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17639 No.5538   [Reply]

"A young Israeli woman and former soldier caused a stir after she posted photos on Facebook posing with handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian detainees.

Eden Abergil said the photos she posted on her profile page were taken during her compulsory military service and told Army Radio Tuesday she "doesn't understand what I did wrong.""

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2010/08/17/Israeli-woman-poses-with-detainees/UPI-33111282048352/



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13967 No.5537   [Reply]

"Survivors have been telling how a Colombian airliner broke into three on landing yet all but one of the 131 people on board escaped death.

The Boeing 737 crashed as it came into land during a storm on the Caribbean island of San Andres.

In what officials called a miracle, the aircraft's engines shut down on impact and its fuselage did not catch fire.

A honeymooner spoke of seeing the plane split near his seat, then walking away from the wreck with his wife.

"It was very surreal, like science fiction," Alejandro Murillo Pedrosa told BBC World Service."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-10998821



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8065 No.5528   [Reply]

"Some batteries used in cellphones and laptop computers can catch fire or explode and may present a hazard to air travel, officials say.

Concern about a possible terrorist strike caused flight attendants to confiscate 58 batteries from a passenger aboard an American Airlines flight leaving New York, USA Today said Monday.

The lithium-ion batteries are generally safe for consumer use but could be rigged to make a bomb, Indiana University engineer Jian Xie said.

Officials are concerned about lithium-battery safety after a number of incidents, and earlier this year the Transportation Department proposed more stringent rules for their shipment on aircraft, the report said."

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/08/16/Batteries-a-threat-to-airline-safety/UPI-14541281963799/

>> No.5534  

Wonderful, this may give the TSA an excuse to ban lithium batteries on board. That means no more bringing in laptops, iPods, or anything that uses these types of batteries.

Oh wait, there's always books...



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61834 No.5532   [Reply]

"The United States is trying to build a consensus on the latest UN Security Council-imposed sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.

A team of officials from Washington is set to tour the Middle-east later this week to hold talks with the UAE, Bahrain and Lebanese officials to discuss the Security Council resolution in June imposing a fourth round of sanctions against Tehran."

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7019601494?US%20Team%20For%20Middle-East%20To%20Discuss%20Security%20Council%20Sanctions%20Against%20Iran



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13443 No.5522   [Reply]

"Billions of dollars in stimulus funding remains unspent and Americans are wondering why, a report says.

Some cities hit hardest by recession-caused unemployment have hardly touched millions of dollars in stimulus funds, The Washington Post said Saturday.

Detroit, with 14 percent unemployment, had spent just 1 percent of its nearly $9 million in stimulus funds by June 30, and Phoenix has spent even less of its $15 million, the report said.

At the end of July, almost 18 months after the stimulus was approved, more than half of $275 billion for infrastructure improvements and healthcare remains unspent, the Post said."

http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2010/08/14/Much-stimulus-money-remains-unspent/UPI-74551281801439/

>> No.5531  

Why are you not rushing to recklessly spend it faster, you fucking ingrates!? Is this what you think we elected you for? To improve our communities instead of destroying them so you can make shallow claims in attack ads?

Spend it on better enforcement of zero tolerance laws regarding children if you cannot think of anything else, or the other team might win next election. "My opponent voted against our children!" This ain't fucking rocket science, you pieces of shit!



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63433 No.5527   [Reply]

"Seafood from the Gulf of Mexico is being put under the microscope like no other kind on the market, with fish, shrimp and other catches ground up to hunt for minute traces of oil — far more reassuring than that sniff test that made all the headlines.

And while the dispersant that was dumped into the massive oil spill has consumers nervous, health regulators contend there's no evidence it builds up in seafood — although they're working to create a test for it, just in case."

"Q: But what about that controversial dispersant — are the feds testing for it?

A: Not yet; they're still developing a good test."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100816/ap_on_he_me/us_med_healthbeat_seafood_safety



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36857 No.5523   [Reply]

"A federal judge Friday revoked U.S. approval of genetically modified sugar beets, saying the Agriculture Department did not fully assess environmental impact.

About 95 percent of the U.S. crop of the beets is now genetically modified."

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/08/13/Judge-bans-planting-of-engineered-beets/UPI-83211281757556/

>> No.5526  

BRB, buying sugar beet futures.



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11845 No.5510   [Reply]

"Britain's "oldest smoker," who sucked on more than 170,000 cigarettes in her lifetime, has died just a month shy of her 103rd birthday.

Great-great grandmother Winnie Langley smoked for over 95 years, taking her first drag at age 7 following the start of World War I. She died July 27.

She stopped smoking last year but only because she couldn’t see the end of a match to light it."

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7019583301?Britain%27s%20Oldest%20Smoker%20Dies%20Just%20Shy%20Of%20103rd%20Birthday

>> No.5513  

Death was inevitable for a person who smokes a lot.

>> No.5514  

>>5513
Death was inevitable for a person.

>> No.5517  

>>5514
Unless you are Jesus.

>> No.5518  

>>5517
Are you saying Jesus didn't die for my sins?

>> No.5524  
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>>5518

Karawou died for your sins.

>> No.5525  

>>5518
Why would he?
The romans killed his stunt double.



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45687 No.5521   [Reply]

"A pilot flying in the area of this week's Alaska plane crash that killed former Sen. Ted Stevens and four others has estimated that clouds were as low as 600 feet at the time of the crash, the National Transportation Safety Board's chairwoman said Saturday.

That is well below p-r-e-v-i-o-u-s estimates of between 1,000 and 2,000 feet, Chairwoman Deborah Hersman said at a news conference. The pilot of the small plane also told investigators that visibility was between five and seven miles, she said.

It's unclear how high Stevens' plane was flying, and the cause of Monday's crash on a remote mountainside in southwest Alaska hasn't been determined. Investigators have spoken with two of the four survivors, and one survivor has told officials he didn't notice any changes in the plane's pitch or hear any unusual engine sounds right before the plane went down."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100815/ap_on_re_us/us_alaska_plane_crash



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61173 No.5504   [Reply]

"A celestial body once touted and then rejected as the first planet photographed outside the solar system may yet turn out to be a planet, U.S. scientists say.

An image captured in 1998 by the Hubble space telescope shows a faint object 450 million light years from Earth near a pair of newborn stars, ScienceNews.org reported Thursday.

At the time, the discovery team led by astronomer Susan Terebey suggested the object's location at the end of a long, luminous filament emanating from the two stars indicated the object, TMR-1C, was a planet cast off by those incipient suns. Many researchers were skeptical, saying the apparent association of the objects might be just a coincidental alignment, and even Terebey later concluded the object was too hot to be a planet.

Two recent studies suggest scientists may have been too quick to write of TMR-1C.

Both say evidence strongly suggests the object is in fact closely linked to the two stars."

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>> No.5515  

Have they decided what "planet" means yet?

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