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JIM CARREY IN SEXY BIKINI  —  Okay, so it's more like a one-piece than a bikini.  But still, Jim Carrey was wearing a chick's swimsuit on the beach in Malibu yesterday.  That chick being his smokin' hot girlfriend Jenny McCarthy, who looked much better in it than him.  Something about that whole boob thing.

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Colombia found explosives set to be used in bombs across the capital in reprisal for this week's rescue of leftist rebels' highest-profile hostages, including Ingrid Betancourt, military officials said on Saturday.



69 year old Euro 2008 winning former Spain coach Luis Aragones admitted he was delighted to be taking charge of Fenerbahce. Scolari admitted he knew the 'risk' involved in taking charge at the Istanbul side, but was prepared to do his best to help the club succeed.

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Too lazy to heat up the grill this weekend? Here are the top burger joints rated by grill experts near and far.

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NEW YORK - In the game of Wall Street musical chairs, one of the biggest seats has just been taken.
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AP - Gospel singer Timothy Wright was critically injured in a crash in central Pennsylvania that killed his wife and a wrong-way driver who hit their vehicle, police said.
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FWD101  Model walks the runway at the Valentino Fall 2008 haute couture show by designer Alessandra Facchinetti in Paris on Wednesday, July 2, 2008.(Fashion Wire Daily/Gruber)Fashion Wire Daily - Valentino's creative director Alessandra Facchinetti faced trial by jury Wednesday at 6.30 PM in Paris.


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Chilled watermelon is a great thirst-quencher during a sizzling summer. It's because watermelon is 92 per cent water.


A group of Chinese mainland tourists arrive at the international airport in Taoyuan on July 4, 2008.  China and Taiwan launched regular direct flights July 4 for the first time in nearly six decades, ushering in what Beijing called a "new start" in their tense and testy relations. AFP PHOTO/PATRICK LIN (Photo credit should read PATRICK LIN/AFP/Getty Images)Hundreds of Chinese tourists flew into Taiwan Friday in the first wave of regular cross-straits commercial flights in nearly six decades that could transform ties between the old foes.


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Mamma Mia! ABBA Reunites for Film Premiere(E! Online)E! Online - Don't pull out the polyester and platforms just yet, folks. It was just for a movie premiere.


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Warner Bros. has supplied the IESB with new images from the sixth installment of the Harry Potter franchise, The Half Blood Prince.

Thomas Beatie, who was born a woman but after surgery and hormone treatment lives as a man, has given birth to a girl at an Oregon hospital, People magazine reported on Thursday.


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Offering married couples in sub-Saharan Africa joint HIV counselling and testing could curb the spread of sexually transmitted HIV in those regions by up to 60 percent, a new study finds.
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Ecotones Mitigating NYCs Contentious SitesGiven the global and local challenges of climate change the Landscape Architecture profession is at the forefront of New York Citys sustainability efforts Collaborating with governments regulatory agencies community groups and design profess

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How To Get a Speedy, Remedial Introduction to the Composer

By PIA CATTON [NY Sun, 23 June 2008]

When you really don't know something, it's best just to admit it. And earlier this year, an embarrassing fact emerged: I didn't know Mozart's music as well as I thought I did. The catalyst for this admission came while at the barre during a ballet class. My teacher bellowed, in that way that only ballet teachers can, "Feel the music. This is Mozart."


Earthweek - July 4, 2008
A 5.5 magnitude earthquake that struck the central Peruvian province of Oxapampa on Monday evening left 39 people injured and more than 100 homes destroyed.
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The battle for top ranking at the Nurburgring continues. The famed German race track is not only a test site for manufacturers looking to tweak and tune their upcoming production cars, but as a mark of honour.


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EVE, otherwise known as the Extra-terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator, represents an intelligent probe sent to an abandoned Earth in the film "WALL-E." Credit: Pixar/DisneyScientists today can only dream of having a robotic explorer like EVE from the Disney/Pixar film "WALL-E." But some researchers are working on autonomous spacecraft, airships and rovers that can cooperate intelligently while exploring distant worlds.


