December 2010
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2-Year-Old Girl Needed Amputations After 5-Hour...
As his tiny daughter’s skin turned blotchy and her body went limp during a five hour wait at Sacramento’s Methodist Hospital’s emergency room, Ryan Jeffers panicked. After about five hours, he ambushed a nurse and demanded to see a doctor.
Little did he know that the girl was near death from a common infection that had invaded her blood and was raging out of control, ultimately...
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Today Is Kodachrome's Last Day
Kodachrome, given a famous shout out in Paul Simon’s 1973 song and used by countless photographers to document the late 20th century, won’t be accepted for processing after today.
Steve McCurry’s famous Kodachrome picture of a green-eyed Afghan refugee girl
Kodachrome certainly had a long and remarkable run. Introduced in 1935 as a motion picture film, Kodachrome came of...
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Slow NYC Snow Cleanup Was Sanitation Union Protest
Sanitation Department bosses from the snow-slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts — a disastrous move that turned streets into a minefield for emergency-services vehicles, according to The New York Post.
A sleeping sanitation worker in Queens.
Miles of roads stretching from as north as Whitestone, Queens, to the south shore of...
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Man In Hillary Clinton Mask Robs Bank
A gun-wielding man wearing a Hillary Clinton mask robbed a Sterling, Virginia bank.
The man walked into the Wachovia bank in Community Plaza about 9:14 a.m. on December 27th, approached a teller, brandished a firearm and demanded cash, according to sheriff’s office reports.
Bank robber suspect in Hillary Clinton mask
The robber then fled the bank in an unknown direction with an undisclosed...
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I Own A Deli, I Am Jew
“I Own A Deli - I Am Jew” performed by Alla Axelrod.
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World's Fattest Mom Eats 30,000 Calorie Christmas...
A New Jersey woman who hopes to become the fattest woman in the world got 30,000 calories closer to her 1,000 lb goal with a festive feast that could have fed dozens of revelers.
Donna Simpson chowed down on the world’s biggest Christmas dinner as she ate for two straight hours on Saturday.
The single mother-of-two tucked into two 25 lb turkeys, two maple-glazed hams, 15...
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Average Stagehand At Lincoln Center Makes $290,000...
At Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, the average stagehand salary and benefits package is $290,000 a year.
The top paid stagehand at Carnegie Hall makes $422,599 a year in salary, plus $107,445 in benefits and deferred compensation. Kelly Hall-Tompkins, a violinist who recently presented a recital in Weill Hall, said she begrudged the stagehands nothing:...
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84-Year-Old Hugh Hefner Engaged to 24-Year-Old...
It certainly was a very merry Christmas at the Playboy Mansion. Hugh Hefner, 84, and his 24-year-old girlfriend Crystal Harris became engaged last night.
Crystal Harris
Hefner tweeted, “When I gave Crystal the ring, she burst into tears. This is the happiest Christmas weekend in memory.”
The two began dating almost two years ago. In April, Hefner hinted that the big day may be...
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Sinead O'Connor Challenges Pope's Blaming 1970's...
Sinead O’Connor has written an open letter to Pope Benedict XVI in which she launched a scathing attack for his remarks that “pedophilia was theorized in the 1970s as being fully in conformity with man and even with children.”
Benedict said that while the church accepted some responsibility, he could not be silent about ”the context of these times…. There is a market in...
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Topless Male Acrobats Perform for the Pope
Four acrobats took their circus act to the Vatican as they performed shirtless before Pope Benedict XVI during his weekly general audience.
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Winona Ryder: Mel Gibson Called Me "Oven...
Jewish actress recounts anti-Semitic run-in with Mel Gibson at Hollywood party
In a recent issue of GQ magazine, Jewish actress Winona Ryder discusses an anti-Semitic run-in she had with Mel Gibson some 15 years ago at a Hollywood party.
She told the magazine: “I was at one of those big Hollywood parties. And he (Gibson) was really drunk. I was with my friend, who’s gay. He made a really...
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Senseless In Seattle
Anti-Israel Bus Ads in Seattle Cause International Stir
A group called the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign has paid King County about $2,760 to rent ad space on the sides of 12 city buses. The ad shows a Palestinian family standing next to a demolished house in Gaza, with the words “Israeli war crimes: Your tax dollars at work.” It also lists a website that encourages...
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"Erin Brockovich" Redux - Contaminated Water Found...
An environmental group that analyzed the drinking water in 35 cities across the United States found that most contained hexavalent chromium, a probable carcinogen that was made famous by the film “Erin Brockovich.”
The study, which will be released Monday by the Environmental Working Group, is the first nationwide analysis of hexavalent chromium in drinking water to be made...
