LAFAYETTE, Tenn. — Daybreak revealed a battered landscape across the South on Wednesday, as crews searching communities hit by a violent line of tornadoes fought through downed power lines, crumpled mobile homes and snapped trees to find victims. At least 48 people were dead.The storms swept across Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas as Super Tuesday primaries were ending, ripping the roof from a shopping mall, blowing apart warehouses and crumpling a campus' dormitory buildings as students huddled inside.Seavia Dixon, whose Atkins, Ark. was shattered, stood Wednesday morning in her yard, holding muddy baby pictures of her son, who is now a 20-year-old soldier in Iraq. Only a concrete slab was left from the home.The family's brand new white pickup truck was upside-down, about 150 yards from where it was parked before the storm.

Hip-Hop Rumors: Illseed Fired From AllHipHop.com! And some rumors!

I never did it before…now would be the time I would be coming to grips with it but I'm talking to you. Everybody else thinks it's pretty dumb, all my people . . . you're talking about giving $30,000 [back].

He gave the money back, because people couldn't hear? I heard the show was pretty bad. It must have been an off night. Katt is a hilarious dude aside for using the N-Word too much (I know I said that before).

T-rays, more versatile than X-rays

Terahertz radiation was discovered in 1896. Unless theyre at a temperature of absolute zero (273.160 C), all objects, animate and inanimate, give off terahertz radiation (called T-rays), the heat from molecular vibrations. This black-body radiation is emitted at such low intensities typically less than a millionth of a watt per square centimeter that were unaware of it. Genetic defects behind common human diseases
By Steve Connor
When the human genome was fully decoded at the turn of the 21st Century, one scientist described it as the biggest discovery since the invention of the wheel. It has taken some years for medical research to live up to the initial expectations attached to the deciphering of the human genome.

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Voltas chases the overseas chill

Mumbai, Feb 5: Voltas Ltd, the Mumbai-based Rs 3,000-crore air-conditioning and engineering services company, is likely to bag a large overseas order that could be worth Rs 600-800 crore. The order from West Asia would be in the electro-mechanical segment and come before the end of the current fiscal, a source close to the development said. It is also learnt that the Tata group company is readying itself for bigger bets into special economic zone space for long-term contracts. M M Miyajiwala, executive vice president-finance, Voltas, said, "Bidding and bagging orders is a continuous process for us and I don't want comment anything on fresh orders at this stage."

He said that Voltas order book size has swelled to Rs3,500 crore, of which Rs2,700 crore are from overseas and Rs 800 crore from the domestic market.

Hazlewood Rebooted

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Don't say no-no to the Nano

Here's some exciting news: The world's cheapest car will soon be hitting the roads of India. Tata Motors recently unveiled the Nano, a car that will surely make many middle-class people happy, particularly Hyundai owners, who will now feel like they're driving luxury cars. .