Crist has the $$, but Meek leads with FB friends, Rubio dominates Twitter in Fla. Senate raceTALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio was recently frustrated trying to get a cell phone signal on a rural stretch of Interstate 10, so he tweeted it. Try, try, try again: NASA resolves valve issue, aims for Friday night launch of shuttleCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — For the third time this week, NASA fueled space shuttle Discovery for a midnight launch to the international space station after resolving a fuel valve problem Friday. Earth sends 25,000 “hi!” to aliens!
Arnie holds online Garage Sale to balance California’s budget!LONDON - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is holding an online “garage sale” in a bid to balance the 26-billion dollar deficit of the state budget. To raise cash, California hosts garage sale of prison uniforms, Schwarzenegger-signed carsSACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is hoping that the “Great California Garage Sale” will turn government clutter like surplus prison uniforms and office furniture into cash to bulk up the state’s depleted finances. More clicking, less clipping: Tips on using electronic coupons and where to find themPut down the scissors: Coupons are increasingly available by phone, by e-mail, online and in other digital forms. Here are hints on how to stretch your budget with the latest generation of an old standby. New generation of electronic coupons has users clicking more and clipping lessWHAT’S NEW WITH COUPONS: Manufacturers, grocers and other retailers are offering a profusion of electronic coupons and getting new attention from relatively young, affluent shoppers, who are usually among the hardest for them to attract and retain. For young generation, Ted Kennedy was living link to a family known only as historyCHICAGO — For young Americans unfamiliar with terms like Chappaquiddick, Ted Kennedy was always a rotund, grandfatherly figure, a living link to the storied family they knew only from history books and tales from their parents. Schwarzenegger says Assembly members ‘don’t have the guts’ to enact prison reformSACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger blasted members of the state Assembly Wednesday for lacking “the guts” to enact sweeping changes to California sentencing laws, hours before the Assembly again postponed a vote on prisons. California Gov. Schwarzenegger mourns loss of ‘Uncle Teddy,’ a teacher for his public serviceSACRAMENTO, Calif. — The most important political advice Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ever got from “Uncle Teddy” Kennedy was to keep it simple when reporters ask questions, the governor recalled Wednesday. NASA calls off launch of space shuttle Discovery yet again
NASA calls off launch of space shuttle Discovery for 2nd time, bad valve to blameCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA called off the launch of space shuttle Discovery for a second time Tuesday after a critical fuel valve failed to work properly. All 7 astronauts on space shuttle mission are parents, have 20 children among themCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — All seven astronauts on space shuttle Discovery’s mission are parents, and they have 20 children among themselves. Wednesday, not Monday, is the worst day of the weekLONDON - Monday was always assumed to be the day we are most miserable, but as it turns out, Wednesday is the worst day of the week. Juanes’ manager: Havana concert will go on despite threatening messagesMIAMI — The business manager of Latin pop singer Juanes said the “Peace Without Borders” concert will go on as planned in Havana despite threatening messages the singer received recently on his Twitter account. From cucumber fields to orbit: Former migrant farm worker to blast into space aboard DiscoveryCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — He toiled in California’s farm fields alongside his Mexican migrant worker parents and didn’t learn English until he was 12. Now Jose Hernandez, NASA astronaut, is about to rocket into orbit. Afghans, others turn to the Twitterverse to share word about electionKABUL — Afghans turned to the Twitterverse to share news of Taliban intimidation at the polls and voter turnout in the presidential election, even as the country was just trying to keep electricity running and attacks at bay. Juanes files police report after receiving threats over plans to perform concert in CubaKEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — Latin pop singer Juanes considered canceling a Sept. 20 concert in Cuba because he received what he felt were threatening messages on his Twitter account, according to a police report. GM cancels the Buick compact crossover, says it doesn’t fit with brandDETROIT — General Motors Co. Vice Chairman Tom Stephens said Wednesday that the company is scrapping plans to produce a Buick crossover sports utility vehicle, just weeks after announcing the product to a flurry of negative reviews. Daughter of ousted Chilean leader Allende asks Brazil to open archives about Chile’s 1973 coupRIO DE JANEIRO — The daughter of overthrown Chilean President Salvador Allende requested via Twitter on Tuesday that Brazil open any secret archives that could shed light on any role it played in the 1973 coup that killed her father. Short Web address sites, data aggregation company Gnip form service to archive lopped linksSAN FRANCISCO — The growing popularity of Web-address shortening services like bit.ly creates the potential for a bevy of broken links should one of the providers suddenly cease operations. ‘Cyberwar’ intensifies in Afghanistan ahead of electionKABUL - The group of insurgents cannot see the helicopter gunship approach in the night. The pilots believe the men are in the process of laying a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan’s Sabul province. Even in quiet August, Obama and team under pressure to win the day on health careWASHINGTON — For Barack Obama, these are the dogged days of summer. Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘detention’ at US airport provokes outrage in IndiaNEW DELHI — Angry fans burned a U.S. flag in protest Sunday, a Cabinet minister suggested searching visiting Americans and an actress tweeted her outrage after Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan said he was detained for questioning at a U.S. airport. 2 low-cost carriers, cut from the same cloth, try to sew up major markets in the NortheastNEW YORK — The cool kids of the airline industry are giving big-city travelers more opportunities to show who they like more. NY Senate hires DJ to Prince, Prada as ‘creative director’ during fiscal crisisALBANY, N.Y. — Christopher Sealey has spent days in his young life as a marketing guru for liberal causes and many of his nights as a DJ or clubbing in Manhattan in ensembles that would cost an average New Yorker a month’s pay. Facial expressions may act as language barriers in cross-cultural situationsWASHINGTON - Researchers at The University of Glasgow have shown that facial expressions also show language barriers. Mourners pay tribute to Eunice Kennedy Shriver; Maria Shriver, grandchildren greet themBARNSTABLE, Mass. — Eunice Kennedy Shriver was celebrated by family members as a passionate humanitarian and a pious woman devoid of vanity on Thursday night, hours after thousands of mourners flocked to a white and gray clapboard church to pay their respects to the founder of the Special Olympics. Dozens line up outside Cape Cod church to pay tribute to Eunice Kennedy Shriver at wakeBARNSTABLE, Mass. — Dozens of people, including some Special Olympians holding yellow flowers, lined up Thursday outside a white and gray clapboard church to take part in a six-hour public wake for Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Web address shortening service tr.im returns days after announcing shutdownSAN FRANCISCO — Web address shortening service tr.im is back in business — just days after announcing it would trim itself out of operation. |
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SYDNEY - The Tidbinbilla Deep Space Communication Complex outside Canberra, Australia, has sent out more than 25,000 messages to Gliese 581d, the nearest Earth-like planet outside our solar system, which might host life.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA called off the launch of space shuttle Discovery for a second time Tuesday after a critical fuel valve failed to work properly.