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Proximity To Freeways Increases Autism Risk
Children born to mothers who live close to freeways have twice the risk of autism, according to new study.
Children born to mothers who live close to freeways have twice the risk of autism, researchers reported Thursday. The study, its authors say, adds to evidence suggesting that certain environmental exposures could play a role in causing the disorder in some children.
“This study...
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Lady Gaga Bites Head off Santa Claus
“I hate the holidays. I’m alone and miserable you fucking stuffed little toy,” Lady Gaga yelled out as she beheaded a Santa Claus doll.
At a concert at London’s O2 arena Friday night, a Lady Gaga fan threw a Santa Claus doll up onto the stage while the star was performing. Instead of taking it and maybe making a wish for Christmas, Lady Gaga bit right into its neck.
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Shocking Words From Henry Kissinger in Newly...
Henry Kissinger is heard saying the following in newly released tapes: “And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union it is not an American concern.”
The New York Times reports:
What has caused many heads to swivel is a recording of Henry A. Kissinger, his national security adviser. Mr. Kissinger is heard telling Nixon in 1973 that helping Soviet Jews emigrate and thus...
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U.S. Fails To Reach Women's Health Targets
No state received a satisfactory grade in the report.
A new study has revealed that the U.S. is falling critically short in women’s health, achieving only three of the 26 previously established measures of good health for women.
The report, based mainly on an examination of federal health objectives set for 2010 and carried out by the National Women’s Law Center and Oregon...
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Porn Sites To Get '.xxx' Web Address
500,000 new sites are expected to register when the registry is launched in the second quarter of 2011.
Following a decade-long battle, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, voted Friday to proceed with a contract with ICM Registry LLC to sell domain names ending in “.xxx.” ICANN voted in June to start negotiating the contract. Stuart Lawley,...
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Thinking About Ice Cream?
Thinking about food satisfies appetite!
According to the researchers of Carnegie Mellon University, continuous thinking about eating a particular food, be it M&Ms or cheese, resulted in the study participants eating less of the much desired food once it was presented before them.
Everybody knows that imagining and fantasizing about food can whet one’s appetite. However, the latest study...
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We All Have One Month Less To Live
U.S. Life Expectancy Drops Slightly
“It is alarming that this is the first time in the last 25 years that there has actually been a decline.”
Life expectancy for Americans in general declined by a little more than one month, from 77.9 to 77.8 years according to a new federal report. For women, the average life expectancy dropped by a tenth of one year, to 80.3 years; for men it also dropped...
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Pilots Napping
The idea of pilots napping at 30,000 feet may sound horrifying, but pilots across the world are taking naps in the sky every day.
In 2008, two Mesa Airlines pilots flew 25 nautical miles past their destination in Hilo, Hawaii, while the control tower tried to get their attention. It turned out they were asleep. The captain of the Mesa Airlines flight told the National Transportation...
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Why Surgeons Hate Redheads
Traditionally, surgeons and anaesthetists regard red haired patients with some trepidation because of their reputation for excessive bleeding, a reduced pain threshold, and an, albeit anecdotal, increased tendency to develop hernias.
Operating room docs, for example, have long reported that redheads appear to need more anesthetic than others. A new study...
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Wish I Didn't Know What's In Your Lipstick
Your lipstick may contain fish scales. The ingredient is called pearl essence, also known as pearlescence. It is the silvery stuff found in fish scales that’s used in some lipsticks to make them shimmery. Pearl essence is obtained primarily from herring and is one of many by-products of large-scale commercial fish processing.
Wait, there’s more!
A study by US consumer group...
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Cna Yuo Raed Tihs?
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is...
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Cher As Seen Through TSA Full Body Scanner
Cher, 64, as she walks through TSA fully body scanner…
Actually, wait, that is Cher at the Spanish premiere of her new film Burlesque!
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The Scandalous Truth About Double Dipping
“Before you have some dip at a party, look around and ask yourself, would I be willing to kiss everyone here?”
We all remember the Seinfeld episode. So does Prof. Paul L. Dawson, a food microbiologist, who conducted a scientific study for publication in the Journal of Food Safety.
A team of nine students instructed volunteers to take a bite of a wheat cracker and dip the cracker...
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Mmmm... Archway Cookies and Pizza Hut
A facebook friend offers the following Wish I Didn’t Know:
“A friend worked in a flour mill briefly in his early 20’s. He says, to the best of his recollection, fig newtons also have 18-26 bug parts per gram in the flour. The mill defined a bug part as a piece of exoskeleton, no matter the size. In random sample tests, where bug parts were counted, Archway Cookies was the...
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Mmmm... Fig Newtons!
Wish I Didn’t Know that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration allows fig paste to have up to 13 insect heads per 100 grams.
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