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HEALTH / NEWS Wed Mar 7, 2007 @ 9:53am mrmdc

BBC News -- The controversial low-carbohydrate Atkins diet has scored well in a major US analysis. The Stanford University study, of more than 300 women, rated Atkins ahead of three other popular diets. Those who followed Atkins for a year lost the most weight,.. Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Wed Mar 7, 2007 @ 9:52am mrmdc

Boston Globe -- WRAPPING UP HER address to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington Friday, bestselling author and right-wing poison-mouth Ann Coulter took a witless swipe at former US senator John Edwards: "I was going to have a few comments on the.. Read More

EDUCATION / NEWS Wed Mar 7, 2007 @ 9:35am mrmdc

www.nbc10.com -- A public high school has suspended three 16-year-old girls who disobeyed officials by saying the word "vagina" during a reading from "The Vagina Monologues." Their defiant stand is being applauded by the author of the well-known feminist play, who said.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Mar 7, 2007 @ 9:29am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- Northern Ireland voted on Wednesday in an election that could allow the return of a government shared between Protestants and Catholics and help cement a lasting political settlement after decades of conflict. Britain and Ireland hope the assembly elec.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed Mar 7, 2007 @ 9:28am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- A Turkish court ordered access to YouTube's Web site blocked on Wednesday, after a prosecutor recommended the ban because of videos allegedly insulting the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Paul Doany, head of Turk Telekom, Turkey's larg.. Read More

LIFE / OPINION Tue Mar 6, 2007 @ 9:55am mrmdc

Alter Net -- Blasting women with warnings about getting drunk in public does little to help them and sidesteps men's responsibility for sexual assault. In 1992, while I was an undergraduate, I was raped by a fellow student while we were both drunk. He was not a dat.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 6, 2007 @ 9:54am mrmdc

USA Today -- NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak's bizarre 900-mile road trip to confront a romantic rival may have been sparked when she uncovered steamy e-mails sent to her boyfriend by the other woman, documents released Monday showed. Nowak had collected more than a doze.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Mar 6, 2007 @ 9:53am mrmdc

CBC -- Canadian forces will play an important role in a new NATO offensive launched Tuesday to drive the Taliban out of southern Afghanistan. Canadian armoured vehicles rolled out of Kandahar Airfield in the predawn hours to take part in Operation Achilles, s.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Tue Mar 6, 2007 @ 9:52am mrmdc

ABC News -- By the time Beth Johnson rushed to tell police that she suspected her ex-husband had abducted their 8-year-old daughter, it was too late. Eric Johnson had already strapped Emily into the passenger seat of a leased single-engine Cessna and taken off fro.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Mar 6, 2007 @ 9:52am mrmdc

Reuters -- Six U.S. soldiers were killed north of Baghdad on Monday in one of the worst ground attacks in months on U.S. forces in Iraq and three more died in a separate incident also outside the capital, the military said on Tuesday. The violence comes as Americ.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Mar 6, 2007 @ 9:50am mrmdc

Reuters -- The Taliban said on Tuesday they had captured a British journalist and two Afghans in the southern province of Helmand, a major drug producer, but gave no further details. A Pakistani newspaper identified the Briton, kidnapped on Monday, as John Nichol.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Tue Mar 6, 2007 @ 9:49am mrmdc

The Register -- Microsoft executive Tom Rubin will use a speech to the American Association of Publishers, which is suing Google, to slag off the search engine's attitude to copyright. The comments might sound a little rich coming from a company which just last month.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 6, 2007 @ 9:49am mrmdc

CBS News -- A prisoner enraged by the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by undercover detectives tried to hire someone to behead the police commissioner and bomb police headquarters for $65,000, authorities said. David Brown, 47, was arrested Monday on a char.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Tue Mar 6, 2007 @ 9:48am mrmdc

The Register -- Apple has updated its iTunes jukebox software, but Windows Vista users hoping the new release provides the promised support for Microsoft's latest operating system will be disappointed: Apple is still listing the app as an XP-only affair. iTunes 7.1 is.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Mar 6, 2007 @ 9:48am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- Investment plan fees can sap thousands of dollars from a worker's retirement savings. Some lawmakers are considering making companies that manage 401(k) plans give clearer and more complete information on those costs. "We have to ask whether all these.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 6, 2007 @ 9:46am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- A journalist who fell to his death from a fifth-story window had received threats while gathering material for a report claiming Russia planned to provide sophisticated weapons to Syria and Iran, his newspaper said Tuesday. Prosecutors have opened an i.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Mar 6, 2007 @ 9:45am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- The United States expressed concern about China's announced increase in military spending as "inconsistent" with peaceful goals and hinted official figures do not reflect actual spending. "This kind of spending not only concerns us but raises concerns.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Mon Mar 5, 2007 @ 4:20pm mrmdc

CNN -- In case you haven't noticed, Second Life is booming, and its economy has boomed too - putting the virtual reality world in the crosshairs of tax authorities, experts say. Entrepreneurs have flocked to Second Life - a computer-based 3-D virtual world wh.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Mar 5, 2007 @ 10:09am mrmdc

MSNBC -- Outspoken U.S. conservative columnist Ann Coulter is drawing fire from Republicans and Democrats alike after publicly using a derogatory gay slur in reference to Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards. “Ann Coulter not only once again went out.. Read More

ENTERTAINMENT / NEWS Mon Mar 5, 2007 @ 10:08am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin said Sunday his band is working on a new album featuring what he called a quintessential song that everybody should hear "before we die." Martin and his band spoke hours before the final concert of a Latin American tou.. Read More