California Driving Test

For those of you who are not "fortunate" enough to live in California, here is a copy of the California Driver's Exam, and for those of you who do, study real hard. This is a new Exam. Since driving conditions (and culture) are unique in California, you may not have realized that the Californi

Brin: The Military Coup Of 2012

http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/1992/dunlap.htm Preface: The letter that follows takes us on a darkly imagined excursion into the future. A military coup has taken place in the United States--the year is 2012--and General Thomas E. T. Brutus, Commander-in-Chief of the Unified Arme

Two Moons Passing in the Night

http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20050909a.html Taking advantage of extra solar energy collected during the day, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit settled in for an evening of stargazing, photographing the two moons of Mars as they crossed the night sky. "It is incredibly cool

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Bush Suspends Pay Act In Areas Hit by Storm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090802037.html http://tinyurl.com/9v5l4 President Bush yesterday suspended application of the federal law governing workers' pay on federal contracts in the Hurricane Katrina-damaged areas of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, an

Interface

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Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice

http://sideshow.me.uk/ssep05.htm#041417 Waking up to nightmares A lot seems to have happened while I was asleep last night. For one thing, Mary Landrieu obviously gave up hoping that Bush would finally locate a conscience. I had been planning to write something very much like what Mark Kleiman

The Doom That Came To N'Warlins

http://www.terradaily.com/news/hurricane-05zd.html For all its numbing ferocity, Hurricane Katrina will not be a unique event, say scientists, who say that global warming appears to be pumping up the power of big Atlantic storms. 2005 is on track to be the worst-ever year for hurricanes, accordi

Moog dies

Synthesizer innovator Moog dies at 71 RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) -- Robert A. Moog, whose self-named synthesizers turned electric currents into sound and opened the musical wave that became electronica, has died. He was 71. Moog died Sunday at his home in Asheville, according to h

Not Safe For Work Or Children

http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4133 Amid rumors of sagging morale on the home front, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld greeted his wife Joyce Monday with an unanticipated visit to her vagina, according to the Pentagon. "Today, at about 1600 hours EST, Secretary Rumsfeld landed in

The Brad DeLong Early Holocene Sci-Fi Contest

!...WellI'm declaring a contest myself The Idea is to write a few paragraphs that exhibit what Sci-Fi would *be* for an early hunter/gatherer. >From Brads Blog: Cro-Magnon Communication The Twelve-Year-Old is on strike

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Meta-Message for Alan Todd LeBlanc

I saw your page while doing web searches. Just wanted to drop a note saying that I have spent a few nights in Breaux Bridge and eaten breakfast at the Waffle House there. Nice little "wide spot on the highway"! My wife's family is from Tupelo Mississippi, so Breau Bridge is a good halfway spot

Constitution and Commandment

Our Constitution "They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it's worked for over 200 years and hell, we're not using it anymore." Ten Commandments The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandm

Spielberg's Next Movie

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/01/movies/01spie.html?oref=login On Wednesday, Steven Spielberg's apocalyptic thriller "War of the Worlds" invaded movie theaters worldwide. But the director had already moved on. That night in Malta, Mr. Spielberg quietly began filming the most politically charge

Wierd News Battle Royale

'I'd do it again': pistol-packing great-granny who killed 85-year-old beau http://www.canada.com/news/oddities/story.html?id=43dda27e-b8ff-442e-98ca-8bbe7a9a4e79 Furious their romance was ending, a 78-year-old great-grandmother shot her 85-year-old ex-beau dead as he read the newspaper in a se

Brin: Dolphins use sponges as tools

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/06/06/dolphin.learning.ap/index.html?section=cnn_space http://tinyurl.com/a354e A group of dolphins living off the coast of Australia apparently teach their offspring to protect their snouts with sponges while foraging for food in the sea floor. Researchers

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Trunk Monkey

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What Is Your Worldview?

A fun test! http://quizfarm.com/test.php?q_id=23320 You scored as Modernist. Modernism represents the thought that science and reason are all we need to carry on. Religion is unnecessary and any sort of spirituality halts progress. You believe everything has a rational explanati

Hairjinks prompts lawsuit

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0601052armstrong1.html JUNE 1--Former Apollo astronaut Neil Armstrong is threatening to sue an Ohio barber who once cut his hair and then sold the locks to a collector. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, is steamed at Marx Sizemore, who peddled t

The French Say "Non!"

