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View Article  Huge Kite-Tubing Faceplant (Some off color language)
by Riley Jones on Mon 16 Jun 2008 07:28 PM EDT

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View Article  Free Root Beer Floats to Everyone Monday, June 16 – National Free Float Day
by Riley Jones on Mon 16 Jun 2008 04:23 PM EDT


A&W™ restaurants is treating Americans to a sweet deal on Monday, June 16 – a free root beer float and no purchase is necessary.

With gas prices at all time highs, 30 percent higher than a year ago, and grocery food prices increasing by double digits, A&W thought it was high time to provide Americans some sweet relief.

"We want to give people a great start to their summer and a little economic relief by treating America to one of their favorite sweets, the A&W Root Beer Float," said Ben Butler, President, A&W Restaurants. The free A&W Root Beer Float treat will be available at the national restaurant's nearly 700 stores.

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View Article  Lotus vs. Apache
by Riley Jones on Mon 16 Jun 2008 10:39 AM EDT
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View Article  Death special: The plan for eternal life
by Riley Jones on Mon 16 Jun 2008 08:51 AM EDT


The method is being developed (in mice, so far) to better understand the architecture of the brain. But Sandberg, who is based at the University of Oxford, has a rather more ambitious aim in mind. For him, this work is merely the first step towards uploading the contents of human brains - memories, emotions and all - onto a computer.

Immortality?

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View Article  Bike Stunts! (And a few mishaps...)
by Riley Jones on Mon 16 Jun 2008 08:46 AM EDT
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