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Toucher Rich Know Your Armpits Of America
There are places on this planet that are less desirable, according to the local news, and some are even in this country. So Toucher & Rich are doing their due diligence to warn you about these "Armpits of America." Rich will give a short description of a real news story, and it's your job to guess where the story came from. One features thieves butt dialing 911, a guy ...
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What of Obamas promise
>Editor's note: Julian Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of "Jimmy Carter" and "Governing America. " Princeton, New Jersey (CNN) -- On "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart captured the frustration that many of President Obama's supporters have felt over the past week as one scandal after another cascaded into the White House. After ...
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What of Obamas promise
>Editor's note: Julian Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of "Jimmy Carter" and "Governing America. " Princeton, New Jersey (CNN) -- On "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart captured the frustration that many of President Obama's supporters have felt over the past week as one scandal after another cascaded into the White House. After ...
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Use money to buy happier time
>Editor's note: Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton are co-authors of "Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending" (Simon & Schuster) and professors at the University of British Columbia and Harvard Business School, respectively.(CNN) -- The logic is so simple: If I work hard now, the money I earn will give me the opportunity to do all the things that make me happy later. What's the ...
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Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes | Glenn Greenwald
Fox News chief Washington correspondent James Rosen had his emails read by the Obama DOJ, which accused him of being a co-conspirator in a criminal leak case. Photo: screen ...
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Commutes long slow after Conn. train derailment
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut commuters planned for long, slow trips to and from work Monday following last week’s train collision that that injured 72 people and disrupted rail service into New York ...
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Lopez unit Canadian firm to develop geothermal areas in Chile Peru
Energy Development Corp. (EDC), the country's largest geothermal resources firm, signed a joint-venture agreement with Canada-based Alterra Power Corp. for the joint development of four geothermal concession areas in Chile and Peru. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange Monday, EDC said the joint-venture agreement covered the Mariposa project in Chile and three other prospective ...
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Kepler or not well find life
>Editor's note: Meg Urry is the Israel Munson professor of physics and astronomy and chairwoman of the department of physics at Yale University, where she is the director of the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics.(CNN) -- On Wednesday, NASA officials announced a serious problem with the Kepler satellite, the world's most successful planet-finding machine. Since its launch four years ...
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Poll Scandals Not Sticking to Obama
Democratic strategists are increasingly confident that the three high-visibility scandals of the past week won't do lasting political damage to President Obama. Democratic pollster Geoff Garin told me that the controversies have created a "tempest in a teapot" and predicted there would be no long-term effect on ...
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Canadian Dollar Weakens As Crude Prices Ease
The Canadian dollar drifted weaker on Monday morning in New York as the price of crude oil, Canada's crucial export, was slipping ahead of this week's key economic data from the U.S. and China and comments by the Federal Reserve chairman.Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) futures for July delivery, the most actively traded contract, shed $0.49 to $95.80 per barrel. Last week, oil settled flat ...
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Keep Food Fresh Longer
The average family throws out nearly 122 pounds of food per month and wastes $590 per year on food that eventually spoils. However, many common perishables remain safe way past their sell-by dates. From milk and eggs to produce, find out which storage tips will do the trick and try these tips to make food last longer. And for an easy reference you can keep on your fridge, download ...
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Magnitude 6.8 earthquake reported off Chile
The U.S. Geological Survey says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 has struck off the coast of Chile. The quake was recorded at 5:49 a.m. local time (EDT; 0949 GMT), at a shallow depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), some 600 kilometers (370 miles) from the city of Puerto Quellon. No tsunami warning was issued. Chile is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries. A ...
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Maxim Monday Heather Graham
nnRollergirl. Felicity Shagwell. Jade the stripperu2014Heather Graham has secured a permanent role in our filmgoing fantasies, and now she's back for the last installment of the epic "Hangover" ...
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Obamas Point Man The Law Is Irrelevant
White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer appears on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington on May 19, 2013. (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) - Introduced on ABC's "This Week" as "the strategist at the center of White House damage control," Dan Pfeiffer may have done additional damage in his appearance on the five Sunday talk shows.Pfeiffer, struggling to address the ...
