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Film legend Charlton Heston dead at 84



Saturday 5 April 2008 @ 11:54 pm

LOS ANGELES - Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing “Ben-Hur” and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the ’50s and ’60s, has died. He was 84.



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Rising cost of fuel puts independent truckers, small airlines out of business



Saturday 5 April 2008 @ 6:44 pm


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Canada may scrap the penny; legislator calls it “an expensive nuisance”



Friday 4 April 2008 @ 3:19 pm

Pat Martin of the opposition New Democrats said it cost Canada C$130 million ($127 million) to produce 1.2 billion pennies last year, largely because so few of the small coins are actually circulated.



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Hydrogen-Powered Plane Takes Flight



Friday 4 April 2008 @ 12:10 pm

“For the first time in the history of aviation, Boeing has flown a manned airplane that was powered by a hydrogen battery,” Boeing chief technology officer John Tracy told a news conference at the firm’s research center in the central Spanish town of Ocana.



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81 percent of Americans think country on “wrong track”



Friday 4 April 2008 @ 10:49 am

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four out of five Americans believe things are “on the wrong track” in the United States, the gloomiest outlook in about 20 years, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll released on Thursday.



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Pregnant man tells Oprah: It’s a miracle



Friday 4 April 2008 @ 10:46 am

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A transgender man who is six months pregnant said in an interview aired by Oprah Winfrey on Thursday that he always wanted to have a child and considers it a miracle.



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No state jail time for woman who started the largest fire in Colorado history



Thursday 3 April 2008 @ 10:46 am

Because of legal technicalities, the woman who started Colorado’s worst forest fire will not serve time in state prison after she finishes a federal sentence. She admitted she started the fire by burning papers that outlined a separation agreement with her estranged husband.

Blogs: No sympathy for Hayman arsonist



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What’s keeping us from Mars? Space rays, say experts



Thursday 3 April 2008 @ 10:31 am

The Earth’s bulk, atmosphere and magnetic field protect life from the solar radiation and the cosmic rays that travel through space. Astronauts have just a thin layer of shielding.



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Atheists Infiltrate Events for Intelligent Design Film



Wednesday 2 April 2008 @ 6:43 pm

Outspoken opponents of the Intelligent Design (ID) movement, including scientists Richard Dawkins and Paul Zachary “PZ” Myers, have managed to infiltrate private screenings for a soon-to-be released movie on the subject, according to a film producer who helped to organize the events.



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Oh, Behave! Number Two Answers 900 Questions, Claims Al Quaida Doesn’t Murder Innocent People



Wednesday 2 April 2008 @ 6:28 pm

CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri, rejecting criticism of attacks by the terror network’s followers that have killed thousands, maintained Wednesday that it does not kill innocent people.



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