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Karzai declared elected president of Afghanistan

U.N. congratulates Hamid Karzai on his win as president; Karzai now to form new government

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Why a high IQ doesn’t mean you’re smart

IS GEORGE W. BUSH stupid?

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CIT group files for bankruptcy protection

The bankruptcy of a key lender that helps retailers stock their shelves is adding to the industry's worries ahead of the critical holiday shopping season. http://www.wcbs880.com/CIT-Group-Files-for-Bankruptcy-Protection/5574626 added by: ebindelglass 0 comments

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Notes From A War On Terror – Promo

Vanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller traveled to Sri Lanka during the final days of the country's civil war to see how one of the world's most powerful insurgencies, the Tamil Tigers, was finally defeated. Vanguard Presents: Notes from a War on Terror ***Vanguard is Current TV's original documentary series. Led by correspondents Laura Ling, Mariana van Zeller, Christof Putzel, Adam Yamaguchi and Kaj Larsen, Vanguard features enterprising reports from around the globe.

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British Space Agency to probe ‘crackpot’ antigravity device

“A controversial British antigravity device is to be investigated by the government's National Space Centre, according to reports. If the technology really works, it would be able to counteract the force of gravity using only electrical power, permitting the easy building of Jetsons-style flying cars or hoverships and hugely simplifying space travel.” http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/29/emdrive_antigrav_bnsc/ I am not sure if this invention has a potential to deplete our natural resources but I love its fantastic potential and the general direction towards an innovative sci-fi future. added by: lookatmypix 6 comments

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Artificially induced rain and snow

Chinese meteorologists for years sought to make rain by injecting special chemicals into clouds and now they just covered Beijing in snow Sunday after seeding clouds! http://mashdata.blogspot.com/2009/11/artificially-induced-rain-and-snow.html added by: mashdata 12 comments

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FBI says 400,000 people are on watch list

Newly released FBI data offers evidence of the broad scope and complexity of the nation's terrorist watch list, documenting a daily flood of names nominated for inclusion to the controversial list http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/31/AR2009103102141…. added by: knews121 20 comments

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Judge rules Feds can search e-mail without notice

No matter how much of our personal lives exist in e-mail services such as Gmail, a U.S. District Court judge says if the government takes a look at your e-mail. The opinion by federal judge Michael Mosman, handed down in Portland, Oregon, involves a case in which the government has probable cause for a search and asked Google to provide nine months of a Gmail subscriber's e-mails, seeking evidence of the crime.

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Obama and all other US Presidents are related, except for one

http://www.ksbw.com/news/21404492/detail.html# FROM THE ARTICLE: SALINAS, Calif. — A seventh-grader and her 80-year-old grandfather are allegedly the first people to discover that President Barack Obama is related to all other U.S. presidents except one.

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The computer that made the Internet

This is Dr. Leonard Kleinrock pinching the nipples of the Interface Message Processor, a ruggerized Honeywell DDP-516 Minicomputer

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