Mashable

• newAT&T’s Watson Brings Voice Control to Your Favorite Apps [VIDEO]
  Soon you may be able to control some of your favorite apps using your voice thanks to AT&T. For decades AT&T researchers have been wo…
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• newEveryday Objects Obliterated in Hi-Def Slow-Mo [VIDEO]
  What do you get when you combine everyday household objects, mass destruction and a really cool camera? This video features highlights from the Dani…
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• newDwolla Introduces a Like Button for Buying Stuff
  Payment startup Dwolla wants you to be able to buy things from web pages as easily as you can tweet and “Like” from them. The compan…
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• newIntel’s First Smartphone Arrives, and It’s Not What You Expect
  Up until now, pretty much every smartphone on the market has been based on the same chip technology: the power-efficient designs from U.K.-based ARM Holdings. But look...
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• newNew York Sues Sprint for $300 Million Over Tax Fraud
  The state of New York sued Sprint on Thursday for more than $300 million for failing to charge and pay millions of dollars in taxes for its cell…
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• newHow a Blog Became a Sustainable Housing Non-Profit [VIDEO]
  By designing and implementing housing improvements, ARCHIVE can bring down rates of tuberculosis, HIV and AIDS. A healthier community means a healthier economy.
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• newOtters Chase Adorable Little Girl [VIDEO]
  This little girl has committed a crime! We hold her guilty for being way too cute.These otters at the Philadelphia Zoo must feel threatened by how a…
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• new7 Twitter Tips for Public Figures
  For public figures, the digital age means one thing: a 24-7 rolling press conference. Think about it. We have around-the-clock cable news stati…
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• new1 in 10 Have Sent Sexts to the Wrong Person [INFOGRAPHIC]
  Enjoy sending sexy pictures and texts to your significant other? Just make sure it goes to the appropriate person. The mistake of sending it to wrong…
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• newWhy Tony Hawk Always Tweets for Himself [VIDEO]
  Tony Hawk is one of the most recognized pro athletes in the world, with a successful video game franchise, premium Youtube channel, apparel line…
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• newIs This the Best Local News Videobomb Ever? [VIDEO]
  We’ve all seen local news reports in which people in the background stare at the camera or occasionally pull a funny face, but this guy takes…
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• newFacebook Pic of Police Car Gas-Siphoning Leads to Arrest
  A Kentucky man landed in jail after posting a picture of himself on Facebook siphoning gas from a police car. The photo shows Michael Baker, 20…
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Slashdot

