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New cigarette labels won’t deter smokers

The government really wants you to know that smoking cigarettes will harm you and give you lung cancer. Because of course, smokers do not know that and think cigarettes are filled with vitamins and minerals. This time next year, the Food an...

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Self-Directed Microspiders

Sounds more than a little creepy to me, but advances in medical procedures may eventually depend on them:Next, Sen hopes to develop versions of these tiny aquatic spiders that run on chemicals readily available in the body, such as glucose. In the futu...

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OPINION: Gay marraige solves California problems

This week the ban on gay marriage in California will be called in to question once again. The right to marry a member of the same-sex has been granted in several other states since last years decision to uphold the ban on gay marriage … Conti...

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A Nora-Like Trajectory

Early weather forecasts suggest that a tropical storm beginning to develop now in the eastern Pacific off the southern Mexican coast might follow the same sort of path blazed in 1997 by Hurricane Nora and travel up the Sea of Cortez and enter the U.S. ...

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Arcade Fire’s "Sprawl II", With Special Guest Cyndi Lauper

Régine Chassagne, Cyndi Lauper, Win Butler and the gang.I like reading these comments too.

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Bank robber armed with a pellet gun quickly surrenders to cops with real guns

20-year-old John Lubeck of Roseville is sitting in the Placer County Jail on $50,000 bond after he was arrested while trying to rob the Bank of America on Foothills Blvd. Cops say Lubeck entered the bank just before closing time on Friday and &#8230...

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Good Samaritan assaulted, robbed after stopping to jump a car battery

An area man ended up in the hospital requiring stitches to his face after he was jumped and robbed by five men.  The man was driving down Del Paso Blvd Sunday night around 11 when a woman flagged him down claiming … Continue reading →

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Hermanos

We got to know Gus Fring a bit better on Sunday night's "Breaking Bad" (Season 4, Episode 8, "Hermanos"), but he is still one mysterious guy!There were several new locations in this show. I haven't puzzled all of them out quite yet. For example, wher...

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Robert Reich | Why Inequality is the Real Cause of Our Ongoing Terrible Economy

Sep 5, 2011

Sept. 4, 2011 - The 5 percent of Americans with the highest incomes now account for 37 percent of all consumer purchases, according to the latest research from Moody's Analytics. That should come as no surprise. Our society has become more and more une...

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Andy Borowitz | Labor Day Ruined as America Fails to Find Working Man to Honor

Sep 5, 2011
Andy Borowitz | Labor Day Ruined as America Fails to Find Working Man to Honor

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) September 5, 2011 – A dark pall was cast over Labor Day 2011 as efforts to find a working man to honor came up empty. A nationwide manhunt that began weeks ago in the hopes of locating a working man in time for Labo...

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