Heat In Middle Eastern Country Nears 120 Degrees

Posted: September 22, 2019 at 7:37 am

The hottest temperatures registered at 14 of the 15 official weather stations in the world were in Iraq today.  All reached approximately 110 degrees. At Nasiriya the figure reached just ...
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Nike, Micron, BlackBerry, Carnival and More Major Earnings Coming This Week

Posted: September 22, 2019 at 7:10 am

The markets are currently in the quiet period between earnings seasons, but a few major companies will be sharing their results this week. While these firms aren’t Apple, Boeing or ...
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Actors Who Turned Down Blockbuster Roles

Posted: September 21, 2019 at 1:28 pm

As they often say in Hollywood, casting is 90% of directing. And when a film is cast well, it becomes nearly impossible to imagine the characters played by anyone other ...
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50 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen

Posted: September 21, 2019 at 12:43 pm

Some movies have such wide appeal that they're nearly universally adored. Films like "Casablanca" and "The Godfather" -- considered among the best movies of all time -- exemplify the best ...
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5 Very Well-Known Stocks Trading Under $10 With Huge Potential Upside

Posted: September 21, 2019 at 8:50 am

While most of Wall Street focuses on large and mega cap stocks, as they provide a degree of safety and liquidity, many investors are limited in the number of ...
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Apple Soars to Become Best Dow Stock of the Year as iPhone 11 Is Released

Posted: September 21, 2019 at 8:45 am

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has taken the lead as the best-performing stock in the Dow Jones industrial average, up 38.03% to $217.73, beating the other 29 components for 2019 so ...
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What Makes Water Clean

Posted: September 21, 2019 at 8:40 am

Flint, Michigan, has had dangerous water for five years, at least. It contains too much lead. Newark, New Jersey, faces a similar crisis. Although most drinking water in the United ...
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The Best Fall Foliage in Every State

Posted: September 20, 2019 at 7:58 pm

What’s better than a pumpkin spice latte and unlikely to go out of fashion? Autumn foliage. Nearly every state goes through a dramatic, multicolored transformation as temperatures drop in ...
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50 Things Only People Raised in a Latino Family Will Understand

Posted: September 20, 2019 at 7:55 pm

Is there a shaker of Goya Adobo seasoning on your kitchen counter? How about a butter container full of leftovers in the fridge? There are some things that only ...
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The Surprising Stories Behind 50 Country Names

Posted: September 20, 2019 at 7:31 pm

Part of the joy of travel is discovering the background and the story of the country you are visiting. Names of nations can tell you something about a country’s ...
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Best Weekend Trips on the West Coast This Fall

Posted: September 20, 2019 at 5:59 pm

We've officially said our goodbyes to summer and it's time to welcome the new season with open arms. With the arrival of fall comes back-to-school, event-packed days and less ...
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Bruce Springsteen’s Greatest Songs on His 70th Birthday

Posted: September 20, 2019 at 5:23 pm

Late that same year, album number two came out -- "The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle." Influenced by Van Morrison's groundbreaking "Astral Weeks" (which "was like a ...
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What the World Was Like a Million Years Ago

Posted: September 20, 2019 at 4:24 pm

What was Earth like one million years ago? If our planet is 4.54 billion years old, a million years is not much more than an eyeblink in eternity. In ...
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America’s Unsafe Medical Products

Posted: September 20, 2019 at 2:00 pm

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued eight new safety alerts in the month of August, four related to product recalls, one a product warning and three product safety ...
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Three Mile Island Nuke Plant Closes Friday

Posted: September 20, 2019 at 12:25 pm

In March 1979, one of two nuclear-powered electricity-generating units at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island experienced a partial meltdown. The reactor that had become operational in April of 1978 never generated ...
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