June 2012
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As Yale Student Returns to China to Find Her Birth... →
Jun 2nd
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“Things are worse for supposed luxury investments. A bottle of 2008 Lafite now...”
– High-end luxury looks exposed as China slows | Reuters
Jun 2nd
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Luka Rocco Magnotta video allegedly shows suspect... →
Sick!
Jun 2nd
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Why I Left Google →
Jun 2nd
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(via Man Kills Housemate in Second Cannibal-Like Attack, Cops Say - ABC News)
Jun 2nd
Jun 1st
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Marriott inks deal to run Gaylord Hotels →
That’s a rather significant purchase!
Jun 1st
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Boy Who Donated Disney Trip to Soldier's Family... →
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May 2012
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Seized shark fins burned in Honduras →
Ouch!
May 31st
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“We were so wealthy for so long that we got complacent. We saw the writing on the...”
– As College Graduates Cluster, Some Cities Are Left Behind - NYTimes.com I think I counted the word ‘Union’ mentioned twice.  No doubt that the Union played a role in making them ‘wealthy.’   Look what’d happened now!
May 31st
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Alleged Pictures of Ronald Poppo’s Face Emerge... →
Extremely graphic!
May 31st
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May 30th
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A note from Alicia… | Alicia Keys →
I think that’s what it is… Everything goes so fast, I don’t want to miss a moment… I remember when he was getting his first teeth and I had to go to Europe. I called when I landed and my husband said, “I’m so glad you left before he woke up, he was so miserable today, you would have never left if you saw him like that.”
May 30th
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20 Things I Should Have Known at 20 →
It’s actually a pretty good list.
May 30th
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“There are 51 winners’ medals and 11 individual awards in Hodgson’s first team....”
– Roy Hodgson’s England are a team of winners - why are we making excuses? Martin Samuel | Mail Online
May 30th
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May 29th
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Mystery math: How much do CSU bigwigs make? →
For example, CSU said: Its Los Angeles campus president in had total compensation of $325,000, while the state controller showed $372,461 and IRS records showed$515,612. Its Sacramento campus president’s had total comp of $295,000, while the state controller showed $351,541 salary and the IRS records said $429,244. Its San Francisco campus president made $298,749, while the controller said...
May 29th
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Google Wallet users Beware →
So there has been some research done to find a way around this . Thank you to all the hackers and Google experts out there. You will need to delete all the payment information that you have saved in the app before performing a factory reset on the device, this can be accomplished from within the app itself. This is going to be a very important step for anyone that is flashing any new ROMS or...
May 29th
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“According to this tool, the online porn kingpin Xvideos feeds up 4.4 billion...”
– Online Porn Is Huge. Like Really, Really Huge. Who Knew? - Businessweek
May 28th
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In Sperm Banks, a Roll of the Genetic Dice -... →
The Food and Drug Administration requires that sperm donors be tested for communicable diseases, but there is no federal requirement that sperm banks screen for genetic diseases.
May 28th
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(via Iger Says Disney Didn’t Shift Fast Enough to Mobile - Businessweek) Hmmm… didn’t know he had already planned for retirement in 3 years.
May 28th
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Private Student Loans Are Becoming More... →
May 28th
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Harvard and M.I.T. Offer Free Online Courses -... →
May 28th
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How Boaz Weinstein and Hedge Funds Outsmarted... →
Mr. Weinstein, 38, played a central role in this, one of the biggest trading blowups since the financial crisis of 2008. Mr. Iksil and his colleagues in the chief investment office at JPMorgan may have lighted the fire, but Mr. Weinstein and his cohorts fanned the flames.
May 28th
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Behind the scenes of a failed Kickstarter project... →
May 28th
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Merit-based green cards a good idea →
The STAR Act attempts to overhaul the immigration system by allocating green cards won through lotteries to students with science, technology, engineering or mathematics, or STEM, graduate degrees from U.S. universities.
May 28th
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C9 League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
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May 28th
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“I see no evidence of planning around a brand strategy. (Microsoft’s executives...”
– Windows Live Brand Fades Into the Sunset - Digital Domain - NYTimes.com
May 28th
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A High Frequency Trader's Apology, Pt 1 →
May 28th
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Fermi problem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
In science, particularly in physics or engineering education, a Fermi problem, Fermi question, or Fermi estimate is an estimation problem designed to teach dimensional analysis, approximation, and the importance of clearly identifying one’s assumptions. Named after physicist Enrico Fermi, such problems typically involve making justified guesses about quantities that seem impossible to...
May 28th
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Michael Grimes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Michael Grimes was born in Los Angeles, California in 1966 and attended Polytechnic School in Pasadena, California and the University of California, Berkeley, where he received degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
May 27th
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Facebook Flop Puts Investment Banker on the Spot -... →
Other Morgan Stanley officials have spread a similar message: It wasn’t our fault. The stock’s slide should be blamed largely on serious technical problems at Nasdaq, these people said. A Nasdaq spokesman declined to comment Friday.
May 27th
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BBC News - China frees Standard Chartered banker... →
May 27th
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“Ai noticed the hard-boiled egg on his breakfast tray each day had a tiny hole; a...”
– First a Black Hood, Then 81 Captive Days for Artist in China - NYTimes.com
May 27th
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“Kaczynski’s occupation is listed as “prisoner” in the directory. Under awards,...”
– Harvard apologizes for publishing Unabomber’s jokes - BostonHerald.com No doubt it’s a bad joke, because people are hurt/killed.  But the punchline is, indeed, funny.
May 27th