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Très Trivia: Are You in the Know?
This week we prepared for Halloween by giving you costume ideas inspired by powerful women while also exploring costumes that should never be sexified. While you were worrying about what to wear tomorrow, did you also pay attention to the news stories that dressed up the headlines this week?
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Will the New Droid Give the iPhone a Run For Its Money?
The new Motorola Droid from Verizon has been all over the headlines lately. From its iPhone-bashing commercial to the announcement that the new device will be released on Nov. 6 — and now the latest news: Droid is available for pre-order — Droid is everywhere!
Health Headlines: Shame, Sanitizer, and Fit Immune Systems
After nursing two sick children last week, these headlines caught my attention, since staying well is always on my mind.
Shame "Boosts Hand Washing Rate" — BBC
"Is the person next to you washing with soap?" This is the shaming message used to scare Brits using public restrooms into washing their hands .
Study: Young People Check Email While Checking News, Duh!
The AP conducted a study in an attempt to figure out how best to get the news to young adults. The international study found that young adults are experiencing news fatigue, and overall information overload thanks to the Internet. Participants were also distracted from focusing on news because they were almost always multitasking with activities like reading email.
Health Food Headlines
I love food. Not just eating it, but reading about it too. Here are three food-driven headlines that caught my eye.
Athletes With True Grit: The Paralympics Underway in Beijing
While the Olympics with the convention chaser gobbled up the news cycle, the Paralympic Games is running now in Beijing through Sept. 17 and is well worth a slice of the cycle. The stories and pictures out of the games rival a Phelps headline any day.
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Headline Of The Day
Train Cancelled After Conductor Succumbs To Diarrhea
When ya gotta go, gotta go, gotta go right now, you gotta go, gotta go, gotta go! But it gets even more awkward when your need to evacuate your bowels ends up evacuating an entire train--and then making headline news. Now that wouldn't sit too well with anyone!
What's The Best "Weekly World News" Headline Ever?
It's a sad day in America. The Weekly World News, reliable for its surreal and barely-tethered-to-reality news stories, is folding after being around since the late 80's. Created as a placeholder for stories The National Enquirer found too dubious (!) to print, WWN boasted writers who had left The New York Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer for the chance to write about "events that seemed to occur in a parallel universe...where pop culture mixed with urban legends, conspiracy theories and hallucinations," as one writer put it so eloquently.
Bra Turned Face Mask — Love It or Leave It?
Nobel prizes have been winning headlines these days. We all dissected President Obama's unlikely award last week, and this morning we got news that Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to win the prize for economics.
Now I'd like to call your attention to an invention that has gained Elena Bodnar the Ig Nobel prize in public health.
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