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Harris Teeter Recalls Pistachios over Salmonella Concerns
North Carolina-based grocery food chain Harris Teeter announced over the weekend that it is...
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Reduce Liquid Calories to Lose Weight, Study Suggests
What is the first thought on your mind when you decide to start a diet? I am sure you think about...
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Thinning of Brain’s Cortex Tied to Depression Risk
Brain scans performed on 131 people of different ages revealed that there was a 28 percent...
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Risks for Strokes Caused by Fast Food Joints
A new study found that the people who live in neighborhoods that are packed with fast-food...
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Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry to Undergo Kidney Transplant
Washington Mayor Marion Barry was admitted to Howard University Hospital Thursday to prepare for...
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Gel against HIV Infection Found Effective
Researchers present at the Conference on Retrovirus and Opportunistic Infections held in Montreal...
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Experimental HIV Gel Proves Effective in Trials
An experimental vaginal gel made by Indevus Pharmaceuticals Inc. was effective in preventing HIV...
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Mediterranean Diet Associated with a Reduced Risk of Cognitive Impairment
According to a recent study, eating a Mediterranean diet high in vegetables, fruits and nuts, fish...
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Colors Red And Blue Can Really Make A Difference In One’s Way of Thinking
In a clever series of experiments, Ravi Mehta and Rui Zhu from the University of British Columbia...
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Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Risk of Multiple Sclerosis
A UK and Canadian team of researchers have managed to put forward evidence of a link...
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UnitedHealth Reached A Hefty Agreement With New York Attorney General
UnitedHealth Group Inc., the largest U.S. health insurer, resolved a conflict-of-interest...
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Bulimia Patients May Be More Impulsive because of Brain Regulatory Circuits
Women suffering from the eating disorder known as bulimia nervosa may be more impulsive because...
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Relay for Life Teams Organize Events All Over the U.S.
Relay for Life is the biggest fundraising society in the world. The events organized by it take...
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New Laws Request Fire-Safe Cigarettes
On New Year’s Day, laws requesting that the cigarettes sold in stores be all slow-burning...
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Elevated Blood Sugar Levels Associated With Memory Decline
Maintaining normal blood sugar levels may help prevent age-related memory decline, according to a...
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Scientists Use Pluripotent Stem Cells to Study Nerve Disease
U.S. researchers have created the first human model in order to study a severe nerve disease. By...
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Star Rating System For U.S. Nursing Homes
A five-star rating system was released last week by The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...
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Airborne To Pay $7 M to Settle Allegations
Airborne Health Inc has agreed to pay $7 million to settle investigations by 32 state attorneys...
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Bone Formation Linked to Serotonin in Gut, Research Brings Hope for Osteoporosis Sufferers
Bone formation appears to be controlled by
serotonin, a chemical in the brain that also influences...
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Many FEMA Trailer Kids Found Anemic
Although three years have passed since Hurricane Katrina hit
the Gulf Coast
of the United...
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Is There a Cure for Werewolf Syndrome? Scientists Say They Found One
Pruthviraj Patil, 11, is one of the 50
people who suffer from a rare genetic disorder commonly...
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Canada Reports Its 15th Case of Mad Cow Disease
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed on Monday a
new case of mad cow disease in a...
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Anesthesia May Predispose Children to Developmental Problems
A new study suggests that children exposed
to anesthesia are more predisposed to developmental and...
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90% of U.S. Nursing Homes Cited for Violating Federal Care Standards
More than 90% of U.S. nursing homes surveyed were
cited for violating federal care standards in...
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Do Measles Vaccines Put Children At Risk For Autism?
Scientists found that there is no link between the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, also known as MMR...
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Measles Vaccine Not Linked To Autism, Study Finds
According to a study published this week, the Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine doesn’t raise the...
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Scientists Claim Measles Vaccines Are Safe, No Autism Link
Scientists with the Mailman School of Public Health Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia...
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People Aged 18 to 25 Are Using Less Cocaine, But More Prescription Drugs
After the 13th annual survey on attitudes
about drug abuse released by the National Center on...
