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It was made taken three shots with red, green and blue filters on the camera. The three photographic plates now reside in a small museum at 14 India Street, Edinburgh, the house where Maxwell was born.

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This guide shows how you can set up an OpenSUSE 10.3 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, incl. Skype, Flash Player, Adobe Reader, multimedia codecs, and Google Earth. The benefits are: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best is: all software comes free of charge.

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If the parents do not comply, Mr. Frye tells them, their child’s grade may suffer — a threat on which he has made good only once in the three years he has been making such assignments. The point, he said, is to keep parents involved in their children’s ’ education well into high school.

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He is accused of shoplifting the pastry in Farmington, Mo., and pushing a store worker trying to stop him. The worker was unhurt. But with that shove, his shoplifting turned into a strong-arm robbery. As a persistent offender, man could face a murderer's term. "I can't believe this crap," he said.

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So you have been on the front page of Digg, you have been a Stumble Upon Top Pick and the blogospere buzz machine has blessed you with enough ink to make Gutenberg cry. Still, your neighbors still doesn’t have any idea what it is that you are doing coding in your den all night long. In fact, he’s pretty sure that you’re some kind of terrorist.

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Recording Industry Association of America defendant Jammie Thomas was found liable Thursday for copyright piracy in the nation's first file-sharing case to go before a jury.

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In business, we often compose messages in a hurry for e-mails, notes, urgent reports, or last-minute projects. Editing is, therefore, especially necessary to rid your writing of confusing, boring, and obsolete elements. Here are some great tips that help you decide which words to cut and which words to put in their place.

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The world’s financial system came precariously close to seizing up these past couple months. In fact, as far as some big banks and financial institutions were concerned, for a moment in time, the system was in a full-blown cardiac arrest. Liquidity, the flow of money the lifeblood of todays economic structure came uncomfortably close to clotting up

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On a plane back from New York, someone sitting next to me noticed I was writing my next blog, and asked me what my “10 Commandments of Investing” would be. A quick conversation led me to rapidly type my thoughts. So, consider this my extremely abbreviated summary of the things you should never forget when investing and planning your future.

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The near doubling in the cost of a college degree the past decade has produced an explosion in high-priced student loans that could haunt the U.S. economy for years. While scholarship, grant money and government-backed student loans -- whose interest rates are capped -- have taken up some of the slack, many families and individual student...

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For 100 years economists have followed the Pareto Principle in business. The 80/20 rule also applies to life and Diggs. Internet Business has been showing signs of eliminating the 80/20 rule as mentioned by Wired Magazine. Now researchers at MIT have released a new report showing case studies on how Internet Business is killing the 80/20 rule.

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Wow! This is a list of countries and territories by current account balance, in millions of U.S. dollars, equivalence based on The World Factbook. It's sobering to see where the US stands against China.

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When you rent, most people mistakenly assume the decision is made out of necessity, not rationality. But there is a very good reason to rent in today's bubble-stricken market: median incomes do not support median home prices.

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See story. The Canadian Dollar will probably surpass the US Dollar sometime today.

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The Canadian dollar reached parity Thursday morning with the U.S. currency for the first time in 31 years.

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He wears a $15 watch, flies economy class and does not own a house or car. For years few guessed that Chuck Feeney was one of the world's biggest philanthropists, secretly giving away his billionaire fortune. He liked making money but not having it, and gave it away for years in strict secrecy.

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America's love affair with consumption has been a big source of economic stimulus for a long time. But the party might be about to end. Americans' overextended wallets could trigger the most severe downturn in economic activity seen since at least the 1980s — and possibly since the Great Depression.

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An all new meeting, with all new comments...FIRST!

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The Federal Reserve Tuesday responded aggressively to a housing downturn that threatens to spread to the broader economy, cutting its main benchmark interest rate by a half-percentage point and broadly lowering borrowing costs.

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"Remind me to do burnouts on each and every one of these."

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