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  • John Updike, prize-winning writer, dead at age 76

    01/27/2009 10:40:31 AM PST · by Borges · 16 replies · 980+ views
    Yahoo - AP ^ | 01/27/09 | HILLEL ITALIE
    NEW YORK – John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire, died Tuesday at age 76. Updike, a resident of Beverly Farms, Mass., died of lung cancer, according to a statement from his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf.
  • Jimmy Carter Attack Sub Armed with Nerf Missiles

    02/16/2005 2:52:27 PM PST · by NYTexan · 54 replies · 1,508+ views
    scrappleface.com ^ | 2005-02-16 | Scott Ott
    The U.S. Navy on Saturday will commission its newest nuclear-powered attack submarine, the Jimmy Carter, with many new features, including multiple-warhead Nerf missiles. President Carter, who brought peace to the middle east, vigorously defended America's right to give away the Panama Canal and, in 1994, convinced North Korea to abandon talking about its nuclear weapons, said he's honored to have his name on "one of the most powerful peacemaking devices on earth." Jimmy Carter is the first of the American Seahare-class subs, featuring a high-tech sonar system which alerts enemy forces to its presence and a safety device on the...