• newAsk Slashdot: How To Share a SharePoint Site?
  New submitter grzzld writes "I am a systems analyst for a County in New York. Last year I made a SharePoint site that manages grants and it was well received. So much so that it won a NACo award. Since then, there have been several requests from oth…
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• newCringely Predicts IBM Will Shed 78% of US Employees By 2015
  Third Position writes "Cringely with more predictions about IBM: 'The direct impetus for this column is IBM's internal plan to grow earnings-per-share (EPS) to $20 by 2015. The primary method for accomplishing this feat, according to the plan, will…
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• newLeisure Suit Larry Comes Again (Video)
  In this exclusive video interview, Slashdot chats with Leisure Suit Larry creator Al Lowe, who is working with Replay Games and Kickstarter to bring Larry Laffer to a whole new generation of computers. They'll maintain the original Larry style of be…
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• newFark Founder Drew Curtis Explains How Fark Beat a Patent Troll
  Velcroman1 links to this coverage of Drew Curtis's explanation of how his company, Fark, managed to beat a patent troll's lawsuit alleging infringement of a patent on distribution of news releases by email. From the article: "It boils down to one th…
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• newIn Calif. Study, Most Kids With Whooping Cough Were Fully Vaccinated
  An anonymous reader writes with this extract from a Reuters article: "In early 2010, a spike in cases appeared at Kaiser Permanente in San Rafael, and it was soon determined to be an outbreak of whooping cough — the largest seen in California in m…
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• newGoogle Earth Incorporates Crowdsourced Balloon Images
  garymortimer writes with this excerpt from sUAS News: "The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science announced today that community-generated open source maps — captured from kites and balloons — have been added to Google Earth. The 45 p…
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• newHP To Certify Ubuntu 12.04 LTS For Its Proliant Servers
  An anonymous reader writes with this dose of nice news (untranslated from the PR-ese) on the Linux-in-business front: "Mark Shuttleworth has announced at the OpenStack conference that Canonical has received a ringing endorsement from HP in the form…
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• newFlorian Mueller Outs Himself As Oracle Employee
  eldavojohn writes "So you're commenting on your highly visible blog about patent case after patent case that deal with corporations battling over open source stuff, what does it matter if you're taking money from one and not the other? If you don't…
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• newMajor OpenSSL Security Issue Found (and Fixed)
  tearmeapart writes "A major security issue has been found in all OpenSSL packages. You probably want to download your preferred OpenSSL package as soon as possible. Changes to the CVS repository are detailed on the OpenSSL timeline."…
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• newOpen Source Electric Cars — Good Idea Or Not?
  thecarchik submits this interesting bit of flame: "Many are keen on the concept of open source electric cars — that is, electric cars where the built-in software can be tweaked, parameters can be changed, and in theory, the cars can be improved. O…
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• newSun Advice Columnist Advised MPs On UK Porn-Block Plans
  nk497 writes "The first official expert witness in an inquiry into network-level filtering of porn was a Sun advice columnist called Dear Deidre. A group of MPs has been pushing to censor the UK web to prevent children from seeing porn, but reading…
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• newJudge Grudgingly Awards $3.6 Million In DRM Circumvention Case
  Fluffeh writes "The case involves an online game, MapleStory, and some people who set up an alternate server, UMaple, allowing users to play the game with the official game client, but without logging into the official MapleStory servers. In this ca…
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Lifehacker

• newI Learned to Speak Four Languages in a Few Years: Here's How [Learning]
  Lifehacker reader Gabriel Wyner was tasked with learning four languages in the past few years for his career as an opera singer, and in the process landed on "a pretty damn good method for language le…
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• newAdopt One of These Postures To Reduce Stress and Build Confidence [Mind Hacks]
  Have an important presentation or interview coming up and need to psych yourself up for it? Use your body to manipulate your brain. Don't feel silly trying one of these postures, which include strutti…
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• newEat Breakfast for Healthier Eating All Day Long (and Other Healthy Eating Tricks) [Health]
  You no doubt have heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but here are some reasons in compelling statistical and infographic format from Massive Health: People who eat breakfast t…
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• newSpotify for Android Is Now Faster, Easier to Navigate, and More Social [Spotify]
  Android: Music streaming service Spotify has been hard at work overhauling its Android app. The new Spotify on Android, available as a preview download today for Spotify Premium subscribers, has a com…
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• newYou're the Guinea Pig: Experimenting with Your Sleep and Dreams [Sleep]
  Sleep. It's the one thing we all do and the one thing that few of us are willing to screw around with—if only because a bad night of sleep can ruin an entire day. Still, hundreds of sleep tricks, ha…
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• newTurn On Your Video Game System's Auto-Shutdown Feature for Serious Energy Savings [Saving Money]
  If you have an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3, you (like many others) may leave it on when it's not in use—but they drain more electricity than you think, even when on standby. Luckily, each has an auto-…
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• newWhen Less Data Storage Is a Good Thing [Data Storage]
  In general we're always looking for ways to get more data storage. That might mean getting more backup space in a Dropbox account or tracking down a new giant hard drive on the cheap. However, tech bl…
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• newSort Gmail Messages by Size and Get Rid of Data Hogs [Gmail]
  Is your Gmail account nearly full? If it is you can either purchase more space or go through and individually delete every cat picture attachment. Alternately, you can use a clever Google Docs trick s…
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• newTalking to Yourself Can Give You a Temporary Cognitive Boost [Mind Hacks]
  Talking to yourself has long been frowned upon as a sign of craziness, but a recent study published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology suggests talking to yourself might actually help…
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• newClean and Detail Your Own Car to Save Money [Cars]
  With winter out of the way for half the world e you might be considering getting all that winter gunk cleaned out of and off you car. You could take it into a special shop and spend a bunch on a deep…
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• newAdd These Plants to Your Apartment, Office, or Other Small Space for Fresh-Smelling Air, Naturally [Plants]
  Most of us don't have the option to just throw open the windows every time you want a little fresh air in our offices or cubicles, especially if someone's been using the microwave to cook a particula…
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• newThe Heavenly Desktop [Featured Desktop]
  Flickr user d_carr wanted a workspace that was minimal, but sprung to life when it was time to get some work done, and didn't want to sacrifice looks to do it. Well, mission accomplished—the combin…
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The Everywhereist

