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Star Trek 2 About that ending...
Admiral Alexander Marcus, a high-ranking Starfleet officer, was a new addition to the Trek lore, and his role in radically altered the mythology of the original series even more than Abrams’ first film. Apparently, after the destruction of Vulcan, Marcus sought to militarize Starfleet. In the process, he discovered Khan floating in the Botany ...
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Voice Team Xtina or Team Shakira
Image Credit: Art Streiber/NBC; Mark Seliger/NBC Ever since Shakira was first announced as Christina’s replacement, fans of the blond vocalists have been participating in a battle round of their own. And now that we know that both Christina and Shakira will return to their red swivel chairs within the next year, fans are more polarized than ever. While both are undoubtedly superstars, as ...
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Sports Briefing | Soccer Atltico Madrid Beats Real Madrid to Capture Copa del Rey Title
Atlético Madrid ended a 14-year winless run against Real Madrid to capture the Copa del Rey title, rallying to win, 2-1, in extra time after Cristiano Ronaldo and Coach José Mourinho of Real Madrid were sent off. It was ...
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Australian sports firm refutes charges of financial irregularities
Australian sports management firm Sports Marketing and Management (SMAM), which finds itself in the midst of controversy regarding the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, has refuted allegations of any financial ...
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FEATURE-Amid frenzy over map apps new focus on 16th century world view
Sat May 18, 2013 12:59am EDT * Renaissance cleric first wrote "America" on 1507 map * Resonance with current climate of "geo-enabled" devices * Google, Apple, Facebook looking at mapping apps By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON, May 18 (Reuters) - As online titans compete to deliver instant maps to smartphones, the Library of Congress in Washington is focusing attention on an antique ...
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Ken Venturi Dies 1964 U.S. Open Champion And CBS Sports Analyst Dead At 82
After his 12-foot putt nestled into the cup on the 18th green, Ken Venturi throws up his arms in celebration of his winning the 1964 U.S. Open golf title at Congressional CC in bethesda, Maryland, June 20, ...
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UPI Sports Calendar for Saturday May 18
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Crimson Tides Saban to enter state sports Hall of Fame
BIRMINGHAM — Nick Saban's scowling face now greets fans coming into the state of Alabama Sports Hall of Fame and a box of his cherished oatmeal cream pies rests at his ...
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Joss Whedons Much Ado in Seattle
festival circuit since September , but no other festival has made ado about the film quite like the Seattle International Film Festival, where Much Ado screened for a crowd of 3,000 on Thursday. The Shakespeare adaptation - which Whedon shot in ...
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Sports of The Times Working Different Sides of the Track at Pimlico
Joe Miller and Jimmy McCue work in different environments at the same racetrack. McCue, 66, has been a staff photographer at Pimlico Race Course since 1970. Miller, 50, has been the ...
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On Golf Rory McIlroy Is Said to Be Leaving Horizon Sports Management
Three years after he won his first PGA Tour title, Rory McIlroy returned last month to Quail Hollow, the scene of that inaugural victory, as the recently dethroned world No. 1 in search of his game and his first win of the new season. The simplicity that characterized ...
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TV Season Finale Awards Nominate
Yes, there are still a few season enders to come, but the nomination period for EW.com’s 4th Annual Season Finale Awards has officially begun! Help us celebrate the good and call out the bad by copying and pasting the list of this year's 20 categories below into a comment and writing in your picks. We’ll take them under advisement when we announce this year’s nominees on ...
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Retired couple with simple lifestyle want to maximize charitable giving
With their three children grown up and launched into successful careers, Ada and Alvin find they have more than they need.Alvin, 66, retired a couple of years ago with a company pension of $3,850 a month, but he still does some consulting work. As well, he and Ada get $2,630 between them in Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security benefits. Ada is ...
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From S.H.I.E.L.D. to Downton’s Dracula 10 New TV Shows to Check Out This Fall
In today's business world, disruption is a constant force that never lets up. At the annual WIRED Business Conference: Disruptive by Design, we celebrate the creative power of bold new ideas and the people that make them happen. See the event ...
