65th Cannes film festival admires 'Amour'

Source: China Daily

CANNES - The 65th Cannes film festival has handed out its top prize Palme d'Or to "Amour"(Love), as it wrapped up with a star-studded closing ceremony here on the rainy Sunday night in the French Riviera resort. Director Michael Haneke reacts after rece ...
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Polls on gay marriage not yet reflected in votes

Source: NCB-WCNC Charlotte

NEW YORK (AP) -- Poll after poll shows public support for same-sex marriage steadily increasing, to the point where it's now a majority viewpoint. Yet in all 32 states where gay marriage has been on the ballot, voters have rejected it. It's poss ...
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Eat right and stave off blindness

Source: The Australian

NEW research to reduce the impacts of macular degeneration, including slowing its onset in older Australians, could save thousands of people from losing their eyesight later in life. THE approval of the first EMA with th ...
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Meagan Good celebrates engagement at bachelorette party

Source: Hollywood.com

The Think Like a Man star, who has sworn off sex with her producer and preacher fiance DeVon Franklin until their wedding night, threw caution to the wind on Friday as she took to the stage at Sin City's Pussycat Doll ...
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Source: Globe and Mail

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Crowds gather for Golden Gate Bridge celebration

Source: San Diego Local News 1

Rain is lending a hand to crew members who are battling a wildfire that has consumed 31.6 square miles of forest in the eastern port of Michigan's sparsely populated Upper Peninsula. Michigan authorities say a bit of rain and four more firefighting a ...
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Polls Show Obama's Support For Gay Marriage Influencing Blacks

Source: WNYC | New York Public Radio

In this space earlier this month, I wrote about whether President Obama would face a backlash from African-Americans for his endorsement of same-sex marriage. (He hasn't.) I made mention of a random field experiment in which 285 black p ...
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Sex, Drugs and Southern Rock, in Success and Excess

Source: The New York Times

Gregg Allman’s close friends have always called him Gregory. His brother, the guitarist Duane Allman, who died in a motorcycle accident in 1971, called him “baybrah,” a contraction of “baby brother.” But on tour in the late 1960s and the ...
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Mason High School junior gets a perfect SAT score

Source: FOX 19 News Cincinnati

A Mason High School junior scored a perfect 2400 on the SAT college entrance exam. Naina Singh says she wasn't expecting a perfect score. "I never expected to get a perfect score. Really, I just triedFull Story > Cleveland P ...
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