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Re: Revenge of the REAL George Lucas...

Jim Sharkey wrote: > Robert Seeberger wrote: >> Jim Sharkey wrote: >>> Deborah Harrell wrote: Please...rose or lavender or even puce (although Teal is the One True Color)...but *not* pink!!! >>> How about heliotrope? Or maybe fuschia? >> Open wide and say "Aaaavacado"

dealing with attachments

Here is a handy hint I just received. Instead of sending a file as an attachment, send it to yourself via http://www.yousendit.com/ And then forward the message to the group of people you want to receive the file. The file disappears after one week or 25 D/Ls (whichever comes first). You ca

What's Your Seduction Style?

http://www.blogthings.com/seducerquiz/ Mine: Your Seduction Style: Ideal Lover You seduce people by tapping into their dreams and desires. And because of this sensitivity, you can be the ideal lover for anyone you seek. You are a shapeshifter - bringing romance, adventure, spirituality to rela

Democrats Voted Out of Baptist Church

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050507/ap_on_re_us/church_politics_4 Some in Pastor Chan Chandler's flock wish he had a little less zeal for the GOP. Members of the small East Waynesville Baptist Church say Chandler led an effort to kick out congregants who didn't support Presi

TV Guide

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Brin: Guess Who?

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Brin: Romanticism vs. Modernism

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I am spamming your head I am spamming your head

http://www.cdbaby.com/amycd2 The album I have been helping to midwife for the last year. With tinny sounding samples that are supposed to make you have to have to have this album today! I worked my ass off to get this out. You could at least give the tinny samples a listen. xponent Soon To B

North Korea's Nuclear Diplomacy Gets Hotter

http://www.spacewar.com/news/nuclear-doctrine-05m.html What is the strategic purpose of North Korea's nuclear weapons drive? Does it want to use them against the United States, South Korea or other nations? Or is it seeking to sell nuclear material to terrorists? If not, is the program aimed a

[People Of Interest] Barry Greenstein - Poker Player/Philanthropist

Barry Greenstein has been making a living at the poker table for many years, but he is just now getting the recognition he deserves. After winning the World Poker Tour at the World Poker Open 2004, some people are still asking who this guy is. For tournament pros and the players in the biggest

Army Clears 4 Top Officers Of Abu Ghraib Wrongdoing

http://www.click2houston.com/news/4408753/detail.html?treets=hou&tml=hou_natlbreak&ts=T&tmi=hou_natlbreak_1_07140204222005 Officials say the Army has cleared four top officers of all allegations of wrongdoing in connection with prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, and those officers will not be punish

Vectrix Electric Scooter

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Black holes 'do not exist'

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050328/pf/050328-8_pf.html Black holes are staples of science fiction and many think astronomers have observed them indirectly. But according to a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, these awesome breaches in space-time do not a

Brin:Launch Vehicle SpaceDev Streaker

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/rocketscience-05r.html SpaceDev has signed a lease to expand its fabrication and test facilities and to begin constructing portable, high tech rocket motor test support equipment in anticipation of test firing new rocket motors that SpaceDev is developing for its

Hey, I'm on ITunes!!!!!!

One or two of you may remember 3 years or so ago when I got all excited because some of my lyrics made it on to an album. I just discovered that the album is available on ITunes. The downside is that the song I contributed to is broken up into 4 parts. (At 17:41 running time that is understand

Singularity Blues

http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue415/labnotes.html When my mom was on the brink of marriage, her mother dragged her out to spend her meager teenage life's savings on a set of silverware. Not flatware and ceramic dishes, but actual silver—something of enduring value that Mom could sell if hard time

First "Private" Lunar Mission Succeeded Despite NASA Roadblocks

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/lunar-05p.html "Lunar Prospector Against All Odds," by Alan Binder, Ph.D., is the highly personal and engaging story of how the Lunar Prospector orbital mapping mission was developed and carried out by the author between late 1989 and 2001. While this is partly a

The Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time

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Another case of Skiffy precience

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/30mar_moonfountains.htm?list1119125 It's astonishing how prophetic some science fiction has been. Back in 1956, two years before NASA was even created, Hal Clement wrote a short story called "Dust Rag" published in Astounding Science Fiction, about two ast

Human Virus Scanner

http://totl.net/VirusScanner/? Human Virus Scanner The virus that have infected you will be show here along with their cures, if known. Viruses you suffer from: Junkfood Eat some real food. Something which you can identify the source of every ingredient, not the point of manufacture.

Preople

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A Scanner Darkly

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New Hitchhikers Guide trailer - Much better this time

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Koko news

News of the Weird reported in September on Koko, the gorilla that knows about a thousand words in American Sign Language, and in February, she was back in the news at her home at the Gorilla Foundation in Woodside, Calif. Two of Koko's female handlers filed a sex discrimination and wrongful discha

[Listref] Finding the Ultimate Theory of Everything

http://www.rednova.com/news/space/132303/finding_the_ultimate_theory_o f_everything/index.html Could two lookalike galaxies, barely a whisker apart in the night sky, herald a revolution in our understanding of fundamental physics? Some physicists believe that the two galaxies are the same - its i

Safe NukesNo, Really!

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I think it's a parody

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Save Toby

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Tits (a womans perspective)

http://www.girlcomic.net/nov2k1/nov2k1_quickie_sara.php Rack ‘em! - A Story of Breast Envy Sara Regezi tells us why staring at your chest is not a men only event. By Sara Regezi I am obsessed with breasts. Big, full, luscious, round, bodacious boobs, tits, melons, hooters, chi-chis, ta-tas,

first dark galaxy discovered?

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=16226 A British-led team of astronomers have discovered an object that appears to be an invisible galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter - the first ever detected. A dark galaxy is an area in the universe containing a large amount of mass that rota

[Satire] Flintstones Are Way Too Gay

Fred and Barney should be banned because they are virtually inseparable, are never seen wearing pants and live together in the suggestively-named town of Bedrock, complains a conservative activist http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6934878/site/newsweek The ongoing campaign against alleged gay icons in

Intel unveils laser breakthrough

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4271825.stm Intel has unveiled research that could mean data is soon being moved around chips at the speed of light. Scientists at Intel have overcome a fundamental problem that before now has prevented silicon being used to generate and amplify laser light.

NASA Researchers Claim Evidence of Present Life on Mars

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars_life_050216.html A pair of NASA scientists told a group of space officials at a private meeting here Sunday that they have found strong evidence that life may exist today on Mars, hidden away in caves and sustained by pockets of water. The scientists, C

Public Opinion Watch : Social Security

Social Security: That Dog Won’t Hunt Department ICR surveys of 1,236 and 1,231 adults for Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard University, released February 10, 2005 (conducted February 3-6 and February 4–6, 2005) --

Apple attacked over sources row

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4266909.stm Civil liberties group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has joined a legal fight between three US online journalists and Apple. Apple wants the reporters to reveal 20 sources used for stories which leaked information about forthcoming produc

Our Best Defense:Social Homeland Security

http://www.irregulartimes.com/socialhomelandsecurity.html Imagine an attack on the infrastructure of the United States so devastating that not just three thousand people, but tens of thousands of people die. In addition, the attack leaves America so damaged that basic food and health care are rest

Trojan horses plague open source

http://www.zdnetindia.com/techzone/coding/stories/73131.html At least three commonly used open source software packages were altered by black-hat (bad-guy) hackers to contain "Trojan horse" code this year. The three most commonly used packages affected were Sendmail, OpenSSH and tcpdump/libpcap.

