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  • Troubling questions rise from bridge collapse

    View Photo Associated Press/Elaine Thompson - Workers walk past the collapsed portion of the Interstate 5 bridge at the Skagit River Friday, May 24, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash. A truck carrying an oversize load ...

  • Baseball players reward for fantastic catch

    You know you're on the road when you go barreling into the stands to make a great catch, get up, climb back on the field and a fan throws a beer at you. ...

  • This must be Michelle Obamas favorite dress

    More on Yahoo!: First Lady Lauds Efforts to Save DC Slave House By our count, she's worn the dress (which cost about $720 retail) at least seven times since she debuted it on January 21, 2009, the day after President Barack Obama's inauguration, at a non-denominational prayer service held at the Washington National Cathedral followed by a luncheon. On Wednesday, she donned it again ...

  • One swing proves sluggers ridiculous power

    This composite clip shows six pitches of varied location that Cabrera not only hit with power, but for home runs. The footage has been synchronized to the time of contact and stabilized at home plate to represent the end location of each pitch as accurately as possible. The pitches are taken from the last year, with the furthest off the plate over nine inches ...

  • Key satellite fails exactly at inopportune time

    View Photo Reuters/Reuters - A winter storm system is seen over the eastern United States in this March 6, 2013 satellite image courtesy of NASA. ...


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Better Off Dead [DVD]

Better Off Dead [DVD]

Of all the teen comedies made in the 1980s--and there were oh so many--Savage Steve Holland's Better Off Dead stands on its own as a unique, kooky gem. Call it the nadir of teenage-embarrassment comedy, Better Off Dead strikes chords with anyone who has known and been able to laugh at middle-class American teenage angst at its worst. The fact that Holland manages to derive near-surr ... ...

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  • Protests against property tax to continue ahead of deadline

    A series of car cavalcades and rallies are taking place in Dublin and around the country this weekend in protest against the property tax.It comes just a few days ahead of next Tuesday's deadline to pay the charge.Revenue officials say over 1.1 million homeowners have filed their returns, and that anyone still wishing to do so can log on to www.revenue.ie.However, the Campaign Against Home ...

  • Commercial property markets take an early holiday

    Yields in the European commercial property investment market gathered pace in the second quarter of 2008 rising to their highest since 2006, according to Cushman & Wakefield. The real estate firm found that investment volumes are down 63 per cent on the same period in 2007, and that trading volumes fell to €25.6bn in quarter two, which is their lowest since 2003. Prime yields on ...

  • Fidelity International Real Estate Business expands into Germany

    Fidelity International’s Real Estate Business is planning to expand into the Continental European market with the opening of a dedicated Fidelity Real Estate Business office in Munich. The new office, which is currently going through its regulatory notifications, will provide a strategic base for Fidelity’s director of European Real Estate, Keith Sutton. From here he will ...

  • Another barrier falls in American sports

    according to ESPN , he is also "the first active openly gay male athlete to compete in an American professional team sport." Rogers came out in February with a moving post on his personal blog, saying "Secrets can cause so much internal damage. People love to preach about honesty, how honesty is so plain and simple. Try explaining to your loved ones after 25 years you are ...

  • Improving economy alters political landscape

    FILE - In this May 15, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks on the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The economy is clearly, if slowly, recovering on Obama s watch and robbing Republicans of a central argument against Democrats. But the alleged misbehavior by the Internal Revenue ...

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