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Pilot wannabe gets nonstop ride to jail
A Frenchman was arrested this week after he impersonated a pilot and sat in the cockpit of a US Airways plane before a flight from Philadelphia, police say.
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10 Controversial Yet Confusing Anti-Smoking Adverts
Advertising campaigns have the ability to shape our perception, dictate our mood, awake the senses and increasingly alter our habits. As society’s values have changed, so too has the types of adverts which are deems acceptable or unacceptable. With years of research behind them, advertising agencies have found new and creative ways of getting our attention.
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Easter Traditions from Around the World
Kids in the U.S. grow up expecting a delivery of eggs and candy from the Easter bunny each year, but it may seem odd to an outsider. Brought to this country by German immigrants in the 1700s, the practice is rooted in the belief that rabbits and eggs symbolize fertility and rebirth. While this may be the norm in America, however, other cultures have their their own, unique Easter celebrations. Whether it’s drenching one another with water in Poland or reading crime novels in Norway..
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Dad jailed for killing baby girl when he lost his temper during Arsenal v Barcelona match
A dad who shook and killed his baby daughter when he lost his temper as he watched a football match on TV has been jailed for 10 years.
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Brazilian doctor killed 7 patients to free up hospital beds
A Brazilian doctor appeared in court for allegedly killing seven patients to free up hospital beds in the southeast city of Curitiba. Virginia Helena Soares de Souza recruited a group of doctors to help administer lethal doses of anesthetics, sedatives and painkillers, according to authorities.
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Crazy Parkour
Only in Russia.
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29 Crazy Things That Only Happen In China
China's rapid economic growth rate has helped create problems that are very unique to China.
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Saudi Arabia Will Let Women Ride Bicycles — But Only For Fun
No transportation!
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Homophobic Manitobans Force Gay Restaurant Owners To Close Doors
MORRIS, Man. - When Dave Claringbould and his partner opened a restaurant in rural Manitoba, they knew some people might have a problem with them being gay.But they didn't expect to face blatant ignorance and insults."We were asked if somebody was going to catch something off of the plate because we had prepared the food on it," Claringbould recalled Tuesday.
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People are awesome
Just a awesome video to watch. Can't take your eyes off it
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blast from the past
No bones about it - students at a Bondi school were thrilled to have a prehistoric visitor.
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Scientology: The Story
Lawrence Wright’s Going Clear, a scary book about Scientology and its influence, is a true horror story, the most comprehensive among a number of books published on the subject in the past few years, many of them personal accounts by people who have managed to escape or were evicted from the clutches of a group they came to feel was destroying them.
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Ban the killer robots before it's too late
As wars become increasingly automated, we must ask ourselves how far we want to delegate responsibility to machines. Where do we want to draw the line?
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Man buys 2 giant rats after being told they were baby poodles.
Gullible bargain hunters at Argentina's largest bazaar are forking out hundreds of dollars for what they think are gorgeous toy poodles, only to discover that their cute pooch is in fact a 'Brazilian rat' pumped up on steroids.
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Why Dr. Kermit Gosnell's Trial Should Be a Front-Page Story
The dead babies. The exploited women. The racism. The numerous governmental failures. It is thoroughly newsworthy.
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Iraq cities hit by deadly bombings
At least 31 people have been killed and more than 200 others wounded in a series of early-morning explosions in cities across Iraq, officials say.
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Florida man saves child by punching alligator into submission
A Florida man saved his six-year-old son on Friday by punching an alligator into submission after the beast clamped onto the child’s right arm.
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Getting a Grip on Memory
Unilateral hand clenching increases neuronal activity in the frontal lobe of the contralateral hemisphere. Such hand clenching is also associated with increased experiencing of a given hemisphere’s “mode of processing.” Together, these findings suggest that unilateral hand clenching can be used to test hypotheses concerning the specializations of the cerebral hemispheres during memory encoding and retrieval.
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Moore’s Law and the Origin of Life
As life has evolved, its complexity has increased exponentially, just like Moore’s law. Now geneticists have extrapolated this trend backwards and found that by this measure, life is older than the Earth itself.
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Tu-154m of the Republic of Poland
"Tu-154m of the Republic of Poland" (042010) - this is model referring to the Smolensk disaster at 10 April 2010. 1:144 scale model, in the display case measuring 50x40x6 [centimetres]. You can build your own version of the crashed plane.
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