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Explosion at Iraq parliament cafe
23 / 4
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6548337.stm
An explosion has hit a cafeteria at the Iraqi parliament, killing at least two MPs and injuring at least 15 people, witnesses and security officials say.
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Wikipedia a force for good? Nonsense, says a co-founder
22 / 3
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/ar...
The founder of the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia criticised the Education Secretary yesterday for suggesting that the website could be a good educational tool for children.
Mr Johnson described the internet as “an incredible force for good in education” for teachers and pupils, singling out Wikipedia for praise
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A Lost ‘Boris Godunov’ Is Found and Staged
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/arts/music/11boris.html?_r...
In 1936, two of the Soviet Union’s greatest artists decided to work on a new theatrical production of Pushkin’s “Boris Godunov” for its author’s coming jubilee. Sergei Prokofiev wrote 24 musical pieces while the visionary stage director Vsevolod Meyerhold mapped out scenes and started rehearsals. The following year, Stalin’s terror fixed its gaze on Meyerhold and he abandoned the project. Three years later, he was dead, shot by a firing squad.
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iRobot Is Finally Here...to Clean-up Your Pool
22 / 2
http://news.softpedia.com/news/iRobot-is-finally-here-to-cle...
The company iRobot launched today a pair of robots that take cleaning pools really seriously. This is not a first though. iRobot and Aqua products Group companies have already developed pool-cleaning robots like the Roomba Vacuuming Robot in 2002 and other robots that can perform
“a variety of dull and dirty chores”.
Using their powerful vacuum and filtration system, both Verro 300 (pictured) and the Verro 600 can vacuum up leaves, algae, bacteria and particles as small as two microns (a fra
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`Girls Gone Wild' Creator in Custody
23 / 3
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=3026875
The founder of the "Girls Gone Wild" video empire was taken into custody by federal marshals early Tuesday to face a contempt of court citation after initially defying a federal judge.
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Bloggers: We Don't Need No Stinking Rules
24 / 2
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/56809.html
The release of Tim O'Reilly's "Blogger's Code of Conduct," which recommends banning anonymous comments from blogs, among other things, has set off a heated debate about the free-wheeling nature of Internet-based discourse and whether or not to place limits on free speech, especially when that speech is bullying, hateful or offensive.
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All Charges against three Duke Lacrosse players to Be Dropped
24 / 4
http://abcnews.go.com/US/LegalCenter/story?id=3028515&page=1
The office of North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper will announce that he is dismissing all charges against three Duke Lacrosse players, ABC News has learned from sources close to the case.
The three players, Reade Seligmann, David Evans and Collin Finnerty, were facing charges of first degree kidnapping and first degree forcible sexual offense. The charges stem from an off-campus party on the night of March 13, 2006.
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16 killed by female bomber in Iraq
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070410/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
A woman with explosives hidden beneath her black abaya detonated them Tuesday in a crowd of about 200 police recruits northeast of Baghdad, killing at least 16 people, police and hospital officials said.
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Gene test 'targets cancer drug'
25 / 6
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6528835.stm
Testing for a gene called ESR1 can show which women with breast cancer would benefit most from oestrogen-blocking drugs, Nature Genetics work suggests.
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The Measure of Physical Health
24 / 4
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Exercise/story?id=3017118&page=...
You obsess with the scale and fitting into your clothes. You're concerned about thick legs, a bit too much belly fat and a growing waistline.
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