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  • 9 years ago
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    An Oral History Of Facebook

    One morning in 2004, students at Harvard University woke up and discovered a new website had launched that allowed them to connect with their classmates on a virtual social network. Within a few hours, the site had taken Harvard by storm, and within a few years, this campus fad would become a full-blown global phenomenon. It would make its founder the youngest billionaire in the world and would forever alter the fundamentals of human interaction. Facebook had been born.

  • 9 years ago
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    War in Space May Be Closer Than Ever

    The world’s most worrisome military flashpoint is arguably not in the Strait of Taiwan, the Korean Peninsula, Iran, Israel, Kashmir or Ukraine. In fact, it cannot be located on any map of Earth, even though it is very easy to find. To see it, just look up into a clear sky, to the no-man’s-land of Earth orbit, where a conflict is unfolding that is an arms race in all but name.

  • 9 years ago
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    Leaked Trans-Pacific Partnership draft would force Canada to rework copyright, critics say

    Canada would have to massively overhaul its Copyright Act just a few years after the last round of painstaking amendments, critics warn, if a secret trade and investment deal the government is negotiating is adopted with the terms outlined in a leaked draft from May that was made public this week. What appears to be a working draft of parts of the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership pact, or TPP, was posted online this week by a U.S. non-governmental organization.

  • 9 years ago
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    Newly Discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald Story Published

    The work had been turned down for publication when he was alive. A long-lost story by F. Scott Fitzgerald has been published 76 years after it was written. “Temperature” is running in the current issue of The Strand Magazine and will appear online in three months, according to New York Magazine. Fitzgerald wrote the story just a year before his death at a particularly troubled time in his career...

  • 9 years ago
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    Search for 43 missing students in Mexico turns up corpses of at least 129 other people

    The search for 43 missing college students in the southern state of Guerrero has turned up at least 60 clandestine graves and 129 bodies over the last 10 months, Mexico’s attorney general’s office says. None of the remains has been connected to the youths who disappeared after a clash with police in the city of Iguala on Sept. 26, and authorities do not believe any will be. Prosecutors say the students were turned over to a drug gang that killed them...

  • 9 years ago
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    I'd love to visit NK but I just cant see myself basically giving that regime my money which will go straight to Mr Un.

  • 9 years ago
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    Cosby, In Sworn Deposition, Says He Paid Women To Keep Affairs Secret

    In a New York Times exclusive based on new documents related to a 2005 case, the comedian presents himself "as an unapologetic, cavalier playboy."