Amid the horrors of Brazil’s flooding and mudslides that have claimed more than 630 lives, a loyal mutt’s lonely vigil at his owner’s grave stands mute testimony to the nation’s hopeless loss and confusion. Leao has been lying next to his owner’s hastily made grave at the Teresopolis cemetery since…
Continue reading …Roundup: Texting and Walking Can Be Dangerous and Ricky Gervais Slays at the Golden Globes
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January Jones … Minneapolis is the gayest city in America … fired for telling the truth? … Cameron Diaz & A-Rod partied all weekend in Hollywood … “The yanked me out of the car, put a knee on my back, and checked my rectum several times” … what caused 200 cows to die? … what Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Big Lead Discovery Date : 17/01/2011 09:54 Number of articles : 7
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Heavy rains across Washington and Oregon over the weekend caused multiple landslides that shut down roads across the region and threatened to top rivers already swollen with melted snow. (Jan. 17)
Continue reading …Toyota developing new type of electric motor in an effort to escape dependency on rare earth metals
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Toyota’s not too pleased with the general scarcity of rare earth minerals and China’s near-monopolistic grip on the world’s supply, so it’s decided to act before it’s too late. A company spokesman has been cited as saying the Prius maker is hard at work on a new electric motor design that should dramatically reduce (though seemingly not eliminate) the need for rare earths in its production. Aside from being made of less price-volatile materials, the new electric ticker is expected to be generally cheaper to manufacture. Further details aren’t yet available, but we hope this turns into a classic case of necessity breeding innovation — that Prius C concept deserves a set of internals that can keep up with its bodacious exterior. Toyota developing new type of electric motor in an effort to escape dependency on rare earth metals originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Golden Globes Best Actor Colin Firth could be headed to a big Oscar win for The King’s Speech . But his chances and the film’s may be clouded by an email circulating now about the alleged Nazi sympathies of the beloved stuttering British king Firth portrays in the critically acclaimed movie….
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. By 1968, one has to wonder if Dr. Martin Luther King had understood why James Bevel complained, “You all turned my march into a picnic.”(1) He was, of course, referring to the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Bevel, who was a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and had helped initiate and organize the Jobs and Freedom March on Washington, envisioned a grassroots demonstration consisting of the working poor and oppressed, or people who had sacrificed and gone to jail for the Civil Rights Movement. Instead, the Jobs and Freedom March included mostly middle-class blacks and liberal whites dressed in Sunday…
Continue reading …The California coastal town of Ventura is spending $4.5 million dollars on its popular Surfers Point to “back off” from increasing coastal erosion and rising water levels—a fate that awaits much of the US coastline, reports the Los Angeles Times . The project involves ripping out a seaside bike…
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Michael Douglas, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman and more talk awards, scandal and natural disasters on the Golden Globes red carpet. (Jan. 17)
Continue reading …France’s controversial far-right political party leader passed on his ultra-conservative mantle to his daughter yesterday—just minutes before unleashing another anti-Semitic dig. Jean-Marie Le Pen, who has infuriated the French left and center for over four decades, handed the reins of the National Front to 42-year-old Marine Le Pen after…
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Occupied Jerusalem: Officials with Israel’s Labour Party say leader Ehud Barak is leaving the party to form a new faction in parliament. The…
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