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12 Short Films Shot By Hollywood Directors Before They Were Famous
If tomorrow's new release Mama— in which two adopted children are beset by a malevolent creature they call Mama — sounds familiar, it may be because you first encountered the film in its original...
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Why So Many People Get The Flu In Winter
The 2012-2013 flu season is shaping up to be a doozy.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have reported that during the first week of 2013, 7.3 percent of all deaths reported through their...
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A Breakdown Of What Exactly Is In Beijing's Filthy Air
China's landlocked capital of 20 million people has experienced record-breaking pollution over the last few days. The South China Morning Post reported that visits to Beijing Children's Hospital hit a...
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Why Bipartisanship Won't Fix The Debt Problem
I enjoyed this headline, from earlier in the week, on the BuzzFeed website: "Obama Looks To Saddle Republicans With Blame For Debt Limit Fight".That's sort of like me saddling you with the blame for...
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Marco Rubio Is Leading The Way Forward On Immigration
Those 11 million illegal immigrants — what’s the policy sweet spot between outright amnesty and deportation?A smart National Affairs piece tries to split the difference. It suggests granting the...
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Why Obama's Executive Orders On Gun Control Won't Make A Difference
Grace McDonnell's parents gave one of her paintings to Barack Obama. The seven-year-old, who dreamed of being a painter, was shot dead in her classroom last month.The picture now hangs in the...
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China's Massive Propaganda Team Has Been Ordered To Spread 'Positive Energy'...
Chinese spin-doctors have been instructed to step-up their online activities and tap into the social-media revolution to spread "positive energy" across the internet.Lu Wei, Beijing's propaganda chief,...
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Obama's Second Term Will Mark The End Of Bipartisanship
As President Obama moves with surprising forcefulness to implement elements of his second-term agenda — including gun control, immigration, and taxes — it's worth remembering just how scattered and...
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The Departure Of Tom Albanese Marks The End Of The Decade That Changed Mining
Shortly after Tom Albanese (pictured) took the top job at Rio Tinto in 2007, the mining giant emerged victorious in the bidding war for Alcan, a Canadian aluminium company.No one doubted that it was a...
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10 Of The Most Overrated Tourist Traps In The World
Some iconic sites just don't live up to the hype.Skip these 10 tourist traps and visit our alternatives instead.Stonehenge, EnglandThis group of mystery stones has been described as mystical and...
View ArticleAfrica Can Be A Great Place To Found A Startup
The road for a start-up in Africa can be like a video game — each time a player slays a monster, a larger one appears. Whether it is roadblocks imposed by regulators, the lack of a viable workforce or...
View ArticleYour Attitude Determines Whether Or Not You'll Succeed
The results of your actions have little to do with what you are actually doing and almost everything to do with your attitude.Which is ironic because we spend most of our time creating lists and...
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5 Reasons China Won't Take Over the World
It’s a story that needs no repeating - the definitive economic, financial, and political issue of our time. The United States is fading into obscurity. Despite the fact that the country’s GDP totals...
View ArticleThe Currency Wars: Now US Automakers Are Squealing
Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party went all out late last year to re-grab the power it had held for 50 years before getting booted out in 2009. Its platform: print and borrow with utter abandon to create...
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Illegal Immigrants Are A Bigger Part Of The Economy Than You Realize
There are two very big issues on America’s plate in 2013; A) what to do with Social Security (SS) , and B) immigration. For the most part, these two topics are uniquely different. There is one...
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How The French Air War In Mali Really Went Down
Launched on Jan. 11, 2013, at the request of the Malian authorities and the United Nations to help the local army stop the advance of rebel groups towards southern Mali, the French military campaign in...
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5 Famous Scientists Who Started Their Work As Teens
Not all of history’s most significant scientists were college graduates when they began their works. In fact, history is full of scientists who have shaped the world due to their work as teenagers.If...
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Navy Ship May Have Run Aground Because Of A Faulty Map
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — An inaccurate map that mislocated a marine sanctuary may have caused a U.S. Navy minesweeper to run aground on a coral reef in the Philippines this week, the Navy said...
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Groundbreaking Mercury Treaty Adopted By 140 Countries
More than 140 countries agreed Saturday on a ground-breaking treaty to rein in the use and emission of health-hazardous mercury, the UN said, but environmental activists lamented it did not go far...
View ArticleGerman Spy Agency: Geopolitical Consequences Of US Oil Boom
Much digital ink has been spilled about the oil and gas boom in the US, the result of ever improving fracking technologies, and whether or not it will lead to energy independence, or even turn the US...
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