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- Hurricane Dolly slams South Texas, but levees hold (AP)
- Mussina pitches Yankees to 10th straight home win (AP)
- Ship collision shuts Mississippi River, spills fuel (Reuters)
- Online Banking: Widespread Security Flaws Revealed (LiveScience.com)
- Study: Online banking possibly dicier than assumed (AP) AP - Many banks are unwittingly training their online customers to take risks with their passwords and other sensitive account information, leaving them more vulnerable to fraud, new research shows.
- Poll: Economy top issue; energy worries grow most (AP)
- Mexican soldiers help as hurricane hits (AP)
- "Greenhouse" bees spread disease to wild bees (Reuters)
- Dolly Hearkens to Deadliest U.S. Hurricane Ever (LiveScience.com) LiveScience.com - With Hurricane Dolly bearing down on Brownsville, Texans can say they know a thing or two about horrific storms. The state is second only to Florida in the number of direct hurricane hits.
- Sugarland explores 'Love on the Inside' (AP)
- How one vet's persistence paid off (The Christian Science Monitor) The Christian Science Monitor - It was an average-looking letter that landed in Paul Weaver's mailbox. But bearing news that his veteran's disability benefits had been stopped, it felt more like a ton of crashing bricks.
- Hall homers in 9th to lift Brewers to 6th straight (AP)
- Second volcano erupts in Alaska's Aleutian chain (Reuters) Reuters - A second volcano in Alaska's Aleutian Islands has erupted in less than a month, shooting steam and ash as high as 20,000 feet into the air, officials said on Tuesday.
- With DNS Flaw Now Public, Attack Code Imminent (PC World) PC World - Hackers say that they will soon develop attack code that exploits a recently published, critical DNS bug.
- AP IMPACT: Traffic deaths fall as gas prices climb (AP)
- Fossil Suggests Antarctica Much Warmer in Past (LiveScience.com)
- Top Spammer Sentenced to Nearly Four Years (PC World) PC World - A court ordered "spam king" Robert Soloway to serve 47 months in prison for spamming.
- Dino diversity had a long pedigree, says study (AFP)
- HOSANNA FOR POLAND'S UNSUNG HERO (Georgie Anne Geyer) Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- When Bronislaw Geremek was tragically killed in a car crash in Poland in mid-July, most Americans did not recognize his name. Geremek, who? Bronislaw, what? Oh yes, we do know where Poland is -- more or less.
AP - Hurricane Dolly barreled into South Texas on Wednesday, lashing the coast with winds up to 100 mph and dumping heavy rain that threatened to flood low-lying areas but spared levees along the heavily populated Rio Grande Valley.
Posted on 23 July 2008 | 11:31 pm
AP - Mike Mussina baffled the Twins for eight innings, Alex Rodriguez hit a two-run double and the New York Yankees beat Minnesota 5-1 Wednesday for their 10th straight home win.
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Reuters - A collision between a chemical tanker
and a fuel barge on the Mississippi River spilled over 400,000
gallons (1,560,000 liters) of fuel oil and prompted the U.S.
Coast Guard to close a 29-mile (47-km) stretch of the waterway
around New Orleans, a Coast Guard spokesman said.
Posted on 23 July 2008 | 9:34 pm
LiveScience.com - Online bankers, beware. More than 75 percent of bank Web sites surveyed by a research team had at least one design flaw that could make customers vulnerable to cyber thieves.
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AP - What's rising faster than gas prices this summer? Americans' worries about them.
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AP - Mexican soldiers made a last-minute attempt to rescue people at the mouth of the Rio Grande early Wednesday as Hurricane Dolly's leading edge hit the Gulf coast.
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Reuters - Disease spread to wild bees from
commercially bred bees used for pollination in agriculture
greenhouses may be playing a role in the mysterious decline in
North American bee populations, researchers said on Tuesday.
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AP - After Sugarland's first two albums, singer Jennifer Nettles kept hearing how their records were good and all but somehow ... not.
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AP - Bill Hall homered to snap a late-inning tie for the second straight game and the Milwaukee Brewers also caught up with Kyle Lohse, beating the St. Louis Cardinals and their surprise ace 4-3 for their sixth straight victory Tuesday night.
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AP - Rising prices at the gas pump appear to be having at least one positive effect: Traffic deaths around the country are plummeting, just as they did during the Arab oil embargo three decades ago.
Posted on 23 July 2008 | 1:34 am
LiveScience.com - A college student's new discovery of fossils collected in the East Antarctic suggests that the frozen polar cap was once a much balmier place.
The well-preserved fossils of ostracods, a type of small crustaceans, came from the Dry Valleys region of Antarctica's Transantarctic Mountains and date from about 14 million years ago. The fossils were a rare find, showing all of the ostracods' soft anatomy in 3-D.
The fossils were discovered by Richard Thommasson during screening of the sediment in research team member Allan Ashworth's lab at North Dakota State University. ...
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AFP - The belief that dinosaurs underwent explosive species diversification just before they were wiped out is an illusion, for the beasts' main evolutionary shifts took place millions of years before, a study says.
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