Daily News Alert | Thursday, August 11, 2005 09:00 PM PDT |
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Meteor 'Outburst' Expected Friday Morning
Thu, 11 Aug 2005 07:00 am PDT
 AFP - For as long as records exist, the Perseid meteor showers have always been strong. This summer's Perseid shower will be exceptional. The moon is mostly out of the way later in the night, and higher-than-normal activity rates are expected over the United States. Full Story | Top |
People Try to Lose Weight at McDonald's
Thu, 11 Aug 2005 04:38 pm PDT
 AP - Inspired by the documentary "Super Size Me," Merab Morgan decided to give a fast-food-only diet a try. The construction worker and mother of two ate only at McDonald's for 90 days — and dropped 37 pounds in the process. Full Story | Top |
Microsoft sees 3 'critical' Windows security flaws
Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:03 pm PDT
 Reuters - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) warned users of its Windows operating system on Tuesday of three newly found "critical" security flaws in its software, including one that could allow attackers to take complete control of a computer. Full Story | Top |
New Strategy Shows Promise in Treating HIV
Thu, 11 Aug 2005 03:40 pm PDT
AP - A new treatment strategy has shown promise in helping to transform HIV into a curable infection. Preliminary research published this week in The Lancet medical journal outlines how scientists used an anti-convulsant drug to awaken dormant HIV hiding in the body, where it is temporarily invisible but still dangerous. Full Story | Top |
Investors Move East to Booming Romania
Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:50 am PDT
 AP - A billion-euro real estate development in former plum orchards north of Bucharest illustrates the fruits being picked in Romania and Bulgaria, future EU members seeing an economic boom while much of old Europe stagnates. Full Story | Top |
Five Siblings Sue 'Extreme Makeover' Show
Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:33 am PDT
AP - Five orphaned siblings who received gifts and a new dream home on the hit ABC television show "Extreme Makeover, Home Edition" are suing the network, the company that built the house and the couple who took them in after their parents died. Full Story | Top |
Judge Says CBGB's Can't Be Evicted
Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:20 pm PDT
 AP - A civil court judge ruled Wednesday that the landmark punk club CBGB's can't be evicted from its Bowery location, saying it shouldn't be punished for not noticing it owed its landlord money. Full Story | Top |
Atta Intelligence Omitted From Report
Thu, 11 Aug 2005 08:26 pm PDT
 AP - The Sept. 11 commission knew military intelligence officials had identified lead hijacker Mohamed Atta as a member of al-Qaida who might be part of U.S.-based terror cell more than a year before the terror attacks but decided not to include that in its final report, a spokesman acknowledged Thursday. Full Story | Top |
Washington Lobbyist Abramoff Charged
Thu, 11 Aug 2005 04:44 pm PDT
 AP - Lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a key figure in investigations involving House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on fraud charges arising from a 2000 deal to buy casino boats. Full Story | Top |
"Makeover" House Not a Home
Thu, 11 Aug 2005 03:04 pm PDT
E! Online - A new house does not heal all wounds--no matter how much cathartic hugging and crying goes on at the end of an Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Full Story | Top |
Tucker Carlson Comments Rile Greenpeace
Thu, 11 Aug 2005 02:23 pm PDT
 AP - Greenpeace complained Thursday to the Federal Communications Commission about MSNBC talk show host Tucker Carlson's praise for a fatal attack 20 years ago on the environmental group's flagship. Full Story | Top |
Texas Becomes a Majority-Minority State
Thu, 11 Aug 2005 04:50 am PDT
 AP - Texas has become the fourth state to have a non-white majority population, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday, a trend driven by a surging number of Hispanics moving to the state. Full Story | Top |
Bush to mother who lost son in Iraq: 'I grieve'
Thu, 11 Aug 2005 04:38 pm PDT
 Reuters - President George W. Bush said on Thursday he sympathized with a mother who lost a son in Iraq and has been leading a protest vigil near his ranch, but that he would not pull U.S. troops from Iraq now as she has demanded. Full Story | Top |
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