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Ann Coulter's Beauty Secret

Women – When Ann Coulter arrived at Charles Coughlin College in Lynchville, Illinois, Ceci Lawrence was shocked." She looked so different from her photos." "We decided to have a blood drive," Ceci said, "So that Ann could renew the unholy forces which animate her flesh by bathing in the blood of the innocent. Let's face itÃ

View Story Discuss (20) (blogs.salon.com) 6 hours ago by Radiofreeeuropa

Voted for on June 13, 2007 02:33am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks

Online gaming's Netscape moment?

Video Games – Existing virtual worlds are built on closed, proprietary platforms, like early online services. Might they now open up, like the web?

View Story Discuss (0) (economist.co.uk) 7 hours ago by _kam0_

Voted for on June 13, 2007 01:57am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 7 votes / No sinks

Palestinian Battles Raise Fears of Coup And Civil War

News – Gunmen loyal to the two main Palestinian parties fought street battles in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday that increasingly bore the hallmarks of civil war, as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, a Fatah leader, warned that the rival Hamas movement was attempting a coup.

View Story Discuss (0) (washingtonpost.com) 7 hours ago by Aidenag

Voted for on June 13, 2007 01:17am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 17 votes / No sinks

19th-century weapon found in whale

Science – A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt - more than a century ago. Embedded deep under its blubber was a 3 1/2-inch arrow-shaped projectile that has given researchers insight into the whale's age, estimated between 115 and 130 years old.

View Story Discuss (4) (news.yahoo.com) 13 hours ago by TechnologyExpert

Voted for on June 13, 2007 12:47am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / No sinks

IRAQ: Child labour on the rise as poverty increases

Do No Evil – Iyad Abdel-Salim, 12, left school 6 months ago and has been working to boost the family income. His father was killed in Iraq's political violence. As the only boy in the family, and with 3 smaller sisters to look after, he was forced to go onto the streets and work. The UN Children's Agency estimates that about 11% of Iraqi children under 14 work.

View Story Discuss (1) (irinnews.org) 8 hours ago by bubba2

Voted for on June 13, 2007 12:47am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 11 votes / No sinks

CAIR membership plummets by 90%

Religion – According to tax documents obtained by The Times, the number of reported members spiraled down from more than 29,000 in 2000 to less than 1,700 in 2006, a loss of membership that caused the Muslim rights group's annual income from dues to drop from $732,765 in 2000, when yearly dues cost $25, to $58,750 last year, when the group charged $35.

View Story Discuss (8) (washingtontimes.com) 21 hours ago by Mintyfunk

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"Wal-Mart's:" What Possessives Mean

Do No Evil – Around here all stores get a possessive "s"'s. "Wal-mart is Wal-mart's, Kroger is Kroger's, etc. I simply chocked it up to a colloquialism. But lately I have begun appreciating that possessive "s" and its sad commentary on the state of shopping in most modern rural communities.

View Story Discuss (3) (plentymag.com) 13 hours ago by Digidave

Voted for on June 12, 2007 11:59pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 37 votes / No sinks

'Mr. Wizard' dies at 89

Celebrities – Don Herbert, who explained the wonderful world of science to young baby boomers on television in the 1950s and '60s as "Mr. Wizard" and did the same for a later generation of youngsters on the Nickelodeon cable TV channel in the 1980s, died today.

View Story Discuss (13) (latimes.com) 12 hours ago by ameliog

Voted for on June 12, 2007 09:36pm Commented on 1 time: 1

This story has mostly positive ratings. 7 votes / No sinks

Here's Why Employee Free Choice Act Must Pass

Careers & Jobs – The Allentown (Pa.) City Council passed a resolution last month supporting the Employee Free Choice Act, and Mayor Ed Pawlowski will add an exclamation point today to the importance of the bill.

View Story Discuss (1) (blog.aflcio.org) 23 hours ago by engineer

Voted for on June 12, 2007 07:01pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 15 votes / 1 sink

If Fox News Had Existed Throughout History

Humor – Different groups will view this differently.

View Story Discuss (0) (kontraband.com) 15 hours ago by ameliog

Voted for on June 12, 2007 05:33pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 14 votes / 1 sink

Orwell Today

Do No Evil – Comparing the world George Orwell described in "1984" with the world we are living in today, 2007.

View Story Discuss (0) (orwelltoday.com) 15 hours ago by ameliog

Voted for on June 12, 2007 05:08pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 16 votes / No sinks

China's defence spending races to match U.S.

Do No Evil – China's military spending soared last year, vaulting Beijing into second place by some measures in the global arms bazaar, but still lagged far behind the United States.

View Story Discuss (3) (theglobeandmail.com) 1 day ago by _kam0_

Voted for on June 12, 2007 05:04pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 19 votes / No sinks

Why Feminists Fight With Each Other

Do No Evil – Deborah Siegel -- writer, feminist and entrepreneur -- doesn't strike one as the type to dredge up old fights. Though she's 38, she looks about 18 as she sits happily in the grass at Union Square in a green and brown print dress, sandals thrown to the side and her legs curled under her, and tells me about the anticipation she feels about her new bo

View Story Discuss (0) (alternet.org) 1 day ago by gatitabonitasen

Voted for on June 12, 2007 05:04pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 22 votes / No sinks

War in Heaven: Stopping the Arms Race in Outer Space

Do No Evil – A new book reveals Bush's revamped national space policy. It lays the basis for a radical change of U.S. policy toward outer space -- the deployment of weapons. The following is an excerpt from War in Heaven: Stopping the Arms Race in Outer Space Before It's Too Late (New Press, 2007). If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years,

View Story Discuss (0) (alternet.org) 1 day ago by gatitabonitasen

Voted for on June 12, 2007 05:04pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks

Find Alexa Rank of any Website using Google Talk

Gadgets & Tech – Imagine typing "whois xyz.com" inside GTalk to find out who owns that web domain name. Or saying "alexa abc.com" will show you the Alexa Traffic details of that website right inside your Google chat window.

View Story Discuss (0) (labnol.blogspot.com) 17 hours ago by bradchamp

Voted for on June 12, 2007 04:45pm

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