While it has taken almost a year, the non-profit Encyclopedia of Life project launched yesterday. It gained so much attention, that the site quickly crashed. It went back online Tuesday afternoon (EST), but went down again the next morning.
During five-and-a-half hours, the site logged 11.5 million hits, including visitors who reached the “503 error”.
EOL is [...]
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The European Union has fined Microsoft $1.35 billion (899 million euros) for failing to comply with the 2004 antitrust order. It is highest ever fine charged by the E.U. and it is also the first time ever when the E.U. has fined a company because of non-compliance with an antitrust decision.
The first decision in this [...]
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The United Kingdom was hit by a minor earthquake on February 27, 2008 at 00:56:45 UTC. Tremors were reported as wide spread as Edinburgh, Manchester, Sheffield, Middlesbrough, Cambridge, London, Birmingham and Southampton * “USGS Community Internet Intensity Map”. USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, 27 February 2008
The epicenter appears to be in the East Midlands region, 15 [...]
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by John F. McManus
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS:
During his visit to Indonesia on February 25th, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates pledged military support for the sprawling Southeast Asian nation. The United States has thereby furthered its self-appointed role to be Policeman of the World.
Follow this link to the original source: “Gates Promises Help For Indonesian Military”
COMMENTARY:
Right now, the [...]
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Visa, Inc. announced on February 25, 2008 that it would soon go ahead with a much-anticipated initial public offering (IPO) of about half its shares. This would make it the single biggest IPO in United States history, according to the regulatory filing the company made. Visa hopes to raise about US$17-19 billion, emulating its main [...]
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The Iraqi government has demanded the immediate withdrawal of Turkish troops, saying the five-day incursion is threatening their otherwise friendly relations.
Iraq’s council of ministers says the Turkish military is violating Iraqi sovereignty by conducting the incursion into Kurdish areas of northern Iraq.
Ali al-Dabbagh, the spokesman for the Iraqi government, says the government rejects the unilateral [...]
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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a vault containing millions of seeds from all over the world, saw its first deposits on Tuesday. Located 800 kilometers from the North Pole on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, the vault has been referred to by European Commission president José Manuel Barroso as a “frozen Garden of Eden”. It [...]
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“My problem…is that I am a woman who spent much of my adult life paying heed to men’s fragile egos, at the expense of taking care of my own emotional and physical self. Now I realize that I do not emasculate men, rather, when I am my best, I intimidate them.”
Feminist author Colleen West is [...]
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by Alan Caruba
The Democrats are at it again. Both Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama have made “poverty” a central theme of their campaigns, promising to lift up the poor and put a chicken in every pot, a large screen TV on every wall, and a new car in every driveway.
Predictably, the government, i.e., taxpayers, will [...]
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Anyone doubting the dangers of placing a hopelessly ill-prepared and sophomorically idealistic man at the helm of our national defense in these most dangerous of times needs look no further for a startling education.
In this MUST SEE video, the man who would be commander-in-chief promises that, as president, he will not only end the [...]
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William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008)
From NRO’s Kathryn Jean Lopez
I’m devastated to report that our dear friend, mentor, leader, and founder William F. Buckley Jr., died overnight in his study in Stamford, Connecticut.
After year of illness, he died while at work; if he had been given a choice on how to depart this [...]
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Background: Conscientious Virginia judge James Michael Shull, who smoked out a woman who sought to extend a restraining order based on false charges of domestic violence, was removed from the bench last fall by this Virginia Supreme Court ruling. Not only was Shull railroaded, but he has been the target of widely-disseminated misleading reporting. To learn [...]
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Every time her campaign hit a rough spot, Hillary Clinton has artfully played the role of defender of the downtrodden or misty-eyed damsel-in-distress. But the sympathy vote began to tire of that routine. So now Mrs. Clinton has taken on a new role: Mother Superior.
First the Clinton campaign accused opponent Barack Obama of “plagiarism” for [...]
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Just how much – if such a thing can be reliably quantified – relating to the presidential campaign of Barack Obama can be traced to his ethnicity?
Some might assert that everything – or nearly everything – apropos the Obama campaign, save for the careful manner in which he has employed his rhetoric has to [...]
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There are 37 research reactors in the United States, mostly located on college campuses. Of these, 33 reactors are licensed and regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Four are operated by the Department of Energy and are located at three national laboratories. Although less powerful than commercial nuclear power reactors, research reactors may still be [...]
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“Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere…Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch…One if by land, two if by sea…” These lines are from the poem, Paul Revere’s Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, born FEBRUARY 27, 1807. An American poet and Harvard Professor, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote [...]
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Neverland Valley Ranch, owned by Michael Jackson, is to be sold at auction on March 19, 2008, unless Jackson pays over US$24 million.
Financial Title Company, the trustee of his Santa Barbara County, California, home and amusement park, has foreclosed on the property. They notified Jackson of the foreclosure and sale on Monday. Jackson had only [...]
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Users worldwide are reporting that they are unable to login to Microsoft’s (MS) live services such as Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger and in some cases Xbox Live. Problems reportedly began around 6:30 a.m. eastern time.
“We are aware that some customers may be experiencing difficulty accessing their Windows Live accounts. We’re actively investigating the cause and [...]
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Massive blackouts occurred throughout the US state of Florida shortly after 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (18:00 UTC) on Tuesday afternoon. Out of the 4.4 million customers served by Florida Power & Light, Co. (FPL), about 680,000 residents were affected, with an additional two million-plus customers affected in other parts of the state. It is estimated [...]
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Pakistan has lifted a ban on the video-sharing website YouTube, which was said to be brought in after a video offensive to Islam was uploaded to the site. According to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), the offending material was in relation to a trailer for a film by Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician.
The PTA ordered [...]
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