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  • Plants vs. Zombies Review Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 8:06PMWhile Plants vs. Zombies uses the basic mechanics of all tower defense games, it stands out for its charm, personality, and loads of gameplay variety.
  • Bentley's new coupe Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 7:23PMIt may be an all-new version of Bentley's best-selling model, but the latest Continental GT, now with V8 and W12 power, doesn't look radically different to the model it replaces - and it's thirstier.
  • Oregon universities, companies harvest $850 million in grants Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 6:41PMOregon's four major research universities reaped a bumper crop of research money last year, pulling in a 19 percent increase totaling $850 million. University research also is spawning dozens of start-up companies.
  • Dead Rising 2: Case 0 - Walkthrough Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 4:44PMDead Rising 2: Case 0 (X360) Dead Rising 2 Case Zero
  • Avalon Code - Mini-Games, New World, and Shops Guide Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 4:43PMAvalon Code (DS) Avalon Code
  • Low-Carb and Healthy: New Study Finds Atkins Got It Half-Right Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 4:10PMThe low-carbohydrate bandwagon pulled out of the driveway years ago, heading to South Beach, Scarsdale and eventually to France. But while the extreme version of the low-carb diet — the controversial high-protein, high-fat Atkins Nutritional Approach — has fallen mostly out of favor since its peak in the 1990s, it did get one thing right: [...]
  • Maruti lines up Rs 1,925-crore investment for sixth plant Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 3:53PMMaruti lines up Rs 1,925-crore investment for sixth plantMaruti lines up Rs 1,925-crore investment for sixth plant
  • Modernizing Russia’s Tragic History Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 3:41PMIn the Svirstroi village in the Leningrad region, there is a large bronze statue of a strong, stocky man in a long coat and cap on a high red granite pedestal, located behind brightly colored tents where the locals do a brisk business selling souvenirs at the Vepskoi market.
  • Training the power beast Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 5:36AMWe love our exquisite gadgets. It’s having them saddled with grotesque cords, crass stands and clunky charging bricks that is upsetting. “A strip was fine when we just had lamps. Now we have all these interestingly shaped plugs,” says Jake Zien, inventor of Quirky. com’s PivotPower.
  • Oman Oil to invest 3 billion dollars in Indian fertilizer plants Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 5:02AMNew Delhi, Sep 6 : State-run Oman Oil Company has agreed to invest around 3 billion dollars in the revival of a few closed plants of the Fertilizer Corporation of India and Hindustan Fertilizer Corporation and expansion of the Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers.
  • 2010 FW Awards: Poultry Farmer of the Year finalists - Adrian and James Potter Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 4:21AMRegional branding, but on a national scale, is the business ethos for Adrian and James Potter who, with their parents Roger and Sue, run Yorkshire Farmhouse Eggs from Thirsk in North Yorkshire.
  • Summer's last hurrah since 1894: Labor Day commemorates workers Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 2:51AMThis article has been read 0 times. But what about Labor Day, the holiday that's regarded as the last hurrah of summer?
  • Against odds, sharecropper's son Thurmond chases history Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 2:28AMATHENS — When Mike Thurmond weighed the decision of whether to run for the U.S. Senate, he went to the Wisdom Tree. The gnarled oak on his family's farm has been around for more than 100 years. It was a source of strength and refuge for a young Thurmond growing up a sharecropper's son in the segregated South.
  • Congressional Charities Are Pulling In Corporate Cash Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 1:14AMWASHINGTON -- Representative Joe Baca has achieved near celebrity status in his suburban Los Angeles district, as much for his record of giveaways -- Thanksgiving turkeys, college scholarships, spare boots for firefighters -- as for anything he has done in Congress.
  • Four Days, Nights: A Girls' Coming-Of-Age Ceremony Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 12:12AMMore than 90 girls have taken part in the Isnati coming-of-age ceremony on a reservation in South Dakota in the past 13 years. During the four-day ritual, the girls can't touch food or drink -- they are fed by the women in the camp. They also talk with their elders about modesty, courtship, pregnancy and suicide before graduating to womanhood.
