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Russian officials explore ways to cash in on meteor strike
When a 10-ton meteorite exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia on Friday, Feb. 15, it injured more than 1,500 people, caused $30 million in damage, and sparked nearly 3,000 financial aid applications from residents. Now, it seems, Russians -- including government...
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Wed, Feb 27 2013 10:35 AM
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Why do people hate TED so much?
I realize that as the author of a listicle titled " 10 TED Talks They Should Have Censored ," I may not be in the best position to tackle this subject, but it seems like the snark and mockery aimed at the annual TED talks -- currently being...
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Wed, Feb 27 2013 8:36 AM
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The Kims' long love affair with basketball
By now, you probably know that North Korea's Kim Jong Un is a " die-hard basketball fan " who told former Chicago Bulls player Dennis Rodman he had a "friend for life" in the Hermit Kingdom. ( VICE magazine has just released photos...
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Thu, Feb 28 2013 9:56 AM
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Nobel laureate Mo Yan on not speaking out
In what appears to be his first interview with foreign press since winning the Nobel Prize for literature late last year, Chinese author Mo Yan sat down with with the German magazine Der Spiegel and discussed the "beauty" of Karl Marx's...
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Wed, Feb 27 2013 3:06 PM
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47% of Americans don't believe the U.S. is the world's top military power
A somewhat baffling finding from Pew . The drop-off since 2010 seems to be the result of Republicans who think the U.S. has weakened militarily under Barack Obama -- in 2010, 73 percent put the U.S. at number one. Today, Republicans and Democrats acutally...
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Wed, Feb 27 2013 2:09 PM
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3 dieting tips for America's new Pentagon chief
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Chuck Hagel is in impeccable shape, but the Pentagon is not. The bloated department will take a $46 billion cut this year, assuming a sequestration deal doesn't materialize by Friday, on top of hundreds...
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Wed, Feb 27 2013 2:25 PM
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Dennis Rodman makes the front page in North Korea
Dennis Rodman, the retired Chicago Bulls star, rabble-rouser, and all-around weird guy got the red-carpet treatment on his bizarre trip to North Korea, improbably becoming perhaps the highest-profile American to meet with new leader Kim Jong Un, apparently...
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Thu, Feb 28 2013 3:34 PM
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Horse meat and the economics of disgust
The big story out of the British isles this week is that consumers in Ireland and the U.K. have been unwittingly eating horse meat in several products -- including burgers and packaged lasagna -- labeled as beef. As the New York Times notes , "Few...
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Fri, Feb 08 2013 8:00 AM
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The frightening food discoveries you may have missed while focusing on horse meat
Think horse meat in your lasagna is unappealing? Try some water buffalo sausage. Horse meat is what's making headlines at the moment, thanks to widespread discoveries of the unusual product lurking in so-called beef across Europe. But the past few...
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Wed, Feb 27 2013 8:23 AM
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Morning Brief: U.S. steps up non-lethal aid to Syrian rebels
U.S. steps up non-lethal aid to Syrian rebels Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Top news: Speaking in Rome during his first trip abroad as secretary of state, John Kerry announced that the United States will more than double its aid to the...
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Thu, Feb 28 2013 5:42 AM
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Pro-lifers claim abortion is holding the Swiss economy back
Economic arguments have a particular resonance during periods of sluggish growth, and that logic even seems to extend these days to the hot-button issue of abortion. In Switzerland, a new, very literally named initiative --"Protect life to remedy...
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Thu, Feb 28 2013 7:00 AM
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The CIA has nothing on Noam Chomsky (no, really)
This month, a two-year-long investigation into CIA records on Noam Chomsky concluded with a surprising result: Despite a half-century of brazen anti-war activism and countless overseas speaking engagements, the Central Intelligence Agency has no file...
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Wed, Feb 27 2013 9:00 AM
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Adieu, Stéphane
Stéphane Hessel, the French author and activist who was among FP 's Global Thinkers in 2011 -- our oldest thinker yet, but no less spirited for it -- died Tuesday in Paris at the age of 95. Hessel's is a remarkable life story: He was raised in...
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Thu, Feb 28 2013 9:55 AM
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Chinese editor calls for regime change in North Korea
Normal 0 false false false EN-US ZH-CN X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 On Wednesday, the Financial Times published an op-ed titled "China should abandon North Korea" by Deng Yuwen, the deputy editor of Study Times , the journal of China's...
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Thu, Feb 28 2013 10:58 AM
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Does Congress know who it's calling an 'American hero'?
The mythology surrounding Dr. Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani physician who may have helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden, reached new heights Wednesday with a bipartisan resolution declaring Afridi an "American hero." "All Americans owe Dr...
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Thu, Feb 28 2013 3:00 PM
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