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8 Killed as Car Hits Street-Race Crowd Posted: 2 years ago by Marli
Witnesses said about 50 people were gathered before dawn along Route 210 as two car spun their wheels, kicked up smoke and sped off, said Prince George's County police Cpl. Clinton Copeland.
Fans had spilled onto the smoky, dark roadway to watch the cars drive away when a white Ford Crown Victoria unexpectedly came up from behind and smashed into them.
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Do Stem Cells Grown From Unfertilized Eggs Have Souls? Posted: 2 years ago by osiris12
A team of scientists from Maryland and Moscow say they'e used unfertilized eggs to produce stem cells.
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NYPD Nails Stalker With His Pants Unzipped Posted: 9 months ago by suebe
Wearing a wig and with duct tape in the front seat of the car. What do you think he was planning?
*this is not far from where I used to live*
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More Americans scramble to stretch paychecks Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
What used to last four days might last half that long now. Pay the gas bill, but skip breakfast. Eat less for lunch so the kids can have a healthy dinner.
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Dead Stars Propelled Like Rockets Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
As white dwarfs form, they get a "kick" that propels them to speeds of thousands of miles per hour, new evidence from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows. Astronomers used Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys to look at the distribution of white dwarfs in the ancient globular cluster NGC 6397, a dense swarm of hundreds of thousands of stars.
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Possible progenitor of special supernova type detected Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have reported the possible detection of a binary star system that was later destroyed in a supernova explosion. The new method they used provides great future promise for finding the detailed origin of these important cosmic events.
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Holland to ban magic mushrooms Posted: 2 years ago by kissmenow
The sale of hallucinogenic magic mushrooms is about to be banned by the Dutch Government in the latest sign of a conservative backlash against Amsterdam’s relaxed attitude towards sex and drugs.
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Astronomers find possible new planet Posted: 6 months ago by bingo
Astronomers may have discovered the first planet in another galaxy — thought to be six or seven times the size of Jupiter.
In order to find the celestial body, located more than two million light years away, the astronomers used a method called gravitational microlensing.
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Codco on Sexual Harassment Posted: 2 years ago by optimusplime
Nobody seems to remember this show. It is Canadian, and yes those are the two women from This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Quality level is poor... but please remember this show predates the world wide web (I used to watch it on a hand me down black and white TV :S)
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Retired Race Horses Skip Slaughter House to Fight Crime Posted: 5 months ago by cb__
Besides working in police departments, some former harness horses have joined the military. Three serve as riderless horses at funerals at Arlington National Cemetery. Sergeant York, who was the riderless horse at the funeral for President Ronald Reagan, also used to race.
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Expensive Santa Cruz Mountains search finds stoned teen Posted: 2 years ago by mutil8or
Eighteen-year-old Matthew Rosenberg had used his cellular telephone Monday night to call his mom and tell her he tripped, broke his leg and was lost.
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Live Mice Made from Skin Cells Posted: 4 months ago by Bornbad
Ordinary skin cells from mice have been used to create live mice that then had babies.
*The process isn't perfect — some of the mice died*
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Cullinan mine Posted: 7 months ago by rambler
After some good discussion on my post yesterday about the sale of a blue diamond , I found the company's website. Have a look at the Ownership section, and in particular at the percentage owned by "BEE" owners ("Black Economic Empowerment", including a 12% share held by an employee share trust).
The Sustainability page is also quite interesting.
Of course this is a company website, and it's blowing it's own trumpet, but these things get audited, and are subject to legal and shareholder scrutiny like anywhere else in the world.
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Game: Can you name the 100 most commonly used English words? Posted: 10 months ago by yoornotme
You get 12 minutes. I got 60/100. I missed some really obvious ones.
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Rogue Truck Careens down Wrong Lane, Off Overpass Posted: 2 years ago by chinook
After driving on the wrong side of the highway in Edmonton for approximately 20km, a rogue semi truck crashed into a guardrail and flew off an overpass and exploded. Though many cars hit the ditch to avoid the semi, the only casualty was the semi driver.
The link is to a video of the crash; you can find the full story here
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U.S. town embraces alternative currency Posted: 2 years ago by DrNothing
"I just love the feel of using a local currency," said Trice Atchison, 43, a teacher who used BerkShares to buy a snack at a cafe in Great Barrington, a town of about 7,400 people. "It keeps the profit within the community."
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Stuffed Peruvian Turkeys Shipped for Sale Posted: 3 months ago by meggysue
Only one problem: they were alive, and stuffed with pounds of cocaine. Now there's a turkey dinner that won't put you to sleep!
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Oyster lover finds 18 pearls in one batch of Smoked Oysters Posted: 2 years ago by bevissimo
The odds of finding a pearl in an oyster are long. David Stearns of Wenatchee found 18 of them in a single bite Monday evening.
"I could hear the crunch against his teeth," said his wife, Peri Stearns, on Tuesday, holding a dark-colored plate that displayed the rough pearly spheres, each in a different stage of development.
Small world - I used to date this guy and he really does love them oysters. I have proof that they are not an aphrodisiac.
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Church of Scientology Faces Criminal Charges in Belgium Posted: 2 years ago by DemureArt
Scientology's Brussels-based Europe office and its Belgian missions conducted unlawful practices in medicine, violated privacy laws and used illegal business contracts...
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German mogul kills self over financial meltdown Posted: 11 months ago by Bornbad
German billionaire Adolf Merckle threw himself in front of a train after his business empire, which included interests ranging from VW cars to pharmaceuticals to cement, ran into trouble in the global financial crisis
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