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Officer Loses Leg In Boating Accident Propeller Severs Man's Leg (News Channel 5 Cleveland)

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. -- A police officer from Marietta has lost a leg in a boating accident in West Virginia. Monday afternoon, Patrolman Rhett Walters fell into the Little Kanawha River in Wood County when the pleasure boat he was on hit a wake.

It takes a lot of hard work to be hardly working (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

As the kids are going back to school -- and serves them right for being so darn youthful -- it is time for me to submit my own contribution to that traditional literary form: The What I Did on My Vacation essay.

Area firms star on AARP list (Pioneer Press)

Minnesota Life pays 75 percent of health care insurance and prescription drug coverage for its retirees. The company also offers older workers a chance to ease into retirement by taking unpaid time off without risking their full-time benefits.

More Fun Baseball Facts

Why am I turning into such a baseball nut in August? Anyway, if your interest in baseball borders on the trivial, you'll love the Baseball Almanac at http://www.baseball-almanac.com . Not...

BoardReader is Now Using Vivisimo

Clustering search engine Vivisimo is now being used by forum search engine BoardReader (http://www.boardreader.com/. ) I did a search for mulberries and got category results including trees, birds, peaches, wine,...

For rent: Olympic venues at low, low prices

The Desert Sun, CA - 8 minutes ago
... Basketball teams will take up residence in some of the halls. Sailing, a popular pastime in Greece, probably will benefit from the new marina facilities. ...

Winning the War on Terror?

So for the first time in a long time, President Bush made a reasonable and realistic comment on the ridiculously named war on terror. When asked about winning the war on terror, he explained:

"I don't think you can win it. But I think you can create co

The Old Rudy Makes an Appearance

Rudy started out his speech in a grand and grandiose manner. He then drifted into the fear mongering, the spreading of distortions and the petty attacks that longtime New Yorkers have come to know and love.

Computer evidence used to suggest Laci Peterson was online on key day (San Francisco Chronicle)

Whoever used Scott Peterson's home computer on the day he said his wife disappeared had decidedly feminine tastes, according to testimony in the double-murder trial this morning.

Participate in the RNC from Anywhere tonight and tomorrow night

We're at NYU assembling our interactive cameras and wearable computers for tonights Konscious Convention broadcast. We'll have four crews in the field, one in Madison Square Garden. Also, three of us from Unmediated will be at Manhattan Neighborhood Networks monitoring the four cameras in the field, and chatting with participants that want to ask convention attendees and protesters questions. You can watch and participate tonight at 7PM EST by going to www.Konscious.tv. You can watch a stream of the live broadcast over at MNN from 7 PM to 7:30 PM EST. If you live in the New York City Area, you can tune into MNN and watch the live broadcast on Time Warner channel 34 or 78, RCN Channel 110 and digital cable channel 107. For more info on the system we're using, developed by Shawn Van Every, click here

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Making Yahoo! Search Work for You

Source: Search Engine Guide - Yahoo! has long featured a variety of shortcuts meant to make finding information easier, but many don't take the time to learn what those shortcuts are. Find out what you're missing....

Sexy Tech

Larry and Sergey's interview in Playboy revealed Google's "thin" management ranks. Less managers equals less time spent managing and the employees decide what to work on for themselves. Engineers can put themselves on different projects if they choose, ap

Is Kerry Pacing Himself?

The latest poll numbers from the Wash Post show that while the race is still a dead heat, President Bush has already erased most of Kerry's post-convention bounce and increased his leads in the areas of security, leadership and the war on terror. He is we

Newsweek: "He partied hard, then dried out and fou...

Newsweek: "He partied hard, then dried out and found a fierce determination. How George Bush was saved - and never looked back."

For the last several years, I've always felt that my own biggest flaw when it comes to leadership was my unwillingness to p

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