Nov 13, 2009 -
Mini ice age took hold of Europe in months
JUST months - that's how long it took for Europe to be engulfed by an ice age. The scenario, which comes straight out of Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, was revealed by the most precise record of the climate from palaeohistory ever generated.
Around 12,800 years ago the northern hemisphere was hit by the Younger Dryas mini ice age, or "Big Freeze".
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Oct 16, 2009 -
PAWTUCKET, R.I. – If the state weren't so pressed for cash, Joshua Gomes might still be behind bars. Instead, he's working temp jobs — at a construction site one week, a recycling plant another — and talks about going to college, teaching or joining the military.
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Oct 13, 2009 -
Remembering His Lines
"Whenever I do a job I'm really kind of learning how to act from scratch again, [especially] when I haven't done it for a year. I've kind of forgotten how to do it!"
Taking the Backseat in New Moon
"It's just so nice being in a supporting role.
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Sep 30, 2009 -
An energy- and money-saving solution that pretty much everyone can get behind: three-day weekends.
Workers of the world, unite in giving Utah a round of applause. The Beehive State has made Thursday the new Friday, and by proving the benefits of this condensed calendar, Utah has brought us all closer to the dream of a shortened workweek.
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Sep 24, 2009 -
"Even though I was accomplishing my dream, I was absolutely miserable. I was torturing myself every day by going to the gym every day up to eight hours a day and starving myself."
— From anorexic to plus-size model and now author of the memoir Hungry, Crystal Renn tells Good Morning America how she suffered to get where she is now.
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Jul 24, 2009 -
Okay, I first saw this look on Cassie (R&B singer) while flipping through my People Magazine, then Carmen Electra and NOW Rihanna. Honestly, what is going on? Not in my wildest dreams would I ever let anyone take a razor to my head.
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Jun 15, 2009 -
((Sorry this is so long, and the language is rough...))
On a muggy Florida evening in 2008, I meet Iraq War veteran Forrest Fogarty in the Winghouse, a little bar-restaurant on the outskirts of Tampa, his favorite hangout. He told me on the phone I would recognize him by his skinhead. Sure enough, when I spot a white guy at a table by the door with a shaved head, white tank top and bulging muscles, I know it can only be him.
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May 26, 2009 -
I was really touched on reading this story. that is what he wrote :) he is a Cancer in the Zodiac - i am not surprised :)
My wife called, 'How long will you be with that newspaper? Will you come here and make your darling daughter eat her food?'
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Jun 02, 2009 -
Spitting in the eye of mainstream education
Three no-frills charter schools in Oakland mock liberal orthodoxy, teach strictly to the test -- and produce some of the state's top scores.
By Mitchell Landsberg
May 31, 2009
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-charter31-2009may31,0,6518091,full.story
Reporting from Oakland -- Not many schools in California recruit teachers with language like this: "We are looking for hard working people who believe in free market capitalism. .
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May 21, 2009 -
To be honest, I wasn't sure where to post this. If it isn't allowed, I'll remove it.
But I just needed to let it out.
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