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Novelist Neal Stephenson Once Again Proves He's the King of the WorldsFriday, August 29, 2008 @ 12:20AM Tonight's subject at the History Book Club: the Vikings. This is primo stuff for the men who gather once a month in Seattle to gab about some long-gone era or icon, from early Romans to Frederick the Great. You really can't beat tales of merciless Scandinavian pirate forays and bloody ninth-century clashes. To complement the evening's topic, one clubber is bringing mead. The dinner, of ...

Model shipwrights aim to carve out lasting nicheThursday, August 28, 2008 @ 8:39AMBy Jason Green Palo Alto Daily News PALO ALTO, Calif. | In the swift-moving current of life in Silicon Valley, the aging members of the South Bay Model Shipwrights are islands in the stream. There's no place for whiz-bang gadgetry in their inner sanctums, where detailed scale ship models take shape over months and years _ decades in some cases.

UPDATE: Two girls shot in drive-byThursday, August 28, 2008 @ 8:37AMThis morning, two young men were cleaning blood stains off the sidewalk of a Northwest Jacksonville neighborhood where police said two teenage girls were wounded in a drive-by shooting. The girls, aged 14 and 17, were standing outside in the 1400 block of Grothe Street a little after ...

Bat making becomes a business for YuhasTuesday, August 26, 2008 @ 8:01PM It was supposed to be just a hobby, making wooden bats for his son, Matt. But, it quickly turned into something more, and now Freehold Borough's Vic Yuhas is a small business man, owner of the Jersey Shore Bat Co. He operates his small business out of his garage where he makes the bats himself.

Name of Product: Batteries Used In Radio-Controlled Helicopter KitsTuesday, August 26, 2008 @ 8:31AMWASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.