There won't be any senior moments when two-time Big East champion Cincinnati sends it defense out for the first time this weekend. (www.newsvine.com)

Boeing Co. will do some limited testing on two more 787 airliners besides the six planes in its flight test fleet. (www.newsvine.com)

Total money market mutual fund assets fell by $6.22 billion to $2.827 trillion for the week, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday. (www.newsvine.com)

A couple from central Maine who had to spend $1,000 in repair bills after their car went over a particularly bad pothole has won a $250 car repair gift certificate for their troubles. Maine - United States - Scrip - Business and Economy - Arts and Entertainment (feeds.boston.com)

The world's strongest solid rocket motor revs up, a star nursery is seen in its sharpest view yet, and more in this week's best space pictures. Solid-fuel rocket - Rocket engine - Space - Technology - NASA (feeds.nationalgeographic.com)

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Talk about pigging out: Joey Chestnut has eaten his way to another ribs-eating title in Nevada. (www.newsvine.com)

Scientists are reporting a major advance in diagnosing tuberculosis: A new test can reveal in less than two hours, with very high accuracy, whether ... (rssfeeds.usatoday.com)

Two groups of 44 states will use the $330 million in federal money to design better annual reading and math tests. (feeds.nytimes.com)

American Airlines says a pilot removed from a flight to Mexico passed an alcohol test. American Airlines - Aviator - Business - Aviation - Aircraft Rental and Instruction (pheedo.msnbc.msn.com)

A former Britain's Got Talent hopeful who claimed she was discriminated against at an audition fails to get her case taken to an employment tribunal. (www.bbc.co.uk)

The bidding contest between computer makers Hewlett-Packard and Dell for the data storage company 3Par is heating up. Even before Dell could make its latest offer public, HP has come back with a higher bid. (www.newsvine.com)

Cairn Energy said it has restarted operations on the oil drilling rig it has under contract offshore Greenland following the end of a protest by Greenpeace. (feeds.wsjonline.com)

adeelarshad82 writes "IBM revealed details of its 5.2-GHz chip, the fastest microprocessor ever announced. Costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, IBM described the z196, which will power its Z-series of mainframes. The z196 contains 1.4 billion transistors on a chip measuring 512 square millimeters fabricated on 45-nm PD SOI technology. It conta... (rss.slashdot.org)

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Massive street protests planned for next week won't dent the French government's resolve to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62, the labor minister said Thursday. (www.newsvine.com)

The Democratic chairman of a blue-ribbon panel examining the U.S. financial crisis said that government officials made a "conscious policy decision" not to prevent Lehman Brothers' 2008 collapse, potentially accelerating the financial crisis. (feeds.wsjonline.com)

Japan is sweltering through its hottest summer on record, weather officials said Thursday. (www.newsvine.com)

IBM unveiled details of its new advanced mainframe chips that it said can process information at record-breaking speeds, more than 17,000 times the rate of the company's high-end system in 1970. (feeds.wsjonline.com)

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is set to appear before a panel investigating the financial crisis to give his take on the meltdown and his views on potential systemwide risks posed by large financial institutions. (www.newsvine.com)

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