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LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) — A 58-year-old Kauai man sentenced to life in prison in 2001 for killing his wife by setting her on fire has had the minimum amount of time he must serve before he can request parole doubled to 120 years.
AMHERST -- When it was announced last month that the Feel Good Festival would end after five years, many were disappointed, but none more than Stevens Point businessman Jim Powell.
In 1994 America Online trailed Compuserve and Prodigy, a third subscription option in how you hooked your modem up to the internet to go cyber surfing. What propelled AOL to global dominance by the end of that decade was their proprietary 'rainman' platform, which enabled partners to build out their anchor stores in the massive online shopping and lifestyle mall AOL became. Time Warner ...
What's Your Reaction? Barack Obama will be visiting China next week, and as this video report from Reuters shows, the Chinese are enthusiastic about Obama, if not in ways that always make immediate sense.
Steam junkies of all ages celebrated in West Oakland on Saturday at the “coming out” party for Kinetic Steam Works , a local collective devoted to steam-powered art.
Every Sunday at the famed Lighthouse Point surf spot in Santa Cruz, it's the well-buffed people on the bluff spinning iridescent plastic hoops around every body part from their necks to their toes '” while the waves crash behind them and techno music pulsates '” who mesmerize spectators with their muscular interpretation of what used to be called hula-hooping.
These are dog days for Mike and Janice Gribble.
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Tim Woodward happened to be in Carson City, Nev. for Nevada Day, Nevada's statehood celebration, and likens it to Mardi Gras. Could an Idaho Day party work as a replacement for the Boise River Festival?
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The Flaming Lips are a weird bunch. tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly'; tweetmeme_source = 'SPINmagazine'; Share But with their latest release, the "Miles Davis meets Joy Division" double album Embryonic , the Oklahoma boys are getting even weirder , with ringleader Wayne Coyne going naked and filming a giant, spherical vagina-type-thing giving birth to a bunch of other naked people, who then ride ...
A SECT OF enlightened individuals lives among us.Their beliefs encompass shamanism, a 2012 doomsday scenario, obscure psychedelic drugs, mysticism, yoga, UFOs, crop circles, occasional communication with Mayan deities and the lingering suspicion that Obama is part of a robot conspiracy.
SolarCity lets clients lease a solar-power system instead of buying it, and save up to 15% a month on the combined electric and lease bill.
By Joshua Emerson Smith.
Aerosols, very small particles suspended in the air, play an important role in the global climate balance and in regulating climate change. They are one of the greatest sources of uncertainty in climate change models. ESA's GlobAerosol project has been making the most of European satellite capabilities to monitor them.
Image 1: Desert dust blown from the Western Sahara towards the Canary Islands, seen in this 300-m resolution Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) image. The wind can move between 60 and 200 million tons of fine dust up from the Sahara each year. Credits: ESAImage 2: An example of a GlobAerosol product: aerosol optical depth for the year 2007, derived from Envisat AATSR data. Credits: ESA
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