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| Fri, 19 Aug 2005 08:00:00 EST The Hill's take on pump prices |
| Everyone complains about high gasoline prices, but is there anything Washington can do about them? A few ideas are beginning to make the rounds on Capitol Hill, but none of them offer much promise of relief to motorists who saw pump prices climb a record 18.2 cents last week to a nationwide average of $2.55 a gallon. |
| Fri, 19 Aug 2005 08:00:00 EST Study says voluntary retirements hurt House GOP |
| Voluntary retirements by Republicans seeking higher office could jeopardize the party's majority in the House of Representatives, according to a new University of Missouri study. |
| Fri, 19 Aug 2005 08:00:00 EST The loop is here and we're bringing you in |
| Movies: The title gives away the basic concept of The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Basically, Andy (The Office's Steve Carell) is 40, works at an electronics store, plays video games, and has not had sex. At all. Ever. Even though he's 40. His co-workers are determined to change his luck by hooking him up with drunk or "freaky" chicks, but he has his heart set on the grandmother who works across the street. But she's a hot grandma–Catherine Keener. While the other R-rated summer comedy, The Wedding Crashers, is kind of a comedy rollercoaster (big laughs interspersed with jarring moments of cheese), Virgin is more of a steady train intertwining laughs with a heartfelt plot. And there's a musical number at the end, also scoring points. Another movie about sex, but with way fewer jokes and way more sex, is Asylum, about a family that resides on the grounds of an asylum in 1950s England. The bored mom (Natasha Richardson) starts an affair with one of the inmates, a disturbed artist who killed his wife. |
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| Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:21:28 EDT Al Qaeda claims it launched Red Sea rockets |
| An al Qaeda-linked group claims responsibility for rocket attacks that appeared to target, but miss, two U.S. ships in the Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba. One rocket hit a warehouse in Aqaba, killing a Jordanian soldier. Another rocket fell near a hospital in Aqaba and the third fell near an airport in the Israeli port city of Eilat. No U.S. military personnel were injured. |
| Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:33:54 EDT Israeli forces empty Gadid settlement |
| Israeli troops today used bulldozers to break through flaming barricades and enter the settlement of Gadid to evacuate residents and protesters, the only evacuation planned before a temporary pause in the Gaza disengagement for the Jewish Sabbath. Israeli police said today that 85 percent of the Gaza settlers had been evacuated. But that figure does not include protesters who had infiltrated the communities. |
| Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:26:52 EDT Wisconsin sky 'just exploded' when tornado hit |
| The sky "just exploded" as a tornado damaged or destroyed dozens of homes, killing one person, a witness said. |
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