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    One In 25 Online Youth Asked To Send Sexual Pictures Of Themselves

    One in 25 youth who use the Internet got a request to transmit a sexual picture of themselves during the course of the year, according to a new study published Friday, July 20, 2007, in the Journal of Adolescent Health. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070721145338.htm
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    How Do Newcomers Make Changes In Long-standing Groups?

    Virtually everyone who joins a new group is sensitive to the fact that, as a newcomer, he or she must tread carefully for a while, keeping a low profile until becoming sufficiently integrated into the group. When they do offer their ideas, criticisms, and suggestions, existing group members...
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    Young ********'s Defiance Toward ******* May Be Part Of Health Development

    New results suggest that defiance toward their ******* when ******** are very young, may reflect confidence and early autonomy. Researchers worked with 119 ******* and their 14- to 27-month-old ******** using play time interactions as a means of study. Although high levels of defiance at...
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    Five Polyps Removed From Bush's Colon

    Doctors removed five small growths from President Bush's colon Saturday after he temporarily transferred the powers of his office to Vice President Dick Cheney under the rarely invoked 25th Amendment. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3401391&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
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    Jetson-Like Flying Car in Production

    A flying car resembling what the Jetsons drove could show up soon at a dealership near you. Moller International, a company founded by a UC Davis professor devoted to developing a flying car, announced in a statement recently that it has begun production for its "Jetsons-like M200G Volantor, a...
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    Vandals ****** Man's Hummer, Leave Note

    When Gareth Groves brought home his massive new Hummer, he knew his environmentally friendly neighbors disapproved. But he didn't expect what happened next. The sport utility vehicle was parked for five days on the street before two masked men smashed the windows, slashed the tires and scratched...
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    Company Creates Combustible Tattoo Ink

    The permanent but removable ink is made by storing dye in microscopic capsules that will stay in the skin for good. But if that butterfly tattoo on the small of your back starts looking lame, it can be zapped away with a single laser treatment that is simpler and less painful than the barrage of...
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    Bush's Colonoscopy

    Cheney as President will take over the world and the search for Condoleza Rice up Bush's butt will begin. :jester: Tomorrow at Camp David, President Bush will have a colonoscopy. The procedure will be supervised by his physician, Dr. Richard Tubb, an Air ***** colonel. This will be the...
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    Catastrophic Flooding Changed The Course Of British History

    A catastrophic megaflood separated Britain from France hundreds of thousands of years ago, changing the course of British history, according to recent research. The study has revealed spectacular images of a huge valley tens of kilometres wide and up to 50 metres deep carved into chalk bedrock...
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    When The War Comes Home

    APsaA joins with other mental health professional organizations to urge strong and comprehensive government and private support for the mental health treatment of returning veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and their families. A recent study estimates that one third of all returning...
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    Saturn's Sixtieth Moon Discovered

    "We detected the 60th moon orbiting Saturn using the Cassini spacecraft's powerful wide-angle camera," said Carl Murray, a Cassini imaging team scientist from Queen Mary, University of London. "I was looking at images of the region near the Saturnian moons Methone and Pallene and something...
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    Opinion: Religion Is a Poison

    This of course is not a new concept if you've read Marx. http://abcnews.go.com/WN/WebCast/story?id=3387666&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
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    911 Conspiracy predicted in X-Files

    This is interesting, I just found this; http://youtube.com/watch?v=rIZ205ccX8M&mode=related&search=
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    'Lord of the Flies' Style Show Raises Ethical Concerns

    More TV garbage I'm afraid, and look it's CBS again. An upcoming reality show to air on CBS this fall in which 40 ******** live in an abandoned New Mexico mining town with no adult supervision "exploited loopholes" in state ***** labor laws and is arguably unethical, experts told ABCNEWS.com...
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    Teen Claims Spiders Alerted Her to Fire

    A woman who hates spiders is crediting them with helping save her from a house fire. Danielle Vigue, 18, says she awoke early Tuesday to find spiders in her room, and started ******* them. When more showed up, she says she went across the hall and got into bed with her 15-year-old ******...
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    Inmates Accused in Name Copyright Scheme

