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Man With No Arms, Legs Takes Part In Triathlon
Society & Culture  (tags: americans, interesting, inspiration, society, exercise, goodnews, freedoms, ethics )

Linda
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- 1 day ago - kdka.com
In last Sunday's Pittsburgh Triathlon, there were a lot of individual competitors and teams with competitors for each event.One team, however, stood out. That team contained three friends: Jim on the Bike, Ned doing the running, and Craig Dietz doing
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Idlewild Employee Fired For "Peeping"
Society & Culture  (tags: crime, culture, women, safety, society, police, rights, sadness, ethics, risks )

Linda
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- 1 day ago - kdka.com
A teenage employee of a local amusement park is accused of secretly photographing women as they changed their clothes.The incident happened at Idlewild and Soak Zone in Ligonier Township, Westmoreland County. Police say the 15 year-old used his cell ph
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Cathedral Dig Reveals 18th Century New Orleans
Society & Culture  (tags: culture, arts, humans, interesting, society, education, environment, world )

Maria
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- 1 day ago - dsc.discovery.com
Discoveries behind St. Louis Cathedral include a small silver crucifix from the 1770s or 1780s and traces of previously unknown buildings dating back to around the city's founding in 1718.
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Are You Roman Tonight? Statue of 'Elvis' Chiselled 1800 Years Before His Birth Goes Under the Hammer
Society & Culture  (tags: arts, culture, death, interesting, humans, society, movies, media, celebrity, americans )

Maria
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- 1 day ago - dailymail.co.uk
But incredibly this carving of Elvis Presley was created around 1800 years before the King of Rock and Roll first warbled his first note.
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Toddler Dies After Being Left In Hot Vehicle (Video)
Society & Culture  (tags: 19 month old girl, dies, after being left in hot vehicle, day care center, center has been cited for 22 violations, this year )

Kathy
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- 1 day ago - nbc5i.com
A Dallas day care center is the focus of a police investigation into the death of an 19-month-old girl who died Monday after being left in a hot vehicle.
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Slammed: Welcome to the Age of Incarceration --NEWS: What Happens When You Lock Up 1 in Every 100 American Adults?
Society & Culture  (tags: americans, culture, humans, law, government, safety, sadness, police, environment, rights, violence, interesting, freedoms )

Linda
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- 1 day ago - motherjones.com
The number first appeared in headlines earlier this year: Nearly one in four of all prisoners worldwide is incarcerated in America. It was just the latest such statistic. Today, one in nine African American men between the ages of 20 and 34 is locked up.
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Where Does $49,000 for Each Inmate Go?
Society & Culture  (tags: freedoms, education, crime, ethics, government, law, safety, society, sadness, interesting )

Linda
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- 1 day ago - motherjones.com
NEWS: California spends four times as much per prisoner as Mississippi. Where does the money go? California spends around $49,000 annually per adult inmate, nearly 4 times Mississippi, which spends $13,300. Where does the money go? A partial break
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Lessons From the Picket Line
Society & Culture  (tags: society, unions, education )

Michael
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- 1 day ago - socialistworker.org
A five-day strike by 8,500 service workers in the University of California system--in defiance of a judge's temporary restraining order--ended July 18 with workers even more determined to continue their fight for a decent contract.
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Live and Learn: JonBenet Ramsey and the Death Penalty.
Society & Culture  (tags: crime, usa, murder )

Michael
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- 17 hours ago - slate.com
It's amazing how much you can learn years later about evidence that's been right under your nose all along.
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Aunt Says She Suspected Neglect
Society & Culture  (tags: 4 young children, left home alone, neglected, 8 months old to 4 years old, living in filth )

Kathy
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- 1 day ago - kctv5.com
A woman who says she's the aunt of four young children found home alone says she suspected they were being neglected.
 
 
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