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Zimbabwe makes history. BitCoins now official national currency.
Rumors from unidentified administration insider report that Mr. Robert Mugabe approved the ground breaking move to BitCoin as his nations national currency yesterday after 4 hour meeting with advisors...
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It Costs $333 Million to Shut Down Boston for a Day
The hunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev may be necessary, but it isn't cheap
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How Hollywood Poured $15.5 Billion Into China's Economy
And supported 909,000 jobs.
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Millions can't afford to go to the doctor in the USA
A growing number of Americans are skipping needed medical care because they can't afford it.
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What the world eats -- a week's worth of groceries
Imgur is used to share photos with social networks and online communities, and has the funniest pictures from all over the Internet.
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Farm Fakes: A History of Fraudulent Food
Throughout time, humans have been purposefully mislabeling, marketing and adulterating food. But thanks to a global economy, one food fake can reach millions of people; are we doing enough to stop it?
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Potato price-fixing costs consumers millions in Germany
Several potato processing plants in Germany are being investigated on the suspicion of illegally fixing prices for more than a decade, costing consumers and farmers more than 100 million.
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Why won’t Bitcoin die?
The virtual currency has had many near-death experiences in its short four year life, but it just keeps bouncing back
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Michael Moore: The Real IRS Scandal Is That 'They Let General Electric Not Pay Any Taxes'
Americans are focusing on the wrong IRS scandal, according to Michael Moore.
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Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto, the Creator of Bitcoin?
If the reclusive mathematician ever did reveal himself, he’d owe plenty of taxes.
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Apple CEO makes no apology for company's tax strategy
Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook made no apology on Tuesday for the iPad maker saving billions of dollars in U.S. taxes through Irish subsidiaries and told lawmakers that his company backs corporate tax reform, even though it may end up paying more.
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Inside The Stress Epidemic That Is Crushing College Students [INFOGRAPHIC]
Too much to handle.
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America, it's time to start making things again
America became the greatest industrial nation on Earth, creating airplanes, cars, electronics, computers, and eventually the Internet.
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Welcome to Mogadishu
Despite the threats from Islamist militants, the Somali capital is bursting back to life.
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Teargas: a booming market in repressing dissent
To weapons companies, Turkish protests sit alongside terrorism as another sales opportunity. It's time to stop the mass poisoning.
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Former Bank of America workers allege it lied to home owners
Six former Bank of America Corp (BAC.N) employees have alleged that the bank deliberately denied eligible home owners loan modifications and lied to them about the status of their mortgage payments and documents.
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7 graphs that prove America is overrated
Welcome to the Land of the Not-So-Free.
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7 Graphs That Prove America Is Overrated
While civil liberties continue to face erosion by heightened security and surveillance programs, there are many other areas where the American reality doesn't match the hype. Here are seven metrics that show US citizens' quality of life isn't as high as many imagine:
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Is War A Booming Industry?
Facts and Infographics about the business of war.
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$10 Minimum Wage Would Push Huge Percentage Of Working Poor Out Of Poverty
Raising the minimum wage to just $10.10 per hour would pull more than half of the nation's working poor out of poverty, according to a new study. The study, by the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, a national organization focusing on racial equity in the restaurant industry, discovered that nearly 58 percent -- or roughly 6 million -- of the 10.4 million U.S. workers living below the federal poverty level in 2011 would be pulled out by such an increase.
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