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Car bombs across Iraqi capital kill nearly 60 people

A series of car bombs exploded across the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, killing nearly 60 people in predominantly Shi’ite districts, police and medics said. By Kareem Raheem Article Reprint It was not immediately clear who

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Scientists discover key to normal memory lapses in seniors

Scientists have good news for all the older adults who occasionally forget why they walked into a room – and panic that they are getting Alzheimer’s disease. By Sharon Begley Article Reprint Not only is

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Sick Oregon Man ‘Robs’ Bank For One Dollar To Get Health Care In Jail

By Scott Keyes Article Reprint Nobody sticks up a bank for a single dollar unless he has a particularly compelling reason. Tim Alsip had one: the only way he could afford health care was to

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Remembering Tommy Morrison — Better Known as Tommy Gunn

By Matthew Kitchen Article Reprint No matter how many fights he won or lost, former  WBO World Heavyweight Champion Tommy Morrison — who died Sunday in an Omaha,  Nebraska hospital — was always going to

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Final Day of NYC’s Electric Zoo Festival Canceled After Two Drug-Related Deaths

The electronic dance music festival was canceled after two concert-goers died  and four others were sent to area hospitals By Samantha Grossman Article Reprint The final day of New York City’s three-day Electric Zoo music

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How The Latest HIV Scare In The Porn Industry Highlights The Benefits Of Obamacare

By Annie-Rose Strasser Article Reprint The pornography industry effectively shut down late last week after word spread that one of its actresses had tested positive for HIV. The news prompted a moratorium on filming until

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Where Have All the Fat Rappers Gone? Or, How Hip-Hop Lost All the Weight.

In the halcyon ’90s, being a heavy rapper was in. Now? It’s more of a punchline. Emilia Petrarca traces hip-hop’s evolution through waistlines—and explains how we got from Big Pun to Theophilus London. by Emilia

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Anthony McKinney dies in prison

By: Michael Miner Article Reprint Anthony McKinney has died where state’s attorney Anita Alvarez apparently wanted to keep him—in prison. He was 53. He was arrested in 1978, when he was 18 years old, for

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