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20 most obscure team nicknames in pro sports
Most pro team nicknames make sense at some level. But there are a fair number of head-scratching nicknames. Here are 20 with explanations on their selection:
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Mitt Romney's five sons: What's their role in the campaign?
There’s no “Mitt Mobile” or Five Brothers blog like there was in 2008, but Mitt Romney’s five sons – Tagg, Matt, Josh, Ben, and Craig – still play a vital role in the presidential campaign. Here's a quick look at the Romney Five and what each brings to the campaign.
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Ted Williams: 9 quotes from the baseball legend
For the player who famously wore number 9, here are 9 quotes from the Red Sox player.
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NFL 2012: a banner year for rookie quarterbacks
Encouraged by the success of Carolina’s Cam Newton and Cincinnati’s Andy Dalton last season, five teams hand the offensive controls to five players fresh out of the college ranks.
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Before Stockton: five other big financial crises for US municipalities
Here's a look at some of the most notable financial collapses and near-collapses for US municipalities over the years.
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2012 Spelling Bee champ wins with 'guetapens' (+video)
Snigdha Nandipati is the fifth Indian-American in a row to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The 14-year old spelled 'guetapens,' which means ambush or trap.
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Prepaid iPhone: $400. No contract. $55 a month for unlimited use.
Prepaid iPhone will be offered by Leap Wireless starting June 22 in some cities. Open Mobile has already started selling a prepaid iPhone in Puerto Rico.
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Spelling bee winner is Snigdha Nandipati
She is 14 and from San Diego, Calif. The winning word was "guetapens."
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What's that word? National Spelling Bee ready for finals
The winner will take home $30,000 and a scholarship.
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Enormous forest fire in New Mexico sets state record for acres burned (+video)
For the second year in a row, New Mexico is battling a huge, record-setting forest fire. The Whitewater-Baldy fire, triggered by lightning strikes, has torched more than 170,000 acres.
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Radioactive tuna travels from Japan to US faster than wind
Low levels of nuclear radiation from the Fukushima power plant have turned up in 15 bluefin tuna caught off San Diego. The fish is not harmful to humans, say researchers.
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Facebook IPO: Six key dates in its debacle
Facebook's first week as a publicly traded company will go down as a terribly botched corporate launch, perhaps one of the worst in recent history for such a highly visible entity. Eight days ago, it was the tech world's most highly anticipated initial public offering in eight years. Now, the social media company faces mounting legal woes and serves as an embarrassing example of how not to run an IPO. Despite rising insider pessimism about its growth prospects, Facebook kept boosting its asking price and the number of shares it would sell. The result: billions of dollars in losses; investigations by two congressional committees, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), an industry watchdog, and the state of Massachusetts; at least 13 class-action lawsuits; and thousands of resentful shareholders who days later still were unsure how many Facebook shares they had or at what price. Here are six key dates in Facebook's unfolding IPO disaster.
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San Diego student forgotten for days in DEA cell
Daniel Chong, a UC San Diego engineering student, began to hallucinate from lack of food and water.
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Saga of California's Salton Sea: a tragic chapter ahead?
Some worry that a water-diversion deal, sending farm irrigation water to sprawling San Diego, will spell doom for the Salton Sea – and exposure to toxins for humans and wildlife. Others say protections are in place to ensure that can't happen.
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Marine discharged for slamming Obama on Facebook
Marine Corps Sgt. Gary Stein will be given an other-than-honorable discharge. Sgt. Stein criticized President Obama on Facebook.
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Stir It Up! Minted pesto and cooking with Mom
Special family connections happen in the tiny space of a kitchen.
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Into the jungle on the hunt for Joseph Kony
The Kony 2012 campaign has made Joseph Kony infamous. But for the Ugandan troops hunting him in the jungles of central Africa, finding him remains a mammoth task.
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Record Store Day: earth's vinyl days
On April 21, the fifth annual Record Store Day will get off to a rockin' start when doors open in about 1,000 record stores in some 20 countries.
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Mother slain, baby abducted: kidnapper had suffered miscarriage
Verna McClain, who has been accused of killing a young mother and stealing her baby, is said to have been trying to replace the one she lost.
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Tax day horror story: taking your money ... and your identity
The IRS is making it a top priority to crack down on the burgeoning tax day scam of identity fraud. In 2011 the agency thwarted $1.4 billion in fraudulent refunds.
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Report cites fracking-related activities as potential suspect in minor quakes
The rate of minor earthquakes from Colorado to Ohio has quickened in the past decade. But the report doesn't make a direct link between fracking and quakes, notes an Interior official.
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Culture Cafe 'Anchorman 2' director Adam McKay hints at plot details
'Anchorman 2' director Adam McKay gives some cryptic clues about the sequel's plot.
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Obama vs. Romney: Who's most 'elitist' and out of touch?
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are both Harvard graduates. Both are wealthy, although Romney is much richer. Each campaign is trying to paint the other as a candidate for American's wealthy, not the ordinary voter.
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Virginia Beach Navy jet crash: what is known so far
The Navy jet crash in Virginia Beach Friday destroyed or damaged several apartment buildings. The search for survivors continues as officials begin investigating what caused the accident.
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Board seeks Marine's dismissal over 'contemptuous' anti-Obama Facebook comments
The Marine Corps administrative board said after a daylong hearing late Thursday at Camp Pendleton that Sgt. Gary Stein has committed misconduct and should be dismissed.
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Global Payments credit-card data breach: How big is the theft?
The Global Payments breach is the largest known credit-card theft from a business or financial institution in the past two years. Last year, data from some 3.4 million credit cards were grabbed.
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Iraqi community perplexed, wary after slaying of Iraqi-born mother
Officials are cautioning residents in El Cajon, Calif., against jumping to conclusions while the death of Shaima al-Awadi, an Iraqi immigrant, is investigated. She died after a brutal beating last week in her home. Police have not ruled out a hate crime.
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Chapter & Verse 'Lorax' statue goes missing from Seuss property
A statue of the famous Dr. Seuss character the Lorax was taken from the author's estate in San Diego.
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Decoder Wire Obama's open mic moment: How big a flub? (+video)
Obama's open mic incident happened on Monday when he told the Russian president that he would have 'more flexibility' in missile defense negotiations after the 2012 elections.
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Obama tells Russia that election will bring 'flexibility' on missile defense
The president's comments were caught accidentally by a microphone left on during a private conversation with Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev.
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