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Lopez Lomong: I Was Running for My Life, Now I Run... →
Cold. The nights aren’t the only bitter sensation when you’re taken forcefully from all that you know and understand. At the age of six, I was taken violently from my family in what marauding Sudan People’s Liberation Army soldiers regarded as essential in growing their ranks with fresh troops. All the boys captured experienced the chill of separation from their loved ones, all...
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Mitt Romney Denies Criticizing Palestinian Culture →
Mitt Romney says he wasn’t criticizing Palestinian culture at a fundraiser in Jerusalem on Monday.
Palestinian officials accused the Republican presidential candidate of racism for suggesting that culture helps explain the economic disparity between Israelis and Palestinians
On Tuesday, Romney told Fox News that he wasn’t specifically talking about Palestinian culture and...
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August Kowalczyk, Auschwitz 1942 Escape Survivor,... →
Spokesman Pawel Sawicki said Monday that August Kowalczyk died Sunday at a hospice he helped found in the town of Oswiecim in southern Poland where the former camp is located. He was 90 years old.
Kowalczyk was brought to Auschwitz in December 1940. In June 1942 he was among 50 Polish inmates who tried to flee the camp while working in the fields. Most were killed in the attempt and only nine...
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Greenland Glacier's Falling Ice Creates Enormous... →
Dramatic change was also seen earlier this month when a giant iceberg broke off from one of Greenland’s largest glaciers. NASA satellites observed the calving of a 46-square mile iceberg, which is about twice the size of Manhattan. Scientists had been watching a large crack in the Petermann Glacier for several years
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“Great nights were the [girls] who squirmed, ones who didn’t want to give...”
– Anonymous reddit user and self-professed rapist
Reddit Rapists Come Clean On Controversial New Thread, But Should We Listen?
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“As you come here and you see the GDP per capita, for instance, in Israel which...”
– Mitt Romney Comments At Fundraiser Outrage Palestinians
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Mitt Romney Closes Israeli Fundraiser To Reporters →
President Barack Obama allows reporters to hear his words at fundraisers, though he generally bars them from listening to question-and-answer sessions with those in attendance. The president sometimes allows coverage of his remarks at events in private homes.
Romney traveling press secretary Rick Gorka, asked to comment, simply said, “Closed press, closed press, closed press,” as he...
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“That one didn’t feel too good.”
– Olympic Swimming: Michael Phelps, Park Tae-hwan, Paul Biedermann Among (Bad) Swim Surprises
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Ron Wayne, Noah Glass And More: 7 Founders That... →
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates will forever be remembered for the tech empires they helped create. But what about those unknown innovators and quiet geniuses who have worked behind the scenes?
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