Saturday, November 27, 2010

Who ya gonna call after party? Hangover Helpers

Who ya gonna call after party? Hangover Helpers


Who ya gonna call after party? Hangover Helpers

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Your head aches, you're hungry and your house is littered with sticky plastic cups. Who ya gonna call? Hangover Helpers. Two University of Colorado graduates are marketing a new business by that name in Boulder, home of CU's main campus. They'll bring in breakfast burritos and Gatorade the morning after a party — and clean up the mess.


US asks WikiLeaks to return all classified material

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The US has refused to enter into talks with the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks over its planned release of millions of classified documents and asked it to return the "illegally obtained" papers, the leak of which would "endanger the lives of countless individuals."


Hindu group stirs a debate over Yoga’s soul

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Yoga is practiced by about 15 million people in the United States, for reasons almost as numerous — from the physical benefits mapped in brain scans to the less tangible rewards that New Age journals call spiritual centering. Religion, for the most part, has nothing to do with it.


Amidst North Korean warning, US and South Korea begin military exercise

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In the midst of a warning from North Korea, the US and South Korea began four days of joint military exercises on the Yellow Sea. The US has played down the war exercises to deter North Korea from launching further attacks across its border with the South.


World's tallest residential tower in Dubai soon

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The 107-storey tower, billed to be the tallest residential building on earth, is likely to be ready by late next year in the city that is also home to the 823 metres wonder Burj Khalifa.


WikiLeaks to ruin Indo-US ties?

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The United States is bracing for more embarrassment as whistle-blower website WikiLeaks gets set to release around 3 million secret US documents this weekend. Last month, WikiLeaks exposed some of the damning war crimes by US forces in Iraq and Washington is perhaps yet to recover from its humiliation.


Myanmar pro-democracy leader Suu Kyi meets UN official

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Released Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi met a senior UN official on Saturday and said that she hopes the talks will be the first of many to solve the country's problems. Suu Kyi met for more than an hour with Vijay Nambiar, chief of staff for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his special envoy to the military-controlled country.


Pak: Cargo plane crashes into Karachi housing complex

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A cargo plane crashed into a housing complex in Karachi soon after takeoff on Sunday, setting off a huge blaze and killing all eight Russian crew on board, Pakistan's civil aviation authority said. At least one person on the ground was injured, but the Russian-made plane missed several densely populated apartment blocks by a few hundred yards (metres).


Obamas daughters don’t watch cable TV

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It's apparently not a hard choice for Malia and Sasha Obama. President Barack Obama says his 12- and 9-year-old daughters would pick the talking yellow sponge over a talking head any day. "They are not watching cable TV," he told ABC News in


Suicide attack at Afghan police station kills 12

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Two suicide bombers wearing police uniforms blew themselves up at an Afghan police headquarters Saturday, killing at least 12 officers in a deadly border region that has long been a refuge for Islamist extremists from around the world, officials said.


Australia slams 'reckless' WikiLeaks over US cables

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Australia condemned whistle-blower website WikiLeaks for threatening the "reckless" release of millions of classified American diplomatic cables, saying they could be a national security risk.


Clinton talks to China, others about WikiLeaks

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has reached out to several countries about the expected release of classified State Department cables by the WikiLeaks website.


More than one third of South African men admit to rape: Study

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More than a third of South African men in a new survey admitted to committing rape at some point in their lives, the study's authors said on Saturday. The survey, by the government-funded Medical Research Council and non-profit organisation Gender Links, found that 37.4 per cent of men in the north-central province of Gauteng admitted to committing rape at some point in their lives, while 25.3 per cent of women said they had been victims of rape.


At US airports, 'body scan' or 'gate rape'?

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The Transport Security Administration (TSA) has implemented the controversial full-body scanners at many US airports as part of strengthening up security of air travel. While several passengers said they had no difficulties in passing through new security systems, others are up in arms.


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