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China welcomes the Year of the Ox
China ushered in the traditional lunar year of the Ox with a massive fireworks display Sunday night...
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Ukraine Capital Short On Gas, Kievites Battle The Cold
Kiev - City managers in the Ukrainian capital Kiev on Tuesday began energy conservation measures...
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Sleeping At The Wheel Can Prove Fatal
Munich - Driving when drowsy is a feeling that every motorist knows. The danger is greatest on long...
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Adiga wins Booker for tale of two Indias
Washington - Nothing prepares you for Aravind Adiga's India - a deep, oozing, festering sore that...
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Witnesses: Metrolink Commuter Had Green Signal before Crash
Federal investigators found three witnesses who said the commuter train involved in the worst train...
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Scientists to test bone as search continues at Fossett wreck site
San Francisco - About 70 searchers combed the area around the crash site of adventurer Steve...
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Fossett searchers find plane wreckage
San Francisco - The enigma of the disappearance of adventurer Steve Fossett moved closer to...
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Officials: US train driver sent text message before crash
Los Angeles - The engineer in the worst train wreck in California history sent a text message from...
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RIPTA and SDS Go Head To Head
The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority met on Monday to
discuss a $12 million deficit in the...
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Los Angeles train collides with bus
Los Angeles - A week after the worst train crash in southern California history, another train was...
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Peace Talks to Stand or Fall over Israeli Party Primary
Tel Aviv - Wednesday's primaries in Israel's ruling Kadima party are crucial for the Middle East...
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Russian Authorities: Engine Failure Responsible for Plane Crash
Russian investigators concluded that the cause of the plane
crash which killed 88 people on Sunday...
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Aeroflot plane crashes in Russia, 88 killed
Moscow - An Aeroflot Boeing 737 passenger jet crashed near Russia's Ural mountains on Sunday,...
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Engineer blamed in deadly LA train crash with 25 dead
Los Angeles - The death toll from the worst train crash in southern California history mounted...
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Israeli government divided over compensation for West Bank settlers
Jerusalem - The Israeli government is deeply divided ahead of a debate scheduled for Sunday on a...
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Boston Subway System Hackers From MIT Get Out Of Trouble
Three MIT students managed to hack into Boston's transit payment system (Charlie Ticket) and...
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Russia's role in global affairs at risk, Bush says
Washington - Russia has placed its role in diplomatic and global economic affairs at...
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Judge Declines Gun Group’s Request To Carry Weapons In Airport
A U.S. judge upheld a gun ban at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, claiming he...
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Atlanta: Judge Rules Against Guns in Airport
Monday, a federal judge decided that people would not be
allowed to carry guns in Atlanta's...
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Driver of Tractor-Trailer Dies after Fall off Bay Bridge
The driver of a tractor trailer died early Sunday morning after three vehicles crashed on the...
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Nine Firefighters Missing After Helicopter Crashed in Northern California
Nine firefighters were presumed dead and four were seriously injured when
their helicopter...
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Oregon: Plane Crashes into Vacation House, Five killed
Monday, a small plane crashed in Oregon, into a vacation home, causing the
death of the two people...
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Rescue Under Way For Climbers On K2 As 11 Feared Dead
Rescuers were planning an aerial operation on Sunday to spot
several climbers missing on K2, the...
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Minnesota Plane Crash Scene Investigated by Authorities
Thursday, a small plane crashed while trying to land at a
regional airport in Minnesota.
Eight...
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'Gaping Hole' in Qantas Jumbo Forces Emergency Landing in Manila
A Qantas Airways plane had to make an emergency landing in its flight from Hong Kong to Melbourne...
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Two Planes Almost Collided At O’Hare Airport
Two planes, a Peoria-bound American Eagle jetliner with 43
passengers and a smaller corporate jet,...
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Medically Unfit Truckers Roam the Highways and Authorities Know It
According to an US safety study presented by The Associated Press, there are over 500,000...
