WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama plans to nominate an openly gay lawyer as the United States' ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, an administration official said Wednesday. David Huebner was the lawyer who would be announced for the post, said an official who would speak only on condition of anonymity ahead of an announcement. If confirmed by the Senate, Huebner would the administration's first openly gay ambassador
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Iran today accused the US of being behind the disappearance of an one of its nuclear scientists in Saudi Arabia and called into question a uranium deal agreed in principle in Geneva last week.
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Iran: US behind missing scientist
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Shouts of “Kill him! Kill him!” ring out as the preteens train their virtual assault rifles on the last remaining terrorist and spray him with bullets. Blood splatters. The enemy collapses.
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Venezuela to outlaw violent video games and toys
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Communing with nature not only lifts spirits, it helps people behave better, according to a study published this week. Psychologists at the University of Rochester conducted four experiments with 370 people who were shown computer images of either natural settings, such as landscapes and lakes, or man-made settings, such as buildings and roads. The subjects were encouraged to look at the surroundings carefully, noting colors and textures and imagining sounds and smells.
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Nature, the cure for bad behavior?
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The term supermodel became a part of pop culture in the 90s, and women who achieved this title reached mega-celebrity status and became household names. Continue reading
Woody Harrelson recently took some time from banging his bongos to make a big Hollywood movie. It’s called Zombieland and deals with the undead, a solid cinematic device
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On Mankind’s Maybe Doomed Love for the Undead
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BEIJING — China’s leaders marked their nation’s 60th anniversary on Thursday with a precision display of military bravado, a fleet of floats representing everything from a giant fish to Mount Everest and, improbably, a female militia unit toting submachine guns and attired in red miniskirts and white jackboots. The celebration of the founding of the People’s Republic of China was immense, powerful and flawless, down to the crystal skies which, just a day earlier, had been laden with smog.
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China Celebrates 60 Years of ‘Communism’
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The name seems to say it all. The Great Depression was bad all around, wasn't it
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Are recessions good for our health?
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” Australia, down underground, scientists have found 850 previously unknown species living in subterranean water, caves and micro-caverns. These insects, crustaceans, spiders and worms are likely only about one-fifth of the number of undiscovered species the researchers think exist underground amid the harsh conditions of the Australian outback. Two species of blind fish and two of blind eels were also uncovered
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850 Mostly Blind, Pale Creatures Discovered Underground
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Argentina has lost nearly 70 percent of its forests in a century, the Environmental Secretariat said at a UN conference on desertification.
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Nearly 70 percent of Argentine forests lost in a century
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