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Chris Brown Responds To Rihanna Interview

‘While I respect Rihanna’s right to discuss the specific events of February 8, I maintain my position that all of the details should remain private,’ Brown says in a statement. By Jayson Rodriguez, with reporting by MTV News staff Chris Brown Photo: MTV News When MTV News correspondent Sway spoke with Chris Brown on Monday for “Chris Brown: The Interview” and addressed Rihanna’s upcoming “20/20” sit-down — portions of which have already aired on “Good Morning America” — the “Forever” singer said he was confident that he had come clean about everything and there was nothing that could be said by his former girlfriend that would make him nervous. “Honestly, because I have expressed my wrongs and there is nothing that could come out that’s like, ‘OK, this is something totally different than what we know,’ ” he told MTV News when asked

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Domestic Violence Victims Don’t Have To Cope Alone

Rihanna and Chris Brown shed light on the issue of dating abuse. By Gil Kaufman Photo: Stockbyte Victims of domestic violence often feel ashamed, confused, embarrassed and humiliated after being assaulted by their partners. Though in many instances the victims keep those feelings to themselves, they’re better off if they share them with a specialist who can help them work through the trauma

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Solitude contributes to a person’s imagined intimacy with a TV character

If your best friend is a guy from “The Office” or a young doctor on “Grey's Anatomy,” you may be relying too much on TV shows to fill a social void in your life. A new study from the University of Michigan says lonely people may use television characters to cope with solitude and to feel a sense of belonging.

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Study shows hope for type of blindness

A small but provocative study showed that a form of gene therapy significantly improved the vision of patients left legally blind by a rare genetic eye disease. The benefit was especially striking among children. Researchers said the findings amount to an important advance toward medicine's ambitious but generally unrealized dream of replacing disease-causing mutant or missing genes with normal DNA to treat and cure debilitating illnesses In the study, 12 patients, including four children between ages 8 and 11 years old, underwent a surgical procedure in which a gene that makes a protein critical to vision function was injected into one eye

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Hello Kitty’s Anatomy

How could guts and organs be gruesome when they're the guts and organs of Hello Kitty?

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Did feminism make women miserable?

Feminism made women miserable. This, anyway, seems to be the most popular takeaway from “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness,” a recent study by Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, which purports to show that women have become steadily unhappier since 1972. Maureen Dowd and Arianna Huffington greeted the news with somber perplexity, but the more common response has been a triumphant: I told you so

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Dems scramble after warning from health insurers

Insurance companies aren't playing nice any more. Their dire message that health care legislation will drive up premiums for people who already have coverage comes as a warning shot at a crucial point in the debate and threatens President Barack Obama's top domestic priority. Democrats and their allies scrambled on Monday to knock down a new industry-funded study forecasting that Senate legislation, over time, will add thousands of dollars to the cost of a typical policy

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Google is truthful, say children

The latest study by regulatory body Ofcom, shows that children aged between 12 and 15, believe Google's search engine ranks websites by truthfulness, rather than relevance or random selection. Results from the study show that 32 per cent of children support the idea that Google displays search results by the most truthful website first. While 37 per cent of children are aware that the search engine revelas the most relevant site first

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Scientology: Techniques for Brainwashing and Destroying Someone

Scientologists hold every word of L.

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Truth and Lies About L. Ron Hubbard’s World War 2 Record

The Scientology organization tells many outrageous and offensive lies about the World War 2 record of its founder, L. Ron Hubbard.

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