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Government Makes Plans for New Crash Test Program
The government announced that the crash test program was going
to be improved so that it would...
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Dispute Over the Atlanta Hartsfield Gun Ban
A decision by Georgia lawmakers to loosen the
state’s gun laws has led to a controversy over...
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9 Killed in Alabama and New Mexico Air Crashes
Four people died in a plane crash not far from the Walker County Airport in Alabama. The plane...
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U.S.
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Public transportation in US at highest level in 52 years
Washington - More people in the United States are using public transportation than at any time in...
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Plane that Crashed in Buffalo Dropped 800 Feet in 5 Seconds
The voice cockpit of Continental Connection Flight 3407, the plane that crashed into a house in...
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Commuter Plane Crashes in Buffalo Killing 49
All the 48 passengers aboard a commuter plane died after the aircraft crashed into a suburban...
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The NTSB Is Looking To Prevent Medical Helicopter Accidents
According to the National Transportation Safety Board, over the past 12 months, there have been an...
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Obama to Direct EPA to Review the State’s Emissions Bid
You wanted change?
President Barack Obama is changing the most controversial pillars of the Bush...
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Flight 1549 Pilot Receives Hero’s Welcome in Hometown
Capt. Chesley B. Sullenberger III, the pilot who had what it took to save the 155 passengers aboard...
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Black Boxes of Flight 1549 Confirmed What Hero Pilot Said
The so-called black boxes recovered from the US Airways jetliner which emergency-landed in New...
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Black Boxes of Flight 1549 Recovered
Authorities said the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data...
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Pilot Error Responsible For 2007 Helicopter Crash, According to NTSB
The helicopter crash that killed three people in Colbert County on December 30, 2007, seems to have...
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30,000 Evacuated in Washington Due to Floods
Approximately 30,000 people had to leave their homes in western Washington state as the rivers in...
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Helicopter Crash Kills 8 in Southern Louisiana
A helicopter with oilfield workers aboard crashed on Sunday killing eight people and injuring...
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Investigation into Denver Plane Veer-Off Begins
Federal investigators are beginning today (Monday) the examination of the burned fuselage of the...
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Obama names agriculture, interior ministers
Washington - President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday named his cabinet picks for the agriculture...
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NYPD Officer Who Shoved Cyclist Is Indicted
A New York police officer, who had been recorded on tape while shoving a bicyclist and knocking him...
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Public Transit Use Records Biggest Growth in 25 Years
A report released by the American Public Transportation Association indicates that the ridership on...
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Beefed Up Security in NY after FBI Report on Al Qaeda Plot
The latest U.S. intelligence report on Al Qaeda indicating that the terrorist organization might...
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Forget Detroit, America's Car Future Is In California
Los Angeles - These days the big news in the US auto industry seems to be coming from Washington...
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Boston Student Wearing Headphones Hit by Green Line Trolley
Listening to your favorite tracks while walking on the street is really cool and energizing, but be...
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Why the Minneapolis Bridge Collapsed…
Federal investigators on Thursday tried to establish what exactly caused the collapse of the...
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1-Year-Old and Crew of 3 Die as Medical Helicopter Crashes Near Chicago
A tragedy happened in suburban Chicago. A medical helicopter that was carrying an infant patient...
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Health
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UNICEF To Provide $5 Million To Zimbabwe Health Sector
UNICEF Executive Director M. Ann Veneman made a three-day visit in Zimbabwe at the end of...
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New Device Is Better Alternative To Conventional Kidney Storage Method
A new device can be used to better preserve donor kidneys fresh for transplantation, study authors...
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Beverly Hills Doctor Used Human Fat To Fuel His Car
A rather odd accusation was made by the former patients of a Beverly Hills doctor, who alegedly...
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Stay Away from Chicken Trucks! They May Spread Poultry Pathogens
A surprising finding by a team of researchers at The John Hopkins University Bloomberg School of...
