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Arizona State University may have less cheerful sidelines at sporting events next season. After racy photos of members of the university’s cheerleading squad were spotted on a campus blog called “The Dirty,” the school cut the squad completely, MyFOXPhoenix reported.

PORTLAND, Ore. — The much-ballyhooed movie, "Iron Man," opens in theaters worldwide today (May 2), but the real "iron man" is already under construction at Raytheon Company (Salt Lake City, Utah). Raytheon's Exoskeleton project is the brainchild of project leader Stephen Jacobsen and is being funded by the U.S. Army. The project, according to the company, permits soldiers to don an Exoskeleton suit that amplifies their strength--enabling them to lift 200-pound payloads without tiring. The "Iron Man" exoskeleton being worked on by Robert Downey Jr. in the movie (left) is eerily similar to the real Exoskeleton (right) being developed at...

Well, it's perhaps a tad early for the thread to be up, but it is Happy Hour on the East Coast, so by the time a few of you have a few pre-weekend beverages, you'll be more than ready for the thread! So in a few weeks, my nephew will be coming into town. Since his Mom and Dad (my sister and brother in law) thinks the boy will have no use for fancy book learnin', I am the one responsible to read to him. "But my Uncle did read to me the entire Declaration of Independence when I last...

Almost 1 month ago I was in an accident that totalled my vehicle. The other driver was DUI and cited for it. His insurance has not assumed liability yet, but will soon. I just received the crash report that puts DRIVER 1 (him)intoxicated and clearly at fault. My vehicle was covered via by own insurance and those moneys will be referred (subrogated?) back to the at-fault company. I have some other losses that I am itemizing. Also, I was not injured in the crash, but have been without a vehicle for a month. There has been major familial upheaval, emotional...

I am NOT a scientist, BUT… I’ve performed my own global warming study based solely on common sense! I’ve found after many hours of research that man CANNOT be responsible for any change in the earth’s weather. If you someone who thinks that man is capable of controlling the earth's weather, show my carefully crafted study and tell them to explain how it can be done. Here are my facts: The 3,000 scientific robots that measure the temperature of the oceans haven't recorded ANY change in temperature over the last 4 to 5 years!! No Temperature ChangeThere is an estimated...

SWAMPSCOTT — A middle-school student had the ends of two of his fingers blown off yesterday by a homemade bomb that went off inside his Melvin Avenue home, authorities said. The victim's brother said rescue workers could find only one of the fingertips. The 13-year-old victim, identified by family and neighbors as Joel Surette, was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston by ambulance. "First, he was screaming for five minutes," said his brother, Michael, 17, "He said, 'I can't believe I blew off my fingers.'" Joanne Schumann, who lives two houses from the Surettes, was eating dinner with her...

I spilled my cereal and milk on my laptop computer keyboard this morning...I cleaned it right away, but now my computer won't even boot up..Nothing. Anything I can do immediately? Will I be able to save the hard drive at least? Thanks.

"Here is a cat that really loves boxing! He sits on the couch watching a boxing match and really gets into it!" The boxing kitty-cat

From KentuckyDerby.com, in depth info on every horse in the 20-horse field (inc free video and charts of prior races):http://www.kentuckyderby.com/2008/contenders *FREE* Equibase Past Performances on pdf file (they give free ones out on occasion for major stake races):http://ntra.equibase.com/eqbNTRAGetFreeFF.cfm?trk=CD&rd=05/03/2008&cty=USA&de=D&rn=10 ESPN's special page for horse racing (source for the free Equibase past performances pdf):http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/horse/index National Thoroughbred Racing Association (main page):http://www.ntra.com/

NORTH WALES, Pa. - May 1, 2008 (WPVI) -- A teacher's aide from North Wales finds herself at the center of a scandal. Michele Zulkowsky, 28, was arrested for allegedly carrying on an inappropriate relationship with a 10th grade boy at her school. Zulkowsky is a teacher's aide at North Penn High School in Lansdale, Montgomery County. She is charged with corruption of a minor and endangering the welfare of children.

