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/ 20 November 2008
It’s just 140km from New York, but Philadephia is finally stepping out of the Big Apple’s shadow — and its baseball team is better too.
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/ 15 October 2008
Director Kevin Smith has made a movie with such a bothersome title he cannot even place ads for it in some places.
A victorious Hillary Clinton convincingly kept her White House quest alive on Tuesday, triumphing over Barack Obama in Pennsylvania’s rancorous Democratic primary. ”Today here in Pennsylvania, you made your voices heard and because of you, the tide is turning,” Clinton told jubilant supporters after early results showed the former first lady beating Obama.
Democratic presidential rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton tried to explain recent controversial remarks during a tense debate on Wednesday, with Obama accusing Clinton of taking political advantage of his characterisation of small-town residents.
Democratic White House contender Barack Obama on Wednesday mocked rival Hillary Clinton’s claim to be a ”Rocky” fighter for the working classes, as polls suggested he is punching into her lead in gritty Pennsylvania. ”We all love Rocky, and last time I checked I was the underdog in this state,” Obama told trade unionists.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Wednesday won the endorsement of Lee Hamilton, a former Indiana congressman who is a leading United States authority on foreign relations and national security. Hamilton said Obama offers American voters the best chance to create a new sense of national unity and transcend division.
Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama assailed potential White House opponent John McCain on the economy on Tuesday, accusing the Republican of favoring the wealthy and turning his back on struggling workers and middle-class families.
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/ 13 February 2008
Aviation pioneer Frank Piasecki, inventor of the tandem-rotor helicopter used in troop-transport missions and land and sea rescue flights, has died. He was 88. Igor Sikorsky became the first American to build and fly a helicopter, in 1941, and Piasecki became the second, in 1943.
One of the girls who died in Pennsylvania’s Amish schoolhouse massacre asked the killer to shoot her first in an apparent bid to save younger girls. Rita Rhoads, a nurse-midwife who delivered 13-year-old Marian Fisher as well as another victim, said Fisher appealed to Charles Carl Roberts to shoot her first because she thought it might allow younger girls to survive.
A sperm donor passed an extremely rare and dangerous genetic ailment to five children born to four couples, doctors reported on Friday in a case that exposes a gap in the screening process. The disease, severe congenital neutropenia, can be fatal in children if untreated but is so rare that sperm banks do not test for it.
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/ 28 February 2006
A 20-year-old woman has made it big with the Philadelphia Orchestra — she’s been hired to be its tuba player, a job normally held by men in major orchestras. ”The fact that she is a young woman playing a very un-womanlike instrument is really extraordinary,” said Christoph Eschenbach, the orchestra’s music director.
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/ 14 December 2005
Steven Wooke takes a swig from a bottle of Heineken as his left hand rests on a small table, his fingers spread out like a fan of playing cards. He’s getting a manicure — or hand detailing, as the salon calls it — and it’s a form of pampering the 24-year-old information technology manager has learned to enjoy.
When the corpses come to town, anything can happen. Police seized a few of them during a raid in Taiwan. In Los Angeles, visitors gawked round-the-clock — and one was stolen. In San Francisco, some started oozing. So when the Body Worlds exhibit goes on display in Philadelphia, officials are hoping for an uneventful reception.
Women who plan to testify against actor and comedian Bill Cosby in another woman’s sex assault lawsuit will not have their identities shielded by the court, a judge ruled. A former Temple University employee is alleging that Cosby drugged and then fondled her. The other women make similar allegations.
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/ 2 December 2004
How’s this for creative thinking? A cafe has opened with pyjama-clad servers pouring cereal day and night, topping it off with everything from fruit to malted milk balls, and serving it in ”bowls” resembling Chinese takeout containers. Behind glass-door kitchen-style cabinets at Cereality are 30 varieties of brand-name cold cereal.
In an attempt to rein in soaring legal costs, the Big Three automakers have been fighting to get thousands of lawsuits filed by people who say they were sickened by asbestos in car brakes out of state courts and before a federal judge.