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Use of Transport Helicopters Questioned by Panel after Fatal Crash
Following the September 28 crash in Prince George’s County that killed four people, a
seven-member...
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"Making Strides Against Breast Cancer" Was A Success
The American Cancer Society's 11th annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk was a success,...
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High Gas Prices Result in Fewer Driving Deaths, Study Finds
It appears that the increase in gas prices may eventually have a good outcome, namely a decrease in...
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Civil Helicopter Crashes near Topanga Canyon, No Fatalities
Problems with the tail rotor caused a small helicopter carrying
three people to crash Saturday...
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Obesity Contributes To Global Warming
According to a team from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, obesity has a...
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NTSB Blames Pilot’s Medication and Alcohol Use for SF Oil Spill
Cosco Busan pilot Capt. John Cota whose container struck a Bay Bridge tower
on November 7, causing...
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Cancer Risk from Air Pollution Still High in Southern California
The risk of developing cancer from air pollution in Southern California has decreased in recent...
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Air Pollution Alert in Effect until Friday for Minnesota
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has issued an air
pollution alert for most of...
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Mayo Fights for Breast Abnormality Diagnostic Services in case of Uninsured
This Sunday, researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida declared that they started a...
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Night Shift Work Linked to Cancer
A team of 44 scientists in 10 countries commissioned by the World
Health Organization’s...
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Technology
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Obama Includes Additional NASA Funding for 2010, As Promised
NASA’s $18.7 billion budget for the fiscal year 2010 reflects one promise that Barack Obama...
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Digital Switch Delay Receives Further Support
The United States have been preparing for a long time for the switch from normal to digital...
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Electric Cars Acknowledged as the Wave of the Future
Non-polluting electric cars are no longer the stuff of far-fetched impractical eco-friendly dreams....
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Electric Cars Acknowledged as the Wave of the Future
Non-polluting electric cars are no longer the stuff of far-fetched impractical eco-friendly dreams....
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$1 billion Needed for US-Made Lithium Ion Batteries Master Plan
Electric cars seem more and more close to become a practical, normal alternative to those using...
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Electric Car Batteries Provided By Joined Suppliers
In order to build a plant to make advanced batteries for electric cars, 14 U.S. technology...
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Bay Area To Become The First “Green Infrastructure” Center
We hear of green technology and sustainable transportation
every day, but we hardly see anything...
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Witnesses Share Green Light Facts On Deadly Train Collision
The investigation in the deadly train collision that killed 25 people and injured many more...
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Update: Federal Regulators Issue Emergency Cell Phone Ban
After it was discovered that train engineer Robert Sanchez, who was
driving a Metrolink train that...
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Who’s To Blame In Deadly Train Collision?
Not long after the terrible train collision last month which
resulted in 25 deaths, the...
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California Prohibits Cell Phone Use For On-Duty Train Operators
Last week’s train collision that killed 25 people and
injured over 130 more called for new rules...
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LA Train Crash Preventable: PCT Deployment Progressing Too Slow
The death toll in the Los Angeles train collision last week
climbed to 26 on Monday, while over...
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Reckless Text Messaging – Possible Cause Of LA Deadly Train Collision
Federal investigators in the California train collision that
killed 25 passengers and injured 130...
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MIT Students Found Not Guilty
The three students from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology taken to court by the...
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The MIT Students Were Found Innocent
Three Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students
were allowed to talk freely about the...
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TSA Now Lets Laptop Owners Keep Their Computers In The Bag
As of August 16, the Transportation Security
Administration (TSA) is allowing passengers carrying...
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EFF to Fight Order Forcing Students to Cancel Subway Hacking Presentation
Three college students were ordered by a federal judge to
call off a presentation at a computer...
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Confusion Takes Over When It Comes To Answering Privacy Concerns
The right to privacy seems to be getting less respect each
year, and our confidence that the...
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Google Maps Mobile Adds Transit Information
Even though the Google’s Map service had added a route planning feature last year, it was only...
