as U.S. special forces shoot dead terror chief in mansion hideaway in Pakistan - Osama Bin Laden has been killed by the U.S. military after a decade-long hunt to avenge the 9/11 attacks, President Barack Obama revealed today. The leader of al Qaeda was killed today in a firefight with American soldiers in his $1million mansion hideout near Islamabad in Pakistan In a

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Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden dead - Obama - Al-Qaeda founder and leader Osama Bin Laden has been killed by US forces in Pakistan, President Obama has said. The al-Qaeda leader was killed in a ground operation outside Islamabad based on US intelligence, the first lead for which emerged last August. Mr Obama said after "a firefight", US forces took possession of his body.

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Are you a Yankee or a rebel? - That question, asked of me at recess by a ring of third- and fourth-grade boys on my first day of school in Fairfax, Va., was my introduction to the Civil War's lasting imprint on modern America."I'm from New Jersey," I said, to many puzzled looks."Well, you're gonna have to choose sides."Northern Virginia today is an artifact of urban sprawl, but in the mid-1960s,

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Why You Need a Credit Union Account - Credit unions have been around for quite a while but it hasn't been until the last few years, after people have grown wise to the excesses of the "too big to fail" commercial banks, that they've really grown in popularity. The first "bank" I joined was a credit union, Teachers Federal Credit Union, and I kept that account until just a few years ago. It's my

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China risks getting old before it gets rich – The harsh logic of China's one-child policy is starting to unravel, and census data to be released on Thursday may well stoke debate whether the aging nation should relax restrictions.Demographers worry that without change, China will become the first country in the world to age before it gets rich.Once seen as key to averting a Malthusian disaster of

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Silver surges 5 percent on dollar and gold at record – Spot silver surged more than 5 percent to top $49 ounce on Monday, moving closer to its 1980 all-time peak lifted by a weak dollar and strong physical demand in Asia that also sent gold to a record high for a seventh consecutive session. Spot silver was heading for its biggest daily gain in five months, hitting a 31-year

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CIA Cover-up Alleged in JFK's 'Secret UFO Inquiry' - A story that combines UFO cover-ups with the assassination of John F. Kennedy is a gold mine for conspiracy theorists. And that's just what author William Lester says he uncovered while conducting research for a new book on Kennedy: a memo written by JFK and addressed to the CIA in which the president requests confidential information about

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The Military and Increased Traumatic Brain Injuries - A study that was released by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California showed the Army would be able to decrease the number of traumatic brain injuries just by giving soldiers a bigger helmet.According to the Laboratory, soldiers would need helmets that are one size bigger than their current ones and that had one eighth of an

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Money Lessons We Should Have Learned - If only our earliest encounters with money, like getting a quarter for cleaning our room or a whole dollar from the Tooth Fairy, taught us what we would need to know about personal finance. Instead, we learned the hard way by growing up.A lightbulb flickered in my head in fifth grade when I realized my $10 weekly lunch allowance didn't need to be spent on

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Let money and time work for you, no matter your age - The millionaire next door could be you - All it takes is money and time; it always does. But what this really means is you have to save money over time, and that's where so many of us struggle.Reaching age 65 with $1 million saved requires strong discipline and sustained effort. You need to recognize the importance of starting early and

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Gold hits fresh record as dollar slides – Gold prices hit record highs for a fifth session on Thursday and silver rallied to its strongest since 1980 as the dollar slid to a three-year low against a basket of major currencies.The action in the currency markets added fuel to a rally sparked by concerns over the U.S. economic outlook, rising inflation, worries over euro zone debt and historically

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Civil War guide touts spy, life off battlefields – There are battlefields, and then there's Belle Boyd, teenage temptress and Confederate spy.The Appalachian Regional Commission is betting Boyd is the sexier Civil War story and that tourists will want to visit the Martinsburg, W.Va., home of the notorious "siren of the South" who used her feminine charms to spy on Union soldiers for the

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Targeted intraoperative radiotherapy blasted my breast tumour - Women with early stage breast cancer typically have the tumour removed, followed by six weeks of radiotherapy involving 30 trips to hospital.Now, a new form of radiation has been developed which has to be done only once.Petipa ‘Peppy’ Begueria, 51, practice manager for a GP clinic in Camden, North London, had the procedure. Here

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The Seat of Embarrassment in Your Brain - Ever wonder why your pulse races and your heart beats faster and you start to sweat when you're embarrassed? You can blame your pregenual anterior cingulate cortex, a thumb-sized region in the brain that seems to determine the size of your emotional response to, say, accidentally tripping in public or realizing that you've beamed an amorous email meant