    Forget about digging a hole with a spoon to escape from prison. Four federal inmates are accused of going above and beyond that call. The four were indicted Tuesday on allegations that they copyrighted their names, then demanded millions of dollars from prison officials for using the names...
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    US: Top al-Qaida in Iraq Figure Captured

    The U.S. command said Wednesday the highest-ranking Iraqi in the leadership of al-Qaida in Iraq has been arrested, adding that information from him indicates the group's foreign-based leadership wields considerable influence over the Iraqi chapter...
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    Military Spam Scam: Bogus E-Mails From Rogue 'Soldiers'

    The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, known as IC3, issued an alert Tuesday warning of the spam scam in which e-mails are made to appear as though they come from crooked soldiers asking recipients for help in moving war loot out of Iraq...
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    ****** threat against U.S. said serious

    The terrorist network Al-Qaida will likely leverage its contacts and capabilities in Iraq to mount an ****** on U.S. soil, according to a new National Intelligence Estimate on threats to the United States. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070717/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_terror_threat
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    Just for Laughs TV

    Is this another good idea for a US comedy, stolen from Brit TV, or was it the Canadians this time? http://www.realitytvmagazine.com/blog/2007/07/just-for-laughs.html
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    Helicopter Used in French Prison Break

    A convicted killer is at large after he bust out of a prison in France on Saturday in a Hollywood-style helicopter escape that left authorities stunned. This was the third escape plot arranged by 43-year-old Pascal Payet in six years, the second in which he escaped himself...
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    Potential New Target For Cancer Found

    By bypassing a well-known gene implicated in almost one-third of all cancers and instead focusing on the protein activated by the gene, Duke University Medical Center researchers believe they may have found a new target for anti-cancer *****...
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    Miraculous Mosquito Legs

    Mosquitoes walk on water better than water striders, cling to smooth ceilings and walls as tightly as geckos, and clutch the skin of their victims with annoying tenacity in search of *****. Now a collaboration of physicists from Dalian University in China and Simon Fraser University in Canada...
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    Someone has too much time on their hands

    :) http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/player.swf?b=10&l=197&u=ILLUMllSOOAvIF//P_LxP92A42lCHCeeWCejXnHAS/c
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    Judge OKs $660M clergy ***** settlement

    Wow! A judge on Monday approved a $660 million settlement between the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and more than 500 alleged victims of clergy *****, the largest payout yet in a nationwide sex ***** scandal. Some of the plaintiffs sobbed as the deal was formally approved and a...
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    Troubleshoot Bad Boss Behavior

    http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobseeker/tools/ept/careerArticlesPost.html?post=143
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    Nevada couple blame Internet for neglect

    A couple who authorities say were so obsessed with the Internet and video games that they left their babies starving and suffering other health problems have pleaded guilty to ***** neglect. Some said the issue is like alcoholism, while others said there was no concrete evidence it's a...
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    Rebel With A Cause: Why Certain Products Are Used As Markers Of Difference

    Consumers often abandon products when other social groups adopt them. Teens want to distinguish themselves from their parents. Rich Brits stopped buying Burberry once it became the brand of choice for soccer hooligans and Shanghai urbanites avoid the Volkswagen model that is preferred by the...
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    73 Dead in Northwest Pakistan Attacks

    Authorities on Monday probed suspected links between radicals from the captured Red Mosque and militants in Pakistan's northwest frontier, where 73 people died in weekend suicide attacks and bombings. The United States said in March it would give Pakistan $750 million in economic development...
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    Franken Beats Coleman in Second Quarter Fundraising

    Goes to show politics in the US is a joke. :) Former comedian and current Senate candidate Al Franken continued his race towards the Democratic nomination in Minnesota by raising almost $2 million in the second quarter of 2007, out-raising incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman...
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    Cubs hat

    :jester:
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    Iraqi Government Taking 2 Month Vacation

    I can't find anything current but it's a common opinion. (From May 3, 2007) http://www.ifilm.com/video/2851443
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    Russia’s Trademark ***, but Others Grab Profits

