Saturday Drive: 2012 Fiat 500 Abarth

Source: Los Angeles Times

The car: The power: 160 horsepower and 170 pound-feet of torque from a 1.4-liter, inline, turbocharged four-cylinder engine routing power to the front wheels via a five-speed manual transmission. The photos: T ...
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Conger misses callup opportunity with injury

Source: MLB.com

SEATTLE -- The messages began rolling in for Hank Conger on May 11, the day Angels catcher Chris Iannetta underwent right wrist surgery and John Hester was called up to take his place on the roster. "People were like, 'Where you at? Why ...
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'Didn't you used to go to the Hacienda?'

Source: Guardian Unlimited

It is Saturday night in Manchester and the nightclub is thronged with sweating bodies. New Order's True Faith reverberates through the low-ceilinged room of the Irish Club in Manchester's Chorlton neighbourh ...
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Source: Ottawa Citizen

If you’re looking for modest home improvements, consider hardware that isn’t just for cabinets or doors. A new knob, drawer pull or other clever decorative items can bring vibrant new life to all kinds of furniture and accessor ...
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Poland: Eastern Europe's Success Story

Source: Real Clear World

There are cities that are as uninteresting as the stone they are made of, rigid and heavy, done up as stylishly as if they had been completely untarnished by the vagaries of history. And then there are the other kinds, the raw, rough, ...
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JENNIFER EGAN'S BITE-SIZED STORY

Source: More Intelligent Life | The Economist

When Jennifer Egan's novel "A Visit From the Goon Squad" won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011, the judges praised it as "an inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age". Now Egan is investigating new ways o ...
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Copyright Holders Punish Themselves With Crazy DMCA Takedowns

Source: Torrent Freak

Yesterday Google kindly published a database of takedown requests sent to the search giant on copyright grounds. The DMCA notices are supposed to help protect legitimate sales but entertainment companies sending them are clearly having p ...
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Harlequins have Leicester in their sights as they strive for respect

Source: Guardian Unlimited

For a variety of reasons Saturday's Aviva Premiership grand final needs to live up to its billing. Last weekend's display of pyrotechnics on the same ground by Leinster will take some eclipsing and the ongoing row ...
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Canadian woman continues tweeting her way to the top of Everest

Source: CBC News

At approx 3am on the 20th, 2-3 hours from summit, my sherpa yelled out that we needed to go down immed. Worse weather he had ever seen. After climbing down to the nearest camp, Leduc Tweeted once again to describe wh ...
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