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Soda fountains contained fecal bacteria, study found

It fizzes. It quenches

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Soda fountains contained fecal bacteria, study found

Two Blackwater guards arrested by FBI on murder charges

Two former Blackwater operatives were arrested by US federal agents on murder charges, stemming from their alleged involvement in the shooting deaths of two Afghan civilians in Kabul in May. They have been identified as Justin Cannon, 27, of Corpus Christi, Texas, and Christopher Drotleff, 29, of Virginia Beach, Va. They have been charged with “crimes including second-degree murder, attempted murder and firearms offenses while working as contractors for the U.S.

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Justice Department report uncovers child rape and sexual abuse in juvenile detention centers

The Justice Department reported Thursday that 12 percent of incarcerated juveniles, or more than 3,200 young people, had been raped or sexually abused in the past year by fellow inmates or prison staff, quantifying for the first time a problem that has long troubled lawmakers and human rights advocates.

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Justice Department report uncovers child rape and sexual abuse in juvenile detention centers

Obama orders improvements in security policies

President Obama on Thursday ordered a series of steps to improve the government’s ability to collect, share, analyze and act on intelligence of terrorist threats, saying the findings of a government review of the attempted airline bombing on Christmas Day revealed significant shortcomings in national security. “We are at war,” Mr. Obama said in remarks from the White House East Room

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Is NBC Close to Sealing a New Deal with Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien?

If nothing else, this story is great fodder for the late-night monologues.

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Is NBC Close to Sealing a New Deal with Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien?

Alabama wins BCS championship 37-21

The Alabama Crimson Tide wins the 2010 BCS National Championship, beating the Texas Longhorns 31-21. added by: paintedacres 1 comment

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H&M & Walmart trashing unsold clothes that could be donated to charity

We just came upon some news that got us boiling mad – according to the New York Times, H&M and Walmart have been using box cutters and other sharp objects to slash and mutilate their unsold clothing stock (including brand new coats, jackets and shoes) to ribbons before stuffing it into trash bags and kicking it to the curb. If the Manhattan retailers’ wasteful behavior breaks your heart, imagine what it must feel like to hear about it as one of the New York City’s 16,000 homeless people desperately in need of a coat to keep them warm this winter. Why go through all of the trouble to destroy these perfectly wearable clothes when there are tons of people who could use them (literally right in front of the storefronts) and plenty of places that are more than willing to help organize and distribute them

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Are Hollywood remakes of foreign classics ever a good idea?

Let the Right One In was one of the greatest films of 2008. It's being remade by Hollywood and looks like a bad idea

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Are Hollywood remakes of foreign classics ever a good idea?

E.P.A. announces strict new health standards for smog

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency proposed a stricter new standard for smog-causing pollutants on Thursday that, if adopted, will impose large costs on industry and local governments but will also bring substantial health benefits to millions of Americans. The proposed standard would replace one set by the Bush administration in March 2008, which has been challenged in court by environmental advocates as too weak to adequately protect human health and the environment

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Court spectator sues judge for drug-testing him ‘on a hunch’

A Tennessee judge who ordered a court spectator to submit to a drug test based “on a hunch” is being sued for infringing on the spectator's constitutional rights.

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