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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With cots, pillows and pleas for change, the Democratic-led U.S. Senate began a rare around-the-clock session on Tuesday to push President George W. Bush and fellow Republicans to end the Iraq war.

Norman Borlaug has saved more lives than anyone else who has ever lived. A plant breeder, in the 1940s he moved to Mexico to study how to adopt high-yield crops to feed impoverished nations. He travels worldwide to pass on those skills to feed the hungry. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in the 1970-s and is virtually unknown in the U.S.

Some things in life were just made for men. But as usual, women just can’t let us have our own stuff, now can they? But sometimes that's a good thing...

This kid had his dog entered in a local dog show and he was wishing her luck

Why won't she talk? Maybe because she has something to hide!??! Interesting story here.

Falling right in line with the news TiVo CEO Tom Rogers hinted at back in March, the struggling company is readying the highly anticipated HD Series 3 "Lite,which will target a much wider range of consumer with a price point of around $299 All in all, a pretty attractive package when you don't have a lot of cash to burn.

These pictures are not of a space station or space ship but of Japanese sewer system. Japanese water drainage system, looks like an alien space ship.

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- A passenger plane with as many 170 people aboard crashed and burst into flames Tuesday after landing at Brazil's busiest airport, the nation's airport authority said. There were no immediate reports of injuries or deaths by authorities, but flames shot into the sky and clouds of black smoke billowed into the air.

How much more energy efficient does a new car have to be to make up for the energy of production vs a used car? For example, if someone was considering buying a used car that gets 18 mpg vs. a new car that gets 30 mpg.

Fox has refused to run a national Trojan condom commercial, saying it objects to the message that condoms can prevent pregnancy. WTF?

Well, well, well… That’s what ‘partners’ are for. Just shortly after Microsoft had betrayed Novell, Microsoft decided to move on to Linspire.

Miami released the former Pro Bowl quarterback Tuesday, wrapping up a contentious split between player and team. The move came one day before a breach-of-contract grievance filed by the NFL Players Association on Culpepper's behalf against the Dolphins was scheduled to be heard, and after Miami unsuccessfully tried for weeks to trade the 30 y/o.

"The [iMac development] team is apparently experiencing last minute issues with the new keyboard. We can reveal that this keyboard will be very similar to Logitech’s diNovo Edge; however our source says: “it’s got a feature or two that the diNovo does not have”."

News that the newly discounted PS3 would be discontinued in the coming months left many gamers slightly frustrated on Friday, but Sony will likely stick with its $499 price point when 60GB inventory depletes says analyst Micheal Pachter.

Nearly 6 years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of lives spent in the name of the war on terror pose a simple question: Are we safer? The National Intelligence Estimate suggests, the threat of terrorist violence against the U.S. is growing worse, fueled by the Iraq war and spreading Islamic extremism.

VIDEO Included: White Stripes have completed probably the greatest secret show spectacle of all times - a one-note "concert" to conclude a tour across every province and territory in Canada.

Talk about lousy timing. With President Bush's popularity scraping bottom in opinion polls, with U.S. casualties rising in Iraq in a force surge that has stretched tours to 15 months, the Bush administration has said it "strongly opposes" key military pay and benefit gains tossed into the fiscal 2008 defense bill.

A look at the 6 most prominent global warming denier organizations, how they spin the facts, and who is funding their baloney.

Nintendo's Wii console has continued to break more records as the fastest-selling home console of all time, hitting 9 million units sold in under 9 months. With Wii shipments increasing in the lead up to the holiday season and a number of big releases, Wii stands a good chance of hitting 15 million by the end of the year.

Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration Paul Craig Roberts has gone further than ever before, warning that the Bush administration could be about to stage false flag events and/or terror attacks in order to reinstate the draft, announce a dictatorship and possibly attack Iran.

The weathermen in Beijing are moving ahead with plans to fire rockets to disperse rain clouds, an experiment aimed at securing more sunshine during the 2008 Olympics.

A British teenager who bought a Sony PlayStation 2 on eBay for £95 ($194) got more than he bargained for when he opened the package. Instead of a shiny, happy gaming console, there was a whole heap of euros - €65,400 ($90,000) to be precise

There's an assumption on most people's part that corporate CEOs are visionary, set the tone and direction for their respective companies, tend to focus on big picture items, while the worker drones attend to the minutiae. Well, seems that CEOs also find time to snark online at their competition using pseudonyms in online forums

Formerly known as ‘Democracy Player’, this new name, logo, and updated version of the software represents the next evolution of the project. We are hoping to reach even more people and build the open video movement. The software is more polished and stable than ever.

A videotape that was heralded as "new" footage of Osama bin Laden by many quarters of the press has been conclusively proven to be more than 5 year old re-released footage, leading to questions about why the government and the media continue to act as willing propagandists for the terrorists while striking fear into Americans by claiming an attack

Peter Moore talks about his tenure at Xbox, his successor and what’s next.

Dr. J. Richard Gott believes it is. He has issued a wake-up call: To ensure our long-term survival, we need to get a colony up and running on Mars within 46 years.

When I was growing up, the word "willpower" was used a lot. If only one was strong enough to resist sweets, according to logic of the time, one could stay thin.Yet today, based on a series of scientific discoveries, the importance of willpower in promoting weight loss is becoming an obsolete notion. Is it worth saving?

A UK newspaper gave away nearly 2.8 million copies of Prince's upcoming album Planet Earth last weekend. Music industry figures aren't too happy about the latest sign of the album's shaky future.

The car with which Ford will try to establish a land speed record for fuel cell powered vehicles hit the test track for the first time last weekend and AutoblogGreen has the exclusive story.

Investigators said Tuesday they had found steroids and other drugs in the body of pro wrestler Chris Benoit, who killed his wife and young son last month before hanging himself. Also found in Benoit were the anti-anxiety drug Xanax and the painkiller hydrocodone, according to a statement from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

It's called "Tell Me You Love Me." The first episode will end with a a woman masturbating her husband to orgasm, with the entire act and all relevant body parts plainly visible.

The Dow Jones industrial average passed 14,000 for the first time in history on Tuesday. Fueling the gains were some of the usual drivers: takeovers, strong earnings and moderate inflation.

Did you know there is a hidden world of elite automobiles that most car-enthusiasts know about but is more unknown to the regular public who do not keep track of state-of-the-art cars? The following is a list of popular new age concept cars...

You really don't know how much better Brawl looks until you see it first hand.

I know, I know.. NO MORE iPhone news. But at least this one is creative and not jizzing all over some iPhone feature.

Ten flags so strikingly bad in color and design that you might need your sunglasses on to view them. You have been warned…

The famous Apple-designer Hartmut Esslinger shows partly never before seen Apple-Designs of the early 80s. For example: The very first iPhone (1983).

The amazing wizards at the iPhone Dev Wiki have been able to partially unlock the iPhone using a new application called iASign. It won't fully unlock the iPhone, but the hack will allow you to use any existing Cingular/AT&T Pre-paid SIM so you don't have to get a contract with AT&T. That's full call functionality without two years of slavery.

Firefox 2.0.0.5 is out. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0.0.5/releasenotes/