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Penn St. takes top party school title in survey – Nation & World …

The school known partly for its football tailgate weekends and fraternity and sorority scene snatched the title away from last year’s winner, the University of Florida, which finished second in the 2009 Princeton Review survey of 122000 …

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First case of organ trafficking in the US?

Levy Izhak Rosenbaum called himself a “matchmaker,” but his business wasn't romance. Instead, authorities say, he brokered the sale of black-market kidneys, buying organs from vulnerable people from Israel for $10,000 and selling them to desperate patients in the U.S. for as much as $160,000.

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Lindsay Lohan’s Lickin’ Her Lips of the Day

If I was a scientist, this would be my research topic of choice.

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Lindsay Lohan’s Lickin’ Her Lips of the Day

Heidi Montag, Spencer Pratt Writing ‘How To Be Famous’

Reality-TV couple will release their first book this fall. By Jocelyn Vena Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag Photo: Jeff Lipsky Lauren Conrad may be a best-selling author thanks to her debut novel, “L.A. Candy,” but it looks like her former “Hills” frenemies Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag are also angling for a spot on The New York Times best-seller list

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Houston Rapper Trae’s Community Event Ends In Shooting

Six injured in drive-by at “family block party” held at Texas Southern University. By Rahman Dukes Trae the Truth performs on 2008’s Trae Day Photo: Trae the Truth An event at Texas Southern University in Houston that was billed as “a family block party” featuring Houston rapper Trae Tha Truth ended in violence on Wednesday night when a drive-by shooting erupted, injuring six people.

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Humans Vs Neanderthals

“Newly analyzed remains suggest that a modern human killed a Neanderthal man in what is now Iraq between 50,000 and 75,000 years ago. The finding is scant but tantalizing evidence for a theory that modern humans helped to kill off the Neanderthals. “What we've got is a rib injury, with any number of scenarios that could explain it,” said study researcher Steven Churchill, an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University in North Carolina

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Cats Are Tricking You!

CULTURE BUZZ : Purring experts at the University of Sussex in England have just released a study showing that cats use a special kind of purr to coerce their guardians into giving them food. Unlike regular purring, the “soliciting purr” has a sound with a similar frequency to a human baby's cry, which suckers like you naturally respond to. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment

Nut growers look to space for support and guidance on orchards

Space is preparing to go a little nuts. NASA satellite images could soon give information to nut growers about their orchard's health, allowing them to stay ahead of plant stress issues, pests and diseases that could affect crop yield and quality

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Marriage thrives despite our evolving sex lives

It may have worked as a plotline for “Sex and the City,” but according to new government figures, very few American women need fear being an “old maid.” Eighty-six percent of women marry by age 40, according to the National Center for Health Statistics which recently released revised data gathered in 2002. And those women are waiting longer than ever to wed — age 25 on average. More than 20 years ago, a Newsweek magazine article called “The Marriage Crunch” scared the bejesus out of many women by stating that if a white, college-educated woman hadn't married by age 30, she had a slim chance of ever tying the knot.

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Matt Drudge By the Numbers

A numbers genius—not Nate Silver!—has pored over the 171,000-plus recorded updates of the Drudge Report since 2002 and put it all into chart form.

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Matt Drudge By the Numbers