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Scientists Fail To Find MMR Vaccine - Autism Link
Scientists with the Mailman School of Public Health Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia...
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Study: No Link Between The Measles Vaccine And Autism
Scientists said they could not find any
link between the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and autism....
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U.S.
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Doctors report third US death from swine flu
Washington - A man suffering heart problems died from were called complications...
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Former DC Mayor Marion Barry Back in Hospital
Former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry was readmitted to Howard Hospital on Tuesday due to post-operative...
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Western Forests Are Dying At An Increasing Rate, Study Says
A recent study shows that trees on old growth forests across the West are dying at a small, but...
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Western Forests Affected By Climate Change
The U.S. Geological Survey released a report presenting a worrying trend in western U.S. where the...
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Hillary Clinton Confirmed and Sworn In as Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton was sworn in as the 67th U.S. secretary of state last night. The swearing in...
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Fewer Americans Dying From First Heart Attack
Researchers from St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital of Columbia University in New York City...
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Obama’s Choice for FCC Chairman Signals Change
President-elect Barak Obama intends to appoint one of his most important technology advisers to...
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Obama Picks Basketball Buddy to Head the FCC
President-elect Barack Obama has reportedly picked Julius Genachowski to be the new chief of the...
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Assessing Caroline
It’s already a known fact that Caroline Kennedy is running for a Senate seat. Caroline is a...
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Relay for Life to Kick Off
On January 13, Howard County’s 2009 Relay for Life, an event aimed at raising money...
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Columbia shuttle crew died within seconds, NASA report says
Washington - The astronauts who perished in the 2003 disintegration of the space shuttle...
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How Prepared are the U.S. States for Actual Disaster?
Louisiana, North Carolina, Virginia along with New Hampshire and Wisconsin are among the five...
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Millennium Bomber’s Sentence Unchanged: 22 Years in Prison
The terrorist who attempted to blow up the Los Angeles International Airport received a re-sentence...
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Locy Cleared of All Charges
A federal appeals court threw out a contempt order requiring fines of up to $5,000 a day against a...
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College and University Presidents among Highest Paid
According to a survey by the Chronicle
Higher Education released on Monday, a dozen presidents of...
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Tributes after Obama's victory, transition begins
Washington/Chicago - A steady flow of well-wishes came in from around the world Wednesday after...
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ANALYSIS: Race and the US vote: Blacks confident, even if McCain wins
Washington - On Martin Luther King Avenue, in the Anacostia neighbourhood of the nation's capital,...
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Black Legislator: Racial Issues in US Vote Are "Boring"
Washington - Eleanor Holmes Norton, outspoken veteran of the civil rights and feminist movements,...
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Obama's Star Rose Fast with Eloquent Speech, Steady Presence
Washington - Barack Obama's enigmatic smile has seen him through many difficult times - even when...
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EWG Says Bottled Water Filled With Cancer-Linked Contaminants
When we buy bottled water, we genuinely believe that it is
safe to drink, but things are not like...
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Specials
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Marion Barry ‘Is Getting Better Every Day’
The kidney transplant surgery that Washington former mayor Marion Barry underwent on Friday went...
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Mediterranean Diet May Help Keep the Brain Healthy
Everyone knows that a traditional Mediterranean diet rich in fruits and vegetables can do...
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Colors Red and Blue Can Really Make a Difference in One’s Way of Thinking
In a clever series of experiments, Ravi Mehta and Rui Zhu from the University of British Columbia...
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Study: Forests in Western U.S. and Canada Are Dying
More and more trees in Western U.S. and Canada forest are dying as a consequence of the warming of...
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New York City Opera Appoints New Artistic Director
Putting an end to a tumultuous search process, New York City Opera found its new general manager...
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High Blood sugar Levels Connected To Memory Lapses
Elevated blood sugar levels may be responsible for memory lapses that frequently occur with...
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NASA Report Details Final Minutes of Columbia Disaster
The crew of Space Shuttle Columbia had about a minute to regain control of their craft before it...
