" Robert Levy's record in the Vietnam War was impressive: two Army tours and several honors, including a Bronze Star. It just wasn't as impressive as he claimed. Decades of lies caught up with him when he was...
Is this the beginning of a new movement towards banning fast-food chains?Major corporations such as McDonalds is definitely going to fight hard over this decision. As of now, only South L.A. is doing this ban, but if...
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"Being in business for a while, you eventually begin to shed many of your initial fears as you begin to find confidence in what you are doing. Living though situations you once feared and coming out safely on the other side is a learning experience many people have to go...
"Emergency Beijing Olympic pollution scheme begins By Ben Blanchard Reuters - Sunday, July 20 12:01 pmBEIJING (Reuters) - Beijingers breathed easier on Sunday as traffic restrictions and factory closures came into effect in a last ditch attempt to turn the often...
"The End of White Flight For the First Time in Decades, Cities' Black Populations Lose Ground, Stirring Clashes Over Class, Culture and Even Ice Cream By CONOR DOUGHERTYJuly 19, 2008; Page A1 Decades of white flight transformed America's cities. That era is...
"With so many websites - including this one - out to capitalize on the spike of global interest surrounding the Olympic Games an interesting divide has developed in the way publishers are approaching the RSS feed. Do RSS feeds promote a site across the web, or do they provide...
"Young women in bright miniskirts and high heels line up to sell themselves in the dingy back streets throughout the Russian capital. Moscow's illegal flesh markets are flourishing, with up to 30 women at each pickup point, or tochka, standing in order of price for the night....
Sure you or I have bluffed once in our lives. But how far can people go on doing this so-called white lies (?). In a new study, the University of Michigan suggests that bluffing in prediction markets is a...
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There is widespread panic undergoing in the borders areas of Pakistan after heavy deployment of NATO forces. Now local tribesmen are terrified for military actions against them. "After deployment along the...
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Nearly eight out of 10 Americans (78%) think Iran is likely to soon develop nuclear weapons, and over half say the Iranians will not halt their program no matter who is elected president, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. " Forty-three percent...
" Santiago, Peru I showed this videos to several friends and family, but nobody seems to have a rational explanation of what is shown here. And why wait about 3 years?, well I filmed this, I show this to a lot of people including UFO researchers here in Chile and TV stations...
The UK has been slow in adopting the tipping habit and just as it does we find our restaurants (including some big chains) undermining confidence in the tipping culture by exploiting the staff - essentially taking...
"This 4th of July weekend, we (along with my wife and daughter) went to Hilton Head Island, SC for a weekend getaway. Our lives were getting too hectic and breaking the routine was kinda important. So we decided to...
The Iranian government has fudged pictures to show more missiles at the time of launch. The Pictures were altered to add a fourth missile lifting off from a desert range "An Iranian photograph showing a cluster of missile launches was apparently altered to add a fourth...
The idea of using food based plastics instead of oil based is an old idea being revisited as oil prices soar and environmental issues take cetre stage."Landfills and plastics don't mix well. It takes several hundred...