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30 Oct
In this image released by ABC, Cody Linley and his dance partner Julianne Hough perform on ‘Dancing With The Stars,’ on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Hough took a trip to the hospital after ‘Dancing with the Stars’ with stomach trouble. The 20-year-old professional dancer, who’s partnered with [...]
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23 Aug
Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) shakes hands with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown during their meeting in Beijing, China, Aug. 22, 2008. Brown arrived in Beijing on Friday morning to watch the Games and attend the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games. [Xinhua]
The “spectacular” Beijing Olympics has set a new standard for the [...]
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22 Aug
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, and Iraq’s foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari, right, shake hands at a press conference in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008. (AP Photo/Ali Abbas)
Demonstrators take to the streets in Sadr City to protest the visit of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in [...]
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18 Aug
Sheraton Hotels & Resorts and Microsoft Corp. today introduced an entirely new hotel guest experience with its debut of Microsoft Surface, Microsoft’s first commercially available surface computer. Featuring easy-to-use technology and a natural way of accessing information, Surface units will be placed in the lobbies of select Sheraton hotels in Boston, Chicago, New York, San [...]
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05 Aug
(CNN) — You don’t have to be a basketball fan to look up to Yao Ming, who at 7-feet-6-inches (2.29 meters) is now the tallest active player in NBA basketball.
Houston Rockets basketball player Yao Ming is China’s most famous sports icon.
Nor do you have to be a sports buff to recognize his giant physique and [...]
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05 Aug
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A death row inmate scheduled for execution says he’s too fat to be put to death, claiming executioners would have trouble finding his veins and that his weight could diminish the effectiveness of one of the lethal injection drugs.
Death row inmate Richard Cooey says executioners would have trouble finding his veins [...]