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Eartha Kitt Dies of Colon Cancer at 81
American actress, singer, and cabaret star Eartha Mae Kitt died on Thursday in Connecticut of colon...
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Singer Eartha Kitt Dies at Age 81
Thursday, singer, dancer and actress Eartha Kitt died at age 81 of colon cancer, a condition for...
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Court Reinstates Power Plant Pollution Regulation
Tuesday, a United States appeals court decided to reinstate a regulation put forward by the Bush...
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Giving Thanks In Space for Endeavour Crew
In the U.S., Thanksgiving is a time-honored tradition
harking back to 1621, at least on Terra. In...
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“Quantum Of Solace": Record Earnings, But Not As Large As Reported Sunday
Even though
Sunday, Columbia Pictures proudly announced that the new James Bond movie “Quantum
of...
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Shocking Preterm Birth Rate In The United States
The rate of premature birth in the United States has reached an alarming 12,7 percent, although the...
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Talk Therapy Plus Antidepressant - Best Treatment For Child Anxiety
Separation anxiety, social phobia and generalized anxiety in
children can be effectively treated...
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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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Indian Author Aravind Adiga Receives Man Booker Prize
First-time novelist Aravind Adiga has received this year’s
prestigious Man Booker Prize, for “The...
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Three Chemists Win Nobel Prize
One Japanese and two American scientists won this year’s
Nobel Prize for chemistry for taking the...
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Space Tourist Preparing For His Exquisite Journey
On October
12, Richard Garriott is
scheduled to blast off into space on a Russian spaceship, the...
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Japanese, US Researchers Awarded Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Stockholm - Three US-based researchers shared the Nobel prize for chemistry Wednesday for work on...
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Former Newsweek Editor Osborn Elliott Has Passed Away
Sunday, the man to whom Newsweek owes its ability to rise to
the challenge of competing...
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Scarlett Johansson’s Role Of A Lifetime: Blushing Bride
Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson and Canadian actor Ryan
Reynolds inconspicuously tied the knot...
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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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Spider-Man 4 and 5… Because We Need Heroes?
When life gives you lemons you make lemonade. And when life
gives you a successful lemonade stand,...
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Still Calling the Ghostbusters 20 Years On
Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd are set to say in unison “I
ain’t afraid of no ghosts” in an upcoming...
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“Tropic Thunder” Ends Summer Season Atop North American Box Office
The summer movie season ended with yet another triumph for
film industry parody “Tropic Thunder,”...
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“West Wing” Creator Sorkin to Write Facebook History for the Big Screen
Screenwriter and producer Aaron Sorkin, creator of multiple
Emmy Award-winning political drama...
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Powerful 5.8 Earthquake Off Canada’s Vancouver Island
A powerful earthquake struck this morning off the Vancouver Island. The tremor measured 5.8 degrees...
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Aaron Sorkin To Make A Film About Facebook
Aaron Sorkin, famous Hollywood scribe and creator of “The
West Wing,” is currently in negotiations...
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Business
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Major Movie Studios Sue to Ban DVD Copying Software
Tuesday, six Hollywood movie studios have sued RealNetworks over
the latter’s software program...
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MySpace, States To Work on New Methods against Sexual Predators
MySpace said it has reached an agreement with 49 states, including the District of Columbia, to...
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Macy’s to Close Stores and Cut 899 Jobs
Macy’s Inc., the department store holding company and owner of Macy's and Bloomingdale's, made...
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Citigroup Bought Ameriquest Under Undisclosed Terms
Citigroup Inc. announced it's taking over the dying subprime lender Ameriquest Mortgage Co. and its...
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Boston Scientific Will Settle Defibrillator Probes
Boston Scientific Corp., a worldwide developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices, has...
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Whole Foods Merged with Wild Oats
Austin, Texas-based natural foods grocer Whole Foods Market on Tuesday said it closed the $565...
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Music
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Bruce Springsteen Gives His Best During Super Bowl Performance
Bruce Springsteen promised a “12-minute party” for the halftime show at the Super Bowl...
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Taylor Swift’s “Fearless” Defies Competition
Taylor Swift’s album “Fearless” (Big Machine) enjoyed its seventh week on the...
