Felipe Solis , the director of the Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, greeted Barack Obama at the museum for dinner with dignitaries during Obama's apology tour. Solis died the next day from the swine flu. The Mexican man who greeted Obama at Mexico's anthropology museum in Mexico City died the following day from swine flu. …
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U.S. Slow to Learn of Mexico Flu
U.S. public health officials did not know about a growing outbreak of swine flu in Mexico until nearly a week after that country started invoking protective measures, and didn't learn that the deaths were caused by a rare strain of the influenza until…
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Bea Arthur (1922-2009) - YouTube user Sassyornek created a fantastic tribute to Bea, check it out here: Link (Photo: Lifetime Intimate Portrait) Tony- and Emmy-winning actress and comedian Bea Arthur has died. …
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Susan Boyle on South Park (Video)
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'World of Warcraft' Demoed on the iPhone?
First posted over at TouchArcade.com, a YouTube video depicts what could be World of Warcraft running on the iPhone. World of Warcraft is an incredibly popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) with over 11 million subscribers. …
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Hollie Steel: Britain’s Got Talent
Meet Hollie Steel, Britain’s Got Talent latest singing sensation. See photos, video and a biography here of the 10-year-old singer with a stunningly mature voice whose brilliant singing was a shock to everyone as she sang ‘I Could Have Dance All Night’ the classic song from the musical My Fair Lady. …
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World of Warcraft Runs on iPhone... Mostly [IPhone]
We found a video showing an iPhone running World of Warcraft . It looks surprisingly full-featured, but this isn't a standalone app— more of an evolution of what we've seen before . We don't think it's fake; if it is, it's an unbelievably elaborate one and we'd prefer to think nobody is willing to put in that kind of time and effort for such a dumb prank. …
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As Census Nears, How to Count Inmates Is Debated
NEW YORK -- Elizabeth O'C. Little , a Republican state senator, represents a rural Upstate district larger in square miles than Rhode Island and Connecticut combined. But more than 13,500 of her constituents are not living there by choice, they could not…
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Obama Was In Mexico For Swine Flu Outbreak
President Barack Obama's health is fine a little more than a week after he traveled to Mexico, where an outbreak of swine flu has killed at least 68 people and sickened more than 1,000, the White House said Saturday.…
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Swine flu outbreak international 'public health emergency': WHO
Calling the swine flu outbreak in Mexico and the United States a 'public health emergency of international concern,' the World Health Organization asked countries around the world Saturday to step up their reporting and surveillance of influenza.…
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WHO Cites Potential for Swine Flu Pandemic
MEXICO CITY, April 25 -- The World Health Organization rushed to convene an emergency meeting Saturday to develop a response to the "pandemic potential" of a new swine flu virus that has sparked a deadly outbreak in Mexico and spread to disparate parts…
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Drugs in Portugal: Did Decriminalization Work?
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