Hurricane Rita picked up strength Wednesday as it churned toward the Texas Gulf Coast and was upgraded to a Category 4 storm with winds topping 135 mph.
More info and tracking the storm here at the National Hurricane Center website
Hot Gulf Waters temperatures fuel the storm, see this map and tracking available here also
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The iPod nano, Apple’s newest and smallest MP3 music player, measures 3.5 by 1.6 by .27 inches, and weighs 1.5 ounces. The Nano comes in two colors, white and black, and two sizes: a $199, 2-gigabyte model and a $249, 4-gigabyte version. All iPod nano models include earbud headphones, a USB 2.0 cable and a [...]
She says in an interview with Newsweek magazine: “What happened to me wasn’t fair. And lots of people let me down. A lot of people I thought were my friends turned on me.”
Kim was sentenced to 366 days in jail earlier this year after being found guilty of lying about a Manhattan shoot-out.
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“We depend on Japan, China, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, and Korea primarily to basically loan us money every day of the year to cover [Bush's] tax cut and these conflicts and Katrina,” Clinton says. “I don’t think it makes any sense. I think it’s wrong.”
Read the complete Interview here at The ABC News website
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North Korea agreed to end its nuclear weapons program this morning in return for security, economic and energy benefits.
Finally some good news.
Leading OPEC producer Saudi Arabia backs an increase in cartel output limits even though it is struggling to find buyers for more of its crude, Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said on Saturday.
“Absolutely, yes,” Naimi said of Riyadh’s support for raising OPEC’s 28-million barrels a day formal output ceiling.
“Absolutely not,” was his assessment of whether [...]
A new study concludes that warming sea temperatures have been accompanied by a significant global increase in the most destructive hurricanes, adding fuel to an international debate over whether global warming contributed to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina.
Read the complete article here at The Washingtom Post website
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The Pentagon tells [...]
Beans contain a potent anti-cancer compound. A diet rich in beans, nuts and cereals could be a way to prevent cancer, believe UK researchers. Scientists at University College London have discovered that these everyday foods contain a potent anti-cancer compound. This blocks a key enzyme involved in tumour growth, they told Cancer Research journal.
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President says the government will pay most of the costs for one of the largest reconstruction projects the world has ever seen.
The transcript of Bush’s remarks on Katrina recovery here on the Washington Post’s website
Did you see the speak on TV and what do you think about it?