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Investigation: Is Peter Orszag’s Hair Really a Toupée?

Peter Orszag was not always the Orszagasm-inducing double-timing nerd Casanova we know, envy, and lust for. As recently as his appointment to Obama’s cabinet, Orszag was wearing a hideous toupée— or was he? If you’d prefer to see these photos all on one page, you can click here

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The battle between the brain’s left and right hemispheres

Why is the brain divided?

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Mexico opens 2010 with one of its deadliest days

Mexico opened the new year with what could be its most dubious distinction yet in the 3-year-old battle against drug trafficking — 69 murders in one day.

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Is Paula Abdul Joining Simon Cowell’s ‘X Factor’?

Since her ‘American Idol’ exit, shows like ‘Dancing With the Stars’ and ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ have come calling. By Amy Wilkinson Paula Abdul Photo: Lester Cohen/ Getty Images Following Simon Cowell’s announcement Monday (January 11) that he would be leaving “American Idol” at the end of the season to bring his hit U.K.

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Is Osama Bin Laden dead or alive?

Osama Bin Laden died eight years ago during the battle for Tora Bora in Afghanistan, either from a US bomb or from a serious kidney disease. Or so the conspiracy theory goes. The theory that has developed on the web since 9/11 is that US intelligence services are manufacturing the Bin Laden statements to create an evil bogeyman, to justify the so-called war on terror in Afghanistan, Iraq and back at home.

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Americans are ‘loving [their] protected areas to death’.

– Housing developments choking wildlife around America's national parks – Housing developments within 50 kilometers (31 miles) of America's national parks have nearly quadrupled in sixty years, rising from 9.8 million housing units to 38 million from 1940 to 2000. The explosion of housing developments adjacent to national parks threatens wildlife in a variety of ways, according to a new study in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). “We are in danger of loving these protected areas to death,” says co-author Anna Pidgeon as assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Government health insurance option appears doomed

Senior House Democrats have largely abandoned hopes of including a government-run insurance option in the final compromise health care bill taking shape, according to several officials, and are pushing for other measures to rein in private insurers. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other senior Democrats told President Barack Obama in recent meetings they want the legislation to strip the insurance industry of a long-standing exemption from federal antitrust laws, officials said. That provision is in the House-passed measure, but was omitted from the bill that the Senate passed on Christmas Eve.

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Charlie Sheen: Back at Work, Acting Like a "Professional"

Charlie Sheen has returned to the place where he feels most comfortable.

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Vice-President Biden’s mother has died

Catherine Eugenia Finnegan Biden, the mother of Vice President Joseph R.

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Is Lil Wayne’s Rebirth Album Really Coming Out Next Month?

Confusion clouds release date for Wayne’s album By Gil Kaufman Lil Wayne’s Rebirth Photo: Cash Money/ Universal/ Young Money By now, you may have given up trying to follow the bouncing ball that is Lil Wayne ‘s Rebirth album .

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