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Revealing Body Scanners at LAX and JFK
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced yesterday the installation of millimeter...
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NTIA: Consumers Increasingly Aware Of Digital Transition
As America prepares for the
digital TV transition, Kevin Martin, Chairman of the Federal...
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Report Concludes TSA Site Had Multiple Security Issues
The Congressional Committee on Oversight and Government
Reform released today a report on...
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Automakers Acknowledge the Importance of Car Electronics
At the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2008 in Las Vegas, the head of one of the Big...
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Cell Phones Users Put Traffic on Hold
People talking on their cell phones while they are driving are
to blame for several problems in...
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Spirits Heat Up at Airport Security Hearing
Transportation Security Administration administrator Kip Hawley was grilled before a Congressional...
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Two Americans Get Five Years in Jail for Porn Spam Scheme
Jeffrey A. Kilbride of Venice, Calif., and James R. Schaffer of Paradise Valley, Ariz., have been...
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TSA Is Testing New Scanning Machines
The airline passengers who prefer not to submit to the
physical pat-down during secondary...
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Specials
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India launches world's cheapest car: The Nano
New Delhi - The Nano, the world's cheapest car, that has been billed by its manufacturers as having...
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Air Traffic Controller Recalls Hudson River Landing
Since veteran pilot Capt. Chesley Sullenberger successfully landed Flight 1549 in the Hudson River...
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Mobile Companies Adopt Micro USB Standard
At the Mobile World Congress that was held in Barcelona this week, seventeen mobile companies...
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Transcripts and Black Boxes Recovered from the 1549 Flight
The Federal Aviation Administration has released today transcripts and audio segments showing...
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NTSB Opens 4-Day Hearing On Medical Helicopter Crashes
The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday began a four-day hearing in Washington ...
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A Better Way Of Keeping Donor Organs Fresh
Deutsch researchers claim that they have found a method to increase the odds that kidneys from...
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Police Officer Accused of Assaulting Cyclist Pleads Not Guilty
Tuesday, a New
York City police officer who was featured in a YouTube
videoclip while knocking...
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New York Police Officer Who Shoved Cyclist Is Indicted
A New York police officer, who had been recorded on tape while shoving a bicyclist and knocking him...
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Electric Car Batteries By Intel?
With the world deep in financial crisis, this is exactly the moment to start investing into new...
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Burlington’s Residents Know What Makes a City Healthy
Burlington, Vermont has been named the
healthiest city in the United
States and it is also...
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Japan's Economic Stimulus May Miss Those Most In Need
Tokyo - As the Japanese government hopes to encourage consumption by cash handouts as part of its...
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MTA Cuts Commuter Bus Routes
The Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) joined the Greater Baltimore Committee, the region's most...
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Thousands Of Walkers At American Cancer Society Event
An estimated 18,000 walkers participated in a 5-km trek, as part of the American Cancer Society's...
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4 Die in Strange Helicopter Crash
A medical helicopter carrying 1-year-old Kirstian Blockinger of Leland and heading for Children's...
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Air Angels Medical Helicopter Crashes, Four Dead
Aurora, Illinois
– A medical helicopter transporting a girl to Chicago Hospital
crashed on...
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Golden Gate Bridge Directors Vote for Suicide Safety Net
The magnificent Golden gate bridge, for all its beauty, or
maybe because of it, has always...
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Veolia Transportation Deeply Grieved By Accident
The September 12th train accident that caused the
death of 25 people and the injury of another 130...
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Remains Found Near Site Where Steve Fossett Crashed
Investigators finally found out what happened with Steve Fossett’s single-engine plane on the day...
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Metrolink Engineer Sent Text Message 22 Seconds Before the Crash
Last month
in Los
Angeles, on September 12, a commuter train collided head-on with
a freight...
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California Train Crash Caused by Text Messaging
The worst train accident in the past 15 years was most likely caused by negligence which involved...
