Washington governor Jay Inslee says he's ordered immediate steps to correct a computer glitch that allowed several thousand prisoners to be released early. Computers were miscalculating sentences for some inmates, letting about 3 percent of the priso

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Purchasing and Using an E-Ticket I thought I would save time by purchasing my airline ticket online and checking in at the airport with my e-ticket. I went onto the McQ Air website and selected my flights. The screen then prompted me to pay with a cr

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The Middle East peace process teeters on a knife-edge with a ten-month ban on building in Jewish settlements in the West Bank about to end. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is urging settlers to show restraint. Palestinian leaders have thre

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The political deadlock in Papua New Guinea has dragged into a third day. The country now has two prime ministers and two governors-general. Sir Michael Somare and Peter O'Neil also have their own cabinets and police chiefs. A major technical glitch l

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The United Nations is warning of a growing humanitarian crisis as tens of thousands of people try to flee the violence in Libya. The UN says the situation on the border with Tunisia is now in absolute chaos. About 2,000 people are crossing the border

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South Asians Fuel Asian Population Boom in US Despite the sluggish economy, hiring manager Pete Tapaskar is having difficulty filling empty chairs at his suburban Chicago technology firm ProSoft. We dont get enough resources locally. We have to depen

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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved a resolution giving President Obama authority to use limited military force against Syria in response to the regime's reported use of chemical weapons against civilians.NPR's * reports. The resoluti

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The Federal Reserve is holding the line oninterest rates for now. Any move to nudge rates higher has been put off for atleast another month. NPR's GW says Fed policy makers are waiting for abetter sense of the impact of slower global growth on the US

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Friday's trading glitch at Everbright Securities in China has prompted the China Financial Futures Exchange to impose restrictions on the company's ability to establish fresh stock index futures throughout this Tuesday. At the same time, the China Se

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Great White sharks get around,a lot more than scientists thought. A new study in the journal Science shows that the great whites move farther and faster than anyone believed.That is important because it could be influenced the way humans try to prote

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Olympic Officials Balance Security, Convenience British officials are using all their resources to prepare for any contingency, including putting fighter jets on alert. They are also deploying 17,000 troops and installing anti-aircraft missiles in re

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A trader watches a screen at Madrid's Stock Exchange. European stocks have steadied despite a plunge in Asian markets. Investors worry that Greece's debt crisis could spread, 6 May 2010. A triple-dose of economic worries sent global financial markets

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NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft Arrives at Mars 美国宇航局的Maven飞船到达火星 NASAs newest Mars probe, called MAVEN, has successfully entered its designated orbit around the red planet. Scientists will use its sophisticated instruments to try to

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: There have been several versions of the Republican repeal and replace bill, but none of them fix the real hole in the Affordable Care Act. That's affordability. In California, the state marketplace, Covered California, is one of th

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Thanks, Michael. The Federal Government says the Opposition Leader still has to answer questions about his time as trade union leader. Bill Shorten will return to the Royal Commission today after he admitted yesterday to failing to declare a 40,000 d

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It was a volatile day of trade on the local share market. Investors are waiting for next weeks decision on interest rates by the US central bank. Australian shares were up and down. The All Ordinaries lost 0.4%. The ASX 200 fell two. To the Movers no

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Roll the tape. Love it when common materials are dangerous. Go ahead and light it. Theres no doubt that the bomb range can blow a gasket. Bye-bye. As for this countdown, it makes for the perfect B movie. Did you get that on high speed? But for the C

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Gregs right. These rockets had power-of-plenty. Good. Its on the hook moving well. But with that power came no responsibility. Or not. So we built a big rolling bomb instead of a rocket. Could we get our money back? I think someone owes me 10,000 buc

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He has two jackets with zippers. One of them is light blue. The other one is brown. He has two jackets without zippers. One of them has his name on it. The other one has his high school's name on it. He has two long jackets. One of them has buttons.

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Computers are great tools, but they can also be mystifying. Sometimes a program will just stop working correctly for no apparent reason. It could just be a random glitch that can be solved by restarting the machine. But sometimes the solution is not

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