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  1. Taller People Earn More Money LiveScience.com - Sat Jul 11, 10:41 AM ETSent 263 times

    There's a growing body of research that finds taller people make more money.

  2. Swearing Makes Pain More Tolerable LiveScience.com - Sun Jul 12, 10:10 AM ETSent 153 times

    That muttered curse word that reflexively comes out when you stub your toe could actually make it easier to bear the throbbing pain, a new study suggests.

  3. In this April 10, 2009. photo, Chris Paget, a self-described 'ethical hacker,' sits in the back of his car with electronic equipment seeking information from imbedded radio frequency identification, or RFID chips as people pass him along the Embarcadero in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
    Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears AP - Sun Jul 12, 12:01 AM ETSent 9 times

    Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he'd bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car.

  4. Boxer faces 'challenge of a lifetime' on climate change bill McClatchy Newspapers - Sat Jul 11, 6:00 AM ETSent 9 times

    WASHINGTON — If the Senate doesn't pass a bill to cut global warming, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer says, there will be dire results: droughts, floods, fires, loss of species, damage to agriculture, worsening air pollution and more.

  5. This conceptual artist rendering provided by Rocketplane Global Inc. on Friday July 10, 2009, shows the Rocketplane XP spacecraft. Hawaii could become the eighth state granted a spaceport license. Several space tourism companies, including Rocketplane, have shown interest in coming to Hawaii, said John Strom, vice president of business development for Enterprise Honolulu, the Oahu economic development board. (AP Photo/Rocketplane Global Inc.)
    Space companies eye HI as potential new frontier AP - Sun Jul 12, 4:31 AM ETSent 6 times

    HONOLULU - Tourists coming to Hawaii for high-end getaways could someday be launched from the sand to the stars, taking island-hopping to new heights.

  6. Dark brown lesions on stems, with white fungal growth developing under moist conditions, are characteristic of late blight. The fungal growth on the stems and also on affected leaves consist of thousands of microscopic spores. The spores can be dispersed by wind to healthy plant tissue, infect the healthy tissue if it is wet for a few hours, and within a few days produce a new lesion. REUTERS/Department of Horticulture/Cornell University/Handout
    Potato famine disease striking home gardens in U.S. Reuters - Fri Jul 10, 5:22 PM ETSent 5 times

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Late blight, which caused the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s and 1850s, is killing potato and tomato plants in home gardens from Maine to Ohio and threatening commercial and organic farms, U.S. plant scientists said on Friday.

  7. In this photo provided by NASA, monitors in firing room four of the Launch Control Center show launch pad 39a with the space shuttle Endeavour and the inspection team at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday, July 12, 2009.  Endeavour is set to launch tonight with the crew of STS-127 and start a 16-day mission that will feature five spacewalks and complete construction of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory.  (AP Photo/NASA, Bill Ingalls)
    More storms threaten shuttle launch attempt AP - 46 minutes agoSent 5 times

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA faced the prospect of more stormy weather Monday as it tried for the fifth time to launch shuttle Endeavour to the international space station.

  8. An employee of the Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) counts 100-dollar bills at the bank's headquarters in Seoul October 6, 2008.REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak
    CIT says remains in discussions with regulators Reuters - 2 hours, 52 minutes agoSent 5 times

    (Reuters) - CIT Group Inc , a commercial U.S. lender struggling to finance its business, said late on Sunday that it remains in active discussions with regulators on measures to improve its near-term liquidity position.

  9. A fighter from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, with a heavy machine-gun in the troubled region in mid September 2008. The country's main rebel group, which has so far targeted oil facilities in the south, has claimed responsibility for an audacious strike on an oil jetty in Lagos in its first attack on the country's economic capital.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)
    Nigerian militants claim attack on Lagos oil jetty AFP - 53 minutes agoSent 4 times

    LAGOS (AFP) - Nigeria's main rebel group, which has targeted oil facilities in the south, claimed responsibility for a strike on an oil jetty in Lagos in its first attack in the country's economic heart.

