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Chunk of Highway 1 near Big Sur falls into the sea; road closed indefinitely

Seeded on Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:39 AM EDT (Santa Cruz Sentinel Local)

About 40-feet of the two-lane highway washed out just after 5 p.m. on a curve south of the Rocky Creek Bridge where the highway hugs the Santa Lucia Mountains. All of the southbound lane was gone as was a chunk of the northbound lane.

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Bump.com Using License Plates to Capture Data - Digits

Seeded on Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:26 PM EST (Wall Street Journal)

Bump.com, an online start-up, is creating a way for people to ping each other using their license plates. The company's founder, Mitch Thrower, compares the service to online coupon and location-sharing sites — with one exception.

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Californians Smoke 16 Million Ounces Of Weed A Year

Seeded on Thu Mar 10, 2011 10:15 AM EST (tokeofthetown.com)

Californians smoke 16 million ounces of marijuana a year (yeah, genius, that's a million pounds), according to a recent report prepared for the Legislature. That's almost half an ounce for every man, woman and child in the state.

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Prisoners Help Build Patriot Missiles

Seeded on Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:59 AM EST (Wired News)

This spring, the United Arab Emirates is expected to close a deal for $7 billion dollars' worth of American arms. Nearly half of the cash will be spent on Patriot missiles, which cost as much as $5.9 million apiece.

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Jobless Claims in U.S. Increased More Than Estimated Last Week to 397,000

Seeded on Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:51 AM EST (Bloomberg.com)

First-time claims for jobless benefits rose last week from an almost three-year low, highlighting the uneven nature of the improvement in the U.S. labor market.

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The rice with human genes

Seeded on Wed Mar 9, 2011 10:14 AM EST (the Mail online)

The first GM food crop containing human genes is set to be approved for commercial production. The laboratory-created rice produces some of the human proteins found in breast milk and saliva.

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A Liquid Nitrogen Funeral

Seeded on Tue Mar 8, 2011 9:18 AM EST (inhabitat.com)

As if dying wasn't bad enough, it now turns out that funerals are bad for the environment. Whether you're being conventionally buried or cremated, you're still impacting on the world around you.

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Israel Preparing to Deport Star of Oscar-winning Doc "Strangers No More"

Seeded on Thu Mar 3, 2011 9:36 AM EST (mecaforpeace.org)

After a five month delay, which followed a year-long battle over the matter, the deportation of 400 children and their parents is scheduled to begin on Sunday—just a week after "Strangers No More" won an Oscar.

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U.S.-Led Attacks Killing Scores Of Civilians - VIDEO

Seeded on Mon Feb 28, 2011 11:46 AM EST (YouTube)

Coalition forces said this past weekend that they were investigating allegations that more than 50 civilians were killed in a recent operation in a remote part of northeast Afghanistan.

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Sequoyah Students Earn National Science Award

Seeded on Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:23 AM EST (cherokee.org)

Fifty-two students have qualified for national recognition for outstanding performance in science. They will be named in the high school publication of Who's Who among All-American Scholars and be eligible for the United States Achievement Academy scholarship.

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The price of food is at the heart of this wave of revolutions

Seeded on Mon Feb 28, 2011 9:53 AM EST (Independent.co.uk)

Why are all these revolutions happening now? Plenty of answers have been offered: the emergence of huge urban populations with college degrees but no prospect of work; the accumulation of decades of resentment at rulers who are "authoritarian familial kleptocracies delivering lit …

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Randy Quaid wins fight to stay in Canada

Seeded on Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:28 AM EST (Yahoo! News)

American actor Randy Quaid says he's won his legal fight to stay in Canada, after the Canada Border Services Agency dropped inadmissibility proceedings against him.

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UC becoming a federal university

Seeded on Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:17 AM EST (The San Francisco Chronicle)

As it gets more funding from the federal government and less from Sacramento, UC Berkeley is effectively morphing from a state university into a federal university, according to Chancellor Robert Birgeneau.

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Supreme Court Immunizes Vaccine Makers Against Lawsuits

Seeded on Thu Feb 24, 2011 9:33 AM EST (Gulf human rights hero Thomas B. Manton falsely imprisoned, murdered)

In a 6-2 decision, the Supreme Court voted to protect pharmaceutical companies from liability when their vaccines cause debilitating injuries and death.

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Iranian Diplomat Resigns To Join Green Movement

Seeded on Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:22 AM EST (payvand.com)

Ahmad Maleki, the head of Iran's consular office in Milan, has resigned his post to protest the Iranian government's "barbaric actions against the Iranian nation," RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports.

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Gunmen raid TV station offices, shut down broadcasts

Seeded on Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:17 AM EST (alarabiya.net)

Gunmen raided and set fire to a television station in northern Iraq on Sunday, shutting down broadcasts of protests inspired by unrest around the Arab world, station and government officials said.

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US fires 118 drone bombs, kills only two most wanted terrorists

Seeded on Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:06 AM EST (rt.com)

The National Counterterrorism Center said the two who were killed were Sheik Saeed al-Masri, a top Al-Qaeda operative, and Ahmed Mohammed Hamed Ali, who was part of the attacks on US embassies in 1998.

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Iranian Naval Vessels Enter Suez Canal

Seeded on Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:53 AM EST (CNSNews.com)

Two Iranian naval vessels entered the Suez Canal on Tuesday en route to Syria, officials said, the first time in three decades that Tehran has sent military ships through the strategic waterway.

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Medvedev Sees "Fires for Decades" in Arab World

Seeded on Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:47 AM EST (CNSNews.com)

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday predicted decades of instability in the Arab world if protesters, whom he called fanatics, come to power, adding no such scenario will be permitted at home.

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As The Obamas And The Ultra-Wealthy Live The High Life Most Americans Are Going Through Economic Hell

Seeded on Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:42 AM EST (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)

Barack Obama recently made the following statement to American families that are struggling to survive in this economy: "If you're a family trying to cut back, you might skip going out to dinner, or you might put off a vacation." A few days after making that statement Obama sen …

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Federal, state and local debt hits post-WWII levels

Seeded on Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:30 AM EST (The Washington Post)

The daunting tower of national, state and local debt in the United States will reach a level this year unmatched just after World War II and already exceeds the size of the entire economy, according to government estimates.

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Cameron says UK prejudiced & U.S. is naive

Seeded on Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:24 AM EST (Guardian Unlimited)

The prime minister will not be visiting Saudi Arabia during his three-day tour of the Gulf. This is because King Abdullah is in poor health and not because Cameron wants to distance the UK from the kingdom.

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Apple's iPad2 launch delayed to June

Seeded on Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:18 AM EST (Reuters)

The launch of Apple Inc's iPad2 tablet will be delayed to June from April as maker Hon Hai faces production bottlenecks due to the device's new design, Taiwanese brokerage Yuanta Securities said in a note.

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Petraeus's comments offend Karzai government

Seeded on Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:13 AM EST (The Washington Post)

To the shock of President Hamid Karzai's aides, Gen. David H.

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