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US teen lives 118 days without heart 2008-11-19 23:25:34 An American teen-ager survived for nearly four months without a heart, kept alive by a custom-built artificial blood-pumping device, until
Simmons sits with her , including Dr. Si Pham and Dr. Marco Ricci at news conference in Miami (Reuters)
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she was able to have a heart transplant, doctors in Miami said on Wednesday.
The doctors said they [...]
Final phase of polling begins in Chhattisgarh 2008-11-19 23:24:05 The polling began at about 8 am in the state. Electoral fortunes of 687 candidates will be decided by 88,14,228 electorates.
Prominent leaders in the electoral battle include former Chief Minister Ajit Jogi, his wife Renu Jogi, BJP state president Vishnu Deo Sai, state president Dhanendra Sahu, Deputy Speaker Badridhar Diwan and Home Minster Ram Vichar [...] Read more:Final
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Share market continues to fall in australia 2008-11-19 22:54:08 The Australian share market remains 3.5 per cent down, after a drop on Wall Street overnight.
A slash in growth forecasts by the United States Federal Reserve and a record drop in consumer inflation in October saw stocks on Wall Street fall to their lowest level in five and a half years.
Shortly before 3:00pm AEDT, the [...] Read more:Share
Google makes Mozilla $75 million dollar revenue 2008-11-19 22:48:23 The Mozilla
Foundation pulled in $75 million
in revenue in 2007, the “vast majority” of it from a search partnership with Google
, the Firefox backer plans to announce Wednesday.
“Mozilla is well positioned to remain vital and effective during the current difficult economic times,” according to Mozilla Chairman Mitchell Baker in a blog post about the [...] Read more:makes
Mozilla chairman unfazed by Google Chrome 2008-11-19 22:42:54 Things just got a lot more complicated for Mitchell Baker, the Mozilla
Foundation’s chairman and “chief lizard wrangler.”
Gone are the days when Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was the sole rival for Mozilla’s Firefox. A new open-source browser, GoogleChrome
, has come to town, and it’s from the company that provided $66 million of the Mozilla Foundation’s [
Texas University launches security tech incubator 2008-11-19 22:30:47 The University
of Texas
at San Antonio launched a new incubator that will help commercialize security
technologies.
Ravi Ganesan, head of the incubator at the Institute for Cyber Security at the University of Texas at San Antonio
(Credit: Institute for Cyber Security)
The Institute for Cyber Security’s (ICS) new incubator will provide start-ups access to seed capital, business [...]
Obama transition team names tech policy group 2008-11-19 22:27:49 The transition team for President-elect Barack Obama
on Wednesday announced which advisers will lead the team’s efforts to develop technology policy for the Obama administration.
Julius Genachowski
(Credit: LaunchBox Digital)
The three team leaders of the technology, innovation, and government reform policy working group are Julius Genachowski and Blair Levin, two former Federal Communicati
Yahoo Brings Glue To U.S.: A Plethora of Aggregated Topical Third Party Content 2008-11-19 22:23:26 Yahoo Glue, a new search results page design that the company has been testing in India, is rolling out to the US market this evening. You can view it at glue.yahoo.com, although Yahoo says it is rolling out in stages, so sit tight if you don’t see it.
It’s also a little different than the Indian [...] Read more:Content
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Lively is being killed by google 2008-11-19 22:18:52 Even Google is getting into the downsizing spirit. It just announced that it is killing Lively
, its browser-baseed virtual worlds that could be embedded into other Websites. Lively launched just last July. The death notice on the site says it will shut down on December 31, so we are adding Lively to [...]
Amazing real pictures in the history Awesome 2008-12-18 01:13:35 This appears to be a photograph of a man attacking a van with his tremendously explosive forehead - but is in actuality of Dennis Pinto, a stuntman from North Carolina. Dennis seems to have misunderstood exactly what stuntmen are supposed to do which, ideally, is to simulate incredibly dangerous scenarios while in reality remaining safe [...] Read more:Amazing
World’s First Computer Rebuilt, Rebooted After 2,000 Years 2008-12-18 01:00:27 A British museum curator has built a working replica of a 2,000-year-old Greek machine that has been called the world’s first computer.
A dictionary-size assemblage of 37 interlocking dials crafted with the precision and complexity of a 19th-century Swiss clock, the Antikythera mechanism was used for modeling and predicting the movements of the heavenly bodies as [...] Read more:Computer
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Credit card holders livid about ‘rate-jacking’ 2008-12-18 00:51:40 - It arrived in Rich Stevens’ mailbox a few weeks ago: the notice that Citibank had “rate-jacked” the Visa cards belonging to him and his wife.
Some credit card holders have seen their interest rates go up dramatically, a practice called “rate-jacking.”
“In my case, from 9.5 percent to 16.99,” the 54-year-old nurse from the Long [...]
Australia vs Southafrica live 1st test & telecast 2008-12-17 22:05:49 Played at Western Australia
Cricket Association Ground, Perth, on 17,18,19,20,21 December 2008 (5-day match)
Australia 1st innings
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M
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4s
6s
SR
ML Hayden
c Smith b Ntini
12
15
13
3
0
92.30
SM Katich
lbw b Morkel
83
228
151
7
1
54.96
RT Ponting
c de Villiers b Ntini
0
1
1
0
0
0.00
MEK Hussey
c de Villiers b Steyn
0
9
7
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MJ Clarke
c Smith b Harris
62
203
141
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India top 10 youth icons 2008-12-17 03:18:02 The 21st century generation is changing the face of India
. It is upbeat, optimistic and filled with youth
ful energy. There is an upsurge in young talent and a dramatic increase in accomplishments on international platforms. The avenues and opportunities open to the young today have multiplied, but so has their drive to succeed. Who are [...]
Samurai Underpants Sheaths Your Katana in Awesome 2008-12-17 03:02:37 Who doesn’t dream of wandering the fields of ancient Japan, wielding a katana for truth and justice? Though the samurai age is long over, you can still ennoble your privates with awesome samurai underpants.
Samurai
-themed underwear have become something of a runaway hit in Japan. Each piece is made to resemble the armor of famous [...] Read more:Katana
, Underpants
New species of extinct animals found in Sahara 2008-12-17 01:17:36 LONDON (AFP) – British and Moroccan scientists said Tuesday they had found the remains of two new species
of extinct animals in the Sahara
n desert, describing the find as one of the most important of the past 50 years.
The team of paleontologists said they had unearthed a new species of pterosaur, [...]
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Madonna’s Ex Set to Get $75 Million in Settlement 2008-12-16 22:44:03 Madonna has settled her divorce with ex-husband Guy Ritchie by also parting with at least 50 million pounds ($76 million), the singer’s spokeswoman said Monday.
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