• newWTF Wednesday: German Apples, Printed with Hearts
  - Rand and I saw these while walking around the Viktualienmarkt in Munich, and stared at them, our mouths agape. I might have screamed a little, covering my cry with a trembling hand. - Apparently Germany has the technology to make apples with little…
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• newBlack and White Cookies, Amerikaners, and Harmony in Munich.
  - I am constantly thinking that I know best. My viewpoint can be so myopic that I have to make a concerted, agonizing effort to see the other side of things. I approve comments on the blog from people with whom I disagree. I travel around, meeting pe…
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• newThe Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, Mount Vernon
  - I’ve never been much of a sucker for flowers. Ultimately they start to wilt, no matter how often you trim the ends. Inevitably they end up in the trash or the compost heap, a mixture of brittle petals and waterlogged stems. Flowers don’t do it…
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• Hotel Monaco, Portland, Oregon
  - I don’t get interior decorating. This shouldn’t be too much of a surprise to anyone. I can barely dress myself, and I have the benefit of being scorned publicly by my peers – I can learn from positive reinforcement (no one laughed hystericall…
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• The Week: April 13, 2012
  It’s been a rather crazy week – I’ve had my old friend Katie visiting, and I’m so busying exploring Seattle with her, I haven’t had much time to blog. I know, I know: rough life. But I couldn’t resist taking some time to share these links…
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• House Rules For A Childhood Friend
  My friend Katie is coming to visit. By the time this post goes live, she’ll be here. I have been nervously anticipating her visit, in the same way I do all encounters with friends from my childhood. Katie and I have known eachother since the fifth…
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• Reflections on a lost elephant
  - I intended to hang on to the elephant for longer. Rand bought him for me on a rainy afternoon at a toy store in Portland. He was sitting in clear bin in the window, with a zoofull of other animals. A plastic menagerie. He reminded me of my friend C…
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• 15 things I didn’t know when I started dating an entrepreneur
  - We are at a get-together with friends. Let’s say a birthday party for … whoever. It doesn’t matter, really – it’s happened so many times that it could be any event. We’re having fun, but as the night trickles on, I’ll see him check hi…
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ProBlogger.net

