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Kid drinks gasoline to be more like Transformers, gets brain damage instead.

Shanghai Daily is reporting that a 14-year-old from Yibin in Sichuan, China has been drinking Gasoline for the last five years to become a “valiant fighter” like Optimus Prime. The youngster first saw the animated Transformers tv series when he was nine years old, and was so impressed that be “that he began drinking fuel on a daily basis to “obtain energy” and become a mighty warrior like the Transformers.” The kids parents scolded the kid after he started smelling the gas in cigarette lighters, and later began to notice that the gasoline in their motorcycle had begin disappearing

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Who’s a Failed State?

Foreign Policy magazine's annual Failed State index is out. Who's your favorite failed state?

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Who’s a Failed State?

Who’s Better Informed, Newspaper Readers or Web Surfers?

What if there were no newspapers anymore? Some people, mainly newspaper reporters and publishers, are warning that this is where we're heading. And they declare, as with a single loud voice, “You'll be sorry!” To save ourselves 50 cents or a buck, they say, we will be denying ourselves crucial knowledge that we need to be well-informed citizens of a democracy

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Who’s Better Informed, Newspaper Readers or Web Surfers?