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Maine Men Hit Big Time With Web Mentos-Diet Coke Experiment

PORTLAND, Maine – A pair of Mainers who became Internet celebrities by plopping Mentos into Diet Coke to create geysers are about to become hits on mainstream media. Fritz Grobe, 37, and Stephen Voltz, 48, were scheduled to appear on David Letterman’s show Thursday night and on the Today show …

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Factory Orders Post Biggest Fall in Three Months

WASHINGTON – Orders to U.S. factories fell in April, their biggest setback in three months and another sign of slowing economic activity in the spring. The Commerce Department reported Friday that demand for manufactured goods dropped by $7.4 billion to $397.98 billion in April, a decline of 1.8 percent from …

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Notorious E-mail Spammer Settles With Texas, Microsoft

AUSTIN, Texas – One of the world’s most notorious spammers has settled lawsuits with the state of Texas and Microsoft Corp. that cost him at least $1 million (euro780,000), took away most of his assets and forced him to stop sending the nuisance e-mails. Ryan Pitylak, 24, who graduated from …

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