Chickens descended from T-Rex

Tiny bits of protein extracted from a 68-million-year-old dinosaur bone have given scientists the first genetic proof that the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex is a distant cousin to the modern chicken.

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MySpace party causes £20,000 worth of damage

Some silly little girl organised a party on MySpace whilst her parents were away over Easter, 200 kids turned up and apparently wrecked the £230,000 home!

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Australia Considering Legislation to Block Immigrants with HIV

Australia should refuse to allow migrants or refugees with HIV to enter the country, Prime Minister John Howard has said. Mr Howard said there may be special cases when an exemption could be considered but as a rule HIV-positive people should be denied entry. Any ban for migrants with HIV/Aids would need a change in the federal law.

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Uncle Sam Earns C-minus Grade for PC Security

According to data to be released by a House committee today, the Department of Defense led a group of eight agencies that received failing marks for computer security.

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Bush administration: A How to guide to rule with NO accountability

Glenn Greenwald examines how the Bush Administration declines first to provide documents when an investigation requires it, then filter them, if they can't filter them enough say the documents are missing.

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Senate Panel Wants Those Missing White House e-Mails -- Let e-Gate Begin!

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy challenged the White House assertion, saying, "It's not a question of e-mails being lost, it's e-mails they don't want to retrieve."

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Former FBI agent held in Iran

A former FBI agent is being held by Iranian authorities, the Financial Times on Friday quoted an associate of the missing American as saying.

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Chopsticks + Fork= The Chork

The convenience of a fork and the style of chopsticks. Pretty ingenious!

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A Salute to Kurt Vonnegut & Slaughterhouse-Five -- Banned & Burned The US!

"In Drake school in Drake, North Dakota, the Schoolboard didn't agree with the content in the book and burned all of the copies from the library and fired the English Teacher who was teaching out of it."

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[PIC] - Best Help Menu Ever

Screenshot from the application iSquint for OS X. The best use of the help menu.

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Ex-narcotics agent plans to sell "Don't get busted" video.

A one-time Texas drug agent described by a former boss as perhaps the best narcotics officer in the country plans to begin selling a video that shows people how to conceal their drugs and fool police. A promotional video says Cooper will show viewers how to "conceal their stash," "avoid narcotics profiling" and "fool canines every time."

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Google unveils UK payments system

Search giant Google has launched its payment service, Google Checkout, in the UK. Checkout will compete with both the mainstream card processing services used by many online merchants and auction site eBay's Paypal service. Until now, Checkout has only been available to US buyers and sellers.

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Scarlett Johansson Has The World’s Sexiest Body (again)

Scarlett Johansson has topped yet another poll. This time it
’s Glamour magazine’s “Sexiest Body In The World." I'm not so sure I agree...I mean, c'mon...alba? Biel? But Johansson is pretty smoking, so bravo, little miss. Bravo.

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