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Your Birdsong Stays on My Mind

“Officers, life doesn’t have to be ugly. See, look at the birds out there. Listen to their call: ‘Oo-wee! Oo-wee! Oo-wee! Oo-wee!” — Beverly Sutphin, Serial Mom Alas, as fans of John Waters’ masterpiece know, Beverly’s love of her feathered friends didn’t extend to homo sapiens

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Tyrannosaurs Were Power-Walkers

By Matt Kaplan of Nature magazine The image of a Tyrannosaurus rex racing after a jeep in the 1993 film Jurassic Park inspired a generation's ideas about the extinct predator, but for decades studies have concluded that dinosaurs could not move quickly. An analysis now suggests that although big dinosaurs are unlikely to have been able to run, the animals could instead have reached a fair clip by power-walking

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SpaceX ‘Dragon’ Capsule Aims to Go to Mars

By Eric Hand of Nature magazine Dragon, the privately built space capsule intended to haul cargo and astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), is auditioning for another high-profile role.

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Nook Tablet Kicks Off Flame War With Kindle Fire

The Nook Tablet debuted today with a boatload of features--1GHz CPU, 11.5 hours of battery life, 16GB of memory, 1GB of RAM--all for $249. Plus, Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch suggested on Monday that every unit comes with a free helping of Amazon smack talk. Normally it's the tech press that ratchets up the drama between companies, emphasizing the heated competition to the point where it might seem NATO and a UN resolution are needed to keep the peace

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Video: NYC Marathon: One man’s courageous story

Kevin Dwyer is just one of the 47 thousand runners in the New York City Marathon but one of the few with Cystic Fibrosis. Dwyer shares his story with "The Early Show," as well as his experience running the marathon for the first time

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