George Carlin, whose "7 words" bit led to a Supreme Court ruling, dies at 71.
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OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - Forged from eight days of pressure-packed competition, the powerhouse U.S. Olympic swim team spearheaded by Michael Phelps could leave Beijing as the most successful squad ever assembled. With only the top two in each event earning Olympic berths, the U.S. trials featured its usual cut-throat battles that produced eight world records and equaled another. Four swimmers, Phelps, Aaron Peirsol, Natalie Coughlin and Amanda Beard will be back to defend Olympic crowns while 26 others, including youngest member of the squad 15-year-old Elizabeth Beisel will make their Summer Games debuts. Beard qualified for her fourth Games while Dara Torres, a 41-year-old mother, will take part in her fifth. However there was no room for swimming's showman Gary Hall Jr. The 33-year-old's bid to become the first swimmer to win the same event at three different Olympics began in typical fashion as he shadowboxed his way to the block in a red, white and...
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Sheryl Crow is giving away free music - a tactic she calls the "Tupperware" party approach to inspiring young people to vote.
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University and A-level success for awesome foursome
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As a spy drone, it had its disadvantages. To land, it had to flip on its back. It could not operate in extreme heat or in thin air and became known as the “bugger off” because it frequently did, never to return.
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As floodwaters swamp the town of Cedar Rapids, other towns are taking matters into their own hands to prepare for floods of their own.
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Sixty-two percent of those who downloaded 'In Rainbows' last month chose not to pay anything at all, per comScore.
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A mortgage rescue scheme and councils buying unused land feature in a Liberal Democrat plan to revive the housing market.
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The number of U.S. homeowners swept up in the housing crisis rose further last month, with foreclosure filings up nearly 50 percent compared with a year earlier, a foreclosure listing company said.
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SUN VALLEY, Idaho (Hollywood Reporter) - Several hundred major media executives at Herb Allen's annual retreat in this remote Northwest niche thought they could get away from it all, including Hollywood's labor strife 900 miles. But they were at least partially wrong.

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Newly released files show that Winston Churchill was urged to keep Britain's Special Operations Executive going in peacetime.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Authorities ordered more than 10,000 residents of Paradise, California, to leave their homes on Wednesday as a stubborn wildfire threatened to jump a river and spread into town where a blaze destroyed 74 homes in June.

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Madonna may be trying to adopt a second child from Malawi, her husband Guy Ritchie was quoted as saying in an interview published Sunday.
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The contract between exams authority the QCA and troubled marking firm ETS is ended by "mutual consent".
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(CBS)Science research can really build an appetite. At least that's partly the motivation behind "The Hungry Scientist's Handbook," published by Harper Collins in September.
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As dozens of people injured in a tornado at an Iowa Boy Scout camp recovered, families and friends tried to make sense of the tragedy that claimed the lives of four teenagers who had gone to the elite camp to learn how to be leaders.
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Employers shed 49,000 jobs as the unemployment rate rose the most since 1986.
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Anne Keothavong claims an impressive win over Francesca Schiavone to became the first British woman to reach the third round of US Open since 1991.
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