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HOW TO: Make Free iPhone Ringtones
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:27 am PDT
Mashable - Ringtones -- They are the darlings of the music industry and the bane of anyone subject to hearing a bad one. If you're sick of your plain old telephone ringer but don't want to download a canned tone, you don't need to spend extra money to turn your favorite song into a ringtone for your iPhone. There's a way to create ringtones in iTunes from your existing music. Full Story | Top |
Beck: Help us restore traditional American values
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:42 pm PDT
 AP - Conservative commentator Glenn Beck and tea party champion Sarah Palin appealed Saturday to a vast, predominantly white crowd on the National Mall to help restore traditional American values and honor Martin Luther King's message. Civil rights leaders who accused the group of hijacking King's legacy held their own rally and march. Full Story | Top |
'Vapor trail' leads to Paris Hilton's Vegas arrest
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:35 pm PDT
AP - Smoke wafting from a Cadillac Escalade on the Las Vegas Strip set off Paris Hilton's latest legal troubles when a motorcycle officer who suspected the smell was marijuana stopped the vehicle and police say a bag of cocaine later fell out of the 29-year-old socialite's purse. Full Story | Top |
Cuba eases property laws, could open door to golf
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 04:54 am PDT
 AP - Cuba has begun allowing foreign investors to lease government land for up to 99 years, a step toward a future that could be filled with golf courses ringed by luxury villas, beachfront timeshares and vacation homes for well-heeled tourists. Full Story | Top |
The 'new Dubai'? Libya open for business
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:35 am PDT
 AP - In the outskirts of this city, Libya's second largest, row after row of sand-colored concrete apartment blocks and villas are sprouting from the desert. Hundreds of kilometers away, construction cranes dot the Mediterranean skyline of the capital, Tripoli. Full Story | Top |
Yard sale patron allegedly hits man with pan
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:27 pm PDT
AP - A 70-year-old yard sale shopper is facing charges after things apparently got a bit out of hand at a yard sale. Tuolumne County authorities said Jon Joslin was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after he allegedly hit another man over the head with a cornbread pan at the sale Friday. A sheriff's spokesman said Joslin hit the fellow shopper with a five-pound, cast iron pan to prevent him from getting to the sale first. Full Story | Top |
Glenn Beck keeps rally more historical than political
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:07 pm PDT
The Upshot - Glenn Beck talked a lot about American presidents during Saturday's "Restoring Honor" rally—just not the current one. He lavished praise on George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, and even read a bit from the "Gettysburg Address." Beck, a conservative radio and television host, has long said the Lincoln Memorial event would be nonpolitical. So [...] Full Story | Top |
Ground Zero Muslim center may get public financing
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:54 pm PDT
 Reuters - The Muslim center planned near the site of the World Trade Center attack could qualify for tax-free financing, a spokesman for City Comptroller John Liu said on Friday, and Liu is willing to consider approving the public subsidy. Full Story | Top |
W.Va. governor wins Dem primary for US Senate
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:17 pm PDT
 AP - Popular Gov. Joe Manchin won the Democratic nomination Saturday and will face GOP primary winner and wealthy businessman John Raese in the race to fill the Senate seat vacated by the late Robert C. Byrd. Full Story | Top |
Medicare expands coverage to help smokers quit
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:07 pm PDT
AP - They've lived with the health warnings about smoking for much of their lives and doubtless seen the ill effects on friends, relatives and even themselves, yet about 4.5 million older people in the U.S. keep on lighting up. Medicare is finally catching up to most private insurers by providing counseling for anyone on the program who's trying to kick the habit. Full Story | Top |
Far-right protesters clash with police in UK
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:10 pm PDT
 AP - A right-wing group that opposes what it calls the spread of Islam in Britain clashed with riot police in northern England on Saturday, throwing bottles, rocks and a smoke bomb at authorities. The demonstration by the English Defense League occurred in Bradford, a city with one of the country's largest Pakistani and Muslim communities. Full Story | Top |
Imam behind NYC mosque faces divisions over center
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:27 pm PDT
 AP - Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has long worked to bridge divisions, be they fissures between interfaith husbands and wives or political chasms separating the United States and the Muslim world. The 61-year-old clergyman is now in the midst of a polarizing political, religious and cultural debate over plans for a multistory Islamic center that will feature a mosque, health club and theater about two blocks north of ground zero. Full Story | Top |
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