Be Still, My Bioficial Heart
Scientists could be on the brink of creating a real-life Steve Austin, the Six Million Dollar Man. Last month, researchers at the University of Louisville announced that they may soon create what they...
View ArticleIn the Name of Love
A common gripe about online dating is that there are far too many generic messages, lazily copied and pasted and spammed to hundreds of romantic prospects. In November 2013, Zach Barnhorst, a bearded,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Gives XP Users One Last Fix Despite Killing Support
BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft is helping the estimated hundreds of millions of customers still running Windows XP, which it stopped supporting earlier this month, by providing an emergency update to fix...
View ArticleSorry, Louis C.K., but You’re Wrong About Common Core
Louis C.K. is angry. Again. Anger is one of the best tools in his vast comedic arsenal, anger so palpable it hardly seems like an act: anger about his weight, his lack of hair, his lack of a...
View ArticleNorthern Ireland Rocked by Gerry Adams Arrest Over 1972 Killing
ANTRIM, Northern Ireland/DUBLIN (Reuters) - Police in Northern Ireland questioned Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams on Thursday after arresting him under an investigation into one of the province's most...
View ArticleThe Messy Laments of the Perpetual Wedding Guest
Former Village Voice and Atlantic Wire staffer Jen Doll makes her living as a freelance writer, but she might reasonably supplement that with stints as a wedding consultant: she has witnessed dozens of...
View ArticleIn the Name of Love
A common gripe about online dating is that there are far too many generic messages, lazily copied and pasted and spammed to hundreds of romantic prospects. In November 2013, Zach Barnhorst, a bearded,...
View ArticleWest Urges North Korea to Close Camps That Hold 120,000 People
GENEVA (Reuters) - Western powers called on North Korea on Thursday to dismantle its political prison camps and a caste system that ranks citizens based on family loyalty to the ruling dynasty.North...
View ArticleWhite House Releases Celebrity-Stacked PSA About Sexual Assault
In addition to its inaugural report from the White House Task Force to Protect Students From Sexual Assault, the White House has released a 60-second public service announcement on sexual assault. It’s...
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Today in Tabs: Outdoor Tabbing Starts Today
lol literally cracking up over here [the cracks join into larger fissures as shards of my body start to fall away. inside: diamonds]— Stupendous Man (@igowen) April 30, 2014It's the first of May! And...
View ArticleRussian Workers Say: 'Putin is Right'
MOSCOW/DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Russia staged a huge May Day parade on Moscow's Red Square for the first time since the Soviet era on Thursday, with workers holding banners proclaiming support for...
View ArticleNewsweek Rewind: Inside Seal Team 6
After Osama bin Laden was killed in a covert nighttime raid in Pakistan three years ago today, public attention quickly focused on the men (and the dog) at the sharp end of the spear: the members of...
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Tornadoes Carve Scars Into The Earth That Are Visible From Space
Almost three dozen people were killed in the latest tornado outbreak that tore through the Deep South this week. The outbreak included several "long-track" tornadoes, which can drag across the...
View ArticleU.S. Offers to Help Nigeria in Hunt for Abducted Girls
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday it had offered Nigeria help in its search for around 200 girls abducted by Islamist militants from a school in the northeast of the country."We...
View ArticleSpike Lee, Donald Sterling and Doing the Right Thing
Mookie: “C'mon, what. What?”Da Mayor: “Always do the right thing.”Mookie:“That's it?”Da Mayor: “That's it.”Mookie: “I got it, I'm gone.”– Do the Right Thing (1989)The moment, more than any thus far in...
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Fed Up With the Feds
When Cliven Bundy needed help protecting his ranch from federal agents representing the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), he put out a call through his website: “Range War begins tomorrow at Bundy ranch...
View ArticleSubway Trains Crash In South Korean Capital, 172 People Hurt
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea suffered its second serious transport accident in less than a month on Friday when a subway train in the capital, Seoul, crashed into another one at a station, injuring...
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Rebels Shoot Down 2 Ukrainian Helicopters; Moscow Blasts Siege as 'Criminal'
SLAVIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Russian rebels shot down two Ukrainian helicopters on Friday, killing two crew, as troops tightened their siege of separatist-held Slaviansk in what Moscow called a...
View ArticleJobless Rate Hits 5-1/2 Year Low
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. job growth increased at its fastest pace in more than two years in April, suggesting a sharp rebound in economic activity early in the second quarter.Nonfarm payrolls surged...
View ArticleOverheating? London Sets Record With $237 Million Apartment Sale
LONDON (Reuters) - London's red-hot property market has struck a new record with the sale of a 140 million pound ($237 million) unfurnished apartment, but even the developer of the opulent building...
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