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Sep 4 2008
Don LaFontaine, the voiceover king whose “In a world ...” phrase on movie trailers was much copied — and much parodied — has died, according to media reports. He was 68.
Sep 4 2008
A longtime sex offender was sentenced to death Wednesday for the 2005 kidnapping, torture and murder of a 9-year-old northern Idaho boy after federal jurors who watched video of some of the brutality deliberated just three hours.
Aug 30 2008
Japan was the country of my early childhood, a place of which I only remembered three things – the deafening song of the cicadas (so loud in fact, while walking through the narrow back streets of Kyoto my wife and I had to yell at one another in order...
Aug 26 2008
A bill designed to shield academic researchers from harassment by animal rights groups and others who oppose their work passed the state Senate on Friday.
Aug 25 2008
A sordid San Antonio couple is accused of trying to trying to trade sex with the woman’s 5-year-old daughter for an apartment, a used car and child care for her 10-month old daughter.
Aug 25 2008
I was excited to hear that Chevy plans to debut an electric car in 2010. But then a discussion with a friend got me thinking: If the electricity used to charge up an electric car is created by burning fossil fuels, is it better to stick with a...
Aug 25 2008
U.S. forces said on Sunday they had caught two prominent al Qaeda leaders, including one they blamed for the kidnapping of an American journalist.
Aug 21 2008
New Zealand scientists say they have confirmed that the spiny sea creatures are responsible for a mysterious, twice-daily uproar heard underwater.
Aug 17 2008
Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential bid added more than 65,000 donors and raised more than $51 million in the month of July, the Obama campaign said in a statement released Saturday.
Aug 16 2008
Quantum computers are so sought after they make the Holy Grail look like an IKEA wineglass.