After Deadly Gang Rape, Delhi Police Report Huge Surge In Sexual Abuse...
Police announced Saturday a sharp jump in sex crimes reported in the Indian capital since the fatal gang-rape of a student and attributed the rise to more confidence among victims to report...
View ArticleIn Cyprus, The Economic Misery Is Just Beginning To Sink In
The deal has been struck, and now, Cypriots say, the betrayal is sinking in. Nick Squires reports on how the islanders are goin to need the luck of the gods to avoid plunging off an economic cliff.As...
View ArticleVenezuelan Inmates Reportedly Open A Nightclub Inside Prison
Venezuelan inmates have opened their own nightclub and hosted friends and family at an inaugural bash complete with strippers and a light and sound show, a newspaper reported Saturday.The late-night...
View ArticleWhy America Needs Social Justice, Not Another Dumb 'Conversation About Race'
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter joined the chorus condemning Philadelphia Magazine's "Being White in Philly" article for depicting blacks as "lazy, shiftless, irresponsible, and largely criminal"....
View ArticleWhy The Euro Is Doomed In 4 Steps
We're going to need a bigger acronym.In the beginning, it was just the "Greek debt crisis". Then markets realized Portugal, Ireland, Italy, and Spain were in bad shape too, and the PIIGS (or GIIPS)...
View ArticleYour College Degree Has More Value Than You Think
We all know about the obvious benefits to having a college degree—namely, a steady job and financial security. But we often overlook other benefits to higher education: quality of life improvements...
View ArticleThe Delicious Winners Of the American Beer War
Amidst all the things in the US economy that aren’t going in the right direction, the debacles, fiascos, and nightmares, is an industry of scrappy upstarts, tiny operations, and larger companies that...
View ArticleDAVID STOCKMAN: We've Been Lied To, Robbed, And Misled
Then, when the Fed’s fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction and its balance sheet grew by $1.3 trillion in just thirteen weeks compared to $850 billion...
View Article3 Dozen Educators Indicted In Massive Cheating Scandal
ATLANTA (AP) — Juwanna Guffie was sitting in her fifth-grade classroom taking a standardized test when, authorities say, the teacher came around offering information and asking the students to rewrite...
View ArticlePrincess Diana Once 'Went To A Gay Bar In Drag'
Queen singer Freddie Mercury disguised the late Princess Diana as a male model and smuggled her into a notorious gay bar, according to a memoir serialised in the Sunday Times.Comedian Cleo Rocos...
View ArticleNew Strain Of Bird Flu Kills Two In China
Two people in China have died after being infected with H7N9 avian influenza -- a sub-type that had not previously been transmitted to humans -- the government said Sunday.An 87-year-old man in...
View ArticleA Revolutionary Idea Needs A Loyal Group Of Followers
Technology pioneer Alan Kay famously said that “the best way to predict the future is to invent it.” It’s the kind of inspiring quote that can completely change your outlook on things.That is, until...
View ArticleAt 27, Kids Aren't Ashamed To Live Off Their Parents
If Junior has his way, there's a good chance he's planning to be on your dime until his mid-20s, while simultaneously believing his financial future is brighter than yours, new research shows.About 29...
View ArticleThe 11 Most Miserable Cities In America
Gallupis out with its latest batch of "well-being" data, and a new city has fallen to the lowest spot in the rankings.This year, Charleston, W.Va. ranked lowest on the pollster's index of well-being in...
View ArticleGreen Space Rock May Be The First From Mercury
Scientists may have discovered the first meteorite from Mercury.The green rock found in Morocco last year may be the first known visitor from the solar system's innermost planet, according to meteorite...
View ArticleMeditation Is Great For Business
You don't need a personal guru or a trip to India to bring you inner peace. Perhaps you simply need to learn from Mirabai Bush, co-founder of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. Bush has...
View ArticleSex Toy Vendor/Pioneer: 'It's A Weird Job But Someone's Got To Do It'
In Troy, Michigan, an affluent city just north of Detroit, there is a 14,000-square-foot warehouse full of hemorrhoid creams, vaginal tighteners, anal bleachers, home enema systems, lots of vibrators,...
View ArticleWhat It's Like To Share A Stranger's Home
ALL WE KNOW of Maya S. is the back of her head. Her thumbnail indicates she is blonde with a bun and a floral-print shirt. There are no photographs of her face in the apartment even though it’s...
View ArticlePOST-EASTER HORROR: Countless Bunnies, Ducklings, And Chicks End Up Abandoned
For Easter, when Lindsay Durfee’s sister-in-law Kelley was young and sweet and wide-eyed, her parents bought her a team of ducklings. Kelley and her family, Ms. Durfee says, lived on a lake inOrlando,...
View ArticleWe're In The Midst Of A 'Cash Is Trash' Bubble
The “make fast cash flipping houses” ads are back in force, construction is resurgent, consumers are walking around with shopping bags again, “mom & pop investors” are raising their 401k...
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