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Nebraska Beef Ltd decided to expand its voluntary recall to 5.3 million pounds, representing all the meat the company produced between May 16 and June 26, a statement released by the company on Thursday read. Originally, the company recalled the beef sent to Nebraska, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas. On Thursday, it did not specify whether the beef now being recalled went to additional states. The measure follows another major recall announced on June 25 by Kroger Co, the U.S. largest grocery chain, of ground beef sold in Michigan and central and northwestern...
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If you need to spice up your sex life, a slice of watermelon may be the answer. According to scientists with the Texas A&M’s Fruit and Vegetable Improvement Center, one of the nation’s top producers of the seedless variety, the juicy fruit contains an organic compound that acts somewhat similar to sildenafil citrate, the active ingredient in Viagra. Citrulline, as this compound is named, triggers the production of an amino acid known as arginine that helps relax the body’s blood vessels the same way Viagra does when taken to treat erectile dysfunction or to prevent it. However, arginine...
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Firefox 3 has entered today in the Guiness Book of World Records as the most downloaded software in 24 hours. As you might remember, in its first day of release, Firefox 3 was downloaded for 8,002,530 times. Mozilla has removed form the server logs the duplicates and incomplete downloads and then has submitted the documentation Guinness World Records, which announced today its approval. "As the arbiter and recorder of the world's amazing facts, Guinness World Records is pleased to add Mozilla's achievement to our archives," said Guinness records manager Gareth Deaves in a...
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Thursday night, with all those fireworks in the sky there
will be also a bit of the cremated remains of Meredith Smith. According to The
Associated Press, the organizers of a local fireworks show thought this was the
best way to pay tribute to the man who ran the annual event for 40 years. Meredith
Smith died at the age of 74, in February.
Kevin Moss, a friend of the family said this was indeed the
best way to pay tribute.
“I can't think of a better way,” he said, according to The
Associated Press.
Also hundreds of T-shirts will complete this final tribute
called “The last...
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On Saturday, Kent Couch, 48, hopes to fly 300 miles in his original
flying device: a lawn chaird lifted by helium balloons.
Couch is already what we might call an expert in clustering ballooning
and this is his third flight.
This time Kent Couch hopes to break his previous record, by
flying from his gas station from Bend, Oregon to Boise,
Idaho. Last year, on his second
flight, Kent Couch has managed to fly 193 miles.
While watching a show on the Discovery Channel years ago
about Larry Walter's lawn chair helium balloon ride in 1982, Kent Couch decided
that he wish to...
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