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• Telling Tall Tales

  
  Is Nothing Sacred? — Authority: 125
  So, last night I went into NYC to attend an interview/lecture with Al Jaffee . If you don’t know Al, then you are way too young, or simply did not have the same ill-spent youth as did I. Al is one of the premiere cartoonists from Mad Magazine . In fact, he’s the reason that I’m a smart ass to this day. ...
  12 hours ago

• Mavis Spencer declared Miss Golden Globe 2010

  
  Pakistan News | News, Videos, Articles, Current Affairs, Politics, Entertainment, Technology | Geo TV | Dawn | The News | Ten Sports | Geo Super | India News — Authority: 457
  LOS ANGELES: Mavis Spencer has been declared Miss Golden Globe for 2010.
  16 hours ago

• Guess The Celebrity Daughter, 18

  
  Sinlung — Authority: 452
  Mavis Spencer, Alfre Woodard’s Daughter, Is Miss Golden Globe 2010 It’s Alfre Woodard’s daughter, Mavis Spencer! Mavis, 18, is a model and next year will be a student at Columbia University. She was just named Miss Golden Globe 2010 and will assist in the awards ceremony January 17. Miss Golden Globe is ...
  23 hours ago

• Sen. Grassley Questions More Nonprofits

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 569
  We can’t help but note that the other shoe dropped on nonprofit agencies (as we predicted back in April ) and their lack of disclosure and transparency about their funding sources. Will anybody really be surprised to find that 50% or more of many of these organization’s budgets come directly or indirectly from a ...
  1 day ago

• Rembrandt masterpiece sells for over $33 mn

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Dec 9 (DPA) A portrait by Dutch artist Rembrandt (1606-1669) was auctioned for a record 20.2 million pounds ($33 million) Tuesday night, Christie’s said.The piece, entitled Portrait of a Man, first went under the hammer in 1930, when it sold for 18,500 pounds. It had not been publicly displayed for 40 ...
  2 days ago

• Obama does not understand soldiers

  
  News World — Authority: 133
  It is now clear that President Obama has no understanding at all of soldiers or of waging war. He made that clear in his speech on Afghanistan before the Corps of Cadets at the US Military Academy at West Point. It’s partly a generational thing: he was born at the end of the baby boom and [...]
  2 days ago

• The Prank Review, with Juli Weiner: Prangstgrüp

  
  The Awl — Authority: 781
  Prangstgrüp, active throughout the early and mid-Nads, was the arbitrarily Teutonic prank-committing team out of Columbia University. The members of Prangstgrup have all graduated, and their membership is spread far and very wide . Fortunately, their youthful goings-on have been preserved for posterity ...
  2 days ago

• Columbia University Students Threaten to End Default Same-Sex Housing!

  
  Queerty — Authority: 709
  Oh NOZE! College is supposed to be the place where, forced to share a dorm room with others who share your genitalia, young people find it easy to "experiment" with the same sex. And maybe give your roommate a helping hand every now and then! But now Columbia Universitys student government wants to join some two dozen ...
  2 days ago

• Youth get in bed together on Lennon anniversary

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  It was 29 years ago today that a lone gunman assassinated John Lennon and the anniversary was the spur behind a youth "bed in" at the COP15 conference center. Socres of young folks from around the world used the day to remember Lennons famous bed-in protest of the Vietnam War and to put their own spin on it. They ...
  2 days ago

• Men, Women to Share Columbia Dorm Rooms?

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 178
  Columbia University in New York is considering a plan to allow people of the opposite sex to share dorm rooms. aps Bonny Ghosh reports. (Dec. 7)
  3 days ago

• Thank you, EPA: U.S. solar companies

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Many businesses chafed on Monday at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s declaration that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health. But executives at the two largest U.S. solar power companies took a shine to the statement, which clears the way for federal regulation and came as a global climate ...
  3 days ago

• Fossil of the Day Award: And the winner is…

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  The UN Conference on Climate Change is a weighty gathering of serious folks looking for a way to cut carbon emissions. Its also a great place to bring some much-needed humor and along the way hammer a few perceived laggers in the fight against global warming. Enter the Fossil of the Day Awards, a tongue-in-cheek ...
  3 days ago

• