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Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are helpful for many tasks, but they are not good for all tasks. I have long felt that most computers today do not use electricity. They instead seem to be powered by the “pumping” motion of the mouse! Computers were suppo
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We have a national flat tax, albeit one with bumps and potholes.
The fact that the political parties won’t acknowledge this is one reason they are doing a disservice to the voting public.
Instead, both parties have a vested interest in the theatrical po
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Driven by strong sales for Civil War and increased penetration of the bookstore market, publishing revenues for Marvel Entertainment were up 22% vs. 2005 in the fourth quarter of 2006 and nearly 18% for the year. But the gains in publishing were not enou
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(New York, February 27, 2007) – The US government should account for all the missing detainees once held by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
The 50-page report, “Ghost Prisoner: Two Years in S
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Batman may meet up with Superman on the bigscreen after all — along with Wonder Woman, Aquaman, the Flash and all the rest of DC Comics’ biggest names.
Warner Bros., with its major appetite for fresh franchises, is looking to make a feature based on sup
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WASHINGTON – Rushed by President Bush’s decision to reinforce Baghdad with thousands more U.S. troops, two Army combat brigades are skipping their usual session at the Army’s premier training range in California and instead are making final preparations a
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Talk about tension. The lunch and the subsequent feature could have set off some real fireworks with Kurtz not only defending his work and the Post’s reputation, but pressing Malkin hard to explain her wild and often fact-free allegations against journali
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NEW YORK – Wall Street now views the color green as something other than money.
In the latest sign that global climate change is becoming a major factor for investors, potentially the largest private takeover in the nation’s history has environmentalist
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The National Wildlife Refuge System, part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, was created a century ago to provide a haven for the most imperiled species. But today the mosaic of 547 refuges covering nearly 100 million acres of swamps, islands, wetland
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TEHRAN, Feb. 26 — A group of Iranian academics, writers and artists has denounced the Holocaust conference held in Tehran late last year, calling it a move that endangered peace and hurt the reputation of Iranian academics.
The Iranian government organ
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NEW YORK – Stocks plummeted Tuesday, briefly hurtling the Dow Jones industrials down nearly 550 points as Wall Street succumbed to a global market plunge sparked by growing concerns that the U.S. and Chinese economies are cooling and that equities prices
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As the Pentagon prepares to boost troop levels in Iraq by 21,500 people, such logistical and training hurdles are emblematic of the struggles besieging a military strained by unexpectedly long and grueling commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“It’s happ
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Relatively cheap gas prices, a record high stock market and low unemployment all contributed to a rise in Floridians’ consumer confidence by two points to 91 in February, four points higher than at the same time a year ago, University of Florida economi
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The federal agency that’s been front and center in warning the public about tainted spinach and contaminated peanut butter is conducting just half the food safety inspections it did three years ago.
The cuts by the Food and Drug Administration come des
~ by SAP on 27 February 2007.
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