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    Josh Hamilton Hits Four Homers

    For only the 16th time in baseball history, a player has hit four home runs in one game. That player was Josh Hamilton of the Texas Rangers, who did it Tuesday night against the Baltimore Orioles. All four of Hamilton’s homers were two-run shots. Said Hamilton after the game: “Obviously it’s...
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    One-armed Little League pitcher hurls inspiring no-hitter, delivers key hits at the p

    It's not particularly uncommon for a dominant Little League pitcher to hurl a no-hitter. What is remarkable is when a one-armed Little League pitcher accomplishes that feat. According to South Carolina Now -- and as brought to Prep Rally's attention by 'Duk of Big League Stew fame --...
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    The Juice: Ryan Braun hits first three-homer game in Petco history, Darvish dazzles i

    The Juice is back for its fifth season of fun! Stop by each weekday for an ample serving of news from the action, plus great photos, stats and video highlights. Ryan Braun makes history: Neither pitcher nor perimeter could keep Ryan Braun inside the spacious confines of Petco Park on Monday...
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    Saturday?s Three Stars: Whitney hits 1000; Jets, Bolts, Isles, Flames eliminated; Haw

    It was fan appreciation night in Phoenix, so this lucky fan just got Ray Whitney's signed stick on the night he scored his 1000th NHL point, no big deal. No. 1 Star: Mike Smith, Phoenix Coyotes Smith was unbeatable through 60 minutes versus the Anaheim Ducks. He was tested 44 times, but he...
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    New Zealand number portability hits fifth anniversary with record numbers

    About 800,000 numbers have been "ported" (moved) between telcos in five years, with 500,000 being mobile numbers.
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    Where can I get Atari Greatest Hits for free with all the games on it for the Iphone?

    Any help would be grateful :)
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    Awkward Alert: Jon Stewart's Underwear Joke Hits Close to Home With David Letterman

    Jon Stewart inadvertently put David Letterman in the hot seat on The Late Show Wednesday night. A conversation that started with joking about buying underwear quickly got awkward when...
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    Football Findings Suggest Concussions Caused By Series Of Hits

    A two-year study of high school football players suggests that concussions are likely caused by many hits over time and not from a single blow to the head, as commonly believed. Purdue University researchers have studied football players for two seasons at Jefferson High School in Lafayette...
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    Hits vs Comments

    Blogging controversy can generate a lot of comments, but it is often said that this also generates a lot of "hits" (page views) and sometime we bloggers are accused by people (often commenters) who don't blog themselves and don't have access to the secret data about blog sites that bloggers can...
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    Global Financial Crisis Hits Disease Prevention Funding

    It seems that every day another area of the economy is depressed because of the global financial crisis in the banks and governments around the world. This time it's The Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria, which has announced it will make no new grants until 2014; and there is a...
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    RocketSail Hits Freeway Speeds on the Water—Sadly, Without Rockets [Video]

    While not quite as imposing as BMW Oracle's USA-17, the Vestas Sailrocket Mk.II is no less impressive. It's aiming to top 65 mph on wind power alone—the water-borne equivalent to going plaid—and break the short-distance world speed sailing record. More »
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    Brain Injury May Result From Routine Head Hits In School Sports

    The brain scans of high school football and hockey players showed subtle injury - even if they did not suffer a concussion - after taking routine hits to the head during the normal course of play, according to a University of Rochester Medical Center study. The research, reported online in the...
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    Has anyone read House of Hits by Andy Bradley and Roger Wood?

    The book is about the history of the Gold Star/Sugarhill recording studio in Houston Texas. I'm almost finished reading it and I need a thesis for a term paper. Any ideas would be helpful.
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    Serious Norovirus Illness Hits NBA Players Too

    A new investigation published in Clinical infectious Diseases reports on the 2010 outbreak of norovirus in several NBA teams. The study underlines the unique circumstances that spread the extremely contagious virus among NBA players and staff on and off the court. The 2010 outbreak is the...
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    World Population Officially Hits 7 Billion On Halloween

    Although it is of course impossible to say exactly when it will happen, demographers have picked 31st Oct 2011 as the symbolic date when the world population officially hits 7 billion. Its somewhat ironic choosing the day of the dead to highlight world population, that has taken little more...
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    World's Population Hits 7 Billion, Governments Must Focus On Young People's Reproduct

    The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), the world's largest non-governmental organization working in sexual and reproductive health, is calling to renew the focus on young people's reproductive health as the world's population reaches seven billion on 31 October. According to...
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    World Series Game 3: Pujols rules with record three homers, five hits

    </p> Score and situation: Behind the best individual performance in World Series history*, by Albert Pujols, the St. Louis Cardinals crushed the Texas Rangers 16-7 in Game 3 to take a 2-1 lead in the series. Both teams had combined for eight runs in the first two games. Update: On Twitter...
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    Demi Moore Hits the Red Carpet Solo—but We Spy a Wedding Ring!

    Demi Moore wasn't hurting for male companionship at the NYC premiere of her latest film, Margin Call. But though the scandal-ducking star was flanked on the red carpet by hotties...
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    Photo: Victor Martinez hits big homer, gets solemn reception

    A screencap may be worth a thousand words, but this shot of Victor Martinez entering the Detroit Tigers dugout during Tuesday night's 5-2 victory over the Texas Rangers doesn't come close to telling the whole story. It was only moments earlier in the fourth inning of ALCS Game 3 that Detroit's...
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    Forza Motorsport 4 Demo Hits XBox Live

    Forza Motorsport 4, Turn 10 Studio’s Gran Turismo-rivaling driving sim hits video game stores today. In preparation for our forthcoming review of the XBox 360-only title, we spent some time with the demo version, which came out late last week.
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