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Rejection of new sentences in Atenco case

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Rechazo a las nuevas sentencias en el caso Atenco

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City Room: Bike, Don’t Drive, City Tells Employees

New York Times - 6 min 31 sec ago
Officials said they would expand secure bicycle parking for employees at five municipal buildings in Lower Manhattan in the fall.

Map highlights 'obesity hotspots'

BBC - 13 min 35 sec ago
Shetland and parts of Wales and north England are Britain's obesity hotspots, according to a map compiled from GP records.

Kevin: Shot in the Face with a Gun and Lives to Tell

Digg - 19 min 46 sec ago
When we reached each other, I said hi and asked if he would mind if I took his photo. "You want my photo?" Yeah, I said. There's nobody like you. "I know." And he smiled for me -although his face was evidently destroyed by something- and his mouth reconstructed.

Leaking mushroom soup forces plane to make unplanned landing

BBC - 27 min 33 sec ago
A Ryanair flight was forced to land after a passenger had an allergic reaction to mushroom soup, the airline confirms.

Police Eject Fan For Trying to Pee During National Anthem

Digg - 29 min 47 sec ago
A baseball fan says a uniformed police officer (perhaps off-duty but working security for overtime) forcibly ejected him from the stadium last night during the Yankees-Red Sox game. Why? He says all he did was try to go to the bathroom while "God Bless America" was played during the 7th inning stretch.

Man in the News: A Consistent Yet Elusive Nominee

New York Times - 38 min 57 sec ago
Even after thousands of campaign events, many Americans say they do not feel they know Senator Barack Obama.

Rodney Mullen 1986 Westwood, NJ Demo (VIDEO)

Digg - 39 min 46 sec ago
The man.

US Forces to Transfer Control of Anbar to Iraqis

Truthout - 48 min 41 sec ago

    Washington - US forces will hand over control of Anbar province to Iraqi troops in the coming days, military officials said Wednesday, touting improved security in the region.

    "We believe the province could turn over to Iraqi control in just a few days," Marine General James Conway said.

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GOBLIN shark caught on video

Digg - 49 min 46 sec ago
The creature featured is a Mitsukurina owstoni, or goblin shark, which lives between 100 metres and 1000 metres beneath the waves.

Experimental RNA drug may cause blindness

Nature - 53 min 8 sec ago
Caution needed in clinical trials, scientists urge.

A Day in the Life of a Demoman

Digg - 59 min 47 sec ago
Learn what it's like to be alone in Team Fortress 2.

Ten Truly Underrated Sci-Fi Movies

Digg - 1 hour 9 min ago
There's a whole subset of underappreciated sci-fi gems that have gone sadly unheralded without any geeky conventions to call their own. As a public service to the new generation of sci-fi geeks who've only grown up with Star Wars prequels and Scott Bakula as their Starfleet captain, here are ten sci-fi movies that don't get the credit they deserve.

Man in the News: A Nominee of Consistency and Mystery

New York Times - 1 hour 13 min ago
Even after thousands of campaign events, many Americans say they do not feel they know Senator Barack Obama.

A comparison of McCain's mental slips with Reagan's

Digg - 1 hour 29 min ago
Sen. Patrick Leahy told Vogel yesterday the media has given McCain a free pass on flubs including mixing up Middle East geography, Shiite and Sunni Muslims, and referring to Russia's relationship Czechoslovakia — a country that hasn't existed for 15 years."It was the same way with Ronald Reagan in the last few years he was president."

More Than Enough: The First 11 Minutes of Uwe Boll's Postal

Digg - 1 hour 39 min ago
I have heard from multiple sources that Uwe Boll’s latest film Postal isn’t worth the time it takes to break through the Fort Knox DVD packaging that it comes in. See for yourself in the first 11 minutes of this soon to be classic film.

The Speech Progressives Have Been Waiting For?

Truthout - 1 hour 40 min ago

    In Obama's much-anticipated address tomorrow, we can expect soaring rhetoric infused with a sense of history. Let's hope he also includes a full-throated endorsement of progressivism as an ideology.

    It's hard to think of a speech that was more eagerly anticipated and subjected to as much prior commentary as the one Barack Obama will deliver tomorrow night at Invesco Field in Denver.

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Last-gasp Kuyt puts Liverpool through

BBC - 1 hour 42 min ago
Liverpool scrape into the group stages of the Champions League after a 118th minute goal from Dirk Kuyt against Standard Liege.

Democratic Convention Analysis

Truthout - 1 hour 43 min ago

    PBS Airtime: Friday, August 29, 2008 at 9:00 p.m. EDT on PBS (check local listings here).

    What did the Democrats accomplish this week and can they deliver real change while still playing old fashioned Beltway politics? In the historic moment of the first African-American nominee for president, Bill Moyers sits down with Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel and University of Pennsylvania professor of political science Adolph Reed Jr.

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