While not exactly breaking news, I ran into this story (word for word and un credited) as news in a local publication, and went looking for further information and substantiation on the internet. "In his first...
Until Barack and Michelle Obama received so much attention in the press after exchanging one on the campaign trail, I wasn't very familiar with the "fist bump." So I decided to do some research. The Wikipedia...
Canadian researchers have figured out a way to read the minds of disabled children who can't speak or gesture by scanning their brains with infrared light. This methodology decodes preference with 80% accuracy....
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With all the cruddy news of the day, this story made me smile. ....." Two missed free throws, ordinarily the cause of a coach's headache, became the symbol of sportsmanship in a Milwaukee boys basketball game earlier this month. Milwaukee Madison senior Johntell Franklin,...
Miley Cyrus is in trouble yet again for posing for what could be seen as a racist photograph. The singer is seen posing with her boyfriend and some friends and some of them are making a gesture with their eyes that...
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Israel has agreed to release 200 Palestinian prisoners. The approval by a ministerial commission is the next step in the process of releasing the prisoners. The move is a festure of faith in Palestianian president Mahmoud Abbas. "An Israeli ministerial commission on Monday...
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UPDATE: Meanwhile, Michelle Obama promises a gay Democrats group that her husband will fight for gay equality. Given that Mrs. Obama is busy making policy and public statements, Mr. Obama is going to be hard-pressed, in any logical way, to continue to claim that the media and...
President Bush and two successive Popes seem to enjoy their regular, almost quarterly visits, leading some to believe perhaps President Bush is asking for absolution for past, present and future policies. ...
"Google users in the United States will notice today that we "turned the lights out" on the Google.com homepage as a gesture to raise awareness of a worldwide energy conservation effort called Earth Hour. As to...
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Daughter of the West
Tariq Ali
Arranged marriages can be a messy business. Designed principally as a means of accumulating wealth, circumventing...
This is just incredible, Bhutto was assasinated this morning at a campaign rally. "Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in a suicide bombing that also killed at least 20 others at a...
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VIDEOI guess the video does'nt work but if you go to the Yahoo page you can see it. HERE "GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Hamas security forces opened fire Monday at a rally by the rival Fatah movement commemorating Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Six people were killed in the...
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There are many border towns across Canada and the US who share everything, from Apartment buildings, Schools, Bars to Family Bloodlines, separated by an invisible line which runs through back alleys and...
A hand signal or an obscene gesture?"The Foot Guard, clad in the famous bearskin and scarlet tunic, was caught making the obscene hand movement by an American tourist.She posted the clip on the YouTube website...
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"Armed Forces personnel fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan will have around a quarter of their Council Tax bill refunded, in a new policy announced today.
Des Browne, the Defence Secretary, is expected to confirm the move at the Labour Party conference this afternoon, telling...
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