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Tibetan monks, nuns get crash course in science

“Tibetan monks and nuns spend their lives studying the inner world of the mind rather than the physical world of matter. Yet for one month this spring a group of 91 monastics devoted themselves to the corporeal realm of science

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100 abandoned houses

An excerpt from the website, by Kevin Bauman: “The abandoned houses project began innocently enough roughly ten years ago. I actually began photographing abandonment in Detroit in the mid 90’s as a creative outlet, and as a way of satisfying my curiosity with the state of my home town.

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Man charged with blasting porn soundtrack

Michael Buck got tired of noisy kids playing in the cul-de-sac outside his suburban Philadelphia home. So, to chase them away, he pumped up the volume — of a pornographic soundtrack, police say

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Ode to Joy or anthem of evil?

Over the years Beethoven’s famous melody from the Ninth Symphony has been co-opted for some very doubtful causes In Japan during the Second World War the work rang out over the airfields as the kamikaze pilots sank a last sake and boarded their planes. In Germany in 1945 the ode accompanied the radio announcement of the death of Adolf Hitler

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Study recommends total ban on smoking for soldiers

You’ve seen the iconic picture of a soldier with a cigarette dangling from his mouth, but that could soon be a thing of the past. A new study commissioned by the Pentagon and the Department of Veterans Affairs recommends a complete ban on tobacco, which would end tobacco sales on military bases and prohibit smoking by anyone in uniform, not even combat troops in the thick of battle.

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Train-mooning event only draws 400 people this year compared to last year’s 8,000

The pants were down but so was the size of the crowd for a bizarre ritual in Southern California. It’s the annual “Moon Over Amtrak” event in the Orange County community of Laguna Niguel in which people line up to moon passing commuter trains. It began as a bar bet in 1979 and has continued ever since.

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Obama considers bailout for small business

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is considering using money from the $700 billion financial bailout fund to provide further assistance to the nation’s struggling small businesses, in a continuing attempt to find a way to make up for clogged credit. Officials said Friday that no plan had emerged although small business has been a subject of staff level talks in Obama’s economic team

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Meez vs. Gaia Online

what do you like better www.meez.com or www. gaiaonline .com i like meez better.

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Sony Invests In Community Site Gaia Online; Signs Up For Virtual …

Sony Invests In Community Site Gaia Online ; Signs Up For Virtual Movie Screenings. Comments (0); Text Size: A A; Print · Email · Share · Gaia Interactive, a San Jose, CA-based virtual space “hangout” geared towards young people, …

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Gaia Online raises $11 million to finance massively multiplayer …

Gaia Online has raised $11 million in a third round of funding to complete its massively multiplayer online game as …

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