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11 years ago+9 10 1Most Gang Members Have a Diagnosable Mental Illness
A new study from England's National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) shows unprecedented levels of mental disabilities for gang members.
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11 years ago+8 9 1Pyramid Scheme: Why $1.5 Billion Doesn’t Buy Obama Much Influence in Egypt
Once in a while, I read a newspaper column by a well-educated observer or a speech by an experienced politician, and I wonder: Has this person ever read a book on international relations? Does he know anything about power? Does he understand the basi ...
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11 years ago+13 13 0Vintage Mercedes sells for record $30 million
n the history of race cars, this little Mercedes was really something. And it made history again Friday, this time as the most expensive car ever sold at an auction. The 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196, a Formula 1 race car, won two Grand Prix titles under c ...
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11 years ago+8 8 0Saudi princess posts $5-million bail, will be freed
The Saudi royal princess who is charged with forcing a Kenyan woman to work for her as a domestic servant posted $5-million bond Thursday and was expected to be released later in the day.
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11 years ago+20 20 0Why Is the Golden Age of TV So Dark?
Brett Martin has always been a magazine writer, not a TV critic. But after writing a behind-the-scenes companion to The Sopranos for HBO in 2007, he felt sure that something profound was happening in the world of television: Since the late 1990s, a w ...
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11 years ago+7 7 0Canadian team's human-powered helicopter wins 33-year-old competition (with video)
When Todd Reichert settles into the pilot seat of the helicopter he helped build, there are no fancy electronic switches to flip, there's no fuel tank to fill and certainly no computer to configure before take off.
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11 years ago+6 6 0Video: Unknown Force Changing Cloud's Shape
Unknown Source of light in the sky. Acting as if something is controlling it. Some creepy stuff.
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11 years ago+12 12 0Florida Accidentally Banned All Computers, Smart Phones In The State Through Internet Cafe Ban: Lawsuit
When Florida lawmakers recently voted to ban all Internet cafes, they worded the bill so poorly that they effectively outlawed every computer in the state, according to a recent lawsuit. In April Florida Governor Rick Scott approved a ban on slot mac ...
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11 years ago+10 10 0A Look Inside Nokia's Ridiculous Phone Testing Labs
Nokia phones are pretty sturdy. Sturdier than most, actually. And while all phones go through similar stress tests, we've got a look into Nokia's specifically. It's petty impressive!
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11 years ago+10 10 029 boarding school students burned alive, shot dead by Islamist militants in Nigeria
Islamic militants attacked a boarding school in northeast Nigeria before dawn Saturday, killing 29 students and one teacher. Some of the pupils were burned alive in the latest school attack blamed on a radical terror group, survivors said.
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11 years ago+2 3 1Egypt’s Military is Waiting for the Worst
Is martial law next in Egypt? Christopher Dickey and Mike Giglio report.
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11 years ago+11 11 010 mindblowingly futuristic technologies that will appear by the 2030s
Two decades is not a lot in the grand scheme of things, but owing to accelerating change we can expect to see the emergence of some fairly disruptive technological innovations in the coming years. Here are 10 mindblowingly futurist technologies that ...
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11 years ago+8 8 0What Comes After Bitcoin: The Future of Cryptocurrencies
It's time for the Internet to revolutionize our banking system, and Bitcoin is just one of the cryptocurrencies vying for a spot in your digital wallet.
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11 years ago+12 12 0Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow
One week ago I left Hong Kong after it became clear that my freedom and safety were under threat for revealing the truth. My continued liberty has been owed to the efforts of friends new and old, family, and others who I have never met and probably ...
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11 years ago+9 9 0Exploring dinosaur growth
Tracking the growth of dinosaurs and how they changed as they grew is difficult. Using a combination of biomechanical analysis and bone histology, palaeontologists from Beijing, Bristol, and Bonn have shown how one of the best-known dinosaurs switche ...
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11 years ago+11 12 1Libya’s Disaster of Justice: The Case of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi Reveals a Country in Chaos
When NATO launched its bombing campaign in 2011 against Muammar Gaddafi’s forces in Libya, the Western and Arab leaders who pushed for military intervention vowed to bring to justice the men who had conducted wartime atrocities against civilians—the ...
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11 years ago+6 6 0Pentagon slammed for $1 billion deal with banned arms dealer
Including the new contract, the Pentagon has spent more than $1 billion on helicopters and related maintenance and service with Rosoboronexport, Assad's top arms supplier.
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11 years ago+11 11 021-Year-Old Raises Largest Seed Round In Silicon Valley History — $25 Million — For Mysterious Payments App
Clinkle hasn't even launched yet.
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11 years ago+12 12 0Mouse cloned from drop of blood
Scientists in Japan have cloned a mouse from a single drop of blood. Circulating blood cells collected from the tail of a donor mouse were used to produce the clone, a team at the Riken BioResource Center reports in the journal Biology of Reproductio ...
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11 years ago+7 7 0People that look like other people
...or things.