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PETA’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad History of Killing Animals
In 2011, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) behaved in a regrettably consistent manner: it euthanized the overwhelming majority...
BP robots prepare risky bid to stop oil leak
LOS ANGELES — BP's robots wielded clamps and hauled machinery Monday in a slow-motion ballet a mile below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, preparing the next risky maneuver to stanch the gush of oil from the company's renegade well...
EA Sports agrees to $27 million settlement in football game monopoly...
EA Sports has reached a proposed settlement of $27 million with the...
Humanity and baseball
It wasn’t about religion, although the trip was organized by a missionary. And it wasn’t really about baseball, although most of the luggage was packed with sports equipment. But the trip to Africa that local residents Jim Cederberg, 55, and Drew Sauer, 28, went ...
Boulder announces road closings for USA Pro Challenge stage
Stage Six of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge will take racers through Boulder Saturday, Aug. 25. The city predicts more than 100,000 spectators will line city streets to watch the race...
FBI criticized for post-9-11 probes of anti-war groups, PETA
WASHINGTON — FBI agents improperly opened investigations into Greenpeace and several other domestic advocacy groups following the Sept. 11...
Pilot errors cited in crash that killed 50 near Buffalo, N.Y.
WASHINGTON — The chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday the pilots of Continental Connection Flight 3407 that crashed near Buffalo, N.Y., nearly a year ago made mistakes that showed their "complacency and confusion that resulted in ...
Speeding into the future
When Daryl Oster was a young boy living on his family’s farm outside of Greeley, he used to go with his father to the salvage yard to pick up supplies. That’s where he became acquainted with pneumatic tubes — like the contraptions banks used to suck your deposit from...
Sources: Disney raises DVD prices for Redbox, Netflix
LOS ANGELES — Amid calls from some on Wall Street to choke off the supply of newly released DVDs to discount movie rental services, the Walt Disney Co. has quietly decided to raise its wholesale prices on new-release DVDs for Redbox and Netflix, according to people ...
Kirk Cameron of ‘Growing Pains’ Says He’s Not Homophobic, Explains Christian...
Kirk Cameron doesn’t speak in sound bites. He’s in New York on Monday afternoon to promote his new documentary, Monumental: In Search of America’s National Treasure...
Committee recommends discontinuance of CU journalism school
A committee has recommended the University of Colorado at...
