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Mr. Gutheinz was the undercover agent who led a Miami sting operation to recover a moon rock stolen in Honduras in 1998.
from NASA Searches for Loot That Traveled From Space to Another Void
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Chicken-baiting politicians is not what you’d expect from a man who runs a company with a market capitalization of almost $50 billion, but it is in line with the run-and-gun spirit of Twitter.
from A Glimpse of Murdoch Unbound
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Rosalind Wiseman, who studies how teenagers use technology and is author of “Queen Bees and Wannabes,” a book for parents about helping girls survive adolescence, said the sharing of passwords, and the pressure to do so, was somewhat similar to sex.
from Young, in Love and Sharing Everything, Including a Password
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Even writing this column shows how I’ve become part of his joke, which is expanding into the media landscape the way the Blob attacked a small town.
from Beneath a Deeply Silly Campaign, a Deeply Serious Performer
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By e-mail or telephone, via friends or via silence, dozens of 1 percenters declined to be interviewed for this article.
from Among the Wealthiest One Percent, Many Variations
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The jobless rate among youths is nearly 70 percent, a staggering problem that even a college degree does not promise to solve.
from Fatal Stampede in South Africa Points Up University Crisis
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Under international law, the United States government still owns everything it left on the moon: the bottom half of the first lunar lander, the scientific experiments, the urine bags.
from To Preserve History on the Moon, Visitors Are Asked to Tread Lightly
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Kim Jong-chol, 30, was Kim Jong-il’s first son with Ms. Ko. But his father considered him too feminine to lead the North’s militaristic regime, North Korea scholars in Seoul said.
from North Korea’s Succession Unfolds in Cloud of Mystery
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“A pigeon performing the math test. A border around an image appears when the pigeon pecks the screen.” from How Smart Is This Bird? Let It Count the Ways

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Nut theft has long been a reality here in the nation’s pecan belt. It has become such a way of life that a south Georgia rapper, Hawkdogg, even has a song about it: “Crank Dat Pecan.
from Pecan Thieves in Georgia Enjoying a Windfall, at $1.50 a Pound
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Yet those who met him were surprised by his serious demeanor and his knowledge of events beyond the hermit kingdom he controlled.
from Kim Jong-il, North Korean Leader, Dies
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Many troops wondered how the Iraqis, whom they had worked closely with and trained over the past year, would react when they awakened on Sunday to find that the remaining American troops on the base had left without saying anything.
from Last Convoy of American Troops Leaves Iraq
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Mr. Parker described his Twitter musings as a failed experiment.
from Friending the New York Scene
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A peer-reviewed survey of 439 medical technicians published this year in Perfusion, a journal about cardio-pulmonary bypass surgery, found that 55 percent of technicians who monitor bypass machines acknowledged to researchers that they had talked on cellphones during heart surgery. Half said they had texted while in surgery.
from As Doctors Use More Devices, Potential for Distraction Grows
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Mr. Kent said Canada could meet its commitment only through extreme measures, like pulling all motor vehicles from its roads and shutting heat off to every building in the country.
from Canada Announces Exit From Kyoto Climate Treaty