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How can you tell whether someone was asleep when he committed murder?
24 Nov 2009, 2:32 pm |
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A day in the life of a refugee.
23 Nov 2009, 3:35 pm |
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What's the best way for the Twilight vampires to drink blood?
20 Nov 2009, 7:18 am |
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How dangerous is the radiation from a mammogram?
19 Nov 2009, 3:11 pm |
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How does the federal government know how much money it's spending improperly?
18 Nov 2009, 2:55 pm |
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A full-page ad in the New York Times for Fantastic Mr. Fox includes the endorsement: "'Grade A. The #1 Must-See Movie' For Thanksgiving." Although this quote is attributed to Entertainment Weekly, it does not actually appear in the magazine's review. ...
Paula Dubester Zerfoss On Thanksgiving....everything you always wanted to know about Thanksgiving...from the Vampires' point of view=))
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Sri Lanka announced Sunday that it would release more than 130,000 people, mostly ethnic Tamils, who have been detained in camps since the country's civil war ended six months ago. What have the Tamils been doing all day, every day, for six months?
What's the best way for the Twilight vampires to drink blood? - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine
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New Moon, the second installment of the Twilight series, hits theaters today. It features a family of teenage vampires who drink animal blood and who look down on those vampires "weak" enough to prey on humans. The film raises several questions about the l
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President Obama bowed (rather deeply) to the emperor of Japan over the weekend, providing ample fodder for his conservative detractors. Former Vice President Cheney, for one, said " There is no reason for an American president to bow to anyone. … Our frien
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Federal officials visited a correctional center in Thomson, Ill., on Monday, to see if it might be appropriate for housing detainees from Guantanamo Bay. A statement from the governor's office described the prison as a " virtually vacant, state of the art
Why are newspapers calling Maj. Nidal Hasan the "alleged" Fort Hood shooter? - By Brian Palmer - Sla
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Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood last week, was indicted on Thursday. Most news stories covering the incident—including those on Slate—refer to Hasan as the "alleged," "accused," or "suspected" killer, even
Why were they playing bagpipes at the Fort Hood memorial service? - By Brian Palmer - Slate Magazine
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Bagpipes were playing as President Obama arrived at the memorial service for victims of the Fort Hood shooting Tuesday. The instruments were also heard at Veterans Day celebrations around the countryWednesday. What's the deal with all these funerary bagpi
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A Rasmussen poll released on Wednesday found that 60 percent of respondents want the Fort Hood shooting " investigated by military authorities as a terrorist act," while 27 percent "want the incident investigated by civilian authorities as a criminal act."
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John Allen Muhammad, the "Beltway sniper" who went on a two-week shooting spree in the Washington, D.C., area in 2002 *, was scheduled for execution in Greensville, Va., Tuesday night. ( Update: Virginia executed Muhammad at 9:06 p.m. Tuesday.) In death ro
Was it difficult for the Fort Hood shooter to fire 100 shots in seven minutes? - By Brian Palmer - S
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Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the army psychiatrist accused of gunning down 13 people at Fort Hood on Thursday, managed to fire 100 rounds with a semiautomatic handgun between the start of his rampage at 1:20 p.m. and the time he was shot at 1:27 p.m. How many r
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Voters in Dudley, Mass., passed a ballot measure on Tuesday making it illegal to own more than three cats without a special license. The new law came about after residents complained that one woman's 15 cats were running amok in neighbors' yards. In an Exp
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The Labor Department announced Friday that the unemployment rate hit 10.2 percent in October, the first time since 1983 that it has been in the double-digits. Two government surveys suggested that the month's job losses reached 190,000 and 558,000, respect
