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...league is using a tool beyond beer to connect with its fans: Twitter. During Sunday's inaugural game between the Freedom and the Los Angeles Sol (the Tinsletown team features Brazilian phenom Marta, the top female player in the world), one reserve player from each team will blast their 140-character-or-less observations over the web. Antonucci isn't sure if the league's coaches will sanction player "tweets" during every game. "The question is how far do you push the medium without disrupting the integrity of the game," she says. "We're a major league...
...also the extra step we take to take care of the psychological side. We did a cleanup of a suicide in someone's living room. It was a young kid - he was 18. This was right near Christmas, and there was tissue everywhere from the gun blast. Unfortunately, we had to throw away the tree. Well, one of the things we did, we brought them over a new Christmas tree, and the look on their face after that happened - I mean, obviously, a Christmas tree isn't going to do anything to erase what happened, but just that gesture...
...Read "CIA Vets Blast Senate Probe of Operations Under Bush...
Think you could stare at a single spot without blinking for 3½ years? Then be glad you're not NASA's Kepler telescope, which is set to blast into space from Cape Canaveral, Fla., this Friday night. Kepler's job may sound boring to you, but what the spacecraft accomplishes could be extraordinary: the discovery of the first Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars. Those kinds of places might well be brewing Earth-like forms of life...
Fufuli, for one, shrugs at the street's evolution. "I did not leave [after the bomb blast] because I loved my father's business," he says. "But no one will take over my store. My son studies computer science. It will be sold." In the meantime, he is simply pleased that security has improved, though as he puts it, looking down the street, "it has not reached safety." He shakes his head. "The measurement is when there are a lot of women here...