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Demandbase: B2B sales lead generation and mgt., pay as you go

They just raised $8M. "allows users to manage their leads through a web interface and have them automatically distributed to their email or CRMs... allows users to monitor passive visitors to their site and generate sales leads by analyzing incoming traffic.." So it sounds like they monitor web traffic then sell email addresses?
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High Gas Prices Are Good For America!

Here's a new article about the declining rate of highway fatalities thanks to high gas prices. Yet another positive outcome of the so called crisis.
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Dick Cheney off to Georgia. Does Dick Cheney frighten you?

"President Bush is dispatching Vice President Dick Cheney to Georgia, setting up a high-ranking diplomatic mission to an ally reeling from a short, intense war. The White House announced Monday that Cheney will head abroad on Sept. 2 for stops in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine and Italy..."
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Human motion powered cell phone charger

"It says that six hours of cumulative motion can add 30 to 60 minutes of talk time to a cell phone." No price yet. You throw this in your purse or pocket, walk, then charge your phone (or maybe you connect your phone first then walk). The product is from M2E Power and is expected to come out next year.
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Registry plan for foreign travelers

Aviation and business leaders are assailing a Homeland Security plan that would require millions of visitors each year to register online at least three days before flying to the USA. They say it will keep travelers away and damage the U.S. image abroad.
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Butterfly lands on mans collar, follows him home, the two bond

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An embarrassingly captivating writeup describing a saga of a reporter and a butterfly (read a few paragraphs, you'll be hooked). From the article: "I decided that I should have a picture taken to record the butterfly's remarkable arrival out of nowhere...'He's trying to tell you something,' she said...He's back!...So began a period of more than a month during which [the butterfly] appeared 25 times..."
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Ultralight unmanned plane flys 83 hours more than doubling record

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(with cool pic and solar panel goodness). "An ultra-lightweight plane built from carbon fiber and powered using paper-thin solar panels has broken the world record for longest-lasting unmanned flight, its manufacturer claimed Sunday...The 66 pound-plane was launched by hand on July 28 in the Arizona desert in the United States and flown by autopilot and via satellite to an altitude of more 60,000 feet, QinetiQ said..."
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61 yr. old gives birth to own grandchild:A) blessing B) messed up

The daughter has no uterus, so she was a surrogate, having a fertilized egg implanted. The baby is healthy. "A 61-year-old Japanese woman gave birth to her own grandchild, using an egg donated by her daughter, a clinic said Thursday...he clinic said it performed the procedure because the woman's daughter has no uterus, but didn't give details on why she had that condition. The surrogate mother used a fertilized egg donated by her daughter."
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Formula to win the lottery

Verlyn Adamson said earlier in the week that he's a big fan of math puzzles. He claims he developed a formula for lottery picks. Their winnings now amount to $1.4 million, or about $955,000 after taxes. Read the story and decide..........
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Students who skip school a lot to be tracked with ankle bracelets

(You know which state). "SAN ANTONIO — Court authorities will be able to track students with a history of skipping school under a new program requiring them to wear ankle bracelets with Global Positioning System monitoring...part of a comprehensive program she started four years ago to reduce truancy..."
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