Source: Salon
Delegates from the Boy Scouts of America’s National Council are preparing to vote this week on the organization’s longstanding ban on gay scouts, and conservative religious groups like the Family Research Council are making their final arguments for why ...
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How does an NYPD officer make it to lieutenant? Here’s one way, illustrated by Daniel Sbarra, who was promoted in 2011 by Commissioner Ray Kelly: Oversee a unit that, over 15 years, has cost the city $1.5 million in legal settlements, having bee ...
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In her announcement of Yahoo’s purchase of Tumblr for $1.1 billion, CEO Marissa Mayer promised “We won’t screw this up.” Rhetorically, that’s almost always a bad move. For a CEO, not screwing something up should be the default ...
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Source: News24
2013-05-20 18:08 London - A former army helicopter pilot was on Monday named as the first "home-grown" British astronaut to head to the International Space Station. Major Tim Peake, 41, will fly out to the ISS in November 2015 as part o ...
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Source: Mirror.co.uk
In this video, released on the PlayStation blog this afternoon, gamers get a glimpse (albeit a fuzzy one) of the new PS4 console, which will be unveiled on June 10 at E3 in Las Vegas. From what I can make out, it has vents... SHOCKER ...
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Source: The Windsor Star
This image provided by NASA shows astronaut Chris Hadfield recording the first music video from space Sunday May 12, 2013. The song was his cover version of David Bowie's Space Oddity. Hadfield and astronaut Thomas Marshburn ret ...
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Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield performs David Bowie’s 1969 classic “Space Oddity” from the space station. With gorgeous time lapse of our lovely blue planet. Close the internets. We’re done here. – Eric Maierson See what else we think is Worth ...
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Following last week’s revelations that the Justice Department had spied on AP reporters’ phone records, a Washington Post report Monday reveals that the government has gone even further to track journalists when investigating ...
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