Summer Solstice is the day in a year when the Sun reaches its northernmost point in the planet Earth’s sky. June 21, 2011 – the date this year traditionally marks a change of seasons – from spring to summer in Earth’s Northern Hemisphere and from fall to winter in Earth’s Southern Hemisphere. Summer solstice...
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- Push e-mail. Turn off the “Push” feature, and set it to Manually instead (in Settings->Mail, Contacts, Calendars->Fetch New Data), then your iPhone checks for e-mail only when you actually open the e-mail app. Your battery goes a lot farther. - GPS checks. In Settings ->General->Location Services, you’ll see a list of all the...
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Kim Kardashian, The reality star is engaged to New Jersey Nets forward Kris Humphries, who she has been dating for six months. “I didn’t expect this at all,” the 30-year-old star told People. “I was in such shock. I never thought it would happen at home, and I never thought now.” Kris surprised Kim...
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Joseph Brooks, 73, An Academy Award-winning songwriter who was awaiting trial on charges of sexually assaulting about a dozen women was believed to have killed himself in an apartment on the Upper East Side, the police said. The body of Joseph Brooks, was found by the police shortly after noon on Sunday at 130...
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Iceland — A year after an Icelandic volcano grounded planes across Europe, a spectacular new eruption flung up a miles-high ash plume that shut down the country’s main airport, plunged nearby areas into darkness and sent ash drifting toward European airspace. The Grimsvotn (GREEMSH-votn) volcano, which lies beneath the ice of the uninhabited Vatnajokull...
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