All that senior Derrick Roland wanted to do at Texas A&M University was play basketball. After making a miraculous recovery from the gruesome injury we all watched on the web through squinted eyes, the NCAA is denying Roland’s request to finish his playing career based on a technicality.

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Lou Piniella isn’t waiting around to go out on a high note with the Cubs. The 2010 season will be his last. Piniella, who turns 67 next month, released a statement Tuesday announcing his intention to retire following this season — his 23rd as a big league manager.

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CWmike writes “With Monday’s iOS 4 upgrade, Apple patched a record 65 vulnerabilities in the iPhone, more than half of them critical. However, the first-generation iPhone and iPod Touch, as well as the much newer iPad, may have been left vulnerable to some or all of the 65 bugs. iOS 4 cannot be installed on 2007′s iPhone and iPod Touch, and the upgrade is not slated to reach iPad owners until this fall. The bug count is a record for the iPhone, surpassing (more…)

Four miners still missing after West Virginia and three of the dead are members of the same family in what looks likely to be the worst mine disaster in the US in 40 years.

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itwbennett writes “After a networking error first reported on Wednesday last week caused computers in Chile and the US to come under the control of a system that censors the Internet in China, the ‘root DNS server associated with the networking problems has been disconnected from the Internet,’ writes Robert McMillan. The server’s operator, Netnod, has ‘withdrawn route announcements’ made by the server, according to company CEO Kurt Lindqvist.”

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palmerj3 writes “The popular Facebook Purity greasemonkey script (now renamed Fluff Buster Purity) has been used by thousands to rid their Facebook feeds from the likes of Mafia Wars, Farmville, and other annoying things. Now, Facebook is threatening the developer of this script. Does Facebook have the right to govern their websites design & functionality once it’s in the browser?”

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Investigators say Faith Williams Hamby, 43, flashed her breasts to a patron at a Gadsden convenience store on Wednesday. Only that patron was an off-duty Etowah County sheriff’s deputy, and apparently he wasn’t impressed.

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The 2010 Winter Olympics officially open but the ceremony in Vancouver is overshadowed by the death of 21-year-old Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili.

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cremeglace writes with this excerpt from ScienceNOW: “You’ve heard the controversy. Particle physicists predict the world’s new highest-energy atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland, might create tiny black holes, which they say would be a fantastic discovery. Some doomsayers fear those black holes might gobble up the Earth — physicists say that’s impossible — and have petitioned the United Nations to stop (more…)

Parker Griffith, the Democratic House representative from northern Alabama who last week announced he was jumping ship to the Republicans, has lost his entire staff.

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