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SpaceX Writes History Launching Falcon 1 into Earth’s Orbit
Perseverance paid off, as usual, for space transportation company Space Exploration Technologies...
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Celebrating The Centennial Of Model T
A century ago, the first Model T rolled out of the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan,...
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DJ AM Is Back In L.A. After Crash
DJ AM had been released from the Doctors Hospital in Georgia and returned to Los Angeles, according...
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Travis Barker and DJ AM Are Expected to Fully Recover After Plane Crash
Ex Blink-182 member Travis Barker and DJ AM were still in
critical condition on Sunday after the...
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Travis Barker and DJ Adam Goldstein Expected to Fully Recover
Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and DJ Adam Goldstein are expected to pull through and fully...
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“90210” Blends Long Forgotten Plot and Up-To-Date Pretty Faces
If you expected “90210” to bring a bunch of surprises, find
out it did. Although not a bunch and...
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mtvU Set to Launch First 25 Online Daily Guides for Students
Viacom Inc.’s mtvU, a division of MTV Networks that is
available on more than 750 college and...
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Will Lowering Alcohol Age Reduce Binge Drinking?
Lowering the legal drinking age would cease binge drinking to some extent, an estimated 100 college...
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GM Pulls Off Sponsorships of Oscars and Emmys
General Motors Corp., the world's largest automaker as measured by global industry sales, announced...
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MIT Students Must Take Responsibility For Their Actions
During the DEFCON hacker convention, three MIT
undergraduates have been prevented by the...
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Business
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India launches world's cheapest car: The Nano
New Delhi - Tata Motors' Nano, the world's cheapest car, that is expected to redefine personal...
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NASA Found Its Rocket-Making Partners
NASA announced yesterday that it managed to reach a decision on the companies which will conduct...
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NASA Prepares Its Shuttles For Sale
NASA announced that it plans to donate and sell the shuttles once they will be retired in two...
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Apple Releases Its Highly Anticipated Software Upgrade
Apple released a software upgrade for its iPhone 3G and iPod
Touch, bringing new features to the...
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Jobs' Apple Gets Greener With Each Passing Day
Tuesday’s presentation of the new MacBook models was received with great enthusiasm, even though...
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Russian Space Director Discusses U.S. Space Business
Over the weekend, Anatoly Perminov, the head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, held a...
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Toyota Prepares The Release Of Its New Hybrid Concept CNG Camry
Toyota announced its intentions to present during November’s
Los Angeles Auto Show its newest...
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Update1: San Jose Is Tesla's New Home
San Jose managed to strike a deal with electric car maker Tesla, which is going to build its new...
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NebuAd Slows Down Its Pace
After quite a long period of time in which the
company showed no signs of being bothered by the...
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EDS Confirms Advanced Talks with Hewlett-Packard
HP confirmed today is close to a deal to acquire the
Electronic Data Systems Corporation. The...
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Tata Unveils The $2,500 ‘People’s Car’
The highly awaited “People’s Car”
was unveiled on Thursday at the auto show that took place in New...
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Ingersoll-Rand to Purchase Trane for About $10.1 Billion
Diversified industrial firm Ingersoll-Rand Co Ltd announced on Monday that it had reached an...
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Six New Air Routes to China
The U.S. Transportation Department announced its approval of six new air routes to China, of which...
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ITT Wins Civilian Air Traffic Control Contract
The Federal Aviation Administration awarded a contract which could be worth almost $2 billion to...
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People
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Travis Barker Sues Companies over Plane Crash
Travis Barker, the former drummer for Blink 182, has sued companies
linked to the September plane...
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Aiming For The Stars Runs In The Family
Richard Garriot, son of NASA astronaut Owen Garriot, the
creator of some famous RPG games like...
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Wreckage of Adventurer Steve Fossett’s Plane Found
According to a statement by Madeira County Sheriff’s department, wreckage that was found on...