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UPDATE 1-Avon taps Tupperware exec to head N. America turnaround
Mon May 20, 2013 8:30am EDT May 20 (Reuters) - Avon Products Inc, the beauty products direct seller, said on Monday it tapped a former Tupperware Brands Corp executive to be responsible for turning around its business in North America, where sales have been declining for years. Pablo Munoz, who was with Tupperware since 1993, most recently heading the Americas region. He will report to Avon ...
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Is the GOP overreacting to the scandals impacting the Obama administration
Top talker: Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relation joins the Morning Joe panel to discuss the controversies and the right's reaction to them. Robert Gibbs cautions the GOP to stop using "impeachment" so ...
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Flu shot for health workers urged by Ont. medical officer
Ontario's chief medical officer of health is renewing her push for health workers to get their shots. Dr. Arlene King's push comes after a severe flu season among residents of long-term care homes. There were more than 350 flu outbreaks, compared to about 100 the year before. That number comes even though most residents are vaccinated. King said three quarters of long-term care ...
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Zelizer What about Obamas promise
>Editor's note: Julian Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of "Jimmy Carter" and "Governing America. " Princeton, New Jersey (CNN) -- On "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart captured the frustration that many of President Obama's supporters have felt over the past week as one scandal after another cascaded into the White House. After ...
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Op-Ed Contributors What Obama Needs to Tell Myanmars Leader
President Thein Sein of Myanmar is in Washington this week, the first Burmese head of state to visit since the military dictator Gen Ne Win in 1966. Much has changed since 1966. Fifty years of direct military rule have ended, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is out of house arrest and sits in Parliament, along with 42 of her colleagues from the National League for ...
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More storms tornadoes expected in central United States
Mon May 20, 2013 7:47am EDT May 20 (Reuters) - Violent thunderstorms were forecast to hit the central United States on Monday, threatening to bring additional hail, heavy rain and tornadoes to the region stricken by a deadly twister during the weekend. The National Weather Service said severe storms would hit the Ozarks and the middle Mississippi Valley, with the greatest risk in northwest ...
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Tornadoes slam Plains Midwest 1 dead in Okla. violent weather expected today
SHAWNEE, Okla. -- Hearing on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, Lindsay Carter took advantage of the advanced warning, gathered her belongings and fled. When she returned, there was little left of the community she called ...
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Video Jon Stewart - the new Voice of America in China
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Obama-Backed FSA Rebels Name Their Brigade “Osama Bin Laden”
Prison Planet.com May 20, 2013 Underlining once again how the White House is openly seeking to arm terrorists in Syria, video has emerged of one of the FSA rebel groups referring to their unit as the ';Osama Bin Laden'; ...
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Canada Tries To Poach High-Tech Workers From The U.S.
Alongside a freeway in Northern California is a billboard which reads: Pivot to Canada. The billboard is urging high-tech immigrants living in the U.S. to pay attention to Canada. Canada wants to attract highly-skilled, foreign-born tech workers who are fed up with the visa process that they must follow to remain in the ...
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Poll Despite scandals Obama’s approval ratings remains unscathed
Top talkers: The Morning Joe panel discusses the latest CNN/ORC poll which shows President Barack Obama's approval rating has held steady at 53 percent. Robert Gibbs says he thinks Obama's approval ratings are largely unchanged. NBC's Peter Alexander joins to discuss how the White House should begin this new week. MSNBC's Joe Scarborough also expresses his doubt that ...
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North America's unknown potential disaster
North America is facing a potential ecological disaster that most people are not even aware of, according to scientists who have been studying the little brown bat (or myotis bat), the most common species of bat in the United States and the wider North American continent.
This is because the bat is under attack by a killer fungus that grows on the bats’ wings during hibernation and causes them to lose body fat and wake early from their sleep, which causes them to eventually die. The fungal infection is said by researchers to be capable of killing off the bat within the next 16 years when their current population, which numbers up to several million, may fall to just 0.01% of present levels. Read more
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