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A 17th century mission to the Moon
The world is celebrating the amazing journey that Apollo 11 made to the Moon 40 years ago. But few realize that an early bid to reach the Moon was launched from England, way back in the 17th century.

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Swine Flu Vaccine Makers Granted Legal Immunity
The last time the government embarked on a major vaccine campaign against a new swine flu, thousands filed claims contending they suffered side effects from the shots. This time, the government has already taken steps to head that off. Vaccine makers and federal officials will be immune from lawsuits that result from any new swine flu vaccine.

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Meat vs veggie: From depression to infertility, your choices
Scientists recently declared that vegetarians are much less likely to develop cancer. For the five per cent of the population who are vegetarian, that is good news indeed. But is meatfree always the healthiest option?

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Atheist ad campaigns come in peace, love and understanding
In the grand scheme of things, it seems odd that the question of whether or not God exists is so controversial. Just as some people go to church and others don't, the dividing line between atheism and belief is largely a private concern, relegated to how people spend their weekends and, to some extent, how they explain their actions.

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17 year old Teenager aims for Round-the-World Sailing Record
Mike Perham, a 17-year-old British "yachtboy", sets sail for the record books on Monday on the final leg of an epic round-the-world voyage. Even though current record holder, Zac Sunderland steered his sailboat back into his home port at age 17 years, seven months and 17 days, Mike is more than three months younger than his fellow "yachtboy".

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Open Letters to Annoying People
Letters are a good way to communicate with people that you, for one reason or another, can't have a face-to-face interaction with. This can be particularly effective when you're dealing with someone who is incredibly annoying. Here are some letters that we'd like to send to some particularly frustrating people.

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Why Girls Have BFFs and Boys Hang Out in Packs
It's no surprise that tween girls like one-on-one relationships and boys are more interested in groups. Now a new study suggests those preferences are wired in the brain.

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Dodgers enter race for Halladay; Jays freezing out Yankees.
While the Phillies remain almost everyone's favorite to land superstar pitcher Roy Halladay, the best-in-baseball Dodgers are now believed to be showing interest. Two big-market contenders for the summer's big pitching prize—the Yankees and Red Sox— recently have been informed by the Blue Jays that their chances to land Halladay are slim.

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Did 'Fight Club' Inspire a 17-Year-Old to Bomb a Starbucks?
Police have arrested a suspect in connection with a May 25 bombing outside a upper-Manhattan Starbucks, charging 17-year-old Kyle Shaw with first-degree arson and first-degree criminal possession of a weapon. His inspiration: Fight Club, a movie with whose anti-corporate politics Shaw was reportedly obsessed. High-five, Hollywood!

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India Fears Pressure From U.S. to Mend Ties With Pakistan
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in India amid fears that the United States was too preoccupied with events in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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California Winery First to Earn LEED-Gold Certification
With solar power, radiant floors and other eco-friendly building elements, Hall Wines' St. Helena winery has been certified at the LEED-Gold level, one of a growing number of vineyards and wineries that are greening their operations.

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Ain't No Stopping It Now: The Return Of Disco
Thirty years ago this week, in a Chicago stadium, disgruntled rock fans staged Disco Demolition Night, literally creating a disco inferno by setting fire to the records, rioting and getting arrested. Fast-forward three decades, dust off the glitterball and put on the gold dress: Disco music is back, baby, back!

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Taliban Video Shows Captive US Soldier
The American soldier who went missing June 30 from his base in eastern Afghanistan and was later confirmed captured, appeared on a video posted Saturday to a web site by the Taliban, two U.S. defense officials confirmed.

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Gold Cartridge Buyer Recreating Nintendo Championships Today
J.J. Hendricks, the Denver entrepreneur who bought the rare Nintendo World Championships Gold cartridge, is hosting an event today that seeks to recreate the original contest. He spoke to Kotaku about it and his acquisition.

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Top 10 Alcohol-Drinking Cities--and 10 Most Sober Cities
The list below ranks the 10 U.S. metropolitan areas—defined as counties or groups of counties with a population of 10,000 or more—with the highest rates of heavy drinking. A second list identifies the 10 metro areas with the lowest rates.

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Top 10 Great Social Sites for Movie Lovers
Want your film experience to extend beyond trips to the theater and DVD rental store? Then join one of these great movie social networks.

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Turkmenistan to green its desert with vast manmade oasis
The central Asian nation of Turkmenistan has cemented its reputation for eccentricity with an ambitious attempt to create a vast lake in the centre of the country's Karakum desert. In a logic-defying feat that might have appealed to Stalin, engineers have begun pumping water from a network of canals that irrigate cotton fields across the country.

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Apollo: 'One small step' for man, one massive rocket project
It wasn't a young president's brash promise that enabled Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to take those first halting steps on the lunar surface 40 years ago Monday. Nor was it the courage of the astronauts themselves.

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A Pictorial Guide to Computer Hardware
From every kind of memory to A/V input/outputs, processors, and hard drives, this guide shows in easy-to-recognize pictorial form the possible guts in your computer. It's either a really useful quick guide, or the nerdiest poster we've ever seen.