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Train Engineer Was Texting Seconds before Crash
Phone records obtained by the National Transportation Safety
Board show that train engineer Robert...
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Travis Barker Released, DJ AM Attends Funeral For Crash Victim
Former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker has been released
after nearly ten days spent in a Georgia...
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DJ AM Released From Hospital, Travis Barker Still Receiving Treatment
Good news keeps coming for the two survivors of last week's tragic plane crash, DJ AM and former...
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Travis Barker and DJ AM Severely Injured, While Other Four Dead In Plane Crash
Former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity DJ Adam
Michael Goldstein, also known as DJ...
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Good Girls Go to Heaven and Khloe Kardashian Goes to Jail
Khloe Kardashian admitted that she violated her probation
and she will have to spend about 30 days...
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Child Services Investigation: How Bad A Mom Is Britney?
It seems that Britney Spears’ baby drama is far from ending, as a new court document released...
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Heather Mills' Happy Thoughts About McCartney’s New Romance
The news about Paul McCartney’s new fling with Nancy Shevell, a married American millionaires,...
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Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney Getting Over His Ex-Wife
Former Beatle Paul McCartney, 65, seems to have left
behind the messy story of his divorce with...
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Defense Witness Brings New Theory In Spector Trial
Phil Spector’s murder trial took an unexpected turn Tuesday, when a forensic pathologist...
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Science
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Evidence Points To Horse Domestication As Early As 5,500 Years Ago
The theories regarding horse domestication have been quite controversial among scientists, however,...
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AirTran Apologizes to Muslim Family Kicked Off Plane
AirTran Airways issued an official apology to the nine-member Muslim family who was not permitted...
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Private Company SpaceX Launches Rocket into Orbit
Falcon 1, a liquid fuel rocket built by Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, has successfully...
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Private Company Successfully Blasts off Rocket
Sunday
night, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, a privately financed
company, managed...
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Fourth Time’s A Charm: SpaceX Successfully Places Falcon 1 Into Orbit
After the third consecutive launch failure of Falcon 1,
SpaceX CEO and CTO Elon Musk promised they...
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Ares I Passes Critical Design Review In preparation For 2015 Space Mission
In preparation for the next American space mission after
the shuttle retirement in 2010, NASA...
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Update: SpaceX Doesn’t Give Up: Falcon 1 Flight 4 In The Making
The SpaceX project may have suffered a third consecutive
rocket launch failure last week, but this...
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Update 1: SpaceX Falcon 1's Third Launch Ends In Failure
Saturday was a bad day for science, as SpaceX's Falcon 1 launch ended up in a failure for the third...
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NASA In Talks With JAXA For The Acquisition Of Space Shuttle Successor
NASA is talking business with the Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency to purchase units of the...
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Metro Areas Show Signs Of Improvement In Carbon Emission Levels
Cities are known to be true sources
of pollutants, and their residents contribute the most to...
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Subway Cars To Take Marine Life Passengers
Forty-four retired New York subway
cars have been sunken 19 miles southeast of Ocean City
in an...
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US Study: Global Warming May Ruin Transportation
A new US study warns that effects of global warming will ruin transportation if the government...
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NASA: Orbital Granted $170 Million To Develop Spaceship Cargo
Orbital Sciences Corp. was
chosen to develop NASA’s future space cargo, capable of commercial...
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Rocketplane Kistler Eliminated from NASA Spaceship Race
NASA announced it fired Rocketplane Kistler from its COTS Project, which provides milestone-based...
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Landmark Greenhouse Emissions Bill in Senate Subcommittee
A landmark bill which requires mandatory, not voluntary, limits on greenhouse gases with the goal...
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Allen Radio Telescope Inaugurated in California
The Allen Telescope Array (ATA), named after its main funder, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, was...
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Higher-energy Liquid-Transportation Fuel Developed From Sugar
US
scientists have developed from sugar a liquid transportation fuel they say has a
40 percent...
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