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Travis Barker, DJ AM To Ring In New Year's Together
For the first time since they cheated death in September, Travis Barker and DJ AM will join guests...
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Beyonce’s New Album Comes in First on Album Chart
Beyonce saw her freshly released third album, the two-CD set
“I Am … Sasha Fierce,” reach the top...
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AC/DC’s "Black Ice" Has Fantastic Debut - No.1 on Billboard Chart
AC/DC’s latest album "Black Ice" is the No.1 of the Billboard chart with 784,000 copies...
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Beyonce Would Like to Be Called “Sasha Fierce”
There are
few people who like the names their parents chose for them. Also, many don’t
even like...
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Travis Barker and DJ AM To Recover From Burns Within A Year
The scary news of Travis Barker and DJ AM’s plane crash
Friday night in South Carolina
is now...
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Travis Barker, DJ AM Suffer Burns In Plane Crash
Travis Barker, the former drummer of Blink 182, and DJ AM
have survived a terrible plane crash...
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Beyonce Ready To Make Musical Comeback
After dipping her toe in acting and family life, R&B singer Beyonce Knowles is set to release...
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Latest AC/DC Album Will Be a Wal-Mart Exclusive
Wal-Mart announced that the latest album of the legendary rock band AC/DC will be available only in...
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Alicia Keys And Jack White Record Latest Bond Movie Theme Song
In what it is considered a premiere in the history of James Bond movies franchise, Alicia Keys and...
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AC/DC Sign Exclusive Deal With Wal-Mart
The next studio album of legendary rock band AC/DC is to be
sold exclusively at Wal-Mart in the...
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Janet Jackson to "Rock Witchu" Starting with September
Janet Jackson will embark on her first tour in seven years this fall, opening in Vancouver, British...
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Neil Diamond’s Late Bloom on Billboard Chart
Neil Diamond has been singing for nearly half a century but
it is the newly released “Home Before...
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Church Floor Collapses during Christian Rock Concert
40 people, mostly teenagers, were injured in Abbotsford, British Columbia,
Friday night, when the...
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Singer Emilio Navaira's Condition Is Improving
After an initial worrying diagnosis, the condition of
Grammy-winning Tejano singer Emilio Navaira...
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Nelly Furtado Expecting Second Baby
Canadian singer Nelly Furtado is expecting her second baby in five years, Star magazine reported on...
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Alicia Keys Storms Billboard 200 with Mega-Selling “As I Am”
Alicia Keys storms The Billboard 200 this week with “As I Am”
(J Records), which debuts at No. 1...
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Bruce Springsteen and E Street Get Together For World Tour
In an announcement made Tuesday, Columbia records said Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are...
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Bruce Springsteen and E Street Make Some Magic
Rock legend Bruce Springsteen is releasing a new album in early October, his first collaboration...
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People
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Mariah Carey In “Push”
Considered to be one of the best voices the United States has to offer, Mariah Carey is not only...
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Farewell To Singer, Actress Eartha Kitt…
Eartha Kitt, who died on Christmas day of colon cancer at age 81, had some of the most intriguing...
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Eartha Kitt Died on Christmas Day at Age 81
Andrew Freedman, longtime friend and publicist of singer, dancer and actress Eartha Kitt, announced...
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Tattooed Rocker Travis Barker Out Of LA Burn Center
The former Blink-182 drummer was released from a Los Angeles burn center where he was being treated...
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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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Doctors Say They Expect Travis Barker and DJ AM To Fully Recover
After they made it out alive from a flaming plane, DJ AM and ex Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker,...
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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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Travis Barker and DJ AM Alive But In Critical Condition, Badly Burned
Former Blink 182 drummer, Travis Barker and DJ AM, real name Adam Goldstein, are lucky to be alive...
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Leave Lindsay Lohan Alone!
As actress Lindsay Lohan is currently working on her budding fashion empire, she was out on...
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Model Says Lindsay Lohan Stole Her Clothes Too
Lindsay Lohan has been accused by yet another woman of stealing her clothes, just days after a New...
