Sat, 12/11/2010 - 06:55 by harsheeb
Malelane -- Anthony Michael, despite three bogeys Friday, stretched his lead to two strokes halfway through the European Tour's Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa.
Michael, from South Africa, shot a 3-under-par 69 in the second round and is at 9-under 135 after 36 holes. Two other South Africans -- Alex Haindl and Dawie Van der Walt -- are tied with England's Robert Rock for second at 7-under. Haindl had a 6-under 66, best in the second round, and Van der Walt and Rock each shot 70.
Marius Thorp, shot 71 and is alone in fifth at 6-under. Six golfers are tied for sixth another stroke back.
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Wed, 12/08/2010 - 10:14 by Prince damin
Maui, Hawaii -- U.S. radio personality Danny Bonaduce has married his third wife, Amy Railsback, in Hawaii, the couple confirmed on his Web site.
Bonaduce is best known for his work on the classic TV sitcom "The Partridge Family." He now has a morning program on WYSP-FM.
The message on Bonaduce's Web site said he and Railsback exchanged vows at a Nov. 22 private ceremony officiated by the Rev. Roland Nono at the Four Seasons in Maui.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Thu, 12/02/2010 - 09:52 by Prince damin
Brasilia, Brazil -- Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon region is at its lowest rate in 22 years due to better monitoring and police control, the country's government says.
Satellite monitoring indicated some 2,490 square miles of rainforest were cleared between August 2009 and July 2010, a drop of 14 percent from the previous 12 months, the BBC reported.
The figures were "fantastic," Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira said, adding she would be "proud" to present the results at the U.N. Climate Change Conference presently being held in Cancun, Mexico.
Brazil was well on course to its target of reducing deforestation to its annual target of 1,900 square miles by 2017, she said.
The new rate is far lower than the peak of 10,700 square miles in 2004.
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Fri, 11/26/2010 - 05:48 by harsheeb
London-- Roger Federer and Andy Murray locked up semifinal slots at the ATP World Tour Finals in London with straight-set wins Thursday.
Federer, seeded second, finished Group B play 3-0 with a 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 win over Robin Soderling while Murray, the No. 5 seed, was 2-1 in round-robin play after a 6-2, 6-2 rout of David Ferrer. Soderling ended up 1-2 while Ferrer didn't win a set in his three matches.
Federer had a break in each set against the No. 4-seeded Soderling. He won 72 percent of the points on serve and faced three breaks points -- losing one in first set but saving two in the first game of the second set -- in improving to 15-1 in his career against Soderling.
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Fri, 11/19/2010 - 10:24 by Prince damin
Cancun, Mexico -- Insects use plants they inhabit as natural "telegraphs," drumming on leaves or stems or vibrating their bodies to signal other bugs, European researchers say.
Using plants to communicate makes sense, study researcher Andrej Cokl of the National Institute of Biology in Slovenia says.
"Plants are the most natural and usual surrounding of most insects," Cokl told LiveScience.com.
The study was presented Thursday in Cancun, Mexico, at the second Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics.
Researchers found insects like stinkbugs and burrower bugs utilized a wide variety of vibration-producing methods, from shaking their abdomens to shivering their entire bodies to tapping their front legs on the plant surface.
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Wed, 11/17/2010 - 07:25 by Prince damin
Wasilla, Alaska -- The New Oxford American Dictionary has picked "refudiate," a word former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin used on her Twitter feed, as word of the year.
Oxford University Press said the word coined by the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee is the U.S. dictionary's word of the year, with the definition reading, "verb used loosely to mean 'reject.'"
Oxford said there is evidence of the word being used prior to Palin's Twitter postings, but it was her use that brought the word widespread attention.
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Tue, 11/16/2010 - 10:13 by Prince damin
Fairbanks, Alaska -- Police in Alaska said a burglar raided a homeowner's safe but took only $20,000 of the $100,000 it contained.
Alaska State Troopers said the Fairbanks homeowner found the safe in the backyard Friday night with $80,000 still inside and the house doesn't appear to have been broken into, the Fairbanks Daily News Miner reported Monday.
Peters said investigators have identified a suspect and the incident does not appear to be related to any other area thefts.
"We're not going to be putting out (the name of) the neighborhood where it was," Peters said, "because we don't want to be telling people where to look for a safe that has, now, $80,000 in it."
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Mon, 11/15/2010 - 10:07 by Prince damin
Tampa, Fla. -- Josh Freeman tossed a pair of first-half touchdowns and LeGarrette Blount ran for 91 yards Sunday in Tampa Bay's 31-16 win over Carolina.
Freeman hooked up with Arrelious Benn for a 8-yard TD pass in the first quarter and found Kellen Winslow on a 20-yard scoring strike 50 seconds before halftime for the Buccaneers (6-3).
Freeman completed 18-of-24 passes for 241 yards and Blount added a second-quarter touchdown for Tampa Bay, which won for the third time in four games.
Mike Goodson carried the ball 23 times for 100 yards and Jimmy Clausen was limited to 191 yards for the hapless Panthers (1-8).
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Fri, 11/12/2010 - 10:17 by Prince damin
Balboa, Panama -- An abrupt global warming episode 56 million years ago led to an explosion of plant diversity in northern South America, Panamanian researchers say.
A 9-degree Fahrenheit spike in temperatures during 10,000 years -- a blink of an eye on a geological scale -- had researchers expecting to find evidence of a mass die-off of many tropical plant species, ScienceNews.org reported.
"We were expecting to find rapid extinction, a total change in the forest," says study leader Carlos Jaramillo, a biologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Balboa, Panama. "What we found was just the opposite -- a very fast addition of many new species, and a huge spike in the diversity of tropical plants."
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Tue, 10/26/2010 - 10:15 by Prince damin
Vancouver, British Columbia -- Pet frogs might be cute but they also might make you sick from salmonella, U.S. health officials warn.
Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say pet African dwarf frogs harboring salmonella have sickened at least 113 people in 31 states, most of them children, between April 2009 and this past March, ScienceNews.org reported.
"This is the first multi-state outbreak of salmonella associated with frogs," says Shauna Mettee, an epidemiologist at the CDC in Atlanta who presented the findings Friday at a meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America in Vancouver, Canada.
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Mon, 10/25/2010 - 23:33 by Prince damin
Jerome, Idaho -- Staffers at an Idaho library said Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter and other Republican candidates were ejected from a room reserved for a wedding reception.
Patty Metcalf, librarian at the Jerome Public Library, said a campaign bus carrying Otter and other candidates, including state Rep. Maxine Bell and Roger Morley, a County Commission candidate, stopped at the library at about 5 p.m. Wednesday. That was the same time as the scheduled wedding reception for a member of Jerome's Friends of the Library organization, The (Twin Falls, Idaho) Times-News reported Monday.
"A bus load of people showed up and just invaded the library," Metcalf said. "It was chaotic because the library staff was not forewarned."
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Mon, 10/25/2010 - 22:46 by Prince damin
Mexico City -- U.S. pop star Madonna says she is opening a chain of fitness centers around the world in partnership with her manager Guy Oseary and New Evolution Ventures.
The first Hard Candy Fitness location is a 30,000-square-foot space scheduled to open in mid-November in Mexico City's exclusive Bosques de las Lomas area.
Madonna is scheduled to visit the gym Nov. 29 for the official opening.
"Throughout her career Madonna has been devoted to fitness and well-being and has worked out in literally hundreds of gyms around the world," Hard Candy Fitness said in a news release Monday.
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