• newBuild Blog Products That Sell 3: Develop Your Product
  This guest series is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. Welcome to the third weekly instalment in our series on how to sell products of your own creation, via your blog, in a world in which everyone’s reluctant to spend money. If you’ve bee…
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• newThe Most Important Skill for Long-term Blogging Success
  This guest post is by Amy Parmenter of ParmFarm.com. In the early stages of blogging, content is definitely king, but if you hope to be in it long-term, creativity must rule the day. It’s easy to think of new ideas when you’ve only been blogging…
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• newGet Off the Plateau: Growth Tips for Mature Blogs
  Once the heady days of new-blog success are over, many bloggers find themselves on a plateau. Readership has stalled, subscriptions seem to be maintaining momentum but not growing, and you’re having trouble squeezing more value out of your already-…
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• The Secret Stats Your Follower Numbers Hide
  This guest post is by Courtney Mroch of Haunt Jaunts. Statistics and their interpretation is often a popular topic on ProBlogger. One of my favorites about the subject was a guest post by Mark Seall called Who Cares How Many Subscribers You’ve Got?…
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• Attract 100,000 Pageviews in 1 Month Using Slideshare
  This guest post is by Joel Runyon of Impossible HQ. How do you stand out and differentiate yourself online when more and more people are starting blogs every day? Sure, you need to write stuff that’s gong to stand out, but a lot of blogging advice…
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• 24 Hours Left to Win a Trip to The Great Barrier Reef in Queensland Australia #QldBlog
  Update: this competition is now closed to new entries. We’re now narrowing down to find our 10 winners who will be contacted and then announced here on ProBlogger on 23 April. Thanks to all who entered! Ten days ago I excitedly announced an amazing…
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• A Better Starting Point for Choosing a Niche
  Earlier this month, I wrote a post on gearing up your blog from a hobby into a business that generated some interesting discussion. One thing that’s often a sticking point relates to the point I made about niche assessment. Today I’d like to st…
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• Optimize Your Health for Better Blogging
  This guest post is by Joey and Chris of versatilehealth.com. So you want to be a blogger? Or maybe you’re already an established authority in your niche, with a great following and a nicely designed website—congrats! Your contribution to the wond…
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Gizmodo

• newShooting Challenge: Black & White [Shooting Challenge]
  In the age of color, black and white photos can be a cliche crutch to scream "I AM AN ARTIST!" But it's also a powerful way to capture contrast and texture. For this week's Shooting Challenge...Mo…
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• newWill You Call Out Sick To Watch the New Arrested Development Season? [Qotd]
  Well we're just pleased as pudding that all of the new Arrested Development season will be available on the same day on Netlix—just as with other Netflix-produced series. Will you watch it all at on…
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• newCollecting Water from Thin Air in the Desert, and More from TreeHugger [EcoModo]
  This week on TreeHugger, an awesome arcade built in an auto parts shop, learn how to make your own self-balancing scooter, a great electricity-free iPad speaker design, and more!More »
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• newPlane With Unconscious Pilot Is Circling Out of Control Off the Gulf Coast (Update: It's Down) [Airplanes]
  
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• newFoot for Foot, Apple Stores Rake in 17x More Cash Than Other Retail Outlets [Factoid]
  We all know Apple stores are wildly successful. But how successful? When comparing the revenue-per-square-foot of Apple's retail hub to any other business, Apple generates more cash from sales by an a…
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• newHacked Frogger Arcade Now Has You Dodging the Real Traffic On Fifth Avenue [Video]
  Believe it or not, Frogger has been skipping his way across busy highways for thirty years now. And to celebrate his anniversary, Tyler DeAngelo created this updated version of the arcade classic tha…
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• newCurrent Windows Phones May Not Be Getting Upgraded After All [Windows Phone]
  Earlier this week, a Microsoft spokesman announced that all Windows Phone 7 devices would be getting the upgrade to Windows Phone 8. Today developer evangelist Nino Silva acknowledged that he, uh, mis…
  - 2 hours ago, 19 Apr 12, 3:34pm -
• newPSA: There's a Fake Instagram For Android That Could Steal Your Information [Instagram]
  We've already seen a fake, malware-spreading version of Angry Birds Space for Android. Now there are reports of a fake, malware-spreading Instagram that's also making the rounds.More »…
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• newThe Best Inexpensive Point-and-Shoot Camera with Wi-Fi [Battlemodo]
  Smartphone cameras have gotten so good—and sharing photos from them has gotten so easy—that in most situations, a simple point-and-shoot camera seems like an unnecessary inconvenience.More »…
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• newAnnoying Eco-Friendly Lamp Turns Off Whenever You Close Your Eyes [Video]
  As long as it doesn't require any additional effort, people seem happy to embrace eco-friendly ideas. So to free people from having to remember to turn a light off when it's not needed, Randy Sarafan…
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• newElectrons Can Split Into Two [Science]
  Until now, electrons have been regarded as elementary particles—which means that scientists thought they had no component parts or substructure. But now, electrons have been observed decaying into t…
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• newFlight Aborted 392 Feet Before Landing Because Pilot Was Texting [Flying]
  It's pretty widely accepted that you shouldn't text and operate a vehicle. Especially when that vehicle is a commercial aircraft. Apparently one pilot, though, hasn't taken that advice to heart. And h…
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Wired

