With the USA Olympic team rocking Beijing’s house in multiple categories, we stand united and proud during this slip-n-slide summer where Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s twins are being replaced by talk of Michael Phelps kicking ass in the water. Good times! However, what if we had some fun with it and tallied every single [...]

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Hurricane Fay is making headlines as it ferociously barreled through the Dominican Republic, killing four people, and roughly seven people were killed by the storm in Haiti. And when a bus overturned while trying to cross a flooded river, reported the Associated Press, 30 people on the bus were feared dead.
Cuba is in the biggest [...]

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There is a fine line between pulling a Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Minds, Hilary Swank in Freedom Writers and/or Morgan Freeman in Lean on Me versus a 40-something-year-old gym professor with teeny shorts, high socks, a wife-beater, glasses, perfectly parted hair, fifteen dollar cologne, and a little office where he often calls in the cutest [...]

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With technology at an all-time sophisticated high, there comes the low blow that we are all subject to becoming identity stealing, online bashing, computer hacking, and virus getting victims. However, just when you think the negatives of computer using is getting combated by big bad software that can prevent these unnecessary evils, yet another story [...]

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Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is a video game series unlike any other - it has sold over 70 million copies worldwide to date, the most recent installment (GTA IV) grossed $500 million in its opening week alone, and apart from financial success, the series has set a new standard of artistic merit and interactivity for [...]

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It’s a doggy dog world in the real estate business. As more homeowners find themselves in hot water, according to Frank Ingrassia, an attorney who has recently filed roughly 70 suits against a variety of home lenders, “It’s an industry-wide problem.
“Some of the clients tried to do workouts and weren’t able to do that, and [...]

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In 1971 at Stanford University, Philip G. Zimbardo conducted a study called the “Stanford Prison Experiment,” which he describes as “a classic demonstration of the power of social situations to distort personal identities and long cherished values and morality…” Basically, he assigned students to play the role of “prisoner” or “prison guard” and discovered that the [...]

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I’m running out of words regarding the pedophile epidemic. Why the law protects pedophiles rather than locking them up and losing the key is beyond me. And to make matters worse, lawmakers turn around and act surprised when yet another child gets harmed and sometimes killed. Pedophiles are the most dangerous offenders out there because [...]

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At the Kings County Hospital Center Psychiatric Emergency Department, a patient falls to the floor and dies as the hospital’s staff walk on by.
Having volunteered in a psychiatric facility long ago, I remember going down a long corridor where terrible screams could be heard from one of the rooms. The shrieks were ear piercing and [...]

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Saudi Arabian national of Yemeni, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri is facing eight charges including murder and terrorism for the attack on the USS Cole warship that left 17 sailors dead. Prosecutors have also charged him with a failed attack on another U.S. warship, the USS The Sullivans in Aden in Jan, 2000, and an attack on [...]

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