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Man’s Finger Bitten Off At Health Care Rally

CULTURE BUZZ : A 65-year-old man had his pinky BITTEN OFF at a health care rally. About 100 protesters sponsored by MoveOn.org were having a rally supporting health care reform when another group of anti-health care supporters showed up. Things got really ugly

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David Wright’s Dorky Helmet

He actually stole this from the Mr. Met mascot, which explains the enormous size

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The YikeBike

A new portable electric bike designed for urban commuters that weighs less than ten pounds. If this doubles as some kind of Japanese sex toy, I'm sold!!! Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment

Spike Jonze in The NYT Magazine

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/mag… Everyone's reading the Spike Jonze profile from the coming weekend's Times Magazine, so you probably should, too. My favorite part of this article so far is the caption that helpfully clarifies, “Jonze is the one without a wolf suit.” Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment

Holly Madison: Plastic Surgery Saved My Career

This just in: Holly Madison has a career! It’s unclear exactly what this busty blonde does for a living, aside from prance around in skimpy clothing, but she told Life & Style that she wouldn’t be doing anything at all if not for her breast implants. “Plastic surgery made it easier for me to get things I wanted in my career.

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The NYT Magazine’s "$400,000" Hurricane Katrina Story: Expensive, Epic

The NYT Magazine ‘s cover story about a euthanizing, beleaguered hospital during and after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans dropped today.

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The World’s most violent city

Ciudad Juarez is a major Mexican city on the border with the United States, 1 and a half million inhabitants and a strong economic integration with neighbour El Paso, Texas. But unfortunately the city is known for his appalling crime rate that has made it the most violent city in the world.The Mexican president has sent 10,000 soldiers of the army to maintain order, but so far the results seem poor.

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Band shirts hit wrong note with parents

I guess controversy can even hit my small home town of Sedalia, pop. 25,000. Parents are upset with the idea of evolution.

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Band shirts hit wrong note with parents

It’s not enough to make green cars, we need green roads as well!

“The global roads network is vast and growing at one of the fastest paces in history. In 97 percent of the continental U.S., you're no more than three miles from a paved road of one kind or another, and the most recent CIA World Fact Book places the number of worldwide paved roads at 15.99 million kilometers. By comparison, the moon is a mere 384,400 kilometers (almost 239,000 miles) away.” “The environmental effects of a road do not stop when construction is complete.

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Jaycee Dugard, abducted from South Lake Tahoe in 1991, shows up at Concord police station

CONCORD — Jaycee Dugard, who has been missing from her South Lake Tahoe home for 18 years, has surfaced in Concord, according to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office. Two people have been arrested in the case

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