Lightning Rod
The lightning rod was invented by Benjamin Franklin. In 1746 Franklin saw a public demonstration of static electricity in Europe and began to speculate whether or not lightning discharge...
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Washington (dpa) - San Francisco Giants outfielder Barry Bonds
tied the Major League Baseball record for career home runs Saturday
to both cheers and scorn from a crowd on t...
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A Navy helicopter struck a power line during a training flight and crashed in a rugged area of the northern Nevada desert, killing all five crew members, the Navy said Tuesday.Navy investigators we...
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Peter Bart reports in today's L.A. editions of Variety that Viacom chief Sumner Redstone's relationship with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen is going south.
According to his report-which relies...
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A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the social networking Web site MySpace filed by the family of a 13-year-old girl who says she was sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old man she met online.The ...
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Thousands of people waving red-and-yellow Spanish flags protested in Madrid Saturday against a court ruling that shortened the prison sentence for one of the Basque separatist group ETA's most noto...
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New York (dpa) - Back-in-Black Roger Federer sees no reason why
men can't occasionally mimic the on-court fashion stakes of their
female counterparts at the US Open.
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Conservative author David Horowitz spoke at Columbia University amid tightened security Friday — the latest in a string of political lightning rods to appear at the Ivy League school.Horowitz...
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(Updates to clarify Quinn welcomes proposal and adds quote
in ninth paragraph) By Edith Honan NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's lesbian City Council
speaker said Tuesday she wants to include gays an...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential
candidate Fred Thompson proposed an overhaul to the Social
Security retirement system Friday that would allow Americans
to contribute to personal ret...
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A leading Indian Muslim group threatened to boycott a major conglomerate's products Thursday after its owners hosted author Salman Rushdie at their home in suburban Mumbai.Rushdie arrived in Mumbai...
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Lightning Rod
Lightning rod Bonds ties career home-run record
