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'Mockingbird' Actor Brock Peters Dies
Tue, 23 Aug 2005 02:25 pm PDT
 AP - Actor Brock Peters, best known for his heartbreaking performance as the black man falsely accused of rape in "To Kill a Mockingbird," died Tuesday at his home after battling pancreatic cancer. He was 78. Full Story | Top |
Calif. cities dominate insurers' list for auto theft
Tue, 23 Aug 2005 03:56 am PDT
USATODAY.com - California is the nation's stolen car capital, according to an insurance industry report to be released Tuesday. Seven of the nation's Top 10 metropolitan areas with the highest auto theft rates are in the "Golden State" with the Modesto metropolitan area toping the list for the second year in a row. Full Story | Top |
Wall Street tunes into housing boom - or bubble
Tue, 23 Aug 2005 04:21 am PDT
USATODAY.com - Research reports written by Wall Street's top gurus used to focus mainly on price-earnings ratios, highflying stocks and bull and bear markets. Not anymore. In their missives to clients, investment strategists are increasingly devoting more ink to the booming housing market. Full Story | Top |
Report: Obesity Rates Up in Most States
Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:32 pm PDT
AP - Like a lot of people, the nation's weight problem is settling below its waistline. The states with the highest percentages of obese adults are mostly in the South: Mississippi, Alabama, West Virginia, Louisiana and Tennessee. Full Story | Top |
Venezuela Slams Robertson Over Remarks
Tue, 23 Aug 2005 04:22 pm PDT
 AP - Pat Robertson's call for American agents to assassinate President Hugo Chavez is a "terrorist" statement that needs to be investigated by U.S. authorities, Venezuela said Tuesday. The Bush administration quickly distanced itself from the religious broadcaster. Full Story | Top |
Jackson Accuser's Mom Charged With Fraud
Tue, 23 Aug 2005 04:20 pm PDT
 AP - The woman whose son accused Michael Jackson of child molestation was charged with welfare fraud Tuesday for allegedly collecting nearly $19,000 in payments while making false claims. Full Story | Top |
Robertson Calls for Chavez Assassination
Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:21 am PDT
AP - Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson has suggested that American agents assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to stop his country from becoming "a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism." Full Story | Top |
Asians, Americans Show Perceptual Divide
Mon, 22 Aug 2005 03:13 pm PDT
AP - Asians and North Americans really do see the world differently. Shown a photograph, North American students of European background paid more attention to the object in the foreground of a scene, while students from China spent more time studying the background and taking in the whole scene, according to University of Michigan researchers. Full Story | Top |
Nun's wild dancing earns her a reprimand
Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:26 am PDT
 Reuters - A Belgian nun's acrobatic and indecorous dancing with a missionary during the Catholic World Youth Day in Germany over the weekend earned her a reprimand from her mother superior, a Belgian paper said Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
Peruvian Plane Crashes, at Least 37 Die
Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:22 pm PDT
 AP - A Peruvian airliner carrying 100 people crashed Tuesday near a jungle town while attempting an emergency landing in a storm, killing at least 37 people. The pilot tried to land in a marsh, but the impact split the aircraft in two, a regional official said. Full Story | Top |
Bush: Iraq Withdrawal Would Weaken U.S.
Tue, 23 Aug 2005 04:53 pm PDT
 AP - President Bush took on the California mother who has been defiantly protesting outside his Texas home, saying Tuesday that Cindy Sheehan doesn't represent the views of most military families and that fulfilling demands like hers for withdrawal from Iraq would weaken the United States. Full Story | Top |
Researchers Fuse Skin and Stem Cells
Tue, 23 Aug 2005 06:03 pm PDT
 AP - Harvard scientists announced they've discovered a way to fuse adult skin cells with embryonic stem cells, a promising and dramatic breakthrough that could lead to the creation of useful stem cells without first having to create and destroy human embryos. Full Story | Top |
Heavy Rains Trigger More Floods in Europe
Tue, 23 Aug 2005 04:51 pm PDT
 AP - Rescue workers piled sandbags to hold back surging floodwaters and evacuated hundreds of people from alpine valleys Tuesday as heavy rains and landslides battered central and southern Europe. Full Story | Top |
Troops' Gravestones Have Pentagon Slogans
Tue, 23 Aug 2005 04:21 pm PDT
 AP - Unlike earlier wars, nearly all Arlington National Cemetery gravestones for troops killed in Iraq or Afghanistan are inscribed with the slogan-like operation names the Pentagon selected to promote public support for the conflicts. Full Story | Top |
American's new terminal lures JFK travelers
Tue, 23 Aug 2005 04:21 am PDT
 AP - American Airlines, the world's largest carrier, has slipped to No. 2 in passengers at New York John F. Kennedy airport. But American might regain some of its lost luster in Gotham by opening the first phase of its new megaterminal at JFK. Full Story | Top |
Report: Toshiba Quits DVD Talks With Sony
Tue, 23 Aug 2005 04:40 pm PDT
 AP - The possibility that consumers will have to choose from two competing DVD formats next year is growing now that negotiations have broken down between the groups behind the different standards. Full Story | Top |
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