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Storm-Fueling Current May Be Monster-Maker
30 08 2008 A small patch of warm, deep water known as the Loop Current may be the difference in determining whether Gustav becomes a monster storm, reminiscent of Katrina.
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Report From Berlin Tech Show
29 08 2008 At the IFA show in Berlin the big story is "white goods" - the fact that the show, for the first time in its 84-year history, is mixing home appliances along with consumer electronics.
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Riding A Raft Of Junk Across The Pacific
29 08 2008 To raise awareness about plastic debris and pollution plaguing our oceans, two men build a raft out of 15,000 plastic bottles and a Cessna airplane fuselage and sailed three months to Hawaii. What they found in the Pacific was gut wrenching.
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Industry Groups Sue Over Polar Bear Rule
29 08 2008 Groups representing the oil and gas, mining, and manufacturing industries asked a federal judge to ensure that laws protecting polar bears were not used to block projects in Alaska.
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Apple's Reputation Untarnished By Mishaps
29 08 2008 A string of mishaps like Apple has made with its products might throw another electronics company into crisis. But, even as iPhone griping rages, it seems Apple's sterling reputation will emerge untarnished.
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Blogger Arrested Over Guns N' Roses Leak
28 08 2008 Kevin Cogill was arrested on suspicions he was streaming songs from the unreleased Guns N' Roses album "Chinese Democracy" on his Web site.
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"Major Leap" In Medical Cell Research
28 08 2008 Scientists have transformed one type of ell into another in living mice, a big step toward the goal of growing replacement tissues to treat a variety of diseases.
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Series Of Quakes Shaking Up B.C. Coast
28 08 2008 A strong earthquake struck off Canada's west coast near Vancouver Island. There were no immediate reports of major damage or injuries.
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Apple's Steve Jobs Caught In Obituary Oops
28 08 2008 An electronic gaffe at news outlet Bloomberg mistakenly sent an incomplete obituary for Apple CEO Steve Jobs over the wire, and a tipster promptly sent the soon-retracted file to gossip blog Gawker.
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U.N. Makes Headway In Climate Talks
28 08 2008 Talks on a new global warming agreement have begun to resolve some major sticking points, the U.N. climate chief said, after months of sluggish negotiations often marked by confrontation among industrial and developing countries.
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FAA Slammed For Software Glitch Delays
28 08 2008 Flight delays caused by a communication failure at a Federal Aviation Administration facility drew criticism for an agency that has been scrutinized over air traffic controller staffing and inspection standards.
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Arctic Ice At 2nd-Lowest Level On Record
27 08 2008 Scientists reported Arctic Ocean sea ice has melted to the second lowest minimum since satellite observations began. With several weeks left in the melt season, ice in summer 2008 has a chance to diminish below the record low set last year.
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Did Hillary Mean It?
27 08 2008 An expert told Maggie Rodriguez her body language may have belied the strong support she expressed for Barack Obama.
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Nielsen: 'Obama Text' Reached 2.9 Million
26 08 2008 The statistics firm says that the SMS campaign stunt announcing his VP pick reached 2.9 million people.
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Critics Say Border Fence Causing Flooding
25 08 2008 Environmentalists say flooding caused by a new border security fence in southwestern Arizona shows the structure is being built too quickly and without regard for the environment.
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"Tongue Computing" May Help The Disabled
25 08 2008 The tireless tongue already controls taste and speech, helps kiss and swallow and fights germs. Now scientists hope to add one more ability to the mouthy muscle, and turn it into a computer control pad.
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Unconventional Coverage On The Web
25 08 2008 With bloggers and other new media journalists covering the DNC from quarters partially sponsored by Google, the blogosphere and video sites like YouTube will provide views and perspectives that political junkies would otherwise miss.
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Far North Greenland Glacier Cracking Up
22 08 2008 In northern Greenland, a part of the Arctic that had seemed immune from global warming, new satellite images show a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a major glacier, scientists say.
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Microsoft Taps Seinfeld As New Pitchman
22 08 2008 Microsoft is trying to increase their cool quotient by placing comedian Jerry Seinfeld in ads with company chairman Bill Gates. Seinfeld will reportedly be paid $10 million.
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Melting Arctic Ice Opens New Ship Frontier
22 08 2008 Rapidly melting ice on Alaska's Arctic is opening up a new navigable ocean in the extreme north, allowing oil tankers, fishing vessels and even cruise ships to venture into a realm once trolled mostly by indigenous hunters.
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Salads To Get New Dressing - Radiation
22 08 2008 Spinach and lettuce sellers got the go-ahead from the FDA to treat their produce with just enough radiation to kill E. coli and other germs.
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Is Your Gas Pump Ripping You Off?
22 08 2008 When you fill up your gas tank, are you actually getting all the fuel you pay for? That's the question our CBS News Investigative Unit and some affiliate reporters set out to answer all across the country.
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Abandoned Baby Whale To Be Euthanized
21 08 2008 An abandoned baby whale that has been attempting to suckle boats in the waters off north Sydney will be euthanized because it is in such poor condition, an environmental official said.
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YouTube User Wins Copyright Spat
21 08 2008 In the first ruling of its kind, Judge Jeremy Fogel held that copyright owners must consider fair use before sending takedown notices.
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Bugs In New iPhone Bugging Users
21 08 2008 Many are complaining that the highly-hyped device has been letting them down, doing things such as dropping calls and loading Web pages slowly. Woes have also been reported with Nanos and Apple's MobileMe.
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