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Lindsay Lohan Accused of Stealing Student’s Fur Coat
A New York City young woman demanded $10,000 to get back a fur coat that Lindsay Lohan had taken...
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Bow Wow Rushed To Hospital After Ohio Concert
Young rap star Bow Wow was taken to a local hospital Thursday night following his performance at...
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NY Police Department Sued for Harassing Photographers
A civil liberties group sued the New York Police Department Thursday
trying to stop its officers...
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Barack Obama's campaign at high risk
Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama’s campaign will suffer great damage from inviting...
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Bruce Springsteen Sued Because of a Horse
Bruce Springsteen and wife Patty Scialfa were reportedly planning to buy a horse and changing their...
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Famous Entertainer Merv Griffin Dies At 82
The famous inventor of "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel
of Fortune", Merv Griffin, has...
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World
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Japanese teenager suspected of swine flu after return from Canada
Tokyo - A Japanese woman arriving from the United States Thursday tested negative...
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Three Researchers Win Nobel Prize For Bioluminescent Cells
The Nobel Prize for chemistry is shared this year by three
US-based scientists, one of them...
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AC/DC is Officially a “Rock Band,” but Only in Wal-Mart
The fans of the Australian band should be happier than ever these days, especially if they live in...
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US Presidential Election Campaign Put on Ice for a Day
On Thursday the day the US
celebrated the seventh anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks was...
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Harvard No.1 University Says Latest US News List
According to the new U.S. News & World Report college rankings, Harvard University is not only...
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Leroy Sievers, Journalist, Dies Of Colon Cancer At 53
Leroy Sievers, the journalist who worked at ABC News’
“Nightline” for 14 years and at CBS News for...
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Nebraska Beef In The Spotlight Once Again With Another Major Recall
One month after Nebraska Beef Ltd., one of the nation’s
largest meatpackers, was involved in a...
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FBI Is Allowed To Examine The Computers Used By Ivins
A judge authorized the Federal Bureau of Investigation to search two public library computers that...
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Shoe With Flesh and Bones Found on Washington State Beach
Authorities said an athletic shoe containing bones and flesh has been found on a beach in...
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FDA Confines Salmonella Outbreak to Mexico-Grown Peppers
US Food
and Drug Administration on Friday recommended consumers avoid only raw jalapeno
peppers...
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Lighting Strikes 10 People in Boston Area
Lighting struck and injured 10 people who were taking shelter from a powerful thunderstorm under a...
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U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Handgun Ban
After having the decisive vote on issues regarding the Guantanamo Bay inmates, the death penalty...
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Columbia Professor from Noose Case Fired for Plagiarism
A professor from Columbia University who became known after
she denounced that a noose was hanging...
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CDC: Five More States Report Salmonella Cases
Tomato-borne salmonella infections give Americans a hard
time, with the U.S. Centers for Disease...
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5.6 Earthquake Shakes Colombia Killing 6
An earthquake that measured 5.6 degrees on the Richter scale shook Bogotá, Colombia’s capital,...
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Welcomes Back, Humpback Whales
Good news for whale lovers, as SPLASH, which stands for
Structure of Populations, Levels of...
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Gov. Paterson Signs Law against Displaying Nooses
From now on, it will be a felony to display a noose in New York City, as Gov.
David A. Paterson...
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Officials Say Sea Lions Were Likely Killed by Heat
After Federal investigators said that the six sea lions
found dead in traps on the Columbia...
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6 Sea Lions Shot Dead at Columbia River Traps
Investigation is under way in Oregon into the killing of six sea lions. The bodies of the federally...
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Bush Backed by Canada, Mexico on Free Trade Deal
US President George W. Bush found more support abroad for his plans with the country’s trade...
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Penn, Top Strategist, Leaves Clinton Campaign
New York Senator and Democratic Party presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton surprised once again...
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Coalition of States, Groups Sues EPA Over Emissions
Eighteen states, led by Massachusetts, as well as several environmental groups sued the...
