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 The crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday is the first accident involving a Boeing 777 involving passenger fatalities, CBS News aviation and safety analyst Capt. Chesley Sullenberger saidSaturday.                                                                                                                          Asiana Airlines crash in San Francisco                      38 photos                                                                                          The crash is only the second major accident for the twin-engine, wide-bodied jet in the 18 years the model h stanley cup uk as been in service, aviation safety experts said. The 777 has a fantastic record,  said Tom Haueter, who retired last year from the National Transportation Safety Board, where he was the head of aviation accident investigations.According to the Wall Street Journal, prior to Saturday s deadly crash, the 777 had been one of the few long-range jets from Boeing and Airbus to have never recorded a fatality.In 2001, a member of the ground crew at Denver International Airport was fatally injured in an incident involving a 777, but the Asiana Airlines crash is the first involving passenger fatalities, according to the Aviation Safety Network. Deadly plane c stanley mugs rash at S.F. airportSan Francisco jet passenger calls crash  surreal Commonly referred to as the  Triple Seven,   stanley deutschland the 777 is a long-range jet designed primarily for extended flights over water. The plane that c Jqam Death toll from Joplin tornado now 142
 Mr. Skygack, a wayward Martian who came to earth via meteorite, made his first appearance in the Chicago Day Book in 1907.     Conceived by newspaper mogul Edward Willis Scripps, the Chicago Day Book was an experiment in advertisement-free newspaper publishing, intended for a working-class readership.  Free from commercial influence, the Day Book would repo stanley cup rt on issues of concern to what Scripps called the  95 percent  of the population.  Priced at one cent, like the other Chicago dailies of the period, the Day Book was published in a small tabloid format of nine by six inches, with 32 pages per issue. The Day Books most celebrated reporter was Carl Sandburg. Staff cartoonist A.D. Condo created Mr. Skygack in part because it gave him a chance to comment on and satirize the social norms of the day, which was part and parcel with one of the goals of socialist-le stanley cup becher aning Day Book. The strips alternated as multi-panel cartoons, usually illustrating the adventures of the hapless Mr. Skygack and his adventures with his nem stanley botella esis, Adolf, with single panels. In these latter we get to read over the shoulder of the Martian as he records his naive impressions of earth life, which sound very much like something written by the Coneheads. In the words of the cartoon   subtitle, He Visits the Earth as a Special Correspondent and Makes Wireless Observations in His Notebook.  Mr. Skygack, we learn, was the son of Professor Solonmon Skygack, professor of astronomy at the University of

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 NORTH ATTLEBORO, Mass. State police officers and dogs searched the home of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez as they investigate the killing of a semi-pro football player whose body was found nearby.Saturday s search of Hernandez s sprawling home in North Attleboro involved several officers, including one with a crowbar, and locksmiths.Police have previously searched in and around the home as they try to figure out who killed Odin Lloyd, whose body was found about a mile from Hernandez s ho stanley cups uk me.Lloyd s family says the two men were friends and together the night he died. Authorities have ruled Lloyd s death a homicide.A spokeswoman for the Bristol District Attorney s office declined to comment on the investigation Saturday.        An attorney for Hernandez has said he would not comment on the searches.Police in nearby Providence, R stanley uk .I., said they had assisted Massachusetts state police and North Attleborough police with activity related to the Hernandez investigation at a stri stanley us p club named Club Desire. It was unclear if they believed Lloyd and Hernandez might have been at the club in the days before Lloyd died. A reporter was escorted out of the club Friday afternoon before she could speak with employees or patrons.By the time Attleboro District Court closed Friday, no arrest warrants had been filed in state courts, clerk magistrate Mark E. Sturdy said. Three search warrants were issued in the investigation earlier in the week but have not yet been made public.Family  Lnis Holy Record Pressing Batman, it   s a Bat-logo-shaped Vinyl!
