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Submission + - Five Things You Don't Know About Popcorn (healthmad.com)

Submitted by charvakajay on Sunday July 08, 2007 @03:24PM

charvakajay writes: It is common fact that the average American's favorite snack is a bucketful of popcorn, especially while watching a movie. But most of them don't know certain things about popcorn. http://www.healthmad.com/Nutrition/Five-Things-You -Dont-Know-About-Popcorn.33195

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Submission + - Xbox 360 Repairs Will Cost Microsoft $1B (ap.org)

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* * Beatles-Beatles

on Sunday July 08, 2007 @03:14PM

* * Beatles-Beatles writes: "http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MICROSOFT_X BOX_WARRANTY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
the company says it is planning to spend at least $1 billion to repair serious problems with its Xbox 360 video game console.

Microsoft declined to detail the problems that have caused an onslaught of "general hardware failures" in recent months but said Thursday it will extend the warranty on the consoles to three years."

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Feed Engadget: Sony lightens PS2 components by almost a third (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Sunday July 08, 2007 @03:12PM

Filed under: Gaming

Unlike Microsoft, which dropped the original Xbox in favor of the Xbox 360 in manner similar to Paris Hilton dropping her old cellphone, Sony has continued to maintain the PlayStation 2. Somehow, Sony has managed to make a new iteration of the PS2 that decreases the console's weight by almost a third: they've trimmed the console itself down to 600 grams from 900 grams, and the power adapter to 250 grams from 350 grams. The external design of the console is unchanged, but the lower weight and the new components should decrease production and shipping costs. Not bad for an old console that continues to sell well (and sell for more than the value of its components, at that).

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Submission + - Elderly Woman Jailed for Not Watering Lawn

Submitted by i_like_spam on Sunday July 08, 2007 @03:05PM

i_like_spam writes: BBC news is running a story about Betty Perry, a 70-year-old resident of Orem, Utah. Betty was cited and sent to jail for not watering her lawn. Like many other communities around the country, Orem (aka 'Family City USA') has rules mandating that residents maintain and water their lawns. In terms of privacy, is it right for communities to enforce lawn maintenance? And, in this day and age of energy and water conservation, shouldn't well-manicured lawns be a thing of the past?

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