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   One of the PS2's finest moments makes a transition to the Wii.
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Crysta Metcalf has eavesdropped on the conversations of strangers, pored over their personal photographs and grilled them on their closest relationships. Such nosiness is all part of her job of studying people and how they communicate. Metcalf is the principal staff anthropologist at Motorola. Her responsibility is to spot long-term trends in how people socialize and interact.
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You Don't Mess with the ZohanReview in a Hurry: You don't mess with the Zohan...because it's already pretty messed up. This unwieldy, frequently appalling comedy is a mishmash of skit characters run amok, hyperbolic Naked...
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The younger sister (by ten years) of pop diva and glitterati icon Britney Spears -- to whom she bears more than a passing resemblance -- Jamie Lynn Spears first entered the national spotlight by joining her famous sibling on a Pepsi commercial and appearing in Britney Spears: Live from Las Vegas and Britney's movie Crossroads (2002). Jamie Lynn struck out on her own at age ten by trying out for the Nickelodeon channel's sketch comedy series All That; one particular characterization from that audition -- that... [more]

FD000742 Photodisc purchase by Friedman. bbq, barbecue, barbeque, grill, grilling, food, ribs, rib, rub, spice, charcoal, meat, sauce, party, outdoor, picnicA quest for the top spot makes a heck of a good excuse to get out and explore our country's little towns and back-road byways.


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As I stood bleary-eyed in the Avis office in Johannesburg airport after a 12-hour flight, rental car keys in hand, exhausted kids and luggage at my side, I had only one thought: my husband has been murdered.


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   Samsung's 22in "ultimate communications station" turns out to be average in all but design.
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eBay has officially withdrawn plans to force customers to use PayPal, just as the ACCC was expected to announce eBay was breaking the law by doing so.
 

Plena Libre will be touring this summer to support its new live album Plena al Salsero - Live in Monterrey, Mexico. The next concerts will be Saturday, July 19 in Ithaca, New York at Grass Roots Festival and Sunday, July 20 in the Bronx, New York.

Founded in San Juan, Puerto Rico,  by bass player/composer Gary Núñez, Plena Libre is well into a 15-year voyage that has seen the orchestra re-invent the sound of Puerto Rico’s plena and bomba traditions. During that time, Gary and his group have recorded 12 stellar albums which have garnered four Grammy nominations. In taking their unparalleled live show to the world, the group has spread the gospel of their unique Afro-Rican sound on internation...

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Guitarist Vivian Campbell certainly seems to be quite comfortable with his role with Def Leppard. Having played in the past with both Dio and Whitesnake, Campbell says: "This is the band I was destined to be a part of." In a recent interview with Campbell, Music Radar talked to him about a number of issues, with [...]

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Grief leads father to create bomb-defusing robot (AP)

Black-I Robotics founder Brian Hart, whose son was killed during an ambush in Iraq in 2003, poses in Tyngsborough, Mass., Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2007 with a six-wheel cost-effective robot that his company designed to protect troops and perform certain risky missions.  (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - The knock on Brian Hart's door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq.


A motorist fills his vehicle with fuel at a gasoline station in San Rafael, California. The price of oil surged to a record $143.67 per barrel today before dropping back down to close at $140. The U.S. national average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline also rose to a new record of $4.09. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AFP - The United States and Japan called Sunday for urgent action on red-hot oil and food prices that could derail the global economy on the eve of a summit of the world's richest nations.


President George W. Bush (L) holds a joint news conference with the Prime Minister of Japan Yasuo Fukuda at the G8 Summit at The Windsor Hotel Toya Resort and Spa in Toyako, Japan July 6, 2008. (Jim Young/Reuters)Reuters - President George W. Bush pledged on Sunday that Japan's concerns about North Korean abductions of its citizens would not be ignored even as Washington moved to ease sanctions against the communist country.


In this May 28, 2008 file photo, job seekers wait on line stretching around a block to attend the Monster.com and National Career Fairs  job fair in New York, Wednesday May 28 , 2008. The nation's psyche is battered and bruised, the sense of pessimism palpable. The Independence Day holiday is typically a time to honor all that we are as a nation, but the feeling is there's less to celebrate on this our 232nd birthday. Happy? It would seem not. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, file)AP - Even folks in the Optimist Club are having a tough time toeing an upbeat line these days. Eighteen members of the volunteer organization's Gilbert, Ariz., chapter have gathered, a few days before this nation's 232nd birthday, to focus on the positive: Their book drive for schoolchildren and an Independence Day project to place American flags along the streets of one neighborhood.


When Coroebus of Elis won the first Olympic sprint in 776 BC, the result was scratched on to parchment and read out in market places in the following days and weeks. /


LOS OLIVOS, Calif. (AP) - ``The Bachelor'' is a bachelor no more. Andrew Firestone, star of the ABC-TV reality show, married Serbian model and actress Ivana Bozilovic Saturday, Firestone's publicist Alisha Mahon told The Associated Press.
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