  • Florida teams flex their muscle Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 10:59PMTURTLE CREEK, Pa. — Florida 2, Pennsylvania 0.
  • The ageing guardians of Kylemore look to the future Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 8:26PMA little slice of heaven in western Ireland is down to the devotion of a group of ageing nuns — and modern thinking. Brad Thompson reports.
  • Cherry tomato plant growsto unbelievable height Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 10:15AMYou might have heard of a “runaway bride,” but a “runaway tomato plant?”
  • New Orleans Saints hungry for another Super Bowl title Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 8:11AMTeam says last season's success is irrelevant in 2010
  • Faurecia employees gather fuel to aid others Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 7:22AMThe local Faurecia plant is getting ready to participate in a continent-wide program of giving. Earlier this week, the North American headquarters in Auburn Hills, Mich., announced the FUELS program which stands for Faurecia Unites with Employees for Local Service.
  • Looking for the right price Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 6:50AMenri Termeer, a biotech industry pioneer and chief executive officer at Genzyme Corp., is on the verge of losing control of the company he transformed from a start-up in 1983 into a cutting-edge drugmaker with $4.5 billion in annual sales.
  • Use caution with proposed CU rate increases Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 5:36AMCity Utilities wants more money to run the electric side of its operations.
  • Waste-to-energy refinement process developed by TH resident seeing worldwide expansion Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 4:23AMWhen Dennis Evers tells people that the international company he helps run, VOW Resources, has its headquarters in Terre Haute, Indiana, he often gets the response: “Terre Haute? Oh … Larry Bird.”
  • Financial Report Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 3:45AMUnemployment rate declines in Shoals The unemployment situation in the Shoals took a significant step forward in July, based on data collected by the Alabama Department of Industrial Relations. July’s unemployment rate in the Shoals fell nearly a full percentage point to 9 percent. In June, the rate was 9.9 percent.
  • UAE's Dana Gas makes new gas discovery in Egypt Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 2:23AM* Says gas found in South Abu El Naga-1ST well
  • Voters Guide: County Commissioners - Republicans Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 1:13AMVoters Guide: County Commissioners - Republicans
  • Step back in time Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 1:07AMWorking in a farmhouse kitchen with no running water and no electricity, Beth Naert seemed entirely at ease.
  • The Last Secrets of the Forbidden City Head to the U.S. Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 12:28AMThough Beijing's Forbidden City has been open to the public for decades, parts of it remained off-limits. This month a new exhibition of artifacts from behind the gates heads to U.S.
  • SHARING A BOND | PHOTOS Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 12:09AMA demolition derby driver. The chief of a volunteer fire department. A championship-caliber archer. The operator of a bookstore whose shop once was a bank.
  • Millions are disappearing from the unemployment rolls as they stop job search Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 11:53PMThere are 3.5 million people missing in the U.S. Their families know them. Their neighbors see them come and go. But 3.5 million people who should be in the labor force are no longer there -- and the government doesn't know what has become of them.
  • From air to earth: Smoke jumpers tend summer garden Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 11:06PMThe same guys who jump out of planes and land next to flames also grow some serious vegetables.
  • German businessman 'John Rabe' stands up to Japanese army Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 11:03PMA German businessman helps save 250,000 lives during Japan's 1937 invasion of China in the inspiring drama "John Rabe," arriving Sept. 7 on DVD.
  • Guarding the hen house: East Tennessee farmer takes precautions to sell disease-free eggs Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 11:00PMJerry Swafford takes every possible precaution to sell salmonella-free eggs. His Tennessee Valley Eggs operation in the McMinn County community of Englewood has about 30,000 laying hens.
  • 'Sanctions will hurt West but not Iran' Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 9:25PMIran's first vice president has downplayed the effect of the sanctions imposed on the country over its nuclear program, saying they will hurt the West but not Iran.
