18 July 2010
Still, the high-living alleged drug kingpin and prison escapee wasn't coy when he was caught Saturday after a high-speed chase in Santurce, a neighborhood in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
"Everybody knows who I am," he told federal agents when they asked him his name, according to Antonio Torres of the U.S. Marshals Service.
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02 July 2010
He has a love for numbers, but not if they come with a dollar sign attached.
Grigory Perelman's mathematical genius won the reclusive Russian a $1 million prize for solving what had been seen as the world's hardest problem. On Thursday, he turned it down.
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29 June 2010
A Mexican politician who was expected to win a state election has been killed on the campaign trail Monday, June 28, 2010.
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22 June 2010
A self-proclaimed "Muslim soldier" who bungled a plot to bomb Times Square promised Monday that others will succeed where he failed.
A remorseless Faisal Shahzad pleaded guilty to the frightening scheme to blow up the Crossroads of the World on a busy Saturday night, when it was packed with New Yorkers and tourists.
"It's a war," Shahzad, 30, said in a hateful screed to Manhattan Federal Judge Miriam Cedarbaum.
"I'm going to plead guilty a hundred times over because until the hour the U.S. pulls its forces from Iraq and Afghanistan and stops the drone strikes ... we will be attacking the U.S.," he said. "And I plead guilty to that."
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23 April 2010
Read more about the successful launch, and watch videos to learn more about the space craft...
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Posted in Archive, R.T., Science, Space, Technology, US Government
12 April 2010
WASHINGTON - If al-Qaida acquired nuclear weapons it "would have no compunction at using them," President Barack Obama said Sunday on the eve of a summit aimed at finding ways to secure the world's nuclear stockpile.
"The single biggest threat to U.S. security, both short-term, medium-term and long-term, would be the possibility of a terrorist organization obtaining a nuclear weapon," Obama said. "This is something that could change the security landscape in this country and around the world for years to come."
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12 April 2010
NEW YORK (Associated Press)-- Officials say 13 people, including 10 firefighters, have been injured in a seven-alarm fire on Manhattan's Lower East Side that burned for more than four hours before being declared under control.
Fire Chief Edward Kilduff said two elderly residents were hospitalized in critical condition with smoke inhalation and a third was being evaluated. He said 10 firefighters were hurt, including one whose hands were burned. Nine others suffered minor injuries.
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12 April 2010
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - International troops opened fire on a bus carrying Afghan civilians Monday, killing four people, officials said, setting off anti-American protests in a key southern city where coalition forces hope to rally the public for a coming offensive against the Taliban.
NATO and Afghan authorities declined to identify the international forces involved by nationality, although numerous Afghans said they were American.
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12 April 2010
The Maryland Senate voted on Saturday to allow patients access to medical marijuana at state-licensed dispensaries. The bill now moves to the state's lower chamber.
The bill was approved overwhelmingly, with bipartisan support and without objections or discussion, by a 35-12 margin.
Maryland would join 14 other states in legalizing medical marijuana. The neighboring District of Columbia legalized it in a 1998 referendum that was only recently allowed by Congress to go into effect. The District's city council is writing rules to establish the city's medical marijuana policy.
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Posted in Archive, Authors, Environment, Featured, Health & Fitness, J.K., Politics, US Government
10 April 2010
Read more about the tragic crash that killed numerous Polish political leaders. Videos included also.
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05 April 2010
Today was the day that Wikileaks set to release a cover-up video. True to their word, here are the videos.
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Posted in Archive, Authors, Cogent Nirvana, Cogent Nirvana, Featured, History, J.K., Politics, Technology, Texas, US Government, World Wide
09 March 2010
Check out the latest songs from Houston's very own Young Sym and friends. Track downloads inside.
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Posted in Archive, Authors, Featured, Hip-Hop, J.K., Katy, TX, Music, R&B, Rap
08 February 2010
The structure of sheet music. Sheet music is set up with a specific structure. The staff of the sheet music is made up of everything you will need to be able to read music. Depending on a variety of factors, the staff will tell you exactly what notes you will need to play. The first thing you need to do is be able to identify the staff.
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03 February 2010
The current rate of extinction is 100 to 1000 times higher than the average, or background rate, making our current period the 6th major mass extinction in the planet’s history.
Although fossil reconstructions or pictorial representations can sometimes be difficult to connect with, it’s impossible to ignore the experience of seeing a photograph of an animal on the brink of extinction.
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03 February 2010
Professor Michel Mayor, the scientist who led the team that identified the first extrasolar planet in 1995, believes a planet similar in size and composition to Earth will soon be found.
Prof Mayor, of Geneva University, said that the prospect of finding a planet habitable for humans had come a step closer through rapid technological advances allowing observation of planets outside the solar system.
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Posted in Archive, Authors, Cogent Nirvana, J.K., Space, Technology, Thought of the day
03 February 2010
WASHINGTON — Whistleblower website WikiLeaks has temporarily shut down because of financial difficulties.
WikiLeaks.org announced it was suspending operations in a message on its homepage that included an appeal to the public for donations.
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