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contest of eccentrics
 | Outspoken conservative Boris Johnson leads 'Red' Ken Livingstone in the polls. |
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 | A win by Fernando Lugo, a former liberal priest, would follow a leftist trend in South America. |
Back in the USSR: Soviet Internet domain name resists death
MOSCOW (AP) -- The Soviet Union may be in the dustbin of history, but there's one place the socialist utopia lives on: cyberspace....
Google's strong showing renews debate over Web tracker
NEW YORK (AP) -- Google's strong first-quarter results threw into question the weight many investors place on data from a leading Web measurement company that had shown slowing growth in Google's U.S. paid clicks. That data can be misread or simply wrong....
Despite guidelines, assigning Net domain names is tricky
Argentina's Web sites end in ".ar," while Germany gets ".de" - for Deutschland, as the country is known in German....
March the warmest on record over world land surfaces
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Planet Earth continues to run a fever. Last month was the warmest March on record over land surfaces of the world and the second warmest overall worldwide. For the United States, however, it was just an average March, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Thursday....
Study finds mercury in birds near polluted rivers
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mercury contamination in rivers can spread to nearby birds, even ones that don't eat fish or other food from the water....
Jet stream, America's storm maker, moving slowly northward
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The jet stream - America's stormy weather maker - is creeping northward and weakening, new research shows. That potentially means less rain in the already dry South and Southwest and more storms in the North....
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