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WASHINGTON - Hurricane Gustav is growing into a monster Category 5 storm, the government’s disaster relief chief said Saturday. The storm could reach landfall along the Gulf Coast by early Tuesday.
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Hurricane Gustav, churning toward the Gulf Coast now, has a small chance of becoming a Category 5 storm, according to the National Hurricane Center. That would put its winds at 156 mph or stronger. Such winds would devastate most buildings and trees in the storms path. Little would be left standing.
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“Gifted” has become one of the most tossed-about words in the parenting lexicon. Unfortunately — sorry, but let’s get this out of the way right up front — it’s also one of the most misused.
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Sculpture by Daniel Firman at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. “At a distance of 18,000 km from the earth, the elephant Wursa could balance on her trunk. The hyper-realist sculpture borrows from the skills of a taxidermist which gives us the opportunity to seesaw between a proven scientific phenomenon and the physical world in perspective”
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Wikipedia Comes to the iPhone with Wikipanion. Hurray!
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Democrats are more nervous about Barack Obama’s prospects than they were a month ago, the New York Times reports. Maybe his new ad — a jauntier, more aggressive attack than the campaign has released before — will help.
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This is from a 1963 documentary with Arthur C Clarke about and artificial intelligence, speech recognition and synthesis.
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Researchers in Massachusetts are working on a technique to turn heat gathered by asphalt into useable energy via water pipes. Their paper, released this week at the International Symposium on Asphalt Pavements and Environment in Zurich, posits that asphalt roads could be better than solar panels in gathering energy.
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A new ad raising Barack Obama’s ties to 60s-era radical William Ayers may violate election law, according to campaign finance experts interviewed by the Huffington Post.
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In court today, Judge George O’Toole refused the Massachussetts Bay Transit Authority’s request to impose an additional five-month gag order against five students the MBTA had accused of violating Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).
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