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Romney accepts GOP nomination: 'The time has come to turn the page
Thu,30 Aug 2012 08:17 PM PDT
 Mitt Romney accepted the Republican presidential nomination by making an appeal to Americans disappointed in President Barack Obama's tenure in the White House, arguing he can usher in the change Obama promised in 2008 but has failed to deliver. "Tonight I'd ask a simple question: If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack [...]
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In defense of Clint Eastwood: He was weird, but fantastic
Thu,30 Aug 2012 07:58 PM PDT
 Go ahead. Vet my day. A fistful of incoherence. High slurs rambler. Every which way and loose. Clint Eastwood, the 82-year-old movie star and director, inspired what seemed like enthusiasm inside the Republican National Convention's Tampa Bay Times Forum—and disbelief outside it and on Twitter. He also spawned puns, based on the titles of Eastwood's [...]
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Weakening Isaac hovers over water-logged Louisiana
Thu,30 Aug 2012 07:56 PM PDT
Associated Press -  Isaac hovered over Louisiana for a third day Thursday, shedding more than a foot of additional rain that forced authorities to hurriedly evacuate areas ahead of the storm and rescue hundreds of people who could not escape as the rapidly rising waters swallowed entire neighborhoods.
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Obama camp refers Clint Eastwood questions to Salvador Dalí
Thu,30 Aug 2012 08:17 PM PDT
 President Barack Obama's reelection campaign says Clint Eastwood's eccentric speech to the Republican National Convention was, well, surreal. "Referring all questions on this to Salvador Dalí," spokesman Ben LaBolt said by email. Dali was a Spanish surrealist painter of the 20th Century. His bizarre and beautiful works include The Persistence of Memory. Eastwood's appearance centered [...]
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Pentagon threatens legal action over Osama bin Laden book
Thu,30 Aug 2012 06:37 PM PDT
ABC News -  The Pentagon has determined the former Navy SEAL who has authored a book about his role in the Osama bin Laden raid is in "material breach" of non-disclosure agreements and warned him it is considering legal action against him as a result.
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Convention one-liners driving most discussion of issues on Twitter
Thu,30 Aug 2012 05:22 PM PDT
 The tremendous volume of tweets around the Republican convention do not generally dwell on questions of policy. As countless commentators have pointed out, the conventions are more about personalities and imagery than they are about platform and ideas. The one major exception we see on Twitter is when a particular line from a speech stands [...]
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Two more Yosemite visitors stricken with deadly virus
Thu,30 Aug 2012 09:20 PM PDT
Reuters -  Two more visitors to Yosemite National Park have been diagnosed with a deadly rodent-borne virus, raising the total number of people infected in the unusual outbreak to six, California public health officials said Thursday. Two men died from the rare lung disease called hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, and four other people survived the rodent-borne illness. Most of the victims are believed to have contracted the virus while staying in tent-style cabins this summer in a popular camping area called Curry Village. ...
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Will Bernanke signal new boost to US economy?
Thu,30 Aug 2012 09:40 PM PDT
Yahoo! Finance -  Expectant eyes from around the world will be on Ben Bernanke Friday, looking for assurances that the US economy is solid or, if not, that his Federal Reserve is ready to invest more to stimulate growth.
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L.A. plans to charge families of electrocuted Good Samaritans
Thu,30 Aug 2012 10:45 AM PDT
The families of two Good Samaritans who were electrocuted after racing to the scene of a car wreck will still be charged for ambulance fees by the city of Los Angeles. On August 22, Irma Zamora and Stacey Schreiber died after rushing to the scene of a car wreck. Four others were also injured in [...] Full Story | Top |
Water released from Isaac-stressed dam
Thu,30 Aug 2012 01:58 PM PDT
Associated Press -  Isaac soaked Louisiana for yet another day and pushed more water into neighborhoods all around the city, flooding homes and forcing last-minute evacuations and rescues. New Orleans itself was spared, thanks in large part to a levee system built after Katrina.
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Michelle Obama on RNC: 'I tend not to watch it'
Thu,30 Aug 2012 10:58 AM PDT
 During yet another late night television appearance, first lady Michelle Obama told David Letterman that she hasn't been watching the Republican National Convention this week—but that doesn't mean American voters should follow her lead. "As the wife of the guy they're running against, I tend not to watch it," the first lady said on the [...]
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98-year-old message in bottle sets world record
Thu,30 Aug 2012 05:53 PM PDT
A message in a bottle has been pulled from the ocean 98 years after it was written, and officials say it is the world's oldest of its kind. Scottish fisherman Andrew Leaper found the letter in his nets while sailing off of Scotland's northern coast. And on Thursday, Guinness World Records confirmed that is the [...] Full Story | Top |
Linguist studies origins of the A-word
Thu,30 Aug 2012 12:08 PM PDT
Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg has written a scholarly study of the A-word, saying its rise in culture impacted feminism, self-discovery movements and conceptions of social class. The University of California, Berkeley School of Information linguist professor spoke with NPR about his book, "Ascent of the A-Word," which was released on August 14. "I'd meet people when [...] Full Story | Top |
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