    THE automatic Kalashnikov, the world’s most abundant firearm and a martial symbol with a multiplicity of meanings, turns 60 this year. In some places this is cause to shudder. In Russia it is treated as a milestone to celebrate, and a chance to cry foul...
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    Dwarf Star Gulps Giant To Form Supernova

    A team of European and American astronomers has announced the discovery of the best evidence yet for the nature of the star systems that explode as type Ia supernovae. The team obtained a unique set of observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and the Keck I...
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    Photo in the News: Jupiter Auroras "Northern Lights on Steroids"

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/03/070330-jupiter-picture.html?source=G1910&kwid=ContentNetwork|787369585
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    L.A. Archdiocese to Pay $660M for *****

    Hundreds of people who claim they were ****** by clergy affiliated with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles can expect to be paid more than $1 million each in a $660 million settlement of their lawsuits. The deal, by far the largest settlement in the church's sexual ***** scandal, was...
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    Fiat Launches 'iPod' of Cars

    http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3363469
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    If You Have to Ask... Home Price Through the Roof

    With 29 bedrooms, three swimming pools, a movie theater and a disco, the Beverly House is no ordinary home -- and comes with no ordinary price tag. The 1920's-era pink stucco Beverly Hills estate is priced at $165 million, and is believed to be the priciest residential listing in the United...
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    Soldier Shoots Himself to Avoid Iraq

    A soldier who recently returned from Iraq has admitted he paid someone $500 to shoot him in the leg so he could avoid returning for another tour. http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/wireStory?id=3376742&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
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    FedEx vs. Government Bureaucracy -- Newt Gingrich

    Funny, stay with it :) http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=15D3ElV1Jzw
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    Beijing suspends US meat imports

    China has suspended imports from several key US meat suppliers after months of international scrutiny over the safety of Chinese food and *****. Officials said they had found salmonella and growth-enhancers in several imported US chicken products...
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    Judge Continues to Press $54M Pants Suit

    A customer who sued a dry cleaner for $54 million over a missing pair of pants has asked the judge who threw out the widely mocked case to reconsider, saying she committed a "fundamental legal error." http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3367487
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    U.S.: N. Korea claims reactor shutdown

    PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korea told the United States it shut down its nuclear reactor, the State Department said Saturday, hours after a ship cruised into port loaded with oil promised in return for the country's pledge to disarm...
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    Intel and $100 laptop join ******

    Chip-maker Intel has joined ****** with the makers of the $100 laptop. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6897950.stm One Laptop Per ***** website; http://www.laptop.org/
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    Emotional Memories Can Be Suppressed With Practice, Study Says

    A new University of Colorado at Boulder study shows people have the ability to suppress emotional memories with practice, which has implications for those suffering from conditions ranging from post-traumatic stress disorder to depression...
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    Friendly Young People In Particular ***** Under Pressure

    Men, extrovert people and those with positive expectations regarding ******* use ***** more than others, says a psychologist. The amount a young person drinks is largely determined by how much others in the group *****. Friendly young people in particular, people who score high on the...
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    Ex-Mayor of Newark Indicted in Corruption Case

    Sharpe James, the former mayor who towered over politics in this city for two decades, was indicted today on 33 counts of fraud and depriving government of honest services, chiefly relating to $58,000 in personal expenses he racked up on city credit cards. He also faces charges of conspiring...
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    International Irony: China Investigates U.S. Diet Patch

    I saw a very good story about these type products, the advertising effort going into the marketing and the so called experts supporting it when a news team came up with an idea for a trash product and pitched it to the ad men. Americans Spend $22 Billion a Year on 'Natural' Dietary Supplements...
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    Blond and Beautiful? What Really Makes a 'Trophy Wife'

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3372209&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
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    Meet the Infomercial King

    If you've ever been awake in the middle of the night watching television, you've probably heard this familiar phrase: "But wait, there's more!" It is a classic line in the world of late-night infomercials, and AJ Khubani, who could be called the infomercial king, said "more" is the secret to...
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