Wal-Mart’s latest tagline, incorporated into your logo on walmart.com, is “Save money. Live better.” Living better is no longer an option for Wal-Mart employee Jdimytai Damour, trampled to death in Valley Stream, NY on the day after Thanksgiving by crowds anxious to save money in “Black Friday” sales.
There is no acknowledgment of this tragedy on [...]

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The automatic ad feed in an article on yahoo news about the shootings in Mumbai:
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Jon Carroll wrote a new Thanksgiving column! He has reprinted the same one every year for many years, changing only one line in which he mentions particular public figures in the news that year. His traditional column captures pretty much everything that’s great about this holiday. His current one can be found here (if it’s [...]

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In my “about me” page, I refer to the “mysterious Virginia branch of the family.” They are a mystery no more—I am now in touch with one of my cousins, who has filled me in on my many other cousins, a few dozen of whom live a mere 3 hours up I-85 in Richmond.
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…and Barry is in his room editing audio, while I’m in my room editing video.
What a coupla media geeks.
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Hello, I need a brilliant designer with moderate rates who has two hours to spare between now and Monday to design a logo.
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According to a U.S. Intelligence report, we are no longer destined to rule the world.
You can read about in an article from the BBC.
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Tell me this recently rediscovered pygmy tarsier

is not a dead ringer for the creatures from the 1984 film Gremlins

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I heard a rumor that someone from Ireland, with a friend here in town, bought pizza for the Durham Obama supporters on election day. And why not? Along with Chicago, Hawaii, Kenya and Indonesia, Ireland is claiming Obama as one of their native sons:
There’s No One as Irish as Barack Obama by Hardy Drew and [...]

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“Behind every successful woman there’s an astonished man.”
General Ann Dunwoody
The first woman to be promoted to four-star general in the U.S. Army
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