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Nicole Kidman Is Definitely A ‘Nine’

It’s an age old tale…men love boobs and when it comes to Hollywood, would you think it any different? So what helped Nicole Kidman land her role in Nine ?

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Nicole Kidman Is Definitely A ‘Nine’

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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"Learn To Love Insider Trading," by The Wall Street Journal

Does the recent collar of terrorist-supporting hedge fund chief Raj Rajaratnam suggest insider trading as back en vogue ? The moving of markets with propriety information nobody else gets hasn’t been cool since Wall Street …until now. Love it , says the WSJ

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Plenty more foreclosures on the way

FROM THE NEWS BLOG: With the Dow back up over 10,000 and Goldman Sachs raking in profits again surely we could see some improvement in the housing market?

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Plenty more foreclosures on the way

Teen birth rates highest in most religious states

U.S. states whose residents have more conservative religious beliefs on average tend to have higher rates of teenagers giving birth, a new study suggests. The relationship could be due to the fact that communities with such religious beliefs (a literal interpretation of the Bible, for instance) may frown upon contraception, researchers say

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Spanking detrimental to children, study says

Think a little spanking won't do much harm to kids?

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Meditation increases brain gray matter

That's the finding from a group of researchers at UCLA who used high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to scan the brains of people who meditate. In a study published in the journal NeuroImage and currently available online (by subscription), the researchers report that certain regions in the brains of long-term meditators were larger than in a similar control group

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[blog] today’s fastest growing groups: us politics [your group here]

Congrats to US Politics, today's fastest growing group! Find the whole list on the Current.com blog: http://blogs.current.com/currentdotcom/2009/08/27/todays-fastest-growing-groups-… added by: sgwhites 0 responses

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Obese people have ‘severe brain degeneration’

A new study finds obese people have 8 percent less brain tissue than normal-weight individuals.

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DNA evidence can be fabricated, scientists show

Scientists in Israel have demonstrated that it is possible to fabricate DNA evidence, undermining the credibility of what has been considered the gold standard of proof in criminal cases.

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DNA evidence can be fabricated, scientists show