Articles Archive for November 2008
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A woman was killed at a Ku Klux Klan ritual in the swamps of Louisiana, officials told local media.
At some point on Sunday evening, the woman decided she wanted to leave and got into a quarrel with group leader Raymond “Chuck” Foster, 44 who pulled out a .40 caliber handgun and shot her.
Investigators found weapons, several flags and six Klan robes at the campsite, St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain said in a news release.
Strain said the woman, whose identity was not released, was recruited over the Internet to participate …
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Google developed a flu tracker called Google Flu trends. It was developed with the help of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and is based on the number of search queries made about influenza. Google said it noticed that there was a relationship between the frequency of search queries and the number of people who are experiencing flu-like symptoms each week.
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San Francisco Giants right-hander Tim Lincecum won the 2008 Cy Young Award after the pitcher ranked second in the National League in victories and earned run average.
The slender kid with the spinning windup joined Mike McCormick (1967) as the only San Francisco Giants pitchers to win a Cy Young.
“I have always taken pride in trying to strike people out,” Lincecum said on a conference call with reporters. “It’s one of those things that get me fired up.”
Arizona’s Brandon Webb, the 2006 winner of this award, finished …
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For years, Jennifer Aniston has preserved a notable silence about the woman who stole her husband.
Now she has decided to share with the world her total hatred for Angelina Jolie.
Aniston reveals in the December issue of Vogue that she ain’t too happy with some of Jolie’s public remarks about her love affair with Brad Pitt.
The former Friends star said: “What Angelina did was very uncool.”
Angelina recently admitted that she and Brad “fell in love” while making the movie Mr and Mrs Smith together.
Aniston also opens about her own romantic life, …
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Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia says an Obama dictatorship, with Gestapo-like security and Marxist rule may come to the US under Barack Obama.
“It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he’s the one who proposed this national security force,” Rep. Broun said of Obama in an interview Monday with AP. “I’m just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may — may not, I hope not — but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism.”
“That’s …




