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added 2007 Thu Jun 14 20:10:28 by STONERS
Despite operational problems that have kept U.S. refineries running at rates well below normal levels for weeks, gasoline production in the United States is nearing record highs.
added 2007 Sat Jun 9 7:58:39 by bubba2
Online music is in danger. After intense lobbying by giant music labels, the Copyright Royalty Board dramatically increased the rates webcasters must pay to stream online music. The severe change could force most independent and noncommercial Internet radio off the Web. Sign the petition to urge Congress to pass the Internet Radio Equality Act.
added 2007 Sun Jun 3 4:50:14 by TechnologyExpert
A California man smashed the world record for hot dog eating at a contest Saturday, gobbling up more than 59 franks in 12 minutes. Joe Chestnut, 22, of San Jose, shattered the record held by Takeru Kobayashi of Japan by downing 59 1/2 "HBDs" - hot dogs and buns - during the Southwest Regional Hot Dog Eating Championship in suburban Tempe.
added 2007 Sat Jun 2 8:02:25 by BoBo in Texas
Wall Street carved out a solid advance Friday after data on job creation, manufacturing and inflation injected the market with renewed confidence about the economy and sent major indexes to record closes.
added 2007 Wed May 23 19:02:07 by STONERS
And relief is no where in sight heading into the Memorial Day holiday that marks the start of the summer driving season. Prices continue to rise in most of the country, as the Midwest saw prices soar a nickel or more a gallon in one day in several states.
added 2007 Sun May 20 14:16:59 by jaree
Very interesting record breaker cats. Worlds fattest and the Most kittens in a lifetime is amazing.
added 2007 Fri May 18 19:36:01 by STONERS
The group warned in congressional testimony this week it believes that more record prices could be on the way. It's forecasting prices will approach $3.25 a gallon over the next 60 days.
added 2007 Wed May 16 21:13:50 by STONERS
Gasoline prices hit a record high for the fourth straight day Wednesday, according to AAA, and more records could be on the way.
added 2007 Wed May 16 18:48:25 by ebrage
Maybe record labels are finally starting to get it. Well, they have to start getting it pretty soon, because there 's nothing like the prospect of extinction to get those innovation-juices flowing.

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added 2007 Mon May 7 13:32:34 by RizlaRoll
Forty years ago a new breed of Super Hero was taking the comic world by storm. Created by Stan Lee in 1962 Spider-Man brushed Superman and Batman by the wayside thanks to Stan Lee's innovative twist.
added 2007 Sun May 6 19:36:31 by TechnologyExpert
"Spider-Man 3" sold a record $373 million at the worldwide box office in its first six days of release, according to a preliminary estimate issued on Sunday by the film's distributor. Additionally, the film also set a new opening weekend record in North America, with ticket sales estimated in the high $140 million range.
added 2007 Wed May 2 20:13:03 by STONERS
Gas prices are likely to set records this summer but probably won't reach $4 per gallon, energy analysts said yesterday. (((""probably wont""))) its shooting up to 3.19 all over here in Dayton Ohio,it was 2.97 this morning and after driving around and seeing the prices at different gas stations going up throughout the day I
added 2007 Wed Apr 25 23:07:10 by TechnologyExpert
The stock market's best-known indicator surged past its latest milestone shortly after trading began Wednesday, and even made it past 13,100, rising as high as 13,107.45. According to preliminary calculations, it closed at 13,087.46 up 133.52 or 1.03 percent.
added 2007 Sat Apr 21 7:55:48 by bubba2
PM John Howard warned that irrigation of much of the nation's farmland will be banned unless there is heavy rainfall in the next month. Irrigators are already warning that if they cannot water their land, there will be huge crop losses & consumers will face large price rises. He said there was no choice, and he described the situation as grim.
added 2007 Thu Apr 19 18:43:51 by STONERS
The average price of gasoline in the United States might touch a record this summer because of refinery disruptions and the high cost of crude oil.
added 2007 Mon Apr 16 18:10:39 by STONERS
Here is a look at some gasoline prices from around the country in the weekly ConsumerAffairs.Com Gas Price Round Up.
added 2007 Sun Apr 8 19:12:12 by Varadinum
Long winters make cyclists do crazy things. Sometime in early January, I decided to take a shot at a world record riding a streamlined human powered vehicle -- a recumbent bicycle with a carbon fiber shell.
added 2007 Sat Apr 7 15:09:25 by pagey
the Indianapolis 500, one of the most prominent races in the world (certainly in America) will feature, for the first time in motorsport history, three female drivers.
added 2007 Thu Apr 5 6:11:38 by STONERS
Winter Arctic sea ice this year was the second smallest area on record in a sign of greenhouse warming, U.S. climate scientists said on Wednesday.
added 2007 Fri Mar 30 1:58:05 by Eagle Eye
CBS/AP) The Southeastern United States has been blanketed in pollen during the past week, and allergy sufferers are enduring one of the worst allergy seasons in years. In Atlanta, the pollen count reached 5,937 particles per cubic meter of air on Thursday.
added 2007 Sat Mar 17 0:32:09 by pagey
Honda has just announced that it is issuing a recall of 528,406 Chinese-made cars. Apparently they need to fix power steering lines and pumps as well as fuel pump relays on the hundreds of thousands of affected vehicles.
added 2007 Sun Mar 11 7:12:12 by pagey
Warner Bros. Pictures' "300" came out fighting at the boxoffice Friday and immediately staked out what's shaping up as a potentially record-breaking weekend. Director Zack Snyder's buffer-than-buff, R-rated retelling of the battle of Thermopylae took in an estimated $27.8 million for the day, according to the boxoffice tracking site, boxo
added 2007 Mon Mar 5 15:09:36 by charbarred
Phantom sales lost to piracy? Get over it. It's time for the music labels to pull those master recordings out of storage and make some money.
added 2007 Sat Feb 24 4:44:20 by froggy57
When I first started hearing about phones being monitored, I thought, "Hell, I got nothing to fear. Doesn't affect me." But what I didn't realize, was that it was the start of something nasty. Really nasty. And really invasive.
added 2007 Fri Feb 23 22:58:27 by okitech
The united front independent record labels have shown for a proposed tie-up between Warner Music and EMI cracked on Friday when the Ministry of Sound, the largest independent record company in Europe, quit a leading UK trade body backing the deal
added 2007 Fri Feb 23 13:00:42 by Aidenag
There was a time not long ago when a trip across the border from the United States to Canada was accomplished with a wink and a wave of a driver's license. Those days are over. Welcome to the new world of border security. Where visitors with even minor, decades old criminal records are now being turned back at border.
added 2007 Thu Feb 22 19:11:43 by Neophile
Canadian companies reported record operating profit of $231.7 billion last year, up 7.3 per cent from 2005, Statistics Canada reported Thursday.
added 2007 Tue Feb 20 6:31:37 by trojanhorse
An American baby said to have spent the shortest time in her mother's womb is to be released from the hospital in Miami where she was born.
added 2007 Mon Feb 19 5:51:22 by okitech
An Australian water melon picker has set a new record by smashing open 40 melons with his head in under one minute.
added 2007 Mon Feb 12 2:17:52 by STONERS
This village in upstate New York's snowbelt gets a lot of snowfall during the winter, but last week's total - more than 11 feet, unofficially - might be an all-time record.