CNN is reporting the following:
A suspicious device found at the Port of Miami has tested postive for C-4 explosive, police say.
Very strange given that just in the last couple of days, a few middle eastern men were held for questioning because of papers and cargo and such not being in order. They said they were [...]
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Stem cells taken from the fluid that fills the womb in pregnancy could be used to create new brain, bone and liver cells, a study suggests.
US researchers successfully extracted the amniotic cells from samples, and then grew them in lab experiments.
Writing in Nature Biotechnology, they said it should be possible to harness the cells’ ability [...]
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The finding of a parrot with an almost unparalleled power to communicate with people has brought scientists up short. The bird, a captive African grey called N’kisi, has a vocabulary of 950 words, and shows signs of a sense of humour.
He invents his own words and phrases if he is confronted with novel ideas with [...]
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FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (AP) — Authorities were trying to identify a mysterious metallic object that crashed through the roof of a house in eastern New Jersey.
Nobody was injured when the golf ball-sized object, weighing nearly as much as a can of soup, struck the home and embedded itself in a wall Tuesday night. Federal [...]
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NEW YORK (Billboard) — Rumors are swirling that the Police will reunite for 2007 dates in England and the United States, which would be the rock trio’s first since disbanding in 1986.
Sources told Billboard.com the reports — in the British press — were legitimate, but they would not publicly comment until final details are nearer [...]
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Washington, D.C. (January 4, 2007) — Warner Bros will soon launch a DVD that can play movies and TV shows on both Blu-ray and HD-DVD machines.
The disc, which comes on the heels of an announcement from LG Electronics that it will soon launch a dual HDTV DVD player, is intended to alleviate consumer concerns about [...]
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Washington, D.C. (January 4, 2007) — LG Electronics says it will launch a dual HDTV DVD device that can play both Blu-ray and HD-DVD discs.
The electronics company made the announcement on Wednesday and said it would release further details at next week’s Consumer Electronics Show, such as pricing and launch dates.
The dual player is aimed [...]
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Pretoria - A UFO was sighted at Lephalale, where it was described as a strange object “on an orange cloud, singing like a million turbines” - hitting the earth with a bang at 04:33 on Saturday.
That’s according to Leonie Ras, the administrative manager of Lephalale (Ellisras) who witnessed the spectacle at her daughter’s farm just [...]
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NEW YORK - When Wesley Autrey saw the man go into a seizure and fall onto the subway tracks, he jumped in to save the stranger.
As he tried to pull the man to safety at the Harlem stop, Autrey looked up.
“I saw the two white lights, and said, ‘Whoa, you ain’t got no time,’ ” [...]
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Nineteen years after chasing down the Holy Grail in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” Harrison Ford will return to the big screen in the character of the globe-trotting archeologist in May 2008.
Producer George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg confirmed details of the project Monday after Lucas tipped off the media to Indiana Jones’ imminent [...]
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