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Most Parents Would Genetically Screen Their Children - Just because you can test your children for their risk of possible future ailments doesn't mean you should.In a recent research poll by Pediatrics journal, most parents would opt to test their children to see if they are genetically predisposed to health ailments like heart disease, diabetes, or even cancer. Many of these parents expect a

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Russia releases Gagarin's secret last words – One of the last things Yuri Gagarin did before making his pioneering voyage into space 50 years ago was make sure he had enough sausage to last him on the trip back home to Moscow.This tidbit was among more than 700 pages of once-secret material linked to the life and times of the world's first spaceman that were released by Russia ahead of the April

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Scientists' Billboards Ask Whether You'd Save a Child or a Lab Rat - Pro-Research Billboards Ask the Public to ChooseMedical researchers, long pilloried by animal rights activists as heartless torturers of helpless creatures, are fighting back with a provocative billboard campaign that features a white rat and a smiling little girl."Who would you rather see live?" the billboard asks.That

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Who fired first Civil War shot? – A raid 150 years ago by Confederate sympathizers on a Union fort at what is now Pensacola Naval Air Station was likely little more than an ill-planned and drunken misadventure, perhaps ended by one soldier's warning shot — and a blank one, at that.But don't tell Pensacola residents that the Jan. 8, 1861, skirmish meant nothing — the event is the stuff of legend

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Teen Military Daughters Launch Sisterhood For Military Kids - Moranda Hern was 15 years old when her father, Lietenant Colonel Rick Hern, was deployed to Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan. In the months that followed, she found herself feeling increasingly more isolated and lonely."My friends don't have parents in the military for the most part, so they didn't really understand what I was

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Military Spouses Face Difficulties Finding Employment -- Among the 14.8 million Americans looking for work, the men and women married to military personnel face barriers others don't.Military families move on average every 2.9 years, making it hard to pursue a single career or accumulate the experience employers want. Labor markets near sprawling bases like Fort Hood, Tex. or Fort Benning, Ga.

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Rare Civil War photos document life between battles - America's Civil War, whose 150th anniversary is marked on Tuesday, is so often described in battles — the Battle of Gettysburg, the Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Fort Sumter — that it may be easy to forget that the soldiers who fought in the four-year war had a lot of time between fighting. The rare photos seen below document just that —

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The oldest TV set in Britain: Built in 1936... and it's only had two careful owners - For £5,000 you might have expected a bigger, flatter screen. But this television does come with 75 years of broadcasting history – and you can still hook it up to a Freeview box. Built in 1936, the Marconi type-702 is the oldest working television set in Britain. Classic: The 75-year-old set comes with a 12-

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Rumors of Jackie Chan's death a hot topic - Twitter users across the globe were abuzz over rumors that Hong Kong-based action star Jackie Chan recently died of a heart attack."RIP Jackie Chan" made it to Twitter's top trending topics worldwide, placing fifth at 11:25 a.m. on Wednesday.The official social networking accounts of the Hong Kong-based action superstar, however, quickly denied this,

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Chatting, texting and (horrors) sexting -- families need a 'family online-use plan,' - The social-media world is where many children and teens today spend much of their time. That means moms and dads have to develop a different parenting game plan than their own parents used, pediatricians said Monday.Social media aren't bad things, the report notes, allowing kids to make friends, raise

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Costs of Libya Operation Already Piling Up - With U.N. coalition forces bombarding Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi from the sea and air, the United States’ part in the operation could ultimately hit several billion dollars -- and require the Pentagon to request emergency funding from Congress to pay for it.The first day of Operation Odyssey Dawn had a price tag that was well over $100 million

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Get the perfect bikini body - If you’ve zeroed in on the perfect bikini for this summer, you’ll want to make sure your body is tight and toned. Swimsuits can be unforgiving, so insure yourself against any boo-boos with these expert tips. According to Pooja Makhija, consulting nutritionist at Clay Wellness, Bandra, one of the key mistakes people make in the

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Radioactivity : Why is this blight different from all other blights? - I'm guessing the reference in the title makes sense to the non-Jewish world. You've all heard "Why is this night different from all other nights?" haven't you? One of the key Passover questions. The night is different because the story of Exodus is told on that night, and it's, you know, a big deal what with the plagues and

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Spider's venom is being touted as the new Viagra and so is a new 'Between the sheets' diet - A brand new stimulant for a power-packed performance in bed is the venom of a Brazilian spider, touted to boost a man's libido. The revelation comes from the college of Georgia whose researchers have found that a single bite from the dangerous spider found in South and Central America can prolong a

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