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Dozens injured in San Francisco Muni train crash

Several dozen people were injured when two San Francisco light-rail trains crashed Saturday afternoon at the West Portal Station, the authorities said. Officials look over the cars that were damaged when a San Francisco Municipal Railway train rear-ended another near a boarding platform about 2:30 p.m

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Wunder bar! Swiss stumble on no-melt chocolate

We have been indulging in it in various forms for at least 3,000 years, arguing over its influence on everything from our sexual appetites to our waistlines.

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Eating Green Calculator

Learn the impact of your diet. added by: TravG73 1 response

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Free mobile TV next year

Testing of free mobile digital TV for cell phones, netbooks and other on-the-go devices is ramping up in the weeks ahead, and the first devices that can provide such broadcasts should be on store shelves by next year, according to the broadcaster-based group behind the effort. “Just like you turn on your TV today at home and watch live and local broadcast television, you will turn on your handset and be able to watch live and local broadcast television,” said Anne Schelle, executive director of the Open Mobile Video Coalition. Trials are underway around the country in cities such as Chicago, New York and Raleigh, N.C

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Man sues Apple for conspiring with the Mafia to track him using his iPod

A Californian man has sued Apple, accusing the company of conspiring with the Italian Mafia to track him down using his iPod. He says they also inserted the word “herpes” into Mike Jones “Still Tippin” The recording of death threats and other evidence, prove that APPLE INC

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Steve McNair’s "Girlfriend" Bought A Gun

The latest tidbit of news on the Steve McNair investigation: Reports are now saying that Sahel Kazemi allegedly bought a gun just days before she and the former quarterback were found dead.

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World’s Oldest Man Dies at Age 113

LONDON – The world's oldest man, 113-year-old World War I veteran Henry Allingham, died Saturday after spending his final years reminding Britain about the 9 million soldiers killed during the conflict.

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Bach pavilion isn’t the first architectural music box

The idea of designing a space-within-a-space for a specific musical project is not a first for a major international architect. The most famous is probably pavilion that Iannis Xenakis designed for Edgard Var

Government survey says US teens need better Sex Ed

So, now even the CDC agrees that abstinence only sex ed programs haven't been very effective after all. On the upside, maybe this will help bring the changes needed in this very important form of education. added by: dariustwin 2 responses

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Analog TV abandoned to make room for RFID

According to a former 31-year IBM employee, the highly-publicized, mandatory switch from analog to digital television is mainly being done to free up analog frequencies and make room for scanners used to read implantable RFID microchips and track people and products throughout the world. So while the American people, especially those in Texas and other busy border states, have been inundated lately with news reports advising them to hurry and get their expensive passports, “enhanced driver’s licenses,” passport cards and other “chipped” or otherwise trackable identification devices that they are being forced to own, this digital television/RFID connection has been hidden, according to Patrick Redmond.

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