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Environmentalists Slam Bush's Departing Proposal As "Fire Sale" For Oil And Gas IndustrySALT LAKE CITY — The view of Delicate Arch natural bridge _ an unspoiled landmark so iconic it's on Utah's license plates _ could one day include a drilling platform under a proposal that environmentalists call a Bush administration "fire sale" for the oil and gas industry. Late ... |
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First Female Four-Star General PromotedWASHINGTON — Call it breaking the brass ceiling. Ann E. Dunwoody, after 33 years in the Army, ascended Friday to a peak never before reached by a woman in the U.S. military: four-star general. At an emotional promotion ceremony, Dunwoody looked back on her years in uniform and said it was a... |
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Got hyphenatedOn June 18th of this year, I took a new identity: yes, an American citizen. The ceremony was in an auditorium and nearly 500 of the citizens-to-be were seated, while the friends and the family of them were eagerly watching from the gallery above. I took my 4-1/2 year old American b... |
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Mars Rover Spirit Still AliveToren Altair writes with this excerpt from a story at The Space Fellowship: "NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit communicated via the Mars Odyssey orbiter today right at the time when ground controllers had told it to, prompting shouts of 'She's talking!' among the rover team at NASA's Jet Propulsi ... |
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So, Does Installing A Game To The 360's HDD Really Help Improve Load Times? [Xbox 360]Best feature of the New Xbox Experience isn't avatars, or a new UI, it's the ability to install games to the console's HDD. It was - in our wildest dreams, anyway - meant to cut down on two of the 360's biggest problems: loud DVD drives, and long waits for load times/disc caching. But does it? Eu... |
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Changing Social Structure in India: Impact on the NRI ParentConsider this: There are more than 20 million NRI as per a release from Morgan Stanley. Of these more than 50% have moved out of India in the last 20 years when globalization became an important driving force for the world economy and Indian talent started getting recognized world over. F... |