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Bedroom tax prompts surge in pleas for council aid
bedroom tax ".More than 25,000 people applied for discretionary housing payments (DHP) to help cover their rent in April, compared with 5,700 in the same month last year, according to an analysis of 51 councils by the Independent.The government has substantially increased DHP funding for local authorities to help those most affected by the withdrawal of what ministers call the "spare ...
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Vampire Diaries Post-Grad plans
We changed our mind right about when the show started airing. Our original plan was Damon, because we thought that really made the most sense — the person who would probably least like to be human, and yet also missed it the most admittedly. To see Damon in a human life as Elena remained in a vampire life, we got excited about that opportunity. Then, the more we thought about it, the more ...
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Arrested Development boss says...
right here . What follows are bonus quotes from EW’s interviews with Hurwitz, in which he discusses the new season, how viewers should consume these episodes, and the plans for a movie. (Check back on EW.com next week to hear more from the ...
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Sports Briefing | Tennis Novak Djokovic Falls to Tomas Berdych at Italian Open
Top-ranked Novak Djokovic wasted a chance to serve out the match and was beaten, 2-6, 7-5, 6-4, by sixth-seeded Tomas Berdych in the Italian Open quarterfinals in Rome. It is the second consecutive week that Djokovic has struggled on clay; he also lost to Grigor Dimitrov in the second round of the Madrid Open, where he was bothered by a right ankle injury. In the ...
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2013 Diplomats Sport Games to be held in Boao Qionghai
Nearly 100 diplomats from 26 countries will gather in Bo’ao, Qionghai City of Hainan Province on May 17-19 for the fifth friendship Diplomat’s Sport Games. The games, which consist of golf and tennis tournaments with separate divisions for men and women, will allow diplomats to meet in a friendly environment and have fun. This kind of activity serves as a means of promoting ...
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Job Stress Affecting Your Heart Follow A Healthy Lifestyle
While a stressful job can increase the risk of heart problems and lead to a 25 percent higher chance of having a heart attack or dying of other heart related illnesses, researchers have found that a healthy lifestyle could reduce this risk. The results, which were published in ...
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Sports Briefing | Cycling Vincenzo Nibali of Italy Maintains Lead in Giro dItalia
Mark Cavendish of Britain sprinted to victory in the 13th stage of the Giro ...
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Red House 2 Elystan Street London
Prolific writer and commentator John Walsh contributes columns to the paper as well as writing features, interviews and restaurant reviews. He has been editor of The Independent Magazine, literary editor of the Sunday Times and features editor of the London Evening ...
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Pork knuckles cooked in cider with Tewkesbury mustard
Cooking pork or ham in cider imparts it with a flavour that is both delicious and subtle. What's more, the cooking liquor makes a fantastic ...
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Wine Something for the weekend
2011 Zind Humbrecht Reserve Pinot Gris A big wine from a giant Alsatian winemaker, intensely spicy and full-bodied with a spritz of honey-flecked apple and peach flavours. 14.99, buy 2 = 12.99, ...
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Slow-cooked lamb breast ribs
These are the ribs that are attached to the breast bone. They make excellent little snacks to nibble on if you cut through the bones, or you can serve them as slabs like this. Also they are - or should be - extremely cheap and can be perfect for the kids to munch ...
Kuala Lumpur Spotlight
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City's major raw water project
It’s been in the pipelines for several years, but finally the Pahang-Selangor raw water transfer project has found its feet with an official groundbreaking ceremony held in April of 2010, the facility, when completed, will enable a massive region of the country, including Kuala Lumpur, Selangor and Putrajaya to cope with increasing demand for raw water treatment from industrial, residential and tourism sectors of the economy.
The raw water treatment project is a massive undertaking: a pipeline is to be constructed run from Sungai Semantan in Pahang to the Hulu Langat water treatment facility in Selangor, it will be 44.6 kilometers long, the longest tunnel of its kind in Asia and the sixth largest in the world. When operating at maximum capacity, over 1,800 litres of raw water will be pumped to Selangor and treated for conversion to fresh water, according to Kuala Lumpur news media. Read more
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