  10. The logo of a UBS bank in Geneva. The US and Swiss governments called for a delay to the start of a court showdown seeking to force Swiss financial giant UBS to reveal thousands of offshore accounts held by US clients.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)
    US, Swiss ask for delay in UBS secrecy case AP - Sun Jul 12, 5:20 PM ETSent 3 times

    The U.S. and Swiss governments and banking giant UBS AG indicated Sunday they were seeking a settlement and asked a federal judge to delay high-stakes hearings on the Internal Revenue Service's effort to identify thousands of suspected American tax evaders.

  11. In this June 2, 2009 photo, a shopper moves along the aisle at Toys R Us in Bell Garden, Calif. A trade group's measure of the health of the U.S. services sector contracted less than expected in June, reaching its highest level in nine months. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
    ALL BUSINESS: More toxic loans could haunt banks AP - Sat Jul 11, 5:43 AM ETSent 3 times

    NEW YORK - Japan's economy was paralyzed for a decade as banks failed to deal with their troubled loans. That's why it's nothing short of stunning to discover some U.S. banks are doing the same thing now.

  12. Web wrangle leads to movie deal for novelist Reuters - Sun Jul 12, 10:40 PM ETSent 2 times

    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Producers Don Murphy and John Wells have teamed up to option "The Flock," a novel by James Robert Smith.

  13. This handout photo courtesy of Greenpeace shows Mount Rushmore near Keystone, South Dakota. Greenpeace activists were arrested Wednesday for scaling Mount Rushmore and hanging a banner next to the carved face of Abraham Lincoln urging President Barack Obama to get tough on climate change.(AFP/HO/Kate Davison)
    Greenpeace activists arrested for banner on Mount Rushmore AFP - Wed Jul 8, 6:29 PM ETSent 2 times

    CHICAGO (AFP) - Greenpeace activists were arrested Wednesday for scaling Mount Rushmore and hanging a banner next to the carved face of Abraham Lincoln urging President Barack Obama to get tough on climate change.

  14. Pedestrians walk past a Bank of America branch in New York May 8, 2009. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
    BofA balking at paying fees for guarantees: report Reuters - 1 hour, 36 minutes agoSent 2 times

    (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp is trying to avoid paying billions of dollars in fees to U.S. taxpayers for guarantees against losses at Merrill Lynch, saying the rescue agreement was never signed and the funding never used, Bloomberg reported citing people familiar with the matter.

  15. Armadillo-like crocodile roamed Brazil: researchers Reuters - Tue Jul 7, 3:56 PM ETSent 2 times

    RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Fossils found in Brazil are from a crocodile resembling a large armadillo that was a predator in the area around modern-day Sao Paulo state 90 million years ago, researchers said on Tuesday.

  16. A four tonne sperm whale and eight dolphins have been washed up on Senegal beaches over the past month, the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) said.(AFP/File/Romeo Gacad)
    Whale and dolphins washed up on Senegal coast: WWF AFP - Fri Jul 10, 5:37 AM ETSent 1 times

    DAKAR (AFP) - A four tonne sperm whale and eight dolphins have been washed up on Senegal beaches over the past month, the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) said Friday.

  17. Drought conditions turn dire in parts of Texas AP - Wed Jul 8, 3:17 AM ETSent 1 times

    LUBBOCK, Texas - If not for the triple-digit heat, central Texas rancher Debbie Davis could almost think it was a different season entirely.

  18. Bundles of one dollar bills at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, DC. The slow impact of a massive US economic stimulus program approved earlier this year has prompted renewed talk about another effort to stem rising unemployment and jolt the economy from recession.(AFP/File/Shawn Thew)
    Slow stimulus spending brings out complaints AFP - Sun Jul 12, 7:56 PM ETSent 1 times

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - The slow impact of a massive US economic stimulus program approved earlier this year has prompted renewed talk about another effort to stem rising unemployment and jolt the economy from recession.