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The mouse can run up to 3.7 miles at a speed of 60 feet per minute for five hours or more without stopping. Scientists said that this was equivalent of a man cycling at speed up an Alpine mountain without a break. Although it eats up to 60% more food
Chrysler announced it would eliminate 11,000 hourly and salaried jobs in the United States and Canada, and cut shifts of workers at five plants. The decision comes on top of a plan, announced in February, to eliminate 13,000 jobs and close a factory
[The American dollar is so low foreigners should be flocking here for a cheap vacation.] The number of foreign visitors to the United States has plummeted since 9/11 attacks because foreigners don't feel welcome.
The American Freedom Agenda, an organization of conservatives founded last March 20 to restore checks and balances and protections against government abuses, requested all presidential aspirants to sign an American Freedom Pledge.
The Army began its recruiting year Oct. 1 with fewer signed up for basic training than in any year since it became an all-volunteer service in 1973, a top general said. Gen. William S. Wallace, whose duties as commander of Army Training and Doctrin
Rowling herself did the drawings for the collection of five magical fairy stories, along with writing the text by hand. In a statement, Rowling said "The Tales of Beedle the Bard is really a distillation of the themes found in the Harry Potter b
Japan on Thursday ordered home ships engaged on a refuelling mission in the Indian Ocean, halting the close US ally's main role in the "war on terror" due to domestic opposition.
MySpace and Bebo, two of the world’s largest social networking sites, on Thursday joined a Google-led alliance that is promoting a common set of standards for software developers to write programs for social networks.
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Wizard. Circus clown. Street performer. Those are just a few of the unique occupations that contributors to Republican Ron Paul’s campaign for president have listed this year. And he's not the only candidate or political party to conjure up money
[at least they spelled his name correctly] Paul's fans — more than 100 of them in Leno's audience — are entranced by a man who responds to surprising information with "Wowee" and a smile not often seen apart from 5-year-old boys and
South Carolina Democrats squashed Stephen Colbert's fanciful White House bid. Colbert, who poses as a conservative talk-show host on the Comedy Central cable network, filed to get on the ballot as a Democratic candidate in his native South Caro
President Bush compared Congress' Democratic leaders Thursday to people who ignored the rise of Lenin and Hitler early in the last century, saying "the world paid a terrible price" then and risks similar consequences for inaction today.
Financials took a big hit one day after a 1/4 point cut by the Fed. Analysts blamed the collapse on a possible dividend cut at Citigroup. Analyst Richard Bove looked at Citi's assets and said solvency is not the issue. However, Bove ignored the l
$2.9 million in compensatory, $8 million in punitive damages awarded to the father of a slain Marine "distressed" by protesters at his son's funeral. Don't even think of protesting at the funeral for "freedom of expression
The FBI undercut the testimony of the DOJ's former solicitor general, saying in effect that the two calls from Ted Olson's wife Barbara who was on flight AA77 that he reported, had never happened.
How to Whip This Ron Paul Character and All His Whacky Followers. Ron Paul can be defeated by ignorance. Ignore him if you can.By lies. Misrepresent his positions whenever possible. By word gaming. As Lenin advised, “First, confuse the vocabulary
Wired recently reported on suspicions that someone was using botnets to distribute email spam on behalf of the Ron Paul campaign. Here's a follow-up story with a much more reasonable theory: Somebody is using these spamming techniques in order to
Chicago drivers have a new way to pay for gasoline: with their fingertips. Shell gas stations are testing biometric systems that let consumers walk up to the pump, scan their fingertips on a device and fill up their vehicles. The systems are directly
Taliban rebels have overrun a district centre in western Afghanistan as fighting took place in a nearby area captured earlier this week, a provincial official said on Thursday. The Taliban have massed in unusually large numbers in the last week in t
The Army, stung by a contracting fraud scandal that has generated more than 80 criminal investigations, needs 1,400 more personnel to deal with the demands of supplying troops in combat, said US officials familiar with a report by federal procurement
Former commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, Army General John Abizaid, says the U.S. conflict in the Middle East could take up to 25-50 years to resolve and that America's been lucky not to have had another 9/11 incident.
Congressional betrayal of the public trust
Young voters wild about GOP candidate? Yes, but this guy's no typical Republican. Unlike the textbook image of college Republicans — sporting Oxford ties and sipping brandy — Townsend is vivacious, and she organizes dozens of Tucsonans to stand o
Oil leaped nearly 2 percent to top $96 for the first time on Thursday, extending the previous day's 5 percent surge after an unexpected sharp fall in U.S. crude stocks and data showing strong economic growth.
The Federal Reserve cut US short-term interest rates Wednesday in a widely anticipated move, saying it had acted amid concerns economic growth will likely cool in coming months. The central bank said it had cut its federal funds interest rate by a
US President George W. Bush joked Wednesday that Vice President Dick Cheney, sometimes caricatured as Darth Vader, did not need a costume to play the sinister "Star Wars" villain for Halloween.
The US economy grew by a robust 3.9 percent in the third quarter despite tight credit that is deepening a housing slump, as consumers regained their appetite for spending, the government said.
THE price of gold passed US$800 (S$1,160) an ounce here on Wednesday for the first time since 1980 after the US Federal Reserve lowered its key short-term interest rate, the New York Mercantile Exchange said. Gold futures for December touched US$8
The latest data on home prices show that the downturn in the housing market is getting worse, rather than better, raising questions about consumers' ability to keep propping up the economy. American consumers have taken a hit not just from fallin
