In a blinding flash of cobalt-blue and orange-chestnut she launches herself like a torpedo into the water to seize one of the minnows that are swimming there.
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Catchphrase!
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Facebook this week was awarded a patent pertaining to streaming "feed" technology -- more specifically, "dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network" ... complementing another patent filing that has been published but not yet approved.
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Yale Environment 360 has some pretty crazy maps, just released by the National Atmospheric and Oceanographic Administration's Center for Tsunami Research, comparing the size of the tsunami generated by the recent Chile earthquake and by one in 1960.
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The earthquake that killed more than 700 people in Chile on Feb. 27 probably shifted the Earth's axis and shortened the day, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientist said.
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The first time I entered ChatRoulette—a new website that brings you face-to-face, via webcam, with an endless stream of random strangers all over the world—I was primed for a full-on Walt Whitman experience: an ecstatic surrender to the miraculous variety and abundance of humankind.
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How Important Is Defensive Support To a Quarterback in the Postseason? Like every other ranking system, measuring a quarterback's defensive support has its flaws. It does not take into account the quarterback's offensive support, such as strength of the running game, strength of receiving corps, or the strength of the offensive line.
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It wasn’t about destiny, although it so clearly was. It wasn’t about faith, although we had to have it. At the end of the day, it was about football. Very simply put, no one in the league could put together enough plays to beat us when it mattered. It’s a new reality, a new dimension of reality. I called it the NSD. The New Saints Dimension.
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Sanaa is home to 2 million people, and is growing fast--but experts say that if trends continue, it could be a ghost town in 20 years. A Yemeni water trader profiled in a recent Reuters report explains that even though his well is 1,300 ft deep, he's hardly extracting any water at all. The same goes for wells that are 2,000 and even 3,000 ft deep.
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Ash Wednesday, lovingly known as Dirty Forehead Day, is this week—time to wean yourself off that caffeine. Again.
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That's right! After all those quick and dirty appearances, we've finally got our own Dell Mini 5 (a.k.a. 'Streak' or 'M01M') prototype for a more
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