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 Louisiana Sen. David Vitter may be called to testify in the upcoming trial of a woman accused of running a high-end Washington prostitution ring.The Republican senator was identified Monday as one of several possible witnesses as jury selection began in the racketeering and money laundering case against Deborah Palfrey.Vitter has ackno stanley cup website wledged being involved with her escort service. But after issuing  vaso stanley brief statements apologizing for  a very serious sin,  he has ducked follow-up questions.On the witness stand, he would not have that luxury. One of Palfrey s previous attorneys has said he wanted to make Vitter say exactly what services Palfrey s company provided the senator.Palfrey maintains that her firm, Pamela Martin and Associates, offered fantasy services, not sexual ones. Any woman who so stanley cup ld sex was a  rogue escort  who violated company policy, she says.        Vitter s attorney did not return a message seeking comment Monday.Palfrey s attorney, Preston Burton, also named Randall Tobias, a former senior State Department official, as a possible witness. Tobias resigned his post last year after phone records linked him to the escort service.Prosecutors listed among their witnesses several former escorts as well as military strategist Harlan Ullman, who is known for developing the  shock and awe  warfare strategy.Palfrey says Ullman was a regular client. Ullman has declined to discuss what he has called  outrageous allegations.       ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child  Xkmt What Is the Resolution of the Human Eye
 Anyone dreaming of casting off the shackles of Earth for the microgravity wasteland of Mars is in for some  more  bad news. In addition to a host of other problems, the necessary 18-month spaceflight would, apparently, lead to one very unhealthy  and spherical  astronaut heart.     https://gizmodo/meet-the-people-who-would-leave-earth-and-take-a-one-wa-1537495094 The new findings come from a recent NASA study in which 12 astronauts aboard the ISS took ultrasound images of their hearts before, d stanley cups uk uring, and after their six-month stint in space. What they found confirmed scientists ; previous prediction: In microgravity, the human heart becomes more spherical by a factor of nearly 10 percent. According to James Tomas, M.C., Moore Chair of Cardiovascular Imaging and Lead Scientist for Ultrasound at NASA: The heart doesn ;t work as hard in space, which can cause a loss of muscle mass. That can  stanley termosar have serious consequences after the return to Earth, so we ;re looking into whether there are measures that can be taken to prevent or counteract that loss. At least for the short amount of time ISS astronauts are in space, the heart condition seems to be only temporary; the participants ; hearts returned to their longer, typical shape not lo stanley mugs ng after returning to Earth. And though scientists know a more spherical heart likely means it   performing less efficiently, the long term cardiovascular effects of the change in shape have yet to be determined. Stil, it 

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 ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. It could be an anxious wait of up to two months for people in a small Florida city to find out who won the highest Powerball jackpot in history: an estimated $590.5 million.The lucky ticket was bought sometime Saturday or earlier at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, a city of a stanley cup bout 13,000 people best known around the state for its brand of spring water with the same name.Officials said it was a single ticket with just one set of numbers, chosen randomly stanley uk  for the buyer by computer, a quick pick, according to CBS affiliate WTSP in Tampa.The winner has 60 days to claim the lump-sum cash option, estimated around $376.9 million, at the Florida Lottery s office in Tallahassee. Under Florida law, lottery winners in the state cannot remain anonymous; their names and city of residence must be made publicly available to anyone who asks, according to the state s lottery website. No one had come forward as of Monday morning. It never happens this quickly,  lottery spokesman David Bishop said.  If they know they won, they re going to contact their attorney or an accountant first so they can get their affairs in order.         The winner wasn t Matthew Bogel. On Sunday, he loaded groceries into his ca stanley cup r after shopping at the Publix. He shook his head when asked about the jackpot. It s crazy, isn t it   he said.  That s so much money. Lotto winners with tragic story thank  guardian angel  Small Fla. town wonders who the Powerball winner is Lottery officials confirm lone w Ytbm OSIRIS-REx Wants to Lasso an Asteroid to Explain Life on Earth
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 These are way more eye-catching than those televised public service announcements about carbon monoxide leaks and downed power lines. They ;re also straight-up ghoulish.     Over at 50 Watts, art and design blogger Will Schofield has curated a fantastic collection of vintage workplace safety posters, printed in the Netherlands from the 1920s through 1970s. We ;ve featured a few of our favorites here, but you ;ll want to check out 50 Watts for the full roundup. All images courtesy of  Geheugenvannederland.nl  Memory of the Netherlands  via 50 Watts. 1925-1926, illus. Willem Papenhuyzen via Memory of the Netherlands  1925-1949, poster by Evert M枚llenkamp via Memory of the Netherlands  1926-1927, poster by Albert Hah stanley cups uk n via Memory of the Netherlands  1927-1928, poster by Albert Hahn via Memory of the Netherlands  1940, poster by Drik de Leeuw via Memory of the  stanley website Netherland stanley shop s  1942, poster by Hans Bolleman via Memory of the Netherlands  1967, designer unknown, via Memory of the Netherlands  1975, poster by Frans Mettes via Memory of the Netherlands [Spotted on Fresh Photons]                                                        Technology

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 Scores of family planning clinics in at least 12 states have received letters containing anthrax threats, according to officials of feminist and abortion-rights organizations.Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, said more than 200 clinics and advocacy organizations received letters Thursday delivered in Federal Express envelopes.  Envelopes that were opened contained white powder and letters signed by  the Army of God. It was the second such mailing to abortion-rights groups in recent weeks.  The FBI is investigating more than 280 threatening letters claiming to contain anth stanley mug rax that were mailed in mid-October.  None has tested positive for anthrax.Among the messages in the latest batch of letters, according to Smeal s group, were:  You ve ignored our earlier warnings.  You ve been exposed to the real thing.  High-quality. Targeted groups included the Feminist Majority Foundation, the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, Catholics for a Free Choice, Advocates stanley cup  for Youth, and the American Association of Univers stanley mugs ity Women.        Those who sent the letters somehow obtained the account numbers of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the National Abortion Federation to pay for the mailings, according to officials of both organizations.  They said packages have been tracked to at least three drop-off locations in Virginia and Philadelphia.Most of the letters were received in states along the East Coast.  Some also were reported in Detroit.More pack Upas Grandma Charged With Looting Freed
