The cake was the centerpiece in the wedding of two members of a Star Wars fan group in Alabama, which had all the guests dressed up as Star Wars characters, included the minister, who probably was wearing an R2-D2 beanie like mine.
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Chilli the giant cow is set to stampede into the record books as Britain’s tallest bovine.The black and white Freisan bullock stands at 6ft 6ins and weighs well over a ton.
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Sprint this morning reported its results for the first quarter of 2008 and has revealed continued severe losses in its cellular business. The carrier says its net revenue declined nine percent year-over-year to $9.3 billion and that it lost a total 1.09 million wireless customers in the most recent period.
http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/05/12/sprint.q1.2008.results/” rel=”dc:source” property=”dc:title
Hiring managers don’t want to hear a lot of things during an interview — confessions of a violent past, a cell phone ring, a toilet flush. Yet job seekers have committed these interview gaffes and worse, according to CareerBuilder.com’s annual survey of the worst interview mistakes.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/worklife/05/12/cb.interview.misakes/index.html?eref=rss_latest” rel=”dc:source” property=”dc:title
Flu vaccine manufacturers expect to make a record number of doses for the next flu season despite concerns that demand may drop because this year’s vaccine was largely ineffective.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/05/09/flu.vaccine.ap/index.html” rel=”dc:source” property=”dc:title
In order to determine the fastest fictional cars, we required that candidate vehicles belong to a popularly known fictional work, and must be known, within their fictional universe and by their audience, for being fast. Flying cars were deemed ineligible. Vehicle details and top speeds were based on an analysis of the fictional source material;
http://www.forbes.com/2008/05/07/fastest-fictional-cars-forbeslife-cx_mn_de_0507fictional_slide.html?thisSpeed=30000″ rel=”dc:source” property=”dc:title
The 9-year mission of NASA’s Compton Gamma Ray Observatory ended in 2000 with a plunge into the Pacific Ocean. But its spare parts are living on — as a detector of dirty bombs.
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Study: With locked crust, Earth could become another Venus HOUSTON, May 12, 2008 — A new study of possible links between climate and geophysics on Earth and similar planets finds that prolonged heating of the atmosphere can shut down plate tectonics and cause a planet’s crust to become locked in place.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/ru-hcc051208.php” rel=”dc:source” property=”dc:title