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Relax lazy bones. It might be time to embrace your inner underachiever. In a world where work-related stress has rocketed could the most intelligent option be simply to find the least-taxing, most lucrative job on offer? Could the smartest choice for a future career be the path that requires...

Last week, the Washington Post published one doctor's remembrance of the emotions associated with treating a morbidly obese patient. The doctor was condemned for purported "fat-shaming." Is your doctor really fat-shaming you? The Washington Post piece, by Edward Thompson, is meant to evoke...

Sounds like they're all mad. Mayor Rob Ford says his jaunt down to Los Angeles was to promote the city’s film industry, but people in the movie business say appearing on late-night TV talk shows does little to bring the Hollywood dollars north. Greg Nott, Manager of Wallace Film Studios...

Scientists have discovered a new type of virus in 30,000-year-old permafrost and managed to revive it, producing an infection. Fortunately, the new virus, named Pithovirus sibericum, infects amoebas and is not harmful to humans. But its ability to become infectious again after so many...

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His feelings were hurt I guess. Man sues McDonald's for $1.5 million after being given only one napkin  - NY Daily News

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Maybe we shouldn't. At a time when advances in science and technology have changed our understanding of our mental and physical selves, it is easy for some to dismiss the discipline of philosophy as obsolete. Stephen Hawking, boldly, argues that philosophy is dead. Not according to...

Just days after he insisted he was not an international celebrity, Mayor Rob Ford arrived in Los Angeles ready to appear at the Oscars and on Jimmy Kimmel’s talk show. Ford is slated to appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday. Kimmel greeted Ford and his entourage at Los Angeles International...

really? ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The radiation exposure of at least 13 workers at a nuclear dump in a New Mexico salt bed more than 2,000 feet below the ground has brought new attention to the nation's long struggle to find places to dispose of tons of Cold War-era waste The...

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via sda Do you remember a time when people in positions of authority made judgements based on common sense? Your answer will likely depend on how old you are. CLARKSVILLE, Tenn - A high school student in Montgomery County has been suspended after school officials found a knife inside his...

According to Google, the ruling "opens the door to an extra in even 'Gone With the Wind' contacting Netflix and demanding that it purge every copy of the film from its inventory." Google is really freaking out about Wednesday's ruling determining that Innocence of Muslims actress Cindy...

Thousands of pages of records from the Clinton presidency are being made public this afternoon, potentially offering fresh insights into Hillary Clinton as she considers whether to run for president in 2016. Here is our live dive through the documents. The Clinton library released, as expected...

A man who once sought to replace Jack Layton in his Toronto riding faces a slew of charges after a young girl claimed she was inappropriately touched early Friday morning in a downtown Ottawa hotel. Ashraf Ali Rao — a 47 year-old NDP volunteer and recruiter — travelled with the girl to...

Brian Lilley was right all along.What Lacroix didn't answer was how he thought it was ethical to claim living expenses and take a living allowance for the same visits. Sen. Don Plett, recently the subject of CBC stories on his own expenses, was particularly outraged. Plett pushed for and...

If you listen to the chattering class in Washington, D.C., Hillary Clinton is a virtual certainty for the 2016 Democratic nomination, and the front runner in the next presidential race. But in private, rumors persist that the former Secretary of State may not even be capable of making it to...

SAN FRANCISCO — Officials at a Northern California high school acted appropriately when they ordered students wearing American flag T-shirts to turn the garments inside out during the Mexican independence celebration Cinco de Mayo, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The 9th U.S...

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