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 There is something encouraging about the economy Thursday. The number of Americans filing for unemployment dropped to 364,000 last week -- the fewest since April of 2008 -- and consumer confidence is on the rise. CBS News correspondent Anthony Mason has been looking into all this.The mood at the mall is brightening. I guess I m more in the Christmas spirit this year,  said shopper Vanessa Hartman. This past Saturday, shoppers spent $26 billion -- a record for the last full Saturday before Christmas.MarketWatch: U.S. stocks lifted by data MarketWatch: Initial jobless claims lo stanley kubek west since April 2008         I m spending more on others and more on myself,  said consumer Bobby Duffield. Shoppers like him are confirming what surveys show: that consumers are feeling better about the economy. This year people seem more confident about the future,  said Duffield. Employers are more confident too. Steve Tiffen, whose Long Island company makes filters for camera lenses, said:  I feel the U.S. economy is getting better.   But are you hiring   Mason asked him.             We have taken an approach to increase our temporary staff,  he said. T stanley cup iffin has added 20 temporary workers this year -- a 10 percent increase. But he wants the situation in Europe and Washington to stabilize. Then we ll start putting more permanent people on,  said Tiffin.Weekly first-time unemployment claims have been falling steadily for the last month and are now well below 400,000. It  stanley cup website looks like we re past the threat Gboe Two New Apollo Program Books Celebrate Human Exploration of the Moon
 Water is necessary to make Coke, but what happens when the process is reversed to turn Coke into water  This art installation shows you how it   done.     Artist Helmut Smits worked with Martien W眉rdemann of the University of Amsterdam   Synthetic Organic Chemistry Groupto design the project which takes a bottle of coke and extracts drinking water from it. So how does the exhibit, called The Real Thing, work  Wired explains the process: There   a glass bottle of Coca-Cola boiling in a beaker of oil. As the sugary drink boils, it slowly yields water vapor that   then caught in glass piping and transferred into another beaker. In just one day, the machine can convert a bottle of Coke into a glass of clean drinking water. If you ;ve ever seen Waterworld, this will surely sound stanley vattenflaska  a little familiar. Now exactly how much water Smits was able to extract from a bottle of Coke isn  stanley thermos mug ;t clear. Certainly, this process would result in some loss in th stanley botella e transfer. Plus, as Smits pointed out to Dezeen magazine, it took nine liters of water to make that single liter of Coke in the first place. Are there more efficient ways to get safe, clean drinking water out into the world than a Coke to water transformation  Undoubtedly. Still, it raises another major water issue: Availability. In some parts of the world people don ;t have access to clean drinking water, Smits told Dezeen, but you can buy a bottle of Coke there. Images: Photos

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 For all their differences, Americans largely agree on two things: 2009 was a lousy year for the nation, and 2010 is likely to be better.Nearly three-fourths of Americans think 2009 was a bad year for the country, which was rocked by job losses, home foreclosures and economic sickness. Forty-two percent rated it  very bad,  according to the latest AP-GfK poll.That s clearly worse than in stanley flasche  2006, the last time a similar poll was taken. The survey that year found that 58 percent of Americans felt the nation had suffered a bad year, and 39 percent considered it a good year.Fewer than half as many people, 16 percent, said their family had a  very good year  in 2009 as said that in 2006.Behind the gloominess, however, are more hopeful views that seem to reflect Americans  traditional optimism or, perhaps, wishful thinking.        Even though most said it was a bad year for the country, three in five Americans said their own family had a good year in 2009, while about two in five called it a bad year.Some 72 percent of Americans said t stanley flasche hey re optimistic about what 2010 will bring for the country. Even more, four in five, are optimistic about what the year will bring for their families.Curiously, however, nearly two-thirds think their family finances will worsen or stay about the same next y stanley canada ear.Mari Flanigan of South Milwaukee, Wis., is one of those who feel fairly optimistic that things will go better at a personal level in 2010 even though her financial situation might grow worse.     Aoek Nespresso VertuoLine: Like Keurig Coffee, But With Style
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 Investigators said they have discover stanley cups ed anthrax in a new location in the Hart Senate office building Wednesday evening, even as another Senate building became the first to reopen since a let stanley quencher ter contaminated with the bacteria was discovered last week on Capitol Hill.Capitol Police Lt. Dan Nichols said anthrax was found on a first-floor freight elevator bank in the Hart building s southwest quadrant. The anthrax-laden letter was opened in the office of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., which is on the fifth and sixth floors of that same building but in its southeast quadrant.Nichols said investigators would be trying to determine how the anthrax reached the elevator bank. The Hart building and all other congressional office buildings have been closed since the evening of Oct. 17.Though Congress  five other office buildings remained closed, wary workers were allowed back into the Russell Senate office building across the street from the Capitol on Wednesday morning. The building houses the offices of 36 of the Senate s 100 members kubki stanley .With public concern and criticism growing about the government s response to the anthrax attacks, the White House struggled Wednesday to reassure the American people that the nation s mail delivery system was safe.        In an exclusive interview with CBS News Anchor Dan Rather, Tom Ridge, the new Director of Homeland Security, said the Bush administration feels the public health community has done an  exceptional job  handling the anthrax t Mfzj Anti-jihad ads going up in NYC subway
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