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  • Independent Publishing Houses in Mexico Promote Democratization of Books at Annual Fair

    MEXICO CITY, MEXICO Gustavo Barr?n, 22, glances at the books on display at the Feria del Libro Independiente, a book fair featuring independent publishing houses in Mexico City, Mexicos capital. While perusing the selection, Barr?n, a university student studying history, holds a book about guerrilla groups in Mexico in the 1970s and the transition to democracy. The publisher is Ce-Acatl, a ...

  • With Russian Help Europe Prepares to Search for Life on Mars

    PARIS The European Space Agency signed final contracts with Thales Alenia Space Italy for work on a pair of missions to assess if the planet Mars has or ever had life, officials said at the Paris Airshow this week. Until last year, the ExoMars program was a joint project between ESA and the U.S. space agency NASA. But NASA dropped out, citing budget problems. The Russian space ...

  • Kids briefs Snowball Day coming to Carnegie Science Center

    Visitors who bring in saved snowballs can name their own admission price. The North Side center is expecting hundreds of snowballs that survived in freezers. Guests bring their snowballs in coolers, freezer bags, frosty coffee cans, plastic storage containers and other things. The only thing guests need to figure out is how to keep the snowballs from melting in ...

  • N.S. MLA who defrauded taxpayers in scandal finally resigns

    Ex-N.S. MLA Russell MacKinnon pleads guilty in expense scandal HALIFAX - After admitting to fraud over $5,000 and breach of trust earlier this week, disgraced Nova Scotia Independent MLA Trevor Zinck finally took the hint and resigned from his seat. On Monday, Zinck reversed his plea in a case involving constituency expenses, admitting to fraud over $5,000 and breach of trust in exchange for a ...

  • Children given antibiotics in first year more likely to develop eczema

    eczema , according to a new study by British researchers."One potential explanation is that broad-spectrum antibiotics alter the gut microflora and that this in turn affects the maturing immune system in a way that prompts allergic disease development," said researcher Dr Teresa Tsakok, who works at St Thomas's hospital in London.The findings, published in the British Journal of ...


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Witchboard [DVD]

Witchboard [DVD]

Witchboard is a better-than-average low-budget occult thriller that was largely written off as yet another Exorcist wannabe when it first came out in the mid-1980s. Its lineage from William Friedkins 1973 horror masterpiece is certainly obvious, particularly its dual narrative ab ... ...

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  • Russia-linked Firm Develops Video App to Help Solve Crime in US

    WASHINGTON/MOSCOW, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – The US affiliate of a Russian software company has developed a database for the city of Baltimore that would help its police department track down private surveillance video that could solve crimes, an executive from EastBanc Technologies’ (EBT) Washington office said Wednesday. "We’ve almost completed development of a database ...

  • Louisiana teen allegedly killed half-sister with TV wrestling moves

    Police car lights. (QMI Agency) A 13-year-old boy has been charged with murder in New Orleans after causing the death of his 5-year-old half-sister using wrestling moves he had seen on television, police said. Viloude Louis died Sunday afternoon of blunt force trauma to her body, including broken ribs and a damaged liver, police said, after the boy wrestled with her using World Wrestling ...

  • Pussy Riot star Maria Alekhina staging play in prison

    Freed Pussy Riot star says she's under surveillance Incarcerated Pussy Riot star Maria Alekhina is planning to stage a theatre production for fellow inmates at the prison where she is serving her sentence. The punk star was jailed for two years in 2012 after staging a musical protest against Russian President Vladimir Putin at a church in Moscow. She has been a vocal critic of conditions ...

  • Civil rights under attack by big government Beck

    Glenn Beck (L) addresses the crowd during a Tea Party rally to "Audit the IRS" in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington June 19, 2013. REUTERS/Gary Cameron WASHINGTON -- The United States government is trampling on Americans' civil rights, according to popular conservative commentator Glenn Beck. And the scandal currently embroiling the Internal Revenue Service, that it ...

  • Death of Dolphin in China Sparks Outrage—and Questions

    The death of a dolphin in China that was photographed with beachgoers handling it shortly beforehand has sparked outrage on the country's social media ...

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