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I Want My Cheese (If you have ever hated going to the grocery store...)
Bin Laden's shooter gets no pension or protection (Is this how we treat our soldiers? Disgraceful.)
Susan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly, and Unfair (Good, good stuff)
Warnings from the Trenches
A high school teacher tells college educators what they can expect in the wake of No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top.
How Netflix is turning viewers into puppets
"House of Cards" gives viewers exactly what Big Data says we want. This won't end well.
Scientology's worst enemy
Deception | Radio Lab (Give is a listen)
Mandate pushed Postal Service into the red for first quarter
Congress passed a statute in 2006 requiring the early payment of 75 years worth of retiree benefits within 10 years. No other federal agency is forced to make such an investment.
“The $1.4 billion in pre-funding charges this quarter accounts for all — and then some — of the overall red ink of $1.3 billion,” National Association of Letter Carriers President Fredric Rolando said in a statement Friday. “Since pre-funding went into effect, it accounts for more than 80 percent of the agency’s red ink.”
Iran's new stealth fighter jet caught out by bloggers in 'faked' Photoshop image blunder
40 Million Mistakes: Is your credit report accurate?
Halve meat consumption, scientists urge rich world
Politics and Business
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Elizabeth Warren Embarrasses Hapless Bank Regulators At First Hearing (Story and VIDEO)
Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S.
Federal Aid For Religious Institutions In Murky Waters After Sandy
Debtor prisons, once a relic of the 18th century, are making a frightening comeback in the U.S. justice system
Google Could Pay Apple $1 Billion Next Year To Remain Default Search Engine On iOS
The Law Against Unlocking Cellphones Is Anti-Consumer, Anti-Business, and Anti-Common Sense
Beyond The Battlefield, Soldiers Fight An 'Invisible War'
"This is something we've been hearing for decades. ... I mean, according to the Department of Defense, 19,000 men and women were sexually assaulted in the military just last year, and of course if you multiply that back over the generations, that means hundreds of thousands of men and women have been sexually assaulted. And yet, even today they are still struggling to attack this problem. They have — it's long overdue that a problem should be addressed.
Study Confirms Tea Party Was Created by Big Tobacco and Billionaire Koch Brothers
Bank of America Bombshell: Whistleblowers Reveal Orchestrated Coverup and Massive Borrower Harm
A Reagan Legacy: Amnesty For Illegal Immigrants
Debtor prisons, once a relic of the 18th century, are making a frightening comeback in the U.S. justice system
Google Could Pay Apple $1 Billion Next Year To Remain Default Search Engine On iOS
The Law Against Unlocking Cellphones Is Anti-Consumer, Anti-Business, and Anti-Common Sense
Beyond The Battlefield, Soldiers Fight An 'Invisible War'
"This is something we've been hearing for decades. ... I mean, according to the Department of Defense, 19,000 men and women were sexually assaulted in the military just last year, and of course if you multiply that back over the generations, that means hundreds of thousands of men and women have been sexually assaulted. And yet, even today they are still struggling to attack this problem. They have — it's long overdue that a problem should be addressed.
Study Confirms Tea Party Was Created by Big Tobacco and Billionaire Koch Brothers
Bank of America Bombshell: Whistleblowers Reveal Orchestrated Coverup and Massive Borrower Harm
A Reagan Legacy: Amnesty For Illegal Immigrants
Do Illegal Immigrants Actually Hurt the U.S. Economy?
Labor economists have concluded that undocumented workers have lowered the wages of U.S. adults without a high-school diploma — 25 million of them — by anywhere between 0.4 to 7.4 percent. The impact on everyone else, though, is surprisingly positive.
Feds spend $7 on elderly for every $1 on kids
What cruise lines don't want you to know
In the two years between the Splendor and the Triumph fires, more than 10 cruise ship fires were reported in the media...cruise lines are largely unregulated...Crew members say that infected workers often do not complain of their illness out of fear of not being paid or of losing their jobs.
Labor economists have concluded that undocumented workers have lowered the wages of U.S. adults without a high-school diploma — 25 million of them — by anywhere between 0.4 to 7.4 percent. The impact on everyone else, though, is surprisingly positive.
Feds spend $7 on elderly for every $1 on kids
What cruise lines don't want you to know
In the two years between the Splendor and the Triumph fires, more than 10 cruise ship fires were reported in the media...cruise lines are largely unregulated...Crew members say that infected workers often do not complain of their illness out of fear of not being paid or of losing their jobs.
After Christopher Dorner’s rampage, how to build community trust in police
Relying on cops to police cops is neither efficient nor confidence-inspiring.
The solution? Abolish internal affairs units and outsource their work to external civilian agencies.
Science and Technology
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How Brainless Slime Molds Redefine Intelligence [Video]
Spain's Wind Farms Break Energy Record
Alligator Blood May Lead to Powerful New Antibiotics
How to turn living cells into computers
9 Interesting Things You May Not Know About the Clitoris
Wireless highway charges electric cars as they go
Fast fibre: A community shows the way
Rural community installs it's own fibre network
The Other Side of Otters
Sea otters – cute, furry, adorable, clams-wouldn’t-melt-in-their-mouths sea otters – have been observed forcibly copulating with, and in the process killing, juvenile harbor seals off California.
Scientists Discover Children’s Cells Living in Mothers’ Brains
In this study, male cells were found in the brains of women and had been living there, in some cases, for several decades.
Like a Swarm of Lethal Bugs: The Most Terrifying Drone Video Yet
Fun, Interesting, Disturbing and Offbeat
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Outside The Big City, A Harrowing Sexual Assault In Rural India
More commonly, rape victims have committed suicide, distraught over shame or callous treatment by the police. The stigma is such that experts say only a fraction of rapes in India are actually reported.
"It goes beyond rape," Berwal says. "Now, 5- and 6-year-old girls are being sexually assaulted by three or four men at a time. There are cases where 10 to 12 men have descended on one woman. In a double attack in a village nearby, the daughter was raped by a gang of men, who then raped and killed her mother."
An Egyptian Salafi preacher said raping and sexually harassing women protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square is justified, calling them “crusaders” who “have no shame, no fear and not even feminism.”
Teacher Raped By NYPD Cop Goes Public, Wants Albany To Change Rape Laws
The victim is now going public to convince Albany to put anal and oral penetration into the New York State definition of rape.
“To get the gold, they will have to kill every one of us”
The most-storied warrior tribe in Ecuador prepares to fight as the government sells gold-laden land to China.
a “St. Petersburg, Fla., couple refuses to drink the caffeinated beverage, which they say is bad for their health. Instead, they use it as an enema. They each have at least 100 coffee enemas a month, 6,000 in all since their addiction began two years ago. ‘I started the whole debacle,’ Trina, who did not want to reveal her last name, told ABCNews.com. ‘Then it took on a life of its own. I twice tried to stop and felt worse, so I do this every day and as much as I can. But it’s very time-consuming.’ ‘I love the way it makes me feel,’ said Trina. ‘It gives me a sense of euphoria.’ The couple admits they perform their caffeinated enema at least four times a day.’
Fitness tips from Kate Upton's trainer
My training philosophy is sound mind, sound body. That is my No. 1 rule. That and follow my ABCs: no alcohol, bread or processed carbs.
Israel passes law banning too-skinny models; Mannequins with BMIs below 18.5 are nixed from the catwalk as well as from photo shoots and advertising campaigns.
Russian lawmaker's body found in barrel of cement
A Russian lawmaker found stuffed in a barrel of cement last week may have been killed over unpaid debts, investigators said on Monday.
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