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Waiting no more
D.A. Weibring tried his damnedest not to get too emotional yesterday. For the most part, he was successful. He tried not to cry after his final putt dropped. Instead, he bit his lip, blinked like a man caught looking directly into the sun and then...Tags: PGA Tour, Fred Funk, D.A. Weibring, Nick Price, Clubs and Associations
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Kenya elephants' text messages may save them
The Associated PressThe text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir's screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms. The huge bull elephant had a long history of raiding villagers' crops during the harvest, sometimes wiping out six months of income at...Tags: Google Inc., Nature
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Masters of the ground game, Republicans see their forte challenged by Obama's motivated masses
Associated Press WriterBLUE BELL, Pa. (AP) _ Barack Obama, a former community organizer, is spending untold millions of dollars to identify and mobilize voters, and Republicans acknowledge that John McCain's team probably will be outspent and outmanned. They hope it won't be...Tags: Voting, John McCain, The White House, George Bush, Homes
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Kenya's vulnerable elephants fitted with collars that send text messages to rangers
Associated Press WriterOL PEJETA, Kenya (AP) _ The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir's screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms. The huge bull elephant had a long history of raiding villagers' crops during the harvest, sometimes wiping out...Tags: Google Inc., Nature
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Google's drunk e-mailing protection is nice, but won't save you
Chicago Tribune reporterThink Google's new program to prevent you from drunk e-mailing will save you from saying something you'll regret in the morning? Think again. Yes, the new Gmail feature, Mail Goggles, requires you to solve five math problems in 60 seconds before it...Tags: Google Inc., iPhone, Cell Phones, Consumer Electronics Industry
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BOOM: When Driving Has To Take A Back Seat
Should older drivers be required to have their driving skills tested on a regular basis? This is going to become a bigger and bigger issue as baby boomers (and their parents) move en masse into the land of the perpetual turn signal. My thinking is:...Tags: Vehicles
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Train engineer texted before deadly collision
LOS ANGELES A Metrolink engineer sent a text message from his cell phone 22 seconds before he collided with an oncoming freight train in an accident that killed 25 people and injured 135 others last month, federal authorities said yesterday. Engineer...Tags: San Fernando, Transportation Industry, Union Pacific Corporation, Engineering, Railway Accidents
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Federal railroad regulators issue emergency order barring cell phone use by rail workers
LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Federal railroad regulators have issued an emergency order prohibiting the use of personal electronic devices by rail workers operating trains and performing other key jobs. The Federal Railroad Administration issued the order...Tags: Chatsworth, Health and Safety at Work, Railway Transportation, Transportation
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Metrolink engineer sent text message moments before fatal crash
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersA Metrolink engineer sent a text message from his cellphone 22 seconds before he collided with an oncoming freight train in an accident that killed 25 people last month, according to preliminary information released Wednesday by federal authorities....Tags: Transportation Industry, Transportation Accidents, Radio Industry, Engineering, Railway Accidents
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13 ways to save on TV, phone, Internet tech
It's not a good time to be throwing money at things that don't rate as necessities.
Inconveniently enough, though, the stuff of a technological lifestyle -- the hardware, the software, the services -- can add up to a large fraction of your budget. And...Tags: Computing and Information Technology, Cell Phones, Microsoft Corp., Internet, Consumer Electronics Industry
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U. of Chicago physicist Nambu receives Nobel
Associated Press WriterYoichiro Nambu's breakthrough idea can help explain the birth of a snowflake and the dawn of the universe. The retired University of Chicago physicist's principle, honored Tuesday with the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics, also explains how computers store...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Applied Physics, Applied Science, Nature, Colleges and Universities
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Engineer texted 22 seconds before crash
Tribune NewspapersLOS ANGELES — A commuter train engineer sent a text message from his cell phone 22 seconds before he collided with an oncoming freight train in an accident that killed him and 24 others and injured another 135 people last month, federal...Tags: Transportation Industry, Chatsworth, Union Pacific Corporation, Engineering, Railway Accidents
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