• newRimac Concept One Ready For Buyers, Gets New Tires
  
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• newA Few Good Women: Marines Open Infantry to Females
  
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• newGeneration Generator (New Aesthetic)
  
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• newGoogle Cloud Print, Now With PDF Power
  An update for Google's Cloud Print service turns your Android device into a printer, making it easy to send PDF files directly to your phone or tablet.
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• newWhen it Comes to Volcanic Hazards, It is all About Location
  
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• newInternational Space Apps Challenge: Bringing Space Exploration Home
  
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• newHow to Make a Super-Easy Zombie Cake
  
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• newA Wander Around the New <cite>Star Wars</cite> Miniland at Legoland Windsor
  At last, the galaxy far, far away has come to Legoland Windsor. Just over a year after the Star Wars Miniland opened in Legoland California (read Dave Banks' excellent write up of that one here) the Lego master builders have recreated all the same mo…
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• newApple and Greenpeace Trade Blows in Data Center Grudge Match
  Call it the battle of Maiden. This week, Apple and Greenpeace traded very public barbs over how much clean power is used by Apple's $1 billion state-of-the-art data center in Maiden, North Carolina. But it appears that much of the arguing stems from…
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• newTrillion-Dollar Jet's Awesomely Bad Propaganda Videos
  The trillion-dollar F-35 Joint Strike Fighter family of jets has a host of problems, from engineering to cost. But none of those problems exist in the scores of gauzy propaganda videos the military produces to sell the public on the awesomeness of th…
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• newHow 'Liquidmetal' Could Give the Next iPhone Its Special Swagger
  After releasing two generations of iPhones with exactly the same form factor, Apple is expected to show off a new chassis design -- and possibly new materials -- in its sixth-generation smartphone. And a little-known alloy that Apple has quietly been…
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• newWhy the <cite>Halo</cite> Movie Failed to Launch
  In this exclusive excerpt from the new book Generation Xbox, we learn how Microsoft struck the motion picture deal for the Halo movie, and the inside story of how it all fell apart.
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New York Times

• newHigh & Low Finance: Not Exactly a Miracle, but U.S. Debt Levels Are Falling — High & Low Finance
  Household financial obligations, relative to income, have declined to levels not seen in years, helping add to consumer optimism.
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• newCity Room: F.B.I. Renews Search in Etan Patz Case in SoHo Basement
  About 40 investigators were looking for evidence in the basement of a commercial building half a block from where the boy lived when he disappeared on the way to school in 1979.
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• newDealBook: Bank of America Earnings Fall to $653 Million
  Lower credit losses and strength on Wall Street offset continuing weakness in the bank’s mortgage business.
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• newBinghamton Bans Hazing Amid Nationwide Concerns
  The public college said it was responding to a rising number of complaints about pledge activity at fraternities and sororities, though some students said administrators overreacted.
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• newColombian Escort Speaks About Secret Service Scandal
  A dispute over what a Secret Service agent owed a Colombian woman working as a high-priced escort led to a scandal that has now prompted the exit of three employees from the agency.
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• newImages of G.I.’s With Taliban Remains Raise Fears on Discipline
  Photographs published by The Los Angeles Times of soldiers with the hands and legs of Taliban fighters add to a list of cases that have cast American soldiers in the harshest possible light.
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• newIndia Tests Nuclear-Capable Missle
  India said Thursday it had successfully launched a missile with nuclear capability and a 3,100-mile range, giving it the ability to strike Beijing and Shanghai.
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• newSudan Said to Launch 4 Attacks on South Sudan
  The Arab League said Thursday it would hold an emergency meeting over the increasing violence between Sudan and South Sudan. The south reported new skirmishes even as Sudan's president increased his threats of war toward the south.
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• newSyria Accused of Failing to Live Up to Peace Plan
  As the secretary-general said Syria had failed to implement a peace plan, United Nations were set to discuss a sending 300 cease-fire observers to the country.
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• newLeading Off: Pat Summitt’s Signature: Success and Dignity
  In saying goodbye to her remarkable basketball coaching career, Pat Summitt of Tennessee was once again a role model in how to handle a challenge.
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• newFord to Build New Plant in China to Catch Up With G.M.
  Ford said that the $760 million plant in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, would increase its annual capacity in China by 250,000 vehicles once production begins in 2015.
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• newIraq Attacks Kill Dozens
  Nearly three dozen people were killed and more than 100 wounded in a string of explosions across Iraq on Thursday, including attacks in Baghdad and Kirkuk.
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Fit Brains

