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Kim K and Kanye Wests baby is meant to be says pal Brittny Gastineau
Kim Kardashian's longtime model friend Brittny Gastineau has said that it is not at all weird to see the reality star and her beau Kanye West as parents, adding that it was meant to be. The American socialite told Us magazine that Kardashian and the rapper are naturals and completely amazing with the baby. Gastineau, 29, added that she has been visiting the family every day in LA and she is ...
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What workers hate about work culture at Facebook
Facebook employees have given bizarre answers to a question posted by a question-and-answer website Quora. Quora created, edited and organized by its community of users, had asked a question 'worst thing about working at Facebook' to which the social media giant's employees gave varied and interesting answers. The responses included praise for the free food and drinks prepared by renowned ...
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The Strange Sad City of Baikonur the Worlds Gateway to the Heavens
It is from this remote city in southern Kazakhstan that humans first sent a satellite, an animal, and a person into orbit. But it didn't get an MRI machine until ...
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Giant snake opens door
The latest pet to experience internet fame is not a cat playing the piano or a dog "singing" to the camera. It's a giant python letting itself out of a closed room by turning the door handle without any human help and then slithering ...
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U.S. Corporate Media Government Officials Say it We Print it Ergo It Must Be True
Poster of the Big Enchilada depicting Visionary Sleaze As expected, the government's propaganda mill is going at full throttle particularly coming on the heels of Edward Snowden's whistleblowing of the NSA's surveillance programs. Yesterday, NSA Chief General Keith Alexander, testifying before the House Intelligence Committee said more than 50 "potential terrorist ...
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Grindhouse
In theory, the idea is brilliantly crackpot. Two of the celebrated wunderkinds of the blood-soaked, video-fueled mid-90s American independent film revolution joining forces to pay the ultimate homage to the grainy, grimy, cheap-and-nasty exploitation movies that f ... ...
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The Martini This American Cocktail May Have An International Twist
The martini: international drink of mystery? There's no cocktail more distinctly American than the martini. It's strong, sophisticated and sexy. It's everything we hope to project while ordering one. Baltimore-born satirist H.L. Mencken is said to have called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." But is the martini perfectly ...
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Mom son accused of stealing gopher feet
The pair are accused of stealing the feet from a gopher trapper and giving them to local townships that offer rewards for the feet to keep gopher populations down, the Rochester Post-Bulletin reported. According to police, Dillon turned in more than $1,000 in feet in November of last year. Garrison turned over nearly $4,000 in feet the next month. She blamed her son, telling police she got the ...
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Nadler Particularly Morally Outrageous to Ban Late-Term Abortions
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) (AP) (CNSNews.com) - Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday it is "particularly morally outrageous" to ban abortions after five months of pregnancy. "It is morally outrageous, frankly," Nadler said about the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 1797), a bill that would ban abortions 20 weeks post-fertilization, or five months into ...
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This is how I am Ahlam the true show-stopper on Arab Idol
has a nifty insurance policy for any dull moment that may arise. The Emirati singer and all-out diva has more than once stolen the show from her fellow judges and contestants with controversial quotes, colourful outfits and a regal guest performance in the semi-final. The result so far has this year's series follow two plot-lines: Who will make it to the final? And what will Ahlam say ...
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Strange bedfellows are opposing the Farm Bill
Subsidies-for both needy families and less-needy corporate interests-have drawn opponents as diverse as the Koch brothers and the Environmental Working Group. FORTUNE -- There are Democrats and Republicans on both sides of the farm-bill debate, but that doesn't mean the fight isn't partisan. The bill covers several big parts of the economy, and is so wide-ranging that the debate ...