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2 Americans Detained in Iraq Head to Court
Two American citizens currently in the custody of the military in Iraq called on the U.S. courts to...
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Libby, Cheney’s Former Aide, Disbarred in Washington
Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, was barred from...
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Second Tornado Kills 2 in North Georgia before Heading East
A powerful tornado struck northwest Georgia killing two people, one day after a powerful storm,...
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Massive Fire Damages Mount Pleasant Apartment Building
A four-storey apartment building
located at 3145 Mount Pleasant St.
NW, in the District
of...
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Damaged Gate Removed At John Day Dam
Late Sunday traffic was resumed on the Columbia River
between Portland and the Tri-Cities area of...
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Cannons Dating Back To 1846 Found On The Beach In Oregon
Two cannons were found over the Presidents Day weekend on
the Oregon Coast which may come from a...
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Vancouver Man Claims to Be JFK’s ‘Love Child;’ He Wants DNA Tests
A Canadian man, who claims to be the secret child of former American President John F. Kennedy, has...
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Defense Secretary Gates Breaks Shoulder after Ice Slip
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has reportedly broken his right shoulder.The incident occurred on...
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Technology
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YouTube Symphony earns praise on debut
New York - After 3,000 online auditions, 15 million hits on their YouTube channel and just two days...
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Pirate Bay’s Pirates Are Being Taken into Court
The four men behind the popular file-sharing site The Pirate Bay go on trial Monday in Stockholm,...
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The GeoEye-1 Helped Us Write History Better
GeoEye's new GeoEye-1 satellite captured Tuesday's inauguration of President Obama from way above....
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Netflix Not Streaming Sony Movies On Xbox…Strange Coincidence?
The New Xbox Experience had a bit of a rough start, after
the feature that was supposed to bring...
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Endeavour Crew Ready for Take Off
The seven-astronaut crew of the space shuttle Endeavour is getting ready this week to blast off to...
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RealNetworks Halts The Sales of Real DVD
RealNetworks was forced to temporarily stop the sales of their RealDVD software, due to the legal...
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Internet Trafficking Of Prescription Drugs – A Thriving Business
Illegal Internet sales of prescription-free drugs is a thriving business, despite efforts by...
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Do Feds Track Cell Phones without Oversight?
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have...
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Aliph Offers You Jawbone 2
As the hands-free driving legislation will be adopted in
five states and the District of
...
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Facebook Offers More Safety to Children
After long
negotiations, social networking site Facebook agreed Thursday on a safety plan...
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The US ITC To Investigate Possible Blu-ray Patent Infringement
In a statement posted on its website the U.S. International
Trade Commission (ITC) announced it...
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Nine D.C. Government Employees Fired For Viewing Porn
The Washington
D.C. city officials announced the
results of an internal investigation about the...
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NASA Delays Atlantis Launch Indefinitely
NASA engineers will remove parts of a suspect fuel tank
connector for analysis and repair, work...
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Appeals Court Back FCC’s Decision on Verizon’s Broadband Business
Sprint Nextel Corp. and Quest Communications International
were given an unfavorable decision on...
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FCC Rejects Pressure from Carriers, Postpones 700 MHz Auction
Strangely enough, the US Federal Communications Commission is now sort of a champion of consumer...
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Verizon Doesn’t Like Open-Access, Sues FCC for That
Verizon Wireless sues the Federal Communications Commission for accepting a condition imposed by...
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Sony's Video Sharing Site Grouper Goes Professional
Grouper, the online video sharing site acquired by Sony last year for about $65 million, is...
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Google Seeks More Concessions From Microsoft
In a filing with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Google
has asked the court...
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Science
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Discovery to Perform Safety Check before Returning Home
Space shuttle discovery will soon return home after a mission that achieved its...
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Milestone for space station: final solar panel unfurled
Washington - With sunlight glowing golden across its expanse, the fourth and final pair of solar...
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Colors Change Cognitive Performance, Study Says
A recent study revealed that colors have an important influence over people’s way to...
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Choose Blue Or Red Depending On What You Are Doing
A new study presented yesterday on the journal Science’s Web...