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Nelson Mandela turns 91 today, Urges People To "Do Good"
Mandela turns 91 on July 18, which his charity foundations are marking with the first annual "Mandela Day." Organizers want the world to celebrate it by doing good.

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Starbucks to Start Selling Beer: Can I have a Venti?
After building an empire based on caffeine, Starbucks is mixing it up and giving beer and wine a shot.

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Puttin on the Ritz - Young Frankenstein
(performed by Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle) Song was published in 1929 by Irving Berlin and introduced by Harry Richman in the musical film Puttin' on the Ritz (1930). The title derives from the slang expression "putting on the Ritz," meaning to dress very fashionably. The expression was inspired by the swanky Ritz Hotel.

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The 6 Most Common Facebook Photos
I spend a lot of time on Facebook and I've noticed that of the 38 million people using the site worldwide, there only 6 basic types of photos that people post on their profile:

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Burglary Suspect Ducks Into Wal-Mart, Disappears
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A man suspected of burglarizing a northwest Jacksonville home Thursday morning runs into a Wal-Mart, changes into some clothes off the rack and disappears into a crowd of shoppers while police searched the store. Thursday, July 16, 2009.

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Awesome Uses for Magical Creatures @Cracked.com
That's so beautiful- OH GOD!

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Tough Microbe Has The Right Stuff for Mars
Biologists have found microbes that live in the hottest, coldest, driest and most unpleasant places on Earth. A lowly creature could be a model for Mars life.

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Iconic Woodstock Cover Couple Keeps Festival Spirit Alive
Forty years after the legendary festival in Bethel, N.Y., a photo of two lovebirds taken at Woodstock has become an iconic symbol of love. To the surprise of Nick and Bobbi Ercoline, both now 60 and still together, the image became the cover of the 'Woodstock' album in 1970.

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8 Tips To Effectively Boost Your Wireless Router Signal
Look at it - staring you down so innocently, yet I know that your Linksys wireless router refuses to give you signal. Since you decided to place it in a corner to gather dust, using it only for its relay capabilities, it has decided to constantly bring up the feared "Limited Network Connection" bubble. Don't you just hate those?

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The Sequence of Sequencing
The flatworm is just the latest in an expanding list of sequenced genomes that now includes the human, the fruit fly, the mouse, the cat, the duck-billed platypus, various bacteria, and hundreds of other species. How do scientists decide which genome to sequence next? They follow the money.

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Male Sex Chromosome Losing Genes By Rapid Evolution
This rapid evolution of the Y chromosome has led to a dramatic loss of genes on the Y chromosome at a rate that, if maintained, eventually could lead to the Y chromosome's complete disappearance.

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Study Finds Consumers Confused By Eco-Labeling
There have big announcements recently regarding eco-labeling and certification, and they reflect the confusion that exists in the marketplace over what makes a product "green", "organic", "natural', etc. One thing is clear: Most consumers feel like there is no trustworthy green label/certification system.

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Why Skateboarding Is a Bad Idea: a Chart
At least once you grow out of your teens, anyway.

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Clever Attack Exploits Fully-Patched Linux Kernel
A recently published attack exploiting newer versions of the Linux kernel is getting plenty of notice because it works even when security enhancements are running and the bug is virtually impossible to detect in source code reviews.

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You Can Now Legally Use iPhone to Find Cannabis
This week Apple releases a new iPhone and iPod Touch application which allows users to locate cannabis resources worldwide including the nearest medical cannabis collectives, doctors, attorneys, organizations, and other patient services in the states, such as California, that have passed laws allowing medical cannabis

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Journalism Online, Would-be Newspaper Savior, Gathers Steam
Hardly a day goes by without some piece of news about newspapers trying to devise fresh ways to get consumers to pay for all the free content they're currently pushing out over the web.

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APOD: 2009 July 18 - Planets, Great Wall, and Solar Eclipse
The Moons silhouette surrounded by a glistening solar corona hangs above the Jiayuguan Fort along the western edge of the Great Wall of China. Lined-up along the ecliptic plane, all the planets of the inner solar system Mercury, Venus, Mars (and Earth!) can also be seen along with Saturn & bright star Regulus as the Moons shadow tracks across...

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1968 King Assassination Report (CBS News)
Walter Cronkite had almost finished broadcasting the "CBS Evening News" when he received word of Martin Luther King's assassination. His report detailed the shooting and the nation's reaction to the tragedy. (CBSNews.com)

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10 Ultra-Expensive CEO Divorces (PHOTOS)
This is a list of 10 of the most costly CEO divorces in recent memory. Who got the best divorce settlement? Who got shafted?

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Research Shows You Can Train Your Brain to Multitask Better
Researchers in the United States have pinpointed the region of the brain that limits our ability to carry out more than one task at the same time — and have shown how, with training, the brain gets better at multitasking.

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Amazon to Replace Cracked Kindles
Amazon.com had asked users to pay $200, because the problem wasn't covered by warranty. That led to a $5 million class action lawsuit by Matthew Geise, who experienced the problem with his wife's Kindle 2.

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