Articles Archive for July 2009
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Facial reconstruction technology is great for solving homicides and whatnot but it may have also found a weird, creepy niche in the personalized urn category. That’s right, just $2600 plus a couple good photographs and you, too, can keep your own ashes in your head.
If $2600 is too much... read more
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You know football season is about to begin when players on one team are throwing quotes out there to the media intended to get in the head of rival team members.
It seems the Chicago Bears have been a big target of this.
A few weeks ... read more
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Just two years ago, the Cleveland Indians were a team on the rise, one that probably should have beaten Boston in the 2007 American League Championship Series. Not much has gone right for the Tribe since then, and the team is on another fire sale.<... read more
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‘American Idol’ season 8 semi-finalist Ju’Not Joyner spoke out against the reality show competition, claiming it’s rigged. In a chat with AI Now, the singer made it clear that although he’s thankful for the opportunity, he was never given a fair shot on the show.
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Toronto Blue Jays GM J.P. Ricciardi is in a bit of a bind right now. Management wants to cut payroll, and Ricciardi has been dangling high-priced ace Roy Halladay on the trade market for more than a month.
The Philadelphia Phillies were as... read more
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In honor of the scrumptious National Cheesecake Day today, July 30, The Cheesecake Factory is offering a deal to get “any of their 30 delicious cheesecakes for half price” when you dine in.
The restaurant also is introduci... read more
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A Boston cop insisted he was not a racist as he apologized for calling Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates a “banana-eating jungle monkey” in a mass e-mail.
“I did not mean to offend anyone,” Officer Justin Barrett told WCVB-TV. “The words were being used to char... read more
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The Los Angeles Dodgers simply can’t wait to leave St. Louis. All the Cards did was tie Wednesday’s game in the ninth inning on a two-out, two-strike hit by Colby Rasmus, who had been in a 2-for-30 slump. Then Albert Pujols won it in ... read more
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Police in Utah say a 7-year-old boy led officers on a car chase in an effort to avoid going to church.
Dispatchers received reports of a child driving recklessly on Sunday morning. Weber County Sheriff’s Capt. Klint Anderson says one witness said the boy drove through a stop sign.
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