MONTREAL - A preteen girl was clueless during years of sexual abuse by the leader of a fringe Christian church that he had claimed her as his wife, a Quebec court heard Thursday. "He said that I was his wife," said the woman, who cannot be identified. "At the time it didn't click. It went in one ear and out the other." She later added that she "didn't really understand what (Cormier) meant" when he talked of marriage or engagement. The Crown produced a paper, signed by Cormier's right-hand man at the now-defunct Church of Downtown Montreal, that stated the...

Grand Theft Auto IV as a test of Christian conscience No doubt I'm going to draw flack for suggesting this, but it needs to be said. Yesterday afternoon I bought Grand Theft Auto IV. And having played it for a few hours, as a follower of Jesus Christ I would like to recommend that my mature brethren in the Christian faith (both spiritually and those who are not teenagers anymore, parse that as you will) play Grand Theft Auto IV as well. And not to gleefully look for reasons to condemn the game either. Why? Because I think that a...

NEW YORK: The 27-storey skyscraper being built in Mumbai by Mukesh Ambani, the richest person in India, could be the world's largest and costliest home with a price-tag nearing two billion dollar, according to Forbes magazine. "When the Ambani residence is finished in January, completing a four-year process, it will be 550 feet high with 4,00,000 square feet of interior space," Forbes said in a report on its website. Earlier in March, Mukesh Ambani was ranked as the fifth richest person in the world with a net worth of 43 billion dollars by the Forbes magazine in its annual list...

(not subject to copyright) SELLERS, Timothy A longtime Sacramento resident passed away unexpectedly April 26, 2008 at age 51. He is survived by his beloved wife, Cindy Sellers, mother, Lois Lewis (Marv), father, Gene Sellers (Linda), brothers, Thomas Sellers (Barbara) of Tampa Bay, Florida, and Todd Sellers (Joellen) of Forest Hill, California. He also leaves behind a sister-in-law, Diann Torgeson, and adoring nieces & nephews, Amber, Chrissy, Lacy, Haley, Jamie & Ryan. Tim was a Certified Public Accountant and was proud to be employed 8 years with Hewlett-Packard and served as a director on the Child Abuse Prevention Council. Tim...

at least 3 times i have received an email from NewsMax asking that we " tell our congressmen to save money... by allowing EADS to build the next AF tanker". Does newsmax have the same people working for them as work for Mc Cain, paid lobbyists for EADS? When the news broke that Mc Cains' team includes those who have lobbied for EADS and this tanker contract, i thought all H*** was going to break loose, since McCain singlehandedly stopped the previous Boeing lease effort. Although that particular lease arrangement was highly suspect, it did not change the facts that...

This video of a children’s Bible song has a beautiful scenic background of a rainbow at the end of a road and is introduced by a frog sitting on a roadside rock, speaking in my 4-year-old grandson’s voice.

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The U.S. military killed a man believed to be the head of al-Qaida in Somalia and 10 others in an airstrike overnight, an Islamic insurgent group said Thursday. The U.S. military confirmed an attack on a suspected al-Qaida target but did not identify the target. Aden Hashi Ayro was killed when the airstrike struck his house in the central Somali town of Dusamareeb, about 300 miles north of Mogadishu, said Sheik Muqtar Robow, a spokesman for the Islamic al-Shabab militia. Another commander and seven others were also killed, Robow said. Six more people were wounded, two of...

Australian acoustic guitar virtuoso Tommy Emmauel playing Angelina

Grocery costs are going through the roof. Do you have any suggestions for trimming the skyrocketing grocery bills? We don't buy much in the way of pre-packaged or prepared food items and we do eat a lot of dried beans. Don't eat out much either. Still my weekly grocery bill is about 25% higher than I'd like. Let the suggestions roll...