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Blogger Arrested Over Guns N' Roses Leak

August 27, 2008 - 7:30pm
Kevin Cogill was arrested on suspicions he was streaming songs from the unreleased Guns N' Roses album "Chinese Democracy" on his Web site.
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FAA Slammed For Software Glitch Delays

August 27, 2008 - 4:00pm
Flight delays caused by a communication failure at a Federal Aviation Administration facility drew criticism for an agency that has been scrutinized over air traffic controller staffing and inspection standards.
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U.N. Makes Headway In Climate Talks

August 27, 2008 - 2:00pm
Talks on a new global warming agreement have begun to resolve some major sticking points, the U.N. climate chief said, after months of sluggish negotiations often marked by confrontation among industrial and developing countries.
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Arctic Ice At 2nd-Lowest Level On Record

August 27, 2008 - 8:00am
Scientists reported Arctic Ocean sea ice has melted to the second lowest minimum since satellite observations began. With several weeks left in the melt season, ice in summer 2008 has a chance to diminish below the record low set last year.
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Did Hillary Mean It?

August 27, 2008 - 7:00am
An expert told Maggie Rodriguez her body language may have belied the strong support she expressed for Barack Obama.
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Animal Magnetism: Do Cows Have A Compass?

August 26, 2008 - 4:35pm
No bull: Somehow, cattle seem to know how to find north and south, say researchers who studied satellite photos of thousands of cows around the world.
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Study: Monkeys Like Giving And Receiving

August 26, 2008 - 9:32am
For capuchin monkeys, it seems, it's better to both give and receive than just to receive. At least, that is what researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, have found.
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Nielsen: 'Obama Text' Reached 2.9 Million

August 26, 2008 - 7:59am
The statistics firm says that the SMS campaign stunt announcing his VP pick reached 2.9 million people.
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Unconventional Coverage On The Web

August 25, 2008 - 10:48am
With bloggers and other new media journalists covering the DNC from quarters partially sponsored by Google, the blogosphere and video sites like YouTube will provide views and perspectives that political junkies would otherwise miss.
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"Tongue Computing" May Help The Disabled

August 25, 2008 - 10:41am
The tireless tongue already controls taste and speech, helps kiss and swallow and fights germs. Now scientists hope to add one more ability to the mouthy muscle, and turn it into a computer control pad.
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Critics Say Border Fence Causing Flooding

August 25, 2008 - 4:36am
Environmentalists say flooding caused by a new border security fence in southwestern Arizona shows the structure is being built too quickly and without regard for the environment.
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American Offers In-Flight Internet

August 22, 2008 - 7:34am
American Airlines passengers will now have Wi-Fi access on some flights.
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Far North Greenland Glacier Cracking Up

August 22, 2008 - 3:44am
In northern Greenland, a part of the Arctic that had seemed immune from global warming, new satellite images show a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a major glacier, scientists say.
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Face Transplants Gaining Effectiveness

August 21, 2008 - 8:55pm
Two of the world's three teams that have done partial face transplants say their techniques were surprisingly effective, though complications exist and more work is still needed.
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Microsoft Taps Seinfeld As New Pitchman

August 21, 2008 - 5:00pm
Microsoft is trying to increase their cool quotient by placing comedian Jerry Seinfeld in ads with company chairman Bill Gates. Seinfeld will reportedly be paid $10 million.
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Is Your Gas Pump Ripping You Off?

August 21, 2008 - 4:53pm
When you fill up your gas tank, are you actually getting all the fuel you pay for? That's the question our CBS News Investigative Unit and some affiliate reporters set out to answer across the country.
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Melting Arctic Ice Opens New Ship Frontier

August 21, 2008 - 4:00pm
Rapidly melting ice on Alaska's Arctic is opening up a new navigable ocean in the extreme north, allowing oil tankers, fishing vessels and even cruise ships to venture into a realm once trolled mostly by indigenous hunters.
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Salads To Get New Dressing - Radiation

August 21, 2008 - 2:39pm
Spinach and lettuce sellers got the go-ahead from the FDA to treat their produce with just enough radiation to kill E. coli and other germs.
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Oil Workers Discover Saber-Toothed Fossils

August 21, 2008 - 12:59pm
An ancient tar pit exposed when Venezuelan oil workers laid a pipeline has yielded a rich trove of fossils, including a type of saber-toothed cat that paleontologists had never found before in South America.
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YouTube User Wins Copyright Spat

August 21, 2008 - 11:06am
In the first ruling of its kind, Judge Jeremy Fogel held that copyright owners must consider fair use before sending takedown notices.
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