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Two-lane Highway 33 isn't a fabled route, but it's rugged and real.
Brothers' backfire saves family compound in Big Sur By Eric Bailey and Deborah Schoch The controlled burn kept the Basin Complex blaze from destroying homes on their 55 acres on Apple Pie Ridge. But what some see as a heroic act landed one man in jail.
The Iraq war movie: Military hopes to shape genre By Julian E. Barnes Burned by portrayals of Vietnam, the Pentagon focuses on a new era of filmmakers. 'It's important to tell the full story,' says Army Lt. Col. J. Todd Breasseale, who is deployed to Wilshire Boulevard.
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The state faces a crisis, but many others are doing well. Much of the fault lies with . . . well, us.
Nadal's five-set Wimbledon final victory over Federer brings tennis back to the mainstream with a performance that tennis legends rank among tennis' best ever.
The dumbest generation. They want it all, and they want it now, without toil, and especially without any boring reading... more»
English -- the Wal-mart of languages ... [more]
Paying attention is a more important skill than you might think, and new evidence suggests it can be taught ... [more]
Military binoculars may soon get information directly from the brains of the soldiers using them ... [more]
Volcanoes have erupted beneath the Arctric ice, but that's not necessarily why scientists think the ice could go altogether ... [more]
Why is Mars two-faced? ... [more]
Nerve-zapper looks like a promising way to beat obesity ... [more]
Why not spin up a tornado and then extract energy from its tethered tail? ... [more]
Big Touch-Up for the Blue and the Gray By LISANNE RENNER When it reopens, viewers will see the wraparound canvas of the Gettysburg Cyclorama as its artist originally intended for the first time in more than a century.
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Google, Zen Master of the Market By STEVE LOHR Microsoft challenged the rules on competition and antitrust law. Now, it’s Google’s turn.
Poof! You’re Unpublished. By NOAM COHEN A flurry of intense and angry comments erupted on BoingBoing.net when it was discovered that the Web site had unpublished all references to the blogger Violet Blue.
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