Daily Archives: July 23, 2008

[audio] Hewlett-Packard Introduces New Soup-Resistant Laptop

Onion Radio News - with Doyle Redland
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Touch is no mouse-killer

Science & environment: The iPhone is leading a touchscreen revolution, but don’t eBay your old computer just yet
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Will computers ever use DNA?

Science & environment: There is no easy way to wire up DNA to the other parts of a regular computer
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Ex-BP boss speaks little of Texas City

Business & economics: Former BP boss could not be drawn on explosion, newly released court papers show
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Dark Knight’s fanatics have profound enthusiasm

Arts & entertainment: Ariel Leve: I wish I cared about something as much as they care about Batman. They seem so invested
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Gates joins NY mayor to curb smoking

Bill and Melinda Gates announced yesterday that they were joining Michael Bloomberg in a $500m campaign against smoking in the developing world
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The mother of all celebrity news

Travel, life & style: Zoe Williams: Motherhood closes down a celebrity’s possibilities, yokes her back to the earth, makes you think of incontinence
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Libya hits back at Switzerland

Libya has been taking ‘retaliatory measures’ against since the arrest of Muammar Gadafy’s son
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Zimbabwe banknotes scarace

Zimbabwe forced to cut back on printing money as sanctions dry up supply of banknote paper
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Smashy The Alien Icon Set

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Cherish our museums. They see the bigger, civic picture

Comment is free America: Charlotte Higgins: Its budget and collections can’t match MoMA, but in reaching out to the public the Tate threatens to eclipse its New York rival
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The perfect time to slow down

Travel, life & style: Carl Honoré: Maybe the economic slump is our chance to relearn art of slowing down
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Weapons of mass distrust

Comment is free America: Khaled Diab: Will the conciliatory tones coming out of Washington and Tehran really be enough to bring Iran’s nuclear standoff to an end?
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Bears eat two workers in Russia

Up to 30 hungry bears have attacked and eaten two men in Russia’s wild far eastern region of Kamchatka
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Obama commits himself to Israel’s security

Senator also speaks of hope for Middle East peace agreement
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Newsom secretly visits cyber suspect

Terry Childs gave up the passcode to San Francisco’s computer system
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China plans to keep Olympic protesters in pens during games

Sports: Human Rights Watch say zones are just new obstacle in preventing legitimate demonstration
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Bush backs off threat to mortgage bill

Business & economics: Federal aid for US communities stricken by subprime mortgage crisis likely to become law
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Food prices pushing east Africa to disaster, warns Oxfam

More than 14 million people in the east Africa region require urgent food aid, agencies say
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Man with the musical broomstick

Arts & entertainment: Without Les Paul, there might never have been an electric guitar. Ed Pilkington meets a pioneer
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How Come No One Celebrates My Alcoholism Like John Cheever’s?

You know, seminal American author John Cheever and I have a lot in common. He needed to drink a fifth of scotch before he had the courage to utter…
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Queen Elizabeth II Announces She’s Pregnant Again

LONDON—The queen assured her 59-year-old son, Prince Charles, that he was still special, and the baby would not replace him as the heir apparent to the crown.
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‘Wall St got drunk’ says Bush

During Texas fundraiser, US president made sure cameras were off before addressing financial crisis
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Sastre powers into Tour yellow

Sports: Carlos Sastre leads team-mate Frank Schleck by one minute 24 seconds after stage 17
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Congressional Democrats aim to ride Obama wave to red-state victories

Democrats are taking the fight for Capitol Hill deep into Republican territory this fall, say party leaders
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