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TODAY - April 26, 2010
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Photo via Yahoo.com
Workers in these careers face erratic hours and
even life-or-death situations.
Five (SIX) worst-ranked professions
America’s Most Stressful Jobs 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
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CNBC
With unemployment high, many people with jobs are grateful to get their weekly paychecks, but that feeling alone doesn’t take the stress out of the daily grind.
To get a […]
McCain advisers lobbied for Airbus
March 11, 2008 - 5:57am
By JIM KUHNHENN and MATTHEW DALY
Top current advisers to Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign last year lobbied for a European plane maker that beat Boeing to a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract, taking sides in a bidding fight that McCain has tried to referee for more […]
It is with great pride I present my answer to his question.
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Images: (man) wrt.howard.syr.edu; (plow) (houses, etc) dcski.com; (Main pix) Gerald Olson; (plow) (c) Richard Percy, 1995 courtesy Jim Czarnecki
Ancient “devil frog” may have eaten baby dinosaurs
By Will Dunham 1 hour, 3 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It was the biggest, baddest, meanest froggy ever to have hopped on Earth.
Scientists on Monday announced the discovery in northwestern Madagascar of a bulky amphibian dubbed the “devil frog” that lived 65 million to 70 million years ago […]
Collecting of Details on Travelers Documented
U.S. Effort More Extensive Than Previously Known
By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, September 22, 2007; Page A01
The U.S. government is collecting electronic records on the travel habits of millions of Americans who fly, drive or take cruises abroad, retaining data on the persons with whom they travel or plan to […]
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REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad (MALAYSIA)
Malaysia’s Tooth King Breaks World Record
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 30 (Bernama) — Malaysia’s Tooth King, Rathakrishnan Velu broke a new world record today when he completed a successful attempt using his teeth to pull three Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) commuter coaches, weighing 297.1 tonnes, for a distance of 2.8 metres.
The feat is his […]
should stay in office, because the jackals’ calling for his ouster
are far more unpleasant than thoughts of his alleged encounter at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport or
Berlin’s Tempelhof Aerodrome…for that matter.
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German Unification Day eve…
Images: (Aerodrome) commons.wikipedia.org; (man on ladder) dkimages.com; (lightbulb changer) Unger via shoplet.com;
I don’t conveniently forget about my forays into the crystal ball. The enclosed post was a response to the story about the New Seven Wonders poll in March.
I present for all to see that I failed to agree on even one of the winners. As it was an international poll, I can assuredly say […]
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Airbus A380 pilot sits in the cockpit of an Airbus A380 aircraft at San Pablo airport in Seville May 8, 2007. The aircraft will fly to the Air Force base in Moron de la Frontera where it will undergo noise-certification tests. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo (SPAIN)
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Bigger pay for pilots of super jumbo A380 plane
by Rachel Lim […]
of Robert Walker in Stangers On A Train.
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Le Reseau–Le Train ‘Tres Grande Vitesse’
April 4, 2007
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Mon Dieu! So fast it was terrifying
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Our correspondent was the only British journalist on board the French TGV train as it hit 357mph on yesterday’s record-breaking ride into the unknown undefined
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Ben Webster
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Not the Ben Webster who was one of my […]
France’s V150 Train a Grande Vitesse (TGV) is seen here at the “Reims Bezannes” station on the new high-speed line built between Paris and the eastern city of Strasbourg, on the eve of an attempt to break its own world speed record.(AFP/Francois Nascimbeni)
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French train aims to break world speed record
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PARIS (AFP) - France’s […]