You Already Guessed This

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Diamond Planets

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/02/0208_050208_planets.ht ml The universe beyond our solar system just got wilder. Astronomers meeting in Colorado this week said they have found a disk of planet-building material around a small, "failed star" called a brown dwarf. The discovery raise

Exorcism live on TV

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42833 The UK's Channel 4 is taking reality television to the next level with the planned broadcast of a live exorcism of a man whose brain activity will be monitored while a priest drives out his demons. Channel 4 has earned a reputation

[Opinion]On culture front, we're losing war

http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn13.html BY MARK STEYN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Here are three small news items from around the world you might have missed: 1) An unemployed waitress in Berlin faces the loss of her welfare benefits after refusing a job as a prostitute in a legalized

Attack of the Metal-Eating Plants

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,66575,00.html?tw=rss.TOP Genetically modified plants may be the green solution for cleaning up contaminated soils. The results of a successful field trial in California last year were published last week in the online arm of Environmental Science & Tech

US has more nuclear weapons in Europe than thought

http://www.spacewar.com/2005/050209070333.aov1fd6u.html The United States is keeping some 480 nuclear weapons in air bases in Europe -- twice as many as analysts had previously estimated -- to deter attacks from terrorists or rogue nations, The New York Times said Wednesday, quoting a new study by

Poll: Tap wealthy on Social Security

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Mexican worm takes a new turn

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/211215_mexico09.html The world nearly lost a peculiar piece of Mexico's cultural tradition this week after the government, without regard to drinkers anywhere, targeted the lowly worm at the bottom of the mezcal bottle for extinction. It seems that the worm w

Bill Moyers: There is no tomorrow [Update}

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5211218.html Star Tribune [Minneapolis, MN] | 30 Jan 2005 Bill Moyers: There is no tomorrow One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of

Wanna see something mindblowing?

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Terabyte Storage

http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/02/04/holographic/index.php Japan's Optware Corp. announced a detailed roadmap toward commercialization of its Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) technology on Thursday. It has also set up an alliance to promote HVD and will later this year set up an office in the

SpamAdaption

http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2005/02/spammers_have_a.html In the next few months, E-mail spam is going to get a lot worse, at least, that's the prediction of The SpamHaus project, a global anti-spam group that point the finger to a new spamming technique that consist of sending spam via th

NASA envisions Mars warmed up for life

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002172407_mars06.ht ml http://tinyurl.com/58hnw Global warming may be a scourge on Earth, but injecting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere of Mars might be just the thing to turn the barren planet into a living, breathing world that could sup

IPod Loading

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Chimera

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0125_050125_chimeras.h tml http://tinyurl.com/3kjah Scientists have begun blurring the line between human and animal by producing chimeras—a hybrid creature that's part human, part animal. Chinese scientists at the Shanghai Second Medical Universit

For Old Fogies

An email cruising the net sez: 1974 Vs 2004 Do you have the level of maturity to relate to this? 1974: Long hair 2004: Longing for hair 1974: KEG 2004: EKG 1974: Acid rock 2004: Acid reflux 1974: Moving to California because it's cool 2004: Moving to California because it's warm 1974: Tryi

Zogg

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'Collapse': How the World Ends L3

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/books/review/30EASTERB.html?oref=log in&oref=login http://tinyurl.com/47hvq EIGHT years ago Jared Diamond realized what is, for authors, increasingly a fantasy -- he published a serious, challenging and complex book that became a huge commercial success. ''Guns

Bill Moyers: There is no tomorrow

http://www.startribune.com/stories/562/5211218.html One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of power in the Oval Office and in Congress. For the first time in our history, ideology and t

Judge backs Guantanamo challenge

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4223561.stm A US federal judge in Washington has ruled that special military tribunals being used to try hundreds of detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba are illegal. Judge Joyce Hens Green said the tribunals denied the detainees their basic rights under t

First Amendment No Big Deal, Students Say

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=1&u=/ap/students _first_amendment The way many high school students see it, government censorship of newspapers may not be a bad thing, and flag burning is hardly protected free speech. It turns out the First Amendment is a second-rate i

What are friends? What are they for? L3

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1396917,00.html Earlier this year, I rang my friend Jo and found her in a state of stunned misery. The week before, her best and oldest friend had sent her an email to say that she thought the friendship was over, that she wouldn't be in touch for a while

Third Pundit Paid by Bush Administration

http://www.airamericaradio.com/ Yet another columnist was given a contract by the government to promote a Bush initiative, a Salon.com exclusive confirms. Michael McManus, a marriage advocate whose syndicated column, “Ethics & Religion,” appears in 50 newspapers, was hired as a subcontractor by

Canada, Russia Eye 'Bridge' Over Melting Ice Cap

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/iceage-05b.html Global warming may augur future environmental misery for some, but it is good news for entrepreneurs poised to cash in on the melting polar ice cap to forge a new Canada-Russia trade route. Russian crude oil destined for the gas guzzling United State

The intersection of Social Security and Abortion

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You're In?

