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Too Many Years Of Lies: Washington has been at war for 12 years. According to experts such as Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, these wars have cost Americans approximately $6 trillion, enough to keep Social Security and Medicare sound for years.(informationclearinghouse.info)
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Exxon Mobil Corp. has been charged with illegally dumping more than 50,000 gallons of wastewater at a shale-gas drilling site in Pennsylvania. (bloomberg.com)
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"Private insurance is a parasite in the system," says Arnold S. Relman, the former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and an advocate of healthcare reform. "It adds nothing of value commensurate with its cost." (latimes.com)
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Snowden Nominated for Freedom of Thought Prize "Members of the European Parliament are officially nominating fugitive US leaker Edward Snowden for a prize celebrating freedom of thought, a parliamentary representative said Wednesday." (en.rian.ru)
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Jon Stewart: "News networks aren't invested in right or wrong, they're invested in momentum. You can take us to war based on false intelligence and pretense, but God forbid you rev us up for war and you don't deliver." (thedailyshow.com)
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This bee decided to photobomb while my gf tried to take one of those generic coffee shots (i.imgur.com)
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Reading for pleasure puts children ahead in the classroom, study finds "The study, which is believed to be the first to examine the effect of reading for pleasure on cognitive development over time, found that children who read for pleasure made more progress in maths, vocabulary and spelling..." (cls.ioe.ac.uk)
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TIL a lawyer sought out a 90yo lady who agreed to give him her apartment if he paid her $500 each month for the rest of her life. She became the oldest living person ever, living for another 30 years and even outliving the lawyer who by then had paid her $180,000 – twice the value of the apartment(nytimes.com)
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I got my son a Swedish police shirt and a tiger ball cap. He has now told us he only goes by the name "Tiger Cop". (i.imgur.com)
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A brutal rape case has pushed the citizens of India past the point of blissflul ignorance to outrageTitle may be misleading (abc.net.au)
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Gov. Christie signs law easing medical marijuana restrictions for N.J. kids: "Parents, not government regulators, are best suited to decide how to care for their children, and this law advances that important principle” (nj.com)
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Trojan was giving away free vibrators in Downtown Portland today. This guy was camped outside the line and had the right idea. (X-post r/portland)(imgur.com)
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I was reading a pdf manual and came across one of these. This is more accurate than any other I've seen. (imgur.com)
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My friend is a teacher and created an assignment where the students had to rearrange words from an essay into a story with a different meaning. The result from one student was fantastic. [Original Essay in Comments] (i.imgur.com)
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40 years ago today, the USA helped overthrow a democratically elected government in Chile. (i.imgur.com)
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R.J. Mitte is a good actor, but this sort of thing makes me fear that he will be typecast as 'breakfast guy'. (i.imgur.com)
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Hi! Not sure i[f] I'd normally do this,but I just got back to a healthy weight and am so proud of/ nervous about my body! What do you think? (imgur.com)
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New Study Creates New Memories by Directly Changing the Brain: It has shown that specific memories can be made by directly altering brain cells in the cerebral cortex, which produces the predicted specific memory. It's the first evidence that memories can be created by direct cortical manipulation (parentherald.com)
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TIL: The decision to ground all planes in the U.S. on September 11th was made by one man, Ben Sliney, one of the FAA's National Operations Managers. It was his first day in that position. (en.wikipedia.org)
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The Old Aperture Science Website - GLaDOS System Prompt
The beginning
Found this weird bit of graffiti in one of Portal's back rooms. Instantly wondered what the login information was for and made it my mission to find out. After some research, aperturescience.com used to have a command prompt style feature, which is not there any longer. So, by the magic of the wayback machine, I was able to access the old version of the site, to be found here: http://web.archive.org/web/20070205214159/http://www.aperturescience.com/Play with all the following stuff on your own!
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Take a pen to your interview. Asking for a pen during an interview gives a bad impression and you'd be surprised how many people do it.Careers & Work(self.LifeProTips)
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TIL after Ken Jeong's wife was diagnosed with cancer, she told him to pursue his dreams. He put a hold on his doctor career and began his comedian one.(huffingtonpost.com)
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Last year Obama said he was 51. This year he says he's 52. Which one is it, Obama? (self.circlejerk)
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