Posted by petem1392, at 04:57PM 02/06/09 :
Cole victims - The Associated Press
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BBC News. Obama to meet with families of 9/11, Cole victims. The Associated Press - 1 hour ago. WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama was spending time with families of 9/11 victims and the 17 sailors killed in the bombing of the USS Cole after a senior Pentagon judge dropped charges against an al-Qaida suspect in the Cole attack being held at .. • Charges dropped against suspect in 2000 USS Cole bombing. guardian.co.uk. US withdraws charges against USS Cole suspect. AFP. Washington Post. - Xinhua. - Aljazeera.net. - Reuters. all 682 news articles.
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Posted by petem1392, at 04:49PM 02/06/09 :
faster US exit?
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Feb. 5 - Provincial elections in Iraq were the most peaceful since the fall of Saddam Hussein raising questions about the pace of withdrawing US troops from Iraq.
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Posted by petem1392, at 04:46PM 02/06/09 :
TED2009: Louise Fresco
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Louise Fresco, food and agriculture expert is on stage at TED2009. She's making bread as she talks. She is holding up two loaves, one in each hand: Wonder Bread, and artisanal whole meal bread. Asks audience, which do you like better. Only about two people out of thousands say they like the Wonder Bread. Fresco says that we feel whole meal bread is more real, more honest, more authentic. Why do we feel that whole meal bread has these attributes? Because we connect it to a mythical agricultural past, of Tuscan farms. We have mythical image of how life was in rural areas in the past. The reality is quite different. These poor farmers had hard lives. 200 years ago we had industrial revolution. It brought us power, mechanization, fertilizer, drove up yields. Horrible things like picking beans by hand is automated. All this is a great improvement. We've enveloped world in dense chain of supermarkets with global trade, we can eat food from around the world. You may prefer the artisanal brea
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Posted by petem1392, at 04:34PM 02/06/09 :
Senate Moderates Negotiate Cuts to Economic Stimulus Bill
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A large group of Senate moderates huddled in a Capitol Hill conference room today in an effort to cut tens of billions of dollars from an economic stimulus bill that now tops $900 billion, as wrangling continued over a package that President Obama called vital to prevent the nation from falling i..
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Posted by petem1392, at 04:25PM 02/06/09 :
'WWII bomb' discovered at harbour
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What is believed to be a World War Two bomb is uncovered by a dredger working off Warrenpoint Harbour.
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Posted by petem1392, at 03:51PM 02/06/09 :
Indian matchbox art
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Matt Lee's gallery of matchboxes from the subcontinent highlights the lovely art that adorns these little bits of ephemera: "The random and disparate juxtapositions of the imagery encapsulate the mix of historic, mythological and contemporary visual culture in India." Matchboxes from the Subcontinent (via Core77) Previously:Firecracker packaging artwork - Boing Boing..
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Posted by petem1392, at 03:49PM 02/06/09 and by 1 others:
Real-Time Regular Expressions
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<!-- title: Real-Time Regular Expressions --> <!-- category: newsletter --> <!-- keywords: regexp, regular+expressions --> Grant Skinner has a nifty little regular expression tool. , written in Flex, that let's you put text in one window and type regular expressions in the other and show the match. There's a "replace" tab as well for seeing how a regular expression replace would modify the text. The right side shows regexp components and describes what they do. I love it. Tags: regexp. regular+expressions.
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