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Motorcycle rider, 13, dies after crash at Indy

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http://www.breakingnews.com/seed/ahBicmVha2luZ25ld3Mtd3d3cgwLEgRTZWVkGMatWQw/2010/08/29/motorcycle-rider-13-dies-after-crash-at-indy

The BBC’s Gill McGivering travels on a US military helicopter carrying aid to the Pakistani city of Kallam

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11126108

Disney has been touting the fact that Toy Story 3 passed the $1 billion mark at the box office this weekend.

Is it that big of a deal? Well, looking in absolute dollar terms, yes. Sort of. The film is the first animated film to break the threshold and only the seventh overall. And, with [...]

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http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/08/30/toy-story-3-made-a-billion-dollars-how-many-other-films-have/

Glenn Beck Comes to Town

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/08/glenn-beck-comes-to-town/62198/

Leo Laporte arrived Thursday at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank.

On Friday morning he arrived at the office of KFI AM 640, the radio station that airs his syndicated “The Tech Guy” program. At 3:42 p.m., he was back at the airport, ready to fly home to Petaluma, Calif.
I don’t stalk Laporte. Not in the traditional sense, anyway. Every time the tech-savvy broadcaster checks into a nearby place using a service called Foursquare, an alert pops up on my

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/08/leo-laporte.html

Americans are preparing to hold sombre ceremonies to mark five years since Hurricane Katrina, and Barack Obama will visit New Orleans.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11123064

(Aug. 29) — A 62-year-old man has been arrested after he allegedly fired pepper spray at members of the radical Westboro Baptist Church as they protested the funeral of a U.S.

Marine.

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http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/westboro-baptist-church-protesters-are-pepper-sprayed-at-marines-funeral-in-omaha/19612414

Success in Silicon Valley, most would agree, is more merit driven than almost any other place in the world.

It doesnt matter how old you are, what sex you are, what politics you support or what color you are. If you idea rocks and you can execute, you can change the world and/or get really, stinking rich.
For the most part Ive sat on the sidelines over the years during the endless debates about how we need to do more to encourage more women to st

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http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/28/women-in-tech-stop-blaming-me/

The 2010 Emmy Awards for American television have gone interactive, with viewers tweeting lines for host Jimmy Fallon, voting on an interactive ballot and watching backstage happenings on Facebook and YouTube.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100829/ennew_afp/entertainmenttelevisionusawardemmyinteractive

Lewis Hamilton storms to victory in the Belgian Grand Prix after an incident-packed race at Spa-Francorchamps.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8953213.stm