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By Mark Twain
$19.22
By Elliot D. Cohen
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gfpeck (CC BY-ND 2.0)
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With 18 million Americans unemployed, thousands from across the country are flocking to North Dakota amid an oil boom there. The state now produces more oil than many members of OPEC and could soon make America the world’s top oil producer.
Posted on May 14, 2012
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The New York Times
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With data collected by the Institute for College Access and Success, editors at The New York Times created an interactive graph showing annual tuition and fee costs and average graduate debt for a number of American universities.
Posted on May 12, 2012
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CarbonNYC (CC BY 2.0)
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The pharmaceutical company will pay $1.5 billion to settle criminal and civil liability charges for promoting the drug Depakote for uses not approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
Posted on May 12, 2012
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UggBoy?UggGirl [ PHOTO // WORLD // TRAVEL ] (CC BY 2.0)
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A Public Policy Institute of California report shows that amid soaring tuition costs and diminishing state government support for higher education, large numbers of students are surrendering the quest for a four-year degree because they simply can’t afford it.
Posted on May 12, 2012
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AP/Jae C. Hong
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Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romey confirmed Saturday that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction when he told an audience at Liberty University that marriage is between a man and a woman. President Obama had voiced his support for marriage equality just a few days earlier.
Posted on May 12, 2012
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swanksalot (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. weathered the 2008 financial crisis without reporting a loss. But a failed hedging strategy that recently cost the company $2 billion has called into question the ability of its leaders to manage risk and intensified the debate on banking reform.
Posted on May 11, 2012
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AP/Frank Augstein
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A relative of one of the victims of Anders Breivik’s rampage on the Norwegian island of Utoeya interrupted his mass murder trial by throwing a shoe at him and shouting, “You killed my brother! Go to hell!”
Posted on May 11, 2012
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Rudy Herman (CC BY 2.0)
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U.S. officials have repeatedly said that the nation is at war with Islamic extremists, not with Islam itself. But that statement conflicts with a course for military officers that taught that the U.S. might have to obliterate the Islamic holy cities of Medina and Mecca, regardless of civilian casualties.
Posted on May 11, 2012
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Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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But maybe not for much longer. The Minnesota congresswoman asked the Swiss government Thursday to revoke her double citizenship, which she acquired upon marrying her husband in 1978. Bachmann didn’t tell voters about her dual nationality when she ran for Congress or president of the United States.
Posted on May 10, 2012
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ellenm1 (CC BY 2.0)
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Strict headmasters, effete manners and practical jokes both harmless and humiliating pepper the memories held by the probable Republican nominee’s boyhood friends and acquaintances of their time behind the arches at Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., almost 50 years ago.
Posted on May 10, 2012
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AP/SANA
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Two explosions left a scene of smoldering carnage in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Thursday morning, killing 55 people and injuring nearly 400.
Posted on May 10, 2012
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fore.sight (CC BY 2.0)
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Data collected over 35 years shows that the use of intrauterine devices as emergency contraception has a 99.86 percent success rate. The findings prompted researchers at Princeton University to conclude that the devices could be routinely promoted as a defense against unwanted pregnancy.
Posted on May 10, 2012
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White House/Pete Souza
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Anyone who attributes courage to Obama in making this announcement is in a bemused state of mind.
Posted on May 9, 2012
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At last, Barack Obama is supporting same-sex marriage. The president disclosed in a television interview that he had changed his long-standing position, a move that should satisfy (at least for now) a Democratic base that was growing frustrated with him over the controversial social issue.
Posted on May 9, 2012
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Mika Stetsovski (CC BY 2.0)
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Ground control lost contact with a demonstration model of a new Russian passenger jet as the plane flew over a mountainous area of Indonesia on Wednesday. The 50 people aboard, many of them prospective buyers, are missing.
Posted on May 9, 2012
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