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| Riff Two (Sucked) Thumbs Up | | | For the self-identified cineaste, new parenthood doesnt mean just seeing a lot fewer movies; it means no longer trusting your judgment about the rare movies you do get to see. |
| Verizon, Vodafone boards set to vote on $130 billion wireless deal | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - The boards of Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group Plc are expected to vote this weekend on a $130 billion deal, funded by about $65 billion of debt, to give the U.S. telecom giant complete ownership of Verizon Wireless, people familiar with the matter said on Saturday. |
| World's wackiest hobbies | | | Bog snorkeling? Air guitar? And you thought your hobby was odd. No matter your passion, there's a festival to honor it. |
| Fukushima radiation levels spike | | | There's been a sharp spike in radiation levels measured in the pipes and containers holding water at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan. |
| Macaws freed in Mexican park | | | Aug. 15 - A breeding program in Mexico makes its third release of macaws into the wild this year as part of its effort to revive the country's struggling population of scarlet macaws. Tara Cleary reports. |
| Why the Indian protests were not a surprise | | | Nov. 14 - Tulsi Tanti, the chairman and managing director of Suzlon Energy, sits down with Chrystia Freeland to discuss the Anna Hazare movement in India, and why protests like this are not surprising in emerging economies. |
| Giant canyon found entombed under Greenland ice | | | OSLO (Reuters) - A vast and previously unmapped gorge 800 meters (half a mile) deep has been found under ice in Greenland, comparable in size to parts of the Grand Canyon in the United States, scientists said. |
| Biggest U.S. rocket blasts off with spy satellite | | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An unmanned Delta 4-Heavy rocket, the largest in the U.S. fleet, blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Wednesday to put a classified spy satellite into orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office, officials said Wednesday. |
| Radiation levels spike | | | There's been a sharp spike in radiation levels measured in the pipes and containers holding water at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan. |
| Yingli Green's loss shrinks on China demand | | | Aug 30 (Reuters) - Yingli Green Energy Holding Co Ltd posted a smaller quarterly loss mainly due to surging demand for its solar panels in China, where the solar power generating capacity is expected to more than quadruple in the next two years. |
| Thai Protester Killed at Blockade | | | One protester was shot and killed and another seriously wounded in southern Thailand at the site of a blockade by farmers protesting a fall in rubber prices. |
| The kings of scary-high bridges | | | The world's highest bridges don't scare two men who have traveled to some of the scariest on the planet. And sometimes, when nobody's looking, they climb them. |
| Miley Cyrus twerks, stuns VMAs crowd | | | Lady Gaga has taken the MTV Video Music Awards stage covered in (fake) blood; wearing a dress made of meat and as her male alter-ego, Jo Calderone. |
| 460-mile megacanyon discovered | | | British and American scientists watching Greenland's massive ice sheet have found what appears to be a 460-mile "megacanyon" far beneath the frozen surface of the world's largest island. |
| Fruit fly brain map a boon to neuroscience | | | Aug. 29 - Scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Virginia have successfully mapped the circuitry in a small region of a fruit fly brain. The researchers, who work at HMMI's Janelia Farms Research Campus, say it is a small but important step toward understanding how the much larger human brain processes information. Rob Muir has more. |
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