Vendt's quest quashed
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ATHENS -- Erik Vendt's Olympics ended in the morning yesterday, when he ran out of gas in the preliminaries and failed to qualify for tonight's final of the 1,500-meter freestyle, where he's the world bronze medalist.
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The taped conversation alleged to show Prince Harry cheated in his art A-Level course has been ruled insufficient evidence to reopen the exam board&#39;s inquiry into the claims.
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Vel has a drab musical score by Yuvan Shankar Raja, for whom consistency has never been a strong point. His outputs have always been a medley of the good and the mediocre. And now Vel joins the below average bandwagon.
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By Copyright  2007 Albuquerque Journal BY JOHN FLECK Journal Staff Writer  GALLUP -- Gallup is running out of water.   Nearby parts of the eastern Navajo Nation never had much water to begin with.
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Mumbai: A single national entity for clearing all retail payments in the country has been mooted. A vision document for 2005-08 released by the Reserve Bank of India suggests that the central bank should offload
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A rescue plan for the Hubble Space Telescope is in doubt after reports that its funding has been rejected.
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The missing handlebar moustache of forest brigand Veerappan has triggered speculation that it wasn&#39;t the sandalwood smuggler who was killed in Monday&#39;s encounter with the Tamil Nadu Special Task Force near Dharmapuri.
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Dec. 8--CAPE CANAVERAL -- A cliffhanger countdown ended without a shuttle liftoff Thursday night as a stubborn layer of clouds forced NASA to scrub -- at the last minute -- its attempt to launch Discovery and its astronauts.
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It's finally confirmed! Since quite some time back, there were whispers that Aftab Shivdasani was planning to turn   producer, like most of his contemporaries. Of course, Aftab was reluctant to divulge details till everything was in   place.
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It's not like Steven Van Zandt doesn't have enough to keep him busy.
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A court on Monday quashed a decision to slaughter a sacred bull which tested positive for bovine tuberculosis, after protests by Hindu monks and nuns.
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Bows to pressure groups The UK Government has dropped controversial proposals that critics said would have neutered the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act. Changes to the charging structure that would have allowed bodies to refuse more requests will not now go ahead.â¦
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ATHENS, Greece - Women's road cycling silver medalist Judith Arndt won't be suspended for making an obscene gesture as she crossed the finish line, the leader of the German Olympic delegation said Monday.    Arndt directed the gesture at German cycling officials on Sunday, upset because they didn't put her close friend Petra Rossner on the Olympic team...
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A group that had been fruitlessly searching at sea for missing California scientist Jim Gray has officially called off its search.  The Los Angeles Times said the group, made up of Gray's friends, had joined the U.S.
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Tycho:  Positive Sony news here, at Penny Arcade?  I know, right?  We shall redouble our efforts.  The story all this was based on has been changed to say that none of it is true, or that very little of it is true (depending on who you ask), but if you're asking me I think the original story hit pretty close to the mark.  The alternative - which is to say, that xFire technology would be used for a single game and no others - suggests that their service will be another briar patch of vendor "interpretations" of an online community, which can't possibly be true.  I refuse to believe that, in this generation, they would leave something like this to chance.
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A University of Massachusetts at Amherst professor hoping to grow marijuana for research purposes got a preliminary denial from the US Drug Enforcement Administration last week.
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There is no check. There is no mate. It's a Microhoo stalemate.