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The Tech Museum of Innovation is a hands-on technology and science museum for people of all ages and backgrounds. Located in San Jose, California - the Capital of Silicon Valley - its mission, as a public-benefit corporation, is to inspire the innovator in everyone. Through hands-on exhibits, educational programs, the annual Tech Challenge team competition for youth, and the internationally rec...

Warning: This essay is about the film, "Sex and the City"; I may never be able to win back my male readers for bringing up a subject that all red-blooded American guys consider anathema. Gentlemen, forgive me for my indulgence, and I promise to write an article about boxing or baseball.

Men and women share the same planet, but it seems we live in different dimensions. Females are ethereal...

"Industry reaction to REBN has been phenomenal," said Andrew Friendly. "The national expansion of the organization reflects the dramatic increase in the number of professionals involved in the renewable and clean energy sector. We are establishing a collaborative culture in which members can informally exchange ideas and form new relationships, ultimately leading to new efforts to address globa...

raging bands of servicemen who scoured the streets in Los Angeles looking for and

June 03, 2008 12:00 PM by findingDulcinea Staff On June 3, 1943, sailors from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory attacked Hispanic youths, starting a week-long ethnic conflict known as the “zoot suit riots.” Email This Send Feedback The riots began as revenge for a sailor who had been assaulted...

No. Since when did members of the royal family have to work?

Yes. Why shouldn't she have to work like the rest of the royals?

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June 3: The Congress wants to become a mass-based party like the "Red" Marxists and the "saffron" rightists. This view is gaining ground in the AICC’s "Future Challenges Group" after the series of electoral reverses the party has suffered in the state Assembly polls in the past few months.

Though sources in the "Future Challenges Group" on Tuesday said the main issue before the party is...

- For California State Parks Foundation Bill Bradley, 916-658-0144 or 916-213-5230 bill@perrycom.com California State Parks and the California State Parks Foundation today celebrates the grand opening of the new Ano Nuevo State Reserve Marine Education Center with a symbolic "kelp cutting" ceremony attended by donors, state officials, foundation leadership and environmental advocates. More than...

Tampa, FL (Sports Network) - The Tampa Bay Lightning have fired head coach John Tortorella.

Tortorella, who had one year remaining on his contract, led the Lightning to a Stanley Cup championship after the 2003-04 season, but the club was bounced in the first round of the next two playoffs and finished this season dead last in the NHL, earning the No. 1 pick in the upcoming draft.

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All eyes will be on Ottawa on June 20 for the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. Sarnia Sting forward Steven Stamkos tops the list of prospects and is all but guaranteed to be taken first overall by the Tampa Bay Lightning. The draft can be seen LIVE on TSN on June 20 at 7pm et/4pm pt.

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