This is just weird! http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/urine_martha.htm "For almost the entire course of the 20th century, unknown to the public, doctors and medical researchers have been proving in both laboratory and clinical testing that our own urine is an enormous source of vital nutri

Googlism _ kind of L3

http://www.googlism.com Googlism.com will find out what Google.com thinks of you, your friends or anything! Search for your name here or for a good laugh check out some of the popular Googlisms below. I did some for some names from the list and got some funny results. Googlism for: nick arnett

Johnny Carson Dead At 79

Jeez, a lot of us grew up with this guy on TV. I can barely remember Jack Paar on the Tonight Show. http://www.click2houston.com/entertainment/4121637/detail.html?treets= hou&tml=hou_natlbreak&ts=T&tmi=hou_natlbreak_1_01050201232005 The man who ruled over late night TV for 30 years -- Johnny Car

Humor to lighten Julias day

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Bush Inbox

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Judge: Evolution stickers unconstitutional

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/01/13/evolution.textbooks.ruling/index.htm l A federal judge in Atlanta, Georgia, has ruled that a suburban county school district's textbook stickers referring to evolution as "a theory not a fact" are unconstitutional. In ruling that the stickers violate the constitu

How Would the Bush Plan Work?

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1018065,00.html The Bush Administration has not yet offered details of its plan for Social Security, but it's expected to follow the contours of a proposal spelled out by a 2001 commission on Social Security: a combination of scaled-back guaranteed

Special forces 'on the ground' in Iran

http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,12858,1392078,00.html American special forces have been on the ground inside Iran scouting for US air strike targets for suspected nuclear weapons sites, according to the renowned US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. In an article in the latest edition

All Your base

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[Listref] How the Earthquake affected Earth

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/10jan_earthquake.htm?list11191 25 NASA scientists studying the Indonesian earthquake of Dec. 26, 2004, have calculated that it slightly changed our planet's shape, shaved almost 3 microseconds from the length of the day, and shifted the North Pole by centime

Re: Pozen's SS plan Re: Social Security

Erik Reuter wrote: > > The annual fee for an index fund is about 0.1%. So, 0.1% of $100B is > $100M. In actuality, it will be lower, since such a large account will > be able to get economies of scale. Very large pension funds currently > can get 0.05%. Maybe I'm misunderstanding here, but you are

Re: Julia The Troublemaker was...RE: E-mail program questions

God wrote: > Robert Seeberger spoketh: > >> Question to religious listmembers: >> >> Are religious peoples required to killfile this particular "GOD" >> individual because of the first commandment? > > For the Christians: Such act would violate My updated Sixth > Commandment: Thou shalt not kill(fi

North Korean missile to defect upon reaching US

http://www.chaser.com.au/show_story.asp?ID=634&ED=68&CAT=2 PYONGYANG, Tuesday: North Korea's longest range missile declared its intentions to defect today, revealing it finally possessed the capabilities to fulfil its long-held dream of emigrating to the west coast of America. "I am seeking a be

Degrading Pig Ahhhhh......Stimulation

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Guffaw

http://www.borowitzreport.com Amazed that the Mars rover has lasted much longer than anyone expected, NASA scientists changed the name of the rover from Spirit to Rumsfeld. xponent Fer Grins Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/b

Andrea Yates Conviction Overturned

http://www.click2houston.com/news/4054179/detail.html?treets=hou&tml=h ou_4pm&ts=T&tmi=hou_4pm_1_04000201062005 Andrea Yates' capital murder convictions for drowning her children were overturned Thursday by an appeals court, which ruled a prosecution expert witness gave false testimony at her

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