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  • Michelle Keegan doesnt understand her sex symbol status

    Michelle Keegan, who was awarded Cleavage Of The Year by The Sun earlier this year, has said that she is embarrassed by her cleavage and struggles to understand her sex symbol status. The 25-year-old actress told new! magazine that it was embarrassing but also flattering, the Mirror reported. She said that she didn't wear tops that show her cleavage much, asserting that her mother joked about ...

  • Venus Jupiter and Mercury will dance in spring twilight

    Three planets - Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury will present a spectacular sky show during the last week of May. So, look low in the west-northwest after sunset in late May, and you can watch Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury pirouetting through the tightest gathering of three naked-eye planets that the world will see until 2026. "Here's a beautiful chance to see three planets all together," said Alan ...

  • Across America 2013 Solar Impulse Prepares For Flight From Phoenix To Dallas

    Image Caption: Event week in Phoenix- Consulate of Switzerland Dinner - J. Brewer, Governor of the State of Arizona, and B. Piccard and A. Borschberg with the Clean Generation Flag. Credit: Solar Impulse |Merz| ...

  • Bilingual People Use Different ‘Sound Systems’ To Switch Languages

    bilingual individuals switch between two different 'sound systems' in their brain when alternating between languages. "A lot of research has shown that bilinguals are pretty good at accommodating speech variation across languages, but there's been a debate as to ...

  • Gay marriage opponent kills himself in cathedral

    PARIS - An 78-year-old French far-right activist committed suicide at the altar of the Notre Dame cathedral on Tuesday by shooting himself in the mouth, three days after a law legalising same-sex marriage came into effect. Police evacuated the cathedral, one of Paris’ biggest tourist draws, after Dominique Venner - a historian known for his hard-right political essays and a fierce ...

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Brute Force [DVD]

Brute Force [DVD]

Tough as sinew and bracing in its raw depictions of entrapment and sadism, Jules Dassins Brute Force is a stunning product of the twilight of the studio era, just after it had hit a high point during World War II and just before it would be dismantled by the oligopoly-busting Param ... ...

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  • Wired Space Photo of the Day Valhalla Crater

    In today's business world, disruption is a constant force that never lets up. At the annual WIRED Business Conference: Disruptive by Design, we celebrate the creative power of bold new ideas and the people that make them happen. See the event ...

  • Whole neighborhoods razed by Oklahoma tornado that killed 24

    1 of 11. American flags wave over the remains of Plaza Towers Elementary school in Moore, Oklahoma May 21, 2013 after it was destroyed by a massive tornado May ...

  • Russian mice gerbils dead in 30-day space ordeal lizards live

    LOS ANGELES -- A crew of Mongolian gerbils may have gone where no Mongolian gerbil has gone before, but they did not come back alive. A Russian spacecraft filled with mice, lizards and other animals has returned to Earth -- but with the majority of its furred passengers apparently dead. The Bion-M experiment, launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on April 19, carried 45 mice, 15 geckos, 18 ...

  • Parcels find their way to you via the crowd

    crowd-powered delivery system dreamed up by a group of Microsoft researchers. Fictional Jane never has to deviate from her normal route to pick up her package. Instead, it is sent via a chain of people - an algorithm calculates the fastest route using aggregated location data from New York tweeters. Eric Horvitz ...

  • Food science expertGenetically modified crops areoverregu...

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - It has been almost 20 years since the first genetically modified foods showed up in produce aisles throughout the United States and the rest of the world, but controversy continues to surround the products and their ...

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