  • Silicon Valley cannery workers reunite to preserve memories Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 7:53PMIt's been a long time since Mary Hidalgo, 89, has canned fruit at the local factory but she clearly recalls the little white lie she told on her first day of work in 1936 at Libby, McNeill & Libby's fruit cannery in Sunnyvale.
  • Protests hamper Pakistan aid efforts Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 7:35PMAngry outbursts by flood victims reliant on scarce aid are hampering relief work in Pakistan, the Red Cross says, as the nation struggles to cope.
  • AHS tennis courts getting pavilions Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 7:18PMGODFREY - With the summer sun still bearing down, Alton High School tennis players and fans soon should have shelter from the rays, as two Pepsi-funded pavilions are going up by its courts.
  • Monarchs on journey home to Mexico Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 5:47PMMonarch butterflies make journey back to Mexico for another season.
  • Flood victims' protests hamper Pakistan aid efforts Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 5:27PMAngry outbursts by flood victims reliant on scarce aid are hampering relief work in Pakistan, the Red Cross said, as the nation struggles to cope with its worst-ever natural disaster.
  • Hindalco to spend Rs 40,000 crore on greenfield projects Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 4:54PMAditya Birla Group's flagship company Hindalco Industries on Friday said it has earmarked a capital expenditure of Rs 40,000 crore between 2012 and 2014 on the company's greenfield projects for aluminium and alumina capacity expansion.
  • Jackson Company Stands To Benefit From Boeing Contract Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 3:48PMBut a Michigan senator worries Boeing's competitor is cheating
  • Use It Or Lose It! Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 3:39PMHi Everyone, Went to the movies at the Fox Theater in Taft this past Monday to see the action adventure flick "The Expendables". You do remember the Fox Theater on Center Street don't you ?? It's located between 5th and 6th Street right in the middle of the block on the north side of the street.
  • HP, Hynix To Collaborate On Memristor Memory Technology Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 7:29AMResistive Random Access Memory, or ReRAM, is non-volatile memory with lower power consumption and much greater storage capacity than the Flash memory used in mobile phones and MP3 players today.
  • NASA & ATK Turn Sand to Glass With DM-2 Test Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 6:40AMThe deserts of Promontory, Utah came alive with fire as NASA and Alliant Techsystems (ATK) tested the Development Motor-2 (DM-2). The five-segment, first-stage of the Ares rocket was activated at 9:27 a.m. MDT on Aug. 31. The still morning air surrendered its silence to the sound of unleashed technological thunder. The surrounding countryside was [...]
  • Radwaste processing plant at Russian military shipyard catches fire Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 6:26AMA fire broke out at the radioactive sorting plant at Polyarny shipyard on the Kola Peninsula on the morning of August 27th. The fire was extinguished several hours later. Reports indicate a rise in the background radiation on the plant’s premises and Russian are officials keeping a tight lid on information.
  • Korean Stamp Of Confidence In POIC Lahad Datu Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 5:04AMKOTA KINABALU, Sept 2 (Bernama) -- The participation of a consortium of major South Korean companies in a RM280 million biomass power plant in Lahad Datu is seen as a stamp of confidence in the state-run Lahad Datu palm oil industrial cluster (POIC Lahad Datu) project.
  • How Barack Obama Became Mr. Unpopular Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 4:09AMNine weeks before the midterm elections, Barack Obama finds himself on the wrong side of the polls. Where did all that adoration go -- and is a Republican sweep next?
  • Annual Steam Gala of the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway this weekend Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 3:53AMEXTRA brass polish has been shipped in at a top Mid Wales tourist attraction to ensure a visitor looks its best for the highlight of the year.
  • Used bookstore offers best-sellers at a discount Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 3:24AMThe first thing you notice when you enter The Book Rack in the Vons shopping center are the copious shelves full of books that number about 40,000.
  • Whether home grown or store bought, not all tomatoes are the same Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 3:17AMSome people, many of them gardeners, believe that the secret to eating a delectable tomato is to grow it yourself. Second best, they say, is farm-fresh.