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DNA clears man after 35 years in prison - Crime & courts- msnbc.comJames Bain used a cell phone for the first time Thursday, calling his elderly mother to tell her he had been freed after 35 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit. Mobile devices didn't exist in 1974, the year he was sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping a 9-year-old boy and ...
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The Associated Press: 22 million missing Bush White House e-mails foundComputer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush and the Obama administration is searching for dozens more days' worth of potentially lost e-mail from the Bush years, according to two groups that filed suit over the ...
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Motion-sensing phones that predict your every move - tech - 13 December 2009 - New ScientistCOULD your cellphone learn to predict what you are going to do before you've even started doing it? Communications engineer Arjen Peddemors thinks so, and along with colleagues at the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands he has devised a system that learns users' behaviour patterns ...
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Robert J. Elisberg: What It Takes to Make a Republican MadRepublicans weren't mad when George Bush and Dick Cheney lied America into a war against a nation that didn't attack us and didn't have any Weapons of Mass Destruction. They weren't mad when George Bush and Dick Cheney pulled troops out of Afghanistan that was harboring the actual terrorists ...
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The Lie Machine : Rolling StoneGOP operatives are running a secret campaign to kill health care reform, and it's based on Karl Rove's old playbook - On the first day of August, a mob of 200 right-wing Texans stormed the parking lot of a Randalls grocery store in southwest Austin. They were united in a single goal: Disrupt ...
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House panel considers college football playoffs - Yahoo! NewsA top official of the Bowl Championship Series says there are more important things for Congress to worry about than pressing for a playoff system for college football. But lawmakers were taking a crack at it anyway Wednesday. A House panel was to consider a proposal to ban the promotion of a ...
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Hoyer: GOP Obstructionism Damaging The Institution Of CongressHouse Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Mary.) offered a lengthy and searing rebuke of Republican leadership on Monday, claiming the minority party has traded an honest seat at the negotiating table for outright obstructionism. Speaking before the Center for American Progress, the Maryland ...
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Courts Examine Credit Raters' 'Intimate Relationship' With Bankers (VIDEO)A decade ago, the nation's largest credit-rating companies developed a new line of business that boosted their profits and sent them on a hiring spree. They began rating complex investments that featured large packages of bonds sometimes based on subprime mortgages. Now the raters are reaping ...
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Judge Finalizes $675,000 RIAA Piracy Verdict, Won’t Gag Defendant | Threat Level | Wired.comA federal judge on Monday finalized a $675,000 jury verdict against a defendant who went to trial after the Recording Industry Association of America sued him for file sharing. U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner presided over the Joel Tenenbaum case in summer 2009. Tenenbaum was only the ...
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Fed Needs To 'Start Giving A Red Hot Damn About The American Public,' Says Sen. WhitehouseTwo days before Ben Bernanke's confirmation hearing, most Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee are withholding judgment, waiting to hear directly from the chairman of the Federal Reserve. Given the depth of the ongoing economic crisis, the hearing promises to be a lively one, as senators ...
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