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Afghan war grows more visible in U.S.

MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines (Free subscription) | 36 minutes ago

A record number of Afghan war deaths in October has forced the U.S. to take new notice of Afghanistan as debate rages over whether President Obama should send tens of thousands more troops.

• A bad month in Afghanistan rippled across the US - Examiner
• A bad month in Afghanistan rippled across the US - Sify
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UConn overcomes miscues, topples Irish in 2OT

MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines (Free subscription) | 50 minutes ago

UConn had a pass intercepted in the end zone, had two touchdowns called back on holding penalties and missed a field goal at the end of regulation, but the Huskies were able to overcome all of that to defeat the struggling Irish in South Bend Saturday, 33-30 in double overtime for the biggest win in the school's history.

• Dixon's 4-yard TD gives UConn 33-30 win over ND - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• UConn overcomes miscues, topples Irish in 2OT - MSNBC.com

I Kid You Not -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

The Corner (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

$100 just came into NRO for our fundraising drive with this message: See what you can do about reclassifying Pluto as a planet again. Yeah, it's a little off topic, but where will it end? Mercury next? Then Venus? Pretty soon there won't be any "planets" left and then how will the Federation be formed? I have a stake in this as Captain Kirk is due to be born just down the road in a couple...

Maupiti Island

Nasa (Free subscription) | 13 minutes ago

Acquired August 8, 2009, this true-color image shows the relatively tall central island, and low-profile fringing islands and coral reefs that comprise Maupiti Island.

Houston dad completes spacewalk, but still waits for baby

Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

A spacewalking astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and blazed through his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station on Saturday.

House Demands Audit of the Federal Reserve

Green Options (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

Where Did All of the Money Go? Ed Schultz interviews Florida Rep. Alan Grayson about Congress finally demanding more transparency from the Federal Reserve , and auditing their massive secret bank bailouts . The recently passed legislation will now allow the Government Accountability Office to independently audit the Fed, and their nefarious Wall Street deals . Alan Grayson and Ron Paul co-authored...

LHC: Beams back in business!

Bad Astronomy (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Yesterday, the Large Hadron Collider once again had a beam of protons whizzing around its 27 km-long circumference! After a series of setbacks — some devastating, holding up the world’s largest scientific experiment for many months — this milestone achieved shows that the collider is heading back to full operations, which should get started again next [...]

Something Every Parent Should Have: Removeez

Green Options (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

I think it’s happened to us all- the kid gets a hold of a pen or marker or even some paint…and it refuses to come off the skin even when scrubbing so hard you practically take the skin off. And we know that is neither is fun for the parent nor the child. Finally someone, parents of course, invented a safe, natural product that “gets stuff off your skin”, Removeez . Read more...

Ingram, No. 2 Tide roll over Chattanooga 45-0

MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Mark Ingram ran for 102 yards and two long touchdowns in the first half, and No. 2 Alabama breezed to a 45-0 win over Chattanooga on Saturday.

• No. 2 Alabama has little trouble with Chattanooga - SI.com
• Ingram, Tide roll over Chattanooga 45-0 - KansasCity.com
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Swine flu vaccine effective despite mutations: experts

Physorg (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

Swine flu vaccines are still effective despite reported cases of mutations in the A(H1N1) virus, health experts in Europe and North America said Saturday.

Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate

Physorg (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

(AP) -- Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online - stoking debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change.

Tree-eating bugs threaten Monarch butterfly in Mexico

Physorg (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

The mysterious Monarch butterfly, which migrates en masse annually between Canada and Mexico, is now facing a new peril: another insect thriving in Western Mexican forests.

Astronauts from space shuttle Atlantis take second spacewalk outside International Space Station

NYDailyNews (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

A spacewalking astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and blazed through his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station on Saturday.

My tribalist moment

Inductivist (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

I think I finally had my tribalist moment. As much as I like Sarah Palin and her politics, I continue to be underwhelmed by her interviews. So why, when David Brooks called her a joke, did I want to punch him in the face? Why? She's not my sister. Her populism is great, but I want to feel confident about a politician. So why am I so defensive? I never got this way when Bush was mocked. I've decided...

Coulter sounding like Jared Taylor--gotta love it

Inductivist (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Coulter is always fun: It cannot be said often enough that the chief of staff of the United States Army, Gen. George Casey, responded to a massacre of 13 Americans in which the suspect is a Muslim by saying: "Our diversity ... is a strength." As long as the general has brought it up: Never in recorded history has diversity been anything but a problem. Look at Ireland with its Protestant and...

• US Army Chief of Staff responds to Muslim gunman by insulting the victims. - Council of Conservative Citizens

Physicist Dismissed Over Claims And Biological Pacemaker

jeanlyons7 | 11/17/2009

Today, we tell about a new object discovered far away in the solar system. We tell about a physicist who was dismissed for scientific wrongdoing. Quaoar, Physicist, Biological Pacemaker http://www.1-language.com/eslnews/science021029.htm

Learning to drive

koko9988 | 11/09/2009

The reason why the development of human society to today's well-developed and advanced, the most fundamental reason is that humans have always cherished a dream of perseverance. From the Archimedes on the idea of leveraging the Earth to the Jules Verne fantasy on the submarine and landing on the moon; from the Wright brothers on the dream of flying to the idea of Einstein's space-time conversion. Human...

Watch The Box Online | Download The Box Movie Free

trangleso | 11/07/2009

Do you Love Movies but don’t have a reliable source to get them when you want them! Now I’m downloading movies and burning my own Videos CDs for free! There is no computer experience and any kind of tools needed to download The Box or any of my favorite movies and TV shows and burn them to CD. Oh yeah… many movie download programs come with spyware and adware so I also wanted to download my movies...