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World Records Set For Earliest Known Jersey Of Babe Ruth

Tue, 22 May 2012 10:16:03 -0700
:The earliest known jersey worn by New York Yankees Babe Ruth sold for $4,415,658. The jersey set world records in SCP Auctions' online auction, which concluded on May 20. The winning bidder wishes to remain anonymous at this time, according to the firm.
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U.S. BSE case confirmed ‘atypical’

Tue, 22 May 2012 17:38:42 -0700
Reference labs in Canada and the U.K. have confirmed the latest U.S. domestic case of BSE to be the "atypical" strain that’s unlikely to have been contracted through cattle feed.
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International Commerce Center

Mon, 21 May 2012 23:14:46 -0700
The International Commerce Centre is a 108 floor, 484 m (1,588 ft) skyscraper completed in 2010 in West Kowloon, Hong Kong. A five-star hotel, The Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong occupies floors 102 to 118. The world’s highest swimming pool and bar (OZONE) can be found on the top 118th floor.
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Newly discovered sensory organ in the chin of baleen whales allows them to be world's largest hunters

Wed, 23 May 2012 09:58:52 -0700
Lunge feeding in rorqual whales (a group that includes blue, humpback and fin whales) is unique among mammals, but details of how it works have remained elusive. Now, scientists from the Smithsonian Institution and University of British Columbia have solved the mystery. They discovered a sensory organ in the chin of rorqual whales that communicates to the brain. The organ orchestrates the ...
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Grants to help Yale Divinity Library digitize materials on missions and world Christianity

Thu, 24 May 2012 09:26:57 -0700
The Yale Divinity Library has received three grants to digitize materials related to the history of missionary activity and world Christianity. A $5,000 grant from the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia (UBCHEA) ( http://unitedboard.org ) will support the continuation of the library’s project to digitize selections from the United Board archives, which include documentation of ...
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Ahmadinejad, Farrakhan & The Black Panthers: Shocking New Details on Their Meeting & the ‘Beast’ Axis That Was Forged

Tue, 22 May 2012 06:16:07 -0700
"So, am I not to ally myself, alliance myself with this Arab in fighting this white man?"
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American College of Endocrinology (ACE) and Lilly Diabetes Offer New Tips to Help People With Diabetes Prepare for ...

Wed, 23 May 2012 06:00:00 -0700
PHILADELPHIA, May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the American College of Endocrinology (ACE) and Lilly Diabetes launched the "EmPower Diabetes Emergency Plan" – a newly designed resource to ...
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CDNPAL Kickstarter Project Aims To Build Search Engine Using Facebook’s Open Graph

Wed, 23 May 2012 12:25:35 -0700
This week, we reported on a Kickstarter project called Gooey Search, which strives to be a “Google on steroids (with privacy). While poking around through Kickstarter, we noticed another search engine project in the works called CDNPAL, billed as “an …
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MLB Trade Rumors: 5 Potential Trade Targets for the Atlanta Braves

Mon, 21 May 2012 23:44:00 -0700
After a devastating September collapse to end the 2011 season, the Atlanta Braves have bounced back nicely to start the 2012 season.
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SGI Takes Big Data Performance to New Levels with Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 Family

Mon, 14 May 2012 08:05:00 -0700

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