14 Worst Hospital Mistakes to Avoid
How Hospitals Can Make You SickGoing in for surgery? Get the facts you need to be your own health advocateApart from interfering with your beach vacation, there's another, more serious reason to steer...
View Article5 Reasons Aging Is Awesome
Aging is awesome The saggy, wrinkly view of aging may have a much more positive, and real, counterpart: Getting older has its perks, lots of them, from needing less sleep to having better sex. Here's a...
View ArticleTop 10 Bad Things That Are Good For You
Beer quells heart disease and chocolate staves off cancer? Though often tagged with a disclaimer, studies that tell us to eat, inhale and generally indulge in "bad stuff" is music to our ears. So go...
View ArticleTop 10 Reasons Why People of Color Should Care About Sequestration
Thanks to congressional Republicans putting the economy in jeopardy during the debt ceiling debacle in the summer of 2011 and again in 2012, a package of automatic across-the-board spending cuts known...
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Top 40 hedge fund managers earn total of $16.7bn
The top 40 hedge fund managers in the world personally earned a total of $16.7bn (£11bn) last year, according to a Forbes list that underscores the extraordinary power of the high-rolling...
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WikiLeaks: US 'to call bin Laden raid Navy Seal to testify against Bradley...
The US government is believed to be preparing to put a Navy Seal on the witness stand to testify that secret files published by WikiLeaks were discovered in Osama bin Laden's compound. Osama bin Laden...
View ArticleMan arrested after calling 911 nine times trying to order a cheeseburger
A New Castle man's hunger for a cheeseburger landed him in jail. Fifty two-year-old Gregory Jackson Sr. was so hungry this past Friday night, he called 911 to get it. Not just once, but according to...
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Teenager spotted walking 10 MILES in the snow to interview for $7-an-hour job...
Art Bouvier, the owner of a New Orleans-inspired restaurant located in Indianapolis saw a young man trudging through the early morning snow and ice last week. The teen stopped to ask Bouvier — who owns...
View ArticleParent's outrage as schoolchildren dressed in burqas are taught about 9/11...
An Advanced Placement World Geography teacher at a Texas high school who encouraged students to dress in Islamic clothing also instructed them to refer to the 9-11 hijackers not as terrorists – but as...
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Photographs of the White House being completely gutted and reconstructed...
When Harry S Truman became President of the United States, he inherited a White House that was structurally unsound. A lack of investment during the Depression and war years meant the mansion was in...
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Mind of its own: building a human brain
A machine capable of thinking for itself and expressing emotion is being developed in Switzerland At the end of last year a group of academics at the University of Cambridge asked a simple question:...
View ArticleFlorida man shot by his dog, police say
A Florida man was shot and wounded over the weekend by his dog, who walked away without charges, police said.Gregory Dale Lanier, 35, of Frostproof, Fla., told police Saturday that he and his dog were...
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Billionaire Dennis Tito unveils plan to send married couple to Mars
A married couple is being sought to represent humanity on the first manned mission to Mars.Dennis Tito, the first space touristDennis Tito, a billionaire financier who in 2001 became the first space...
View ArticleThe Amazing Health Benefits of Virgin Coconut Oil
Coconut oil is often described as the “healthiest oil on earth.” This wasn’t always so. For years it had a reputation of being unhealthy because of its high saturated fat content. We now know coconut...
View ArticleNutrition by Color
Fruits and vegetables grow in a variety of colors for a reason: it helps you figure out what kinds of nutritional value they contain. And when it comes to fresh produce, variety is key — eat a rainbow...
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Hundreds of Romanian gypsies 'imprisoned' for months in a ghetto so grim the...
They were promised new apartments away from the biting cold of the Romanian winter.But eight months on, 500 gypsy families are still marooned in a snow-bound slum in buildings riddled with damp and...
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The women who fought as men: Rare American Civil War pictures show how...
Conventional narrative has framed the Civil War as a man’s fight, with historical accounts focusing almost exclusively on the men who fought as Yanks and Rebs in the 1860s. But such commonly accepted...
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Mom-to-be lets online voters pick baby’s name for $5,000
A California woman expecting a baby in September has agreed to allow online voters name her child in exchange for $5,000. Natasha Hill, a 26-year-old art teacher from Los Angeles, won a contest...
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106-year-old woman to get high-school diploma
It took a long time but 106-year-old Reba Williams, Louis Bromfield’s cook at Malabar Farm from 1943 to 1957, will receive her high school diploma from Mount Vernon High School in the coming...
View ArticleBerlin Wall to be torn down for luxury flats
Berliners are outraged at plans to demolish part of the world-famous East Side Gallery, the longest remaining stretch of the Berlin Wall, to make way for luxury apartments and a pedestrian bridge...
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