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Colors Enhance Brain Performance: Red for Details, Blue For Creativity
Colors can improve brain performance, but which one is most effective? Scientists at the...
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Our Trees Are Dying
Tree mortality doubled in just 17 years in the Pacific Northwest and 25 years in California....
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Astronauts Are Getting Ready For Their First Spacewalk
The first spacewalk for the astronauts on the ISS consists of a tedious cleaning and lube job on...
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Unpacking Day At The ISS For Endeavour Crew
Monday was an unpacking day
for the astronauts at the ISS (International Space Station).The...
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Shuttle Endeavour Receives A-Ok
Today astronauts aboard the Endeavour are preparing to dock
with the International Space Station....
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Astronomers Take First Photos Of Planets Outside Solar System
The first photos of planets outside our Solar System have been taken by two teams of astronomers...
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Space Shuttle Endeavour Gets Ready To Dock With ISS
The space shuttle Endeavour is almost ready to dock with the International Space Station. There...
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EWG: Bottled Water Filled With Cancer-Linked Contaminants
When we buy bottled water, we genuinely believe that it is
safe to drink, but things are not like...
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Three Chemists Win Nobel Prize For Bioluminescent Cells
The Nobel Prize for chemistry is shared this year by three
US-based scientists, one of them...
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Martin Chalfie, Roger Tsien - US scientists
Washington - Martin Chalfie, a professor of biological sciences at Columbia University in New York,...
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2008 Nobel Prize In Chemistry, Also With Three Winners
The Nobel Prize is a foundation that celebrates discoveries and excellence in a number of fields,...
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Hubble Repair Crew Faces Unusually High Risk For A Catastrophic Ending
NASA’s mission to the Hubble Space Telescope may be compromised
by orbital debris, shuttle program...
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Pride and Shame Displays Are Innate, Study Finds
A study that was conducted at the University of British Columbia found that the gestures of victory...
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Stem Cell Research Breakthrough Reported By Project A.L.S.
Scientists from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), while working alongside colleagues from...
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Group: Wolves Repopulating Washington Again
Wolves are again repopulating Washington, according to Conservation Northwest, an environmentalist...
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Scientists Revealed World's First Genome-Wide Spinal Cord Map
The Allen Institute for Brain Science has taken a groundbreaking step into deciphering the...
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Bush Administration Stalls Pollution Reduction Measures
The Bush administration has finally managed to stall any measures to reduce pollution caused by...
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The Global Warming Issue Needs To Be Addressed NOW
20 years ago, James Hansen, a highly respected NASA
scientist sounded for the first time the alarm...
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Kavli Prizes Awarded to Seven Scientists
The first recipients of the Kavli Prizes, awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters...
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Hubble Space Telescope Mission Postponed
National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials announced yesterday a delay of over a month...
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Human Actions Not Exempted From Climate Change Responsibilities
It’s time for a reality check:
the world is changing as we speak! The latest report on global...
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NASA Delays Hubble Mission For Early October
NASA officials announced today that the upcoming mission for
repairing the Hubble telescope would...
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Canada’s Efforts to Meet Kyoto Treaty Demands Stalled by Beetles
All attempts to lower carbon
levels in Canada could be compromised due to an unexpected cause:...
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Peggy Whitson Gives Up Command of Space Station
Peggy Annette Whitson, the first woman who became commander of the International Space Station, has...
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Russian Soyuz TMA-12 Docked Successfully with the ISS
Commander Sergei Volkov and Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko, together with spaceflight participant...
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Update: Expedition 17 Docks With ISS
NASA announced that the Expedition 17 crew members docked
their Soyuz TMA-12 with the orbiting...
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“Taken” on Top at Box Office
According to studio estimates on Sunday the spy thriller "Taken" starring...
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“Mall Cop” Is Still The Champion
"Paul Blart: Mall Cop" is still the highlight of this week’s American Box-office....
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„Paul Blart: Mall Cop” Tops the Box Office
According to the box-office tracking firm Media by Numbers, „Paul Blart: Mall Cop”...