• Love and the Brain
  A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found a strong relationship between maternal support and nurturing in early childhood and the size of the hippocampus by school age. This is particularly interesting sinc…
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• Natural Light: Positive Effects on the Brain and Health
  I have been studying research in the area of natural light and its interaction on the human brain. An important point to make is that appropriate exposure to natural light has positive effects on our circadian rhythm and in turn promotes many aspects…
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• Federal Government and Alzheimer’s Disease
  I read with great interest that the United States federal government is considering a plan that provides effective treatments for Alzheimer’s disease by 2025. Such a national strategy is desperately needed and long overdue. It is well known that Al…
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• On That Annual Resolution
  By now most of us have declared our 2012 resolution (s) with great passion and hope. Honesty tells us that we may have been in this same spot last year with a wonderful declaration to give this up or to start that. Well, what happened? How many actua…
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• Christmas, the Holiday Season, and World Peace
  It is too easy to turn the television or internet on and witness humans across the globe behaving with violence and harm towards others. This stands in direct contradiction to what Christmas and the Holiday season represents. It is hard to imagine wh…
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• Giving Thanks at Thanksgiving
  The annual holiday known as Thanksgiving is upon us here in the United States. This is a day of great food, family, friends, cheer, football, and being together with those we love. It is also a day of thanks and it is important to reflect on all that…
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• Meditation Improves Immune System
  Meditation is best known as part of the Buddhist and Indian Yoga traditions. It has now migrated and become more integrated into western civilization including the United States. Research has supported a relationship between meditation practice and p…
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• Health and The Daily Meal
  Socialization and mental stimulation are two of the five major components of my brain health lifestyle ® (see www.paulnussbaum.com). One practical tip I have advocated is having one meal a day with the family, friends, or even with new people. I bel…
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• Sleep Deprivation and Alzheimer’s
  A new study to be published in the Archives of Neurology reports levels of amyloid beta, a byproduct of brain activity considered a marker in Alzheimer’s disease, normally rises during the day and decreases at night. Authors of the study suggest a…
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• Emotional Well-Being
  We all want to feel good, emotionally healthy, and balanced. For many of us this is a great goal, but a rare reality. The question is why do we not fell balanced emotionally? Why do we tend to feel tense, rushed, stressed, or ill inside? One pathway…
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Digg

• newWho are the Kwok brothers?
  Hong Kong tycoons the Kwok brothers have become embroiled in a corruption scandal - just the latest instalment in a colourful history.
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• new17 Victoria's Secret Models Who Dated Athletes
  Usually when we do a list featuring a bunch of attractive women romantically linked to professional athletes, it’s from the perspective of the athlete.
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• newDad of the year... (Pic)
  
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• newGoogle CEO Says Android OS is a Valuable Asset But Not Critical
  Google CEO said in courtroom testimony that the Android operating system for smartphones is a valuable asset for Google, but it is not critical,
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• newRevolutionary Bridge Design From Wang Yaohua
  Latest design from architect Wang Yaohua discusses the balance between aesthetics and functionality in architecture.
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• newBluthex: For "Arrested Development" Anxiety
  If you're suffering anxiety about whether the "Save Our Bluths" effort will work out right, this is the medication for you.
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