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War Vet: Why We Should Mourn Our Enemies On Memorial Day

May 23, 2009 | No Comments

May 31, 1993: “I remember the first time I prayed for an enemy. It was just outside An Khe, a village in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. A helicopter gunship rocketed some No. Vietnamese regulars who were about to attack us. I prayed for those kids. My top sergeant berated me for my prayer. I realized then that my enemy …” — John Samuel Tieman

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BitTorrent Spammers Target The Pirate Bay

May 23, 2009 | No Comments

With millions of page views a day, torrent sites are a great outlet for spammers and scammers. Most recently, The Pirate Bay suffered from a spam flood. Thousands of spam comments posted on the site promised to speed up BitTorrent downloads to unrealistic heights, while installing an aggressive adware bundle.

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James’ game-winner rightfully merits place in sports history

May 23, 2009 | No Comments

It followed the arc of Carlton Fisk’s home run in 1975, of Doug Flutie’s Hail Mary in 1984, of Garfield Heard’s turnaround jumper going up and Magic Johnson’s baby hook hovering over the Big Three and Michael Jordan’s last shot going down. It traced along the arc of those memories and by the end of its flight it had created a memory of its own.

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Men With Big Muscles Cut Cancer Risk By 40%

May 23, 2009 | No Comments

Men with stronger muscles from regular weight training are up to 40 per cent less likely to die from cancer than men who do not pump iron. The findings, by an international team of researchers, suggest muscular strength is as important as staying slim and eating healthily when it comes to protecting the body against deadly tumours.

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FBI Blows It: AGAIN!. . .(NY "terror" plot)

May 23, 2009 | No Comments

Once again we see a manufactured threat “taken down” to great media fanfare. Once again, behind the headlines and flashbulbs, a bogus, ginned up “entrapment of dumbest” case emerges.

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Facebook Gets A $200 Million Offer At A $10B Valuation

May 23, 2009 | No Comments

A Russian investment firm has offered to buy $200 million of preferred stock in Facebook at a $10 billion valuation, the WSJ’s Jessica Vascellaro says. Facebook has not yet responded to the offer.

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8 Tech Celebs Who’ve Been in Trouble with the Law

May 23, 2009 | No Comments

It’s easy to forget that the people responsible for creating the technologies we use everyday are, well%u2026 people too. And some of them do bad things.

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In the Strike Zone: What Lightning Teaches Us

May 23, 2009 | No Comments

Researchers are now tracking the radio waves and x-rays produced by lightning, and they’re even experimenting with synthetic strikes (made with rockets!). Here’s their current thinking.

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N.Korea allows limited Internet cell phone service

May 23, 2009 | No Comments

North Korea has begun limited Internet service for mobile phone users, a government Web site reported, months after launching an advanced network in cooperation with an Egyptian telecommunications company.

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Nigerian Military Kills Thousands Of Civilians

May 23, 2009 | No Comments

The military in Nigeria has been accused of killing 1,000 civilians in an upsurge against militants in the oil-rich Niger Delta. “They…bombard entire communities from the air, sea and land.” The military action has “resulted in over a thousand deaths, because we dared to ask for our rights,” said Victor Burubo. He called on the UN to intervene.

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