May 2011
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Dad of the Year drops daughter so he can catch a... →
There’s a YouTube video of it, naturally.
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Delta flight reportedly catches fire landing in... →
3 injured when Tire blows, causing engine to burst into flames, according to local media. Conflicting reports over whether there are injuries.
“She was almost certainly the last link to New York’s Gilded Age, reared in...”
– I don’t think I’ve ever read a more scintillating opening paragraph to an obituary. I’m just getting around to reading the whole thing now, but a 24-year-old Huguette Clark’s determined visage was staring at me this morning when I picked up my roommate’s copy of the NYT outside our door and I...
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Doomsday rescheduled for October, preacher says →
today:
California preacher Harold Camping, who touted that the world would end on May 21, now says the Rapture will happen five months from now.
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Breaking: Scientists say Iceland's most active... →
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LinkedIn share price almost doubles in market... →
Shares rose to $88.70 in early trading on the New York Stock Exchange, 97 percent above their $45 initial public offering price.
Preparedness 101: CDC's advice in the event of a... →
“Once you’ve made your emergency kit, you should sit down with your family and come up with an emergency plan,” the post on blogs.CDC.gov reads. “This includes where you would go and who you would call if zombies started appearing outside your doorstep. You can also implement this plan if there is a flood, earthquake or other emergency.”
So, when if the world ends...
$2 million lottery winner still gets food stamps →
“If you’re going to … try to make me feel bad, you aren’t going to do it,” Leroy Fick told reporters.
Panera Bread : Pay what you can concept. →
CLAYTON, Mo. — Rashonda Thornton looked up at the menu on the wall, ordered a Caesar salad and dropped a $10 bill in a box. Pretty generous, considering the meal at Panera Bread Co.’s café in the St. Louis suburb of Clayton sells for less than $7.
It was a year ago that Panera…
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US charges six for supporting Pakistani Taliban →
Six people in Florida and Pakistan have been charged with providing financing and material support to the Pakistani Taliban, a designated foreign terrorist organization, U.S. federal officials said on Saturday.
Stash of porn found in bin Laden hideout,... →
“‘Debbie Does Abbottabad’?” suggested one of our editors.
Tiger Woods withdraws from Players Championship,... →
How Match.com actually does its matching →
The site’s algorithm never sleeps.
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