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    The Youngest Is the Funniest — and More Sibling Traits, According to Science

    Photo by ABC/Getty Images No matter where you fall in the birth order, chances are you’ve heard these common stereotypes: The older sibling is responsible, the youngest is the baby, and the middle child is ignored. Well, according to one study, at least two of these adages may hold some...
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    South Africa: "Prime Evil," leader of apartheid state death squad, Eugene de Kock get

    South Africa: "Prime Evil," leader of apartheid state death squad, Eugene de Kock get JOHANNESBURG - The South African government Friday granted parole to Eugene de Kock, the head of an apartheid state covert unit responsible for dozens of deaths, saying his freedom is in the interest of...
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    Quebec Prepares to Implement Bill 52

    I searched and couldn't find this on here. Hope it is not a repeat. Quebec’s landmark end-of-life care, the first of its kind to be passed in Canada, is set to come into force in less than a year. But many questions remain about how it will be implemented and also how it will jibe with...
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    Auschwitz survivors photographed as children in camp in 1945 reunite after 70 years

    The group tell of how other kids were taken away for experiments as they relieve their nightmare on Holocaust Memorial Day Survivors: Group pick themselves out from the famous photo taken at the liberation of Auschwitz Child survivors of the holocaust who were photographed huddled...
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    Basmati Rice

    After washing, how long do you soak it for before cooking? anyone and any opinion on this whole arsenic thing?
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    Connecticut top court rejects teen's plea to end cancer treatment

    By Richard Weizel HARTFORD, Conn. (Reuters) - Connecticut's top court on Thursday rejected a request by a teenager diagnosed with cancer to halt the state-ordered chemotherapy treatments she has been receiving, saying her rights had not been violated. The...
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    Dog and deer meet.....

    I think this is pretty cool
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    Daughter shocked over Christmas meal served at father's nursing home

    On Christmas Day when many people across Saskatchewan were feasting on turkey, Darlene Mitchell's dad was eating bologna. Mitchell went to visit her father for the holiday at Pioneer Village, a publicly-run Regina nursing home, and was dismayed at what was being served there that day...
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    Airlift continues on ferry most children and women now off

    it certaintly has been a weekend for tragedies, they are saying this captain is doing an amazing job Airlift under way for hundreds trapped on burning ferry off Greece By Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) - Italian and Greek helicopter crews prepared to work through the night to...
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    Memory Loss Reversal...

    Researchers at UCLA say they've developed a program that shows for the first time memory loss being reversed in some patients. LOS ANGELES -- Alzheimer's disease was officially recognized a hundred years ago, but there's still no effective treatment for it. Now researchers...
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    Man who tried to kill Pope John Paul II puts roses on his tomb

    Man who tried to kill Pope John Paul II puts roses on his tomb VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The man who tried to kill former Pope John Paul II 33 years ago showed up at the Vatican on Saturday to put white roses on his tomb and said he wanted to meet Pope Francis. Mehmet Ali Agca, a...
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    Cool Pictures

    Hope this copy/pastes for me...here ya go.............. 1.) Einstein at Nassau Point, Long Island, New York in the summer of 1939. 2.) The unbroken seal On Tutankhamen’s Tomb, 1922 (3,245 years untouched). 3.) A utility worker giving mouth-to-mouth to a co-worker...
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    Shomi by Rogers

    I am checking out all of these shows on this channel and so far...yeah I have watched a season of The River and I am onto Season 4 of Southland which is a fast moving character study of cops in black and whites really well done anyone else checked out anything on this channel that I should...
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    Survivor of North Korean gulags makes wrenching drawings of what happens inside

    A United Nations panel has accused North Korea of crimes against humanity, including systematic extermination , "murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions and other sexual violence ... and the inhumane act of knowingly causing prolonged starvation." The report...
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    CaveDigger

    I am only half way through this but I am fascinated by him and his "work" and I thought a few here might enjoy it as well. I find his work beautiful and I hadn't heard of him. CaveDigger - Aeon Video
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    EXCLUSIVE: Pay per puff? Caffeine stick? E-cigarette boom sparks race for new patents

    Electronic cigarette makers are racing to design and buy variations of a technology that has lit a billion-dollar boom, created a new vocabulary, and prompted a backlash from health officials worried about the impact of the new smokeless devices. Research by Thomson Reuters shows that...
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    As Fords exit mayor's office, conflict probes intensify

    When Toronto city councillors were debating a zoning change in 2011, Doug Ford withdrew from the discussion because it could have affected a property leased by packaged-meats giant Maple Leaf Foods — a major client of his family printing business. But then when the matter came up weeks...
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    Coca-Cola Is Betting Big On A New Kind Of Milk That Costs Twice As Much As Regular

    Coca-Cola is launching a new kind of milk nationwide that the company says will "rain money." The product is called Fairlife and it will sell for twice the price of regular milk when it hits store shelves nationally in December, Coca-Cola's North American chief Sandy Douglas said at...
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    Baby Boy Found Alive At Bottom Of Drain

    A newborn baby has been found 2.5 metres down a drain in Sydney after cyclists passing by heard crying. After pulling away the concrete drain cover they found the baby, thought to be two or three days old, lying at the bottom wrapped in a hospital blanket. The child's mother, aged 30, has...
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    More on Mr. Cosby: Ex-NBC Employee Claims He Helped Bill Cosby Pay Off Women

    Frank Scotti, a 90-year-old ex-NBC employee, is the latest to go public with stories of Bill Cosby’s past. Scotti, who worked as a facilities manager for the Brooklyn NBC Studio where “Cosby Show” was filmed, told the New York Daily News that he arranged for monthly payments and more for eight...