The NHL season comes to a close Wednesday as the Bruins and Canucks square off in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals at Vancouver. The home team has won each of the first six games. (June 14)
Continue reading …President Obama visited Puerto Rico today, becoming the first sitting president since JFK to do so. “When I ran for president, I promised to include Puerto Rico not just on my itinerary, but also in my vision of where our country needs to go. And I am proud to say…
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Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman is joining the pack of Republicans battling to take on President Barack Obama. Huntsman, who was Obama’s ambassador to China, will make his formal announcement next Tuesday. (June 14)
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Workers are racing to protect an Iowa town from the floodwaters of the Missouri River by adding several feet of dirt to a temporary levee. The situation grew worse when the river punched through a second levee, the town’s main protection. (June 14)
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A fire at a plant where chemicals are blended and stored for oilfield operations forced residents to evacuate or hunker down Tuesday night while a grayish-brown column of smoke rose hundreds of feet into the air hours later. (June 14)
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Oh, so your infant’s first words were ” 3D camera ,” were they? Now you can reward your little princess with her first cam without needing to switch to store-brand baby food — after turning off the Home Shopping Network , of course. The DXG-018 3D camera will run you just under $70, but it’ll be worth every penny when your little early adopter grows up to be a gadget fiend with 15 maxed-out credit cards and $80,000 in debt. In the meantime, they’ll be teething on a 1.44-inch LCD, dual lenses, an SD card (sold separately), and a pair of AA batteries. The kit also includes three 3D viewers, which apparently display 4-by-6-inch prints in three dimensions. DXG says the cam was created with kids in mind, shipping in pink, lavender, orange, green, and yellow, but it may also make a decent gift for adults, assuming they’ve never used a camera or viewed 3D content before. Gallery: DXG-018 3D camera Continue reading DXG 3D camera costs 70 bucks, or just three easy payments of $23.99 DXG 3D camera costs 70 bucks, or just three easy payments of $23.99 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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When couples fight, sleep often suffers. Now a new study shows that the reverse can also true. Not sleeping well, it seems, can make for a rockier relationship.
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“When there was trouble on the airship he brought it down to as low as he could to let the passengers jump out and he stayed at the controls.” — LYNDY NERANDZIC, wife of Australian blimp pilot Michael Nerandzic who saved three passengers while losing his life as the blimp exploded in Germany (via CNN)
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When the folks at CBS shooed Katie Couric out the door, one could almost hear the harrumph with which Scott Pelley was reinstalling the Old Regime of Ed Murrow. Unlike Couric, Pelley wasn’t debuting with celebrity interviews and updates on Tom Cruise’s baby. CBS is going back to biased Dan Rather basics, treating Couric’s tenure as little more than a palate cleanser. With Couric off the news grid in pursuit of cloning Oprah Winfrey’s success in feel-your-pain afternoon chat, who will be the public face of soft and marshmallowy News Lite? Coincidentally, NBC’s Meredith Vieira retired from NBC’s “Today” and NBC was contractually obligated to promote long-time morning news reader Ann Curry. How light is Ann? Last October, while narrating a story on how Russia implausibly unveiled a new set of inflatable weapons designed to fool spy satelittes, Curry added her own touch: “Wish all weapons were like that.”
Continue reading …To hear some politicians and lobbyists tell it, the fate of New Mexico’s oil industry rests on the fate of a five-inch lizard. The federal government is considering listing the dunes sagebrush lizard as an endangered species, the Wall Street Journal reports, and that spooks the industry, because Sceloporous arenicolus…
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