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“Cadillac Records” Celebrates Chicago Blues
Director
Darnell Martin’s 2008 movie “Cadillac Records,” which was released in United States...
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“Solace:” Record Earnings, but Not Quite as Large as Reported Sunday
Even though
Sunday, Columbia Pictures proudly announced that the new James Bond movie “Quantum
of...
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“Solace” Takes Over the Box-Office
It’s
official. The new James Bond movie “Quantum of Solace” rules the world.
Even though
first...
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Aaron Eckhart to Lead Action Movie for First Time
He had no trouble in portraying a two-faced character in the
summer’s blockbuster, “The Dark...
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Record Debut For “Quantum Of Solace” Bond Movie
Preliminary
data concerning the opening of the 22nd installment of the Bond
franchise “Quantum of...
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Jaden Smith, A Chip Off The Old Block
Will Smith will produce a remake of "The Karate Kid” that will feature his son, Jaden Smith....
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Obama’s Daughters Might Join “Hannah Montana” Cast
Recently, Billy Ray Cyrus, father of „Hannah Montana” television
show’s star Miley Cyrus, has...
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'Madagascar Escape 2 Africa' Scores $63.5M At The Box Office
This weekend's top spot at the box office was claimed by Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the...
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Rules The Box Office With $63 Million
As expected, “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa” topped
this weekend box office, by earning $63,500,000...
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Jack Black To Star In “Gulliver’s Travels”
Jack Black is preparing to star in Twentieth Century Fox’s
bigscreen adaptation of the classic...
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“Quantum of Solace” Beats British Box Office Record
Many were uncertain about the fate of the “James Bond” series after Sean Connery said goodbye to...
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Caught in Spiderman 4’s Web
David Lindsay-Abaire, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright,
is currently in final talks to write...
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Sam Mendes To Direct The Long-Awaited Film Based on “Preacher”
Oscar winner Sam Mendes is to bring the comic book series “Preacher” to the big screen, according...
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Nicolas Cage to Star in “Season of Witch”
Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage has signed to star in
“Season of the Witch,” a supernatural...
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Tobey Maguire To Be Spider-Man For The Fourth Time
In case someone happened to miss Spider Man, they’ll
consider this good news: Tobey Maguire and...
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“Who You Gonna Call?”
Columbia Pictures is planning to reunite Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Ernie Hudson...
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Prepare To See Murray and Aykroyd Together Again In Ghostbusters 3
Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky are the two writers who
were hired by Columbia Pictures to...
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Denzel Washington to Star in “Book of Eli”
Hollywood star Denzel
Washington will star in post-apocalyptic drama “Book of Eli,” under...
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Ghostbusters 3 Script in the Works for Columbia
Columbia Pictures has hired the writer-producers of “The
Office” to pen the script for an upcoming...
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This Weekend’s Top 5 at the North American Box Office
“Tropic Thunder,” produced by
DreamWorks Pictures and released by Paramount Pictures, directed by...
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“Tropic Thunder” Rattles and Shakes North American Box Office
It has been the glorious summer of “The Dark Knight” but
other movies are beginning to gain...
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James Bond “Quantum of Solace" Release Moved Closer to Thanksgiving
Sony announced on Thursday that it moved the next 007 movie, "Quantum of Solace," to...
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Angelina Jolie Takes Tom Cruise’s Place in Thriller Movie
What did Angelina Jolie and Tom Cruise have in common? A
role in the thriller “Edwin A. Salt.” It...
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Angelina Jolie Will Take Tom Cruise’s Place As “Edwin A. Salt”
Although it was initially expected to star “Mission
Impossible” actor Tom Cruise, “Edwin A. Salt”,...
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'The Dark Knight' Box Office No.1 for 4th Weekend in a Row
Pineapple Express was very close to knock The Dark Knight out of the No.1 at the box office, but...
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"The Dark Knight" Dominates Box Office For 4th Weekend
Superhero/action film "The Dark Knight" has become the third-biggest box office movie of...
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All Aboard The “Pineapple Express”
“Superbad” was not bad at all and “Pineapple Express” seems
to be even better. Although it brings...
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