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Ala. Dem defects to GOP over health care, policy - Yahoo! NewsA freshman Democratic House member from Alabama says he's switching to the GOP over concerns that bills and policies pushed by the Democratic leadership are bad for the country and his district. At a press conference in Alabama on Tuesday, Parker Griffith says as a doctor he wants to make it ...
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Apple Countersues Nokia - Apple nokia - GizmodoLast October, Nokia sued Apple for a 10-patent infringement. Today, Apple has sued back while snubbing Nokia with this awesomely catty one-liner: "Other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours." That was the only official Apple statement ...
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Governments turn to cloud seeding to fight droughtIn this photo taken Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009, Pacific Gas and Electric Meteorological Technician Steve Tissot, climbs a ladder to inspect a cloud- seeding machine near Lake Almanor, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. Faced with crippling droughts, governments and utilities throughout the western ...
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Apple Boots Developer and 1,011 Apps from App Store - Yahoo! NewsApple is sending a clear message to developers: Play nice or get out. Apple made the message clear by booting out a developer and its approximately 1,011 apps from Apple's App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch. To keep a clean store, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company banned China-based ...
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Big storm targets Midwest with snow, wind - Yahoo! NewsA fierce wintry storm moved into the nation's midsection Tuesday, covering roads with deep snow that was set to be followed by high winds, creating blizzard conditions. The storm already blanketed much of the mountain west and drenched Southern California with rain. In the Phoenix area, fierce ...
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Scientists, lawyers mull effects of home robots - Yahoo! NewsEric Horvitz illustrates the potential dilemmas of living with robots by telling the story of how he once got stuck in an elevator at Stanford Hospital with a droid the size of a washing machine. "I remembered thinking, `Whoa, this is scary,' as it whirled around, almost knocking me down," the ...
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Humanure: Goodbye, Toilets. Hello, Extreme Composting - Yahoo! NewsFor a well over a decade, 57-year-old roofer and writer Joseph Jenkins has been advocating that we flush our toilets down the drain and put a bucket in the bathroom instead. When each bucket in his five bathrooms is full, he empties it in the compost pile in his backyard in rural Pennsylvania. ...
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Movement under way in California to ban divorce - Yahoo! NewsTil death do us part? The vow would really hold true in California if a Sacramento Web designer gets his way. In a movement that seems ripped from the pages of Comedy Channel writers, John Marcotte wants to put a measure on the ballot next year to ban divorce in California. The effort is meant ...
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The new GOP purity test: Who'd fail?According to The New York Times, the Republican National Committee (RNC) has developed an ingenious method of determining the "purity' of GOP politicians. Invoking the wisdom of Ronald Reagan whom, according to the resolution, once said “that someone who agreed with him 8 out of 10 times was his ...
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Court won't disturb $82.6M award in SUV rollover - Yahoo! NewsThe Supreme Court has left in place an $82.6 million award to a woman who was paralyzed after her Ford Explorer rolled over. The justices on Monday rejected Ford Motor Co.'s challenge to the portion of the award, $55 million, that was intended as punitive damages. Ford argued that it should not ...
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