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Half of U.S. kids will receive food stamps

Half of American kids will live in households receiving food stamps before age 20, according to a study reported Monday in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-11-02-food-stamps_N.htm added by: knews121 0 comments

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Giant crack in Africa will create a new ocean

“A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will likely become a new ocean eventually, researchers now confirm.

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Psychic computer shows your thoughts on screen

Scientists have discovered how to “read” minds by scanning brain activity and reproducing images of what people are seeing — or even remembering.

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Ask Chiwetel Ejiofor anything you want…

Chiwetel Ejiofor (American Gangster, Children of Men, Talk to Me) is taking over Current TV soon and we're taking your questions, so ask anything you want. You can ask about his new film 2012, the shows/movies he's been in or pretty much anything else about his career, life, opinions, etc.

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Why gay marriage, getting high, and going to Cuba will soon be legal.

The End of Prohibition “I think this would be a good time for a beer,” Franklin D. Roosevelt said upon signing a bill that made 3.2-percent lager legal again, some months ahead of the full repeal of Prohibition.

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This week on Vanguard: Sri Lanka: Notes from a War on Terror

Vanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller traveled to Sri Lanka during the final days of the country's civil war to see how one of the world's most powerful insurgencies, the Tamil Tigers, was finally defeated. Vanguard Presents: Notes from a War on Terror ***Vanguard is Current TV's original documentary series

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Beginning of time discovered

Scientists have seen the first starlight ever recorded, and we don't mean the first incidence of a monkey marking something down – we mean the first star to send light which reached Earth. This light is the earliest, the furthest away, the most red-shifted, and every other factor that could possibly say: “Everything else ever came after this.” The bright light is also poignant as it results from a Gamma Ray Burst, GRB 090423, meaning that this first light comes from the death of a star imploding into a neutron star or even an early black hole

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Surprise! Cost cutting boosts Ford’s profits to almost $1bn in 2nd quarter

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8337876.stm Ford has announced profits of almost $1bn (

GOP ‘dividing apples by oranges’ to create bogus stimulus figures, AP says

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Clinton unveils 11-foot statue of himself in Kosovo

Thousands of ethnic Albanians braved low temperatures and a cold wind in Kosovo's capital Pristina to welcome former President Bill Clinton on Sunday as he attended the unveiling of an 11-foot statue of himself on a key boulevard that also bears his name. Clinton is celebrated as a hero by Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority for launching NATO's bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999 that stopped the brutal Serb forces' crackdown on independence-seeking ethnic Albanians. This is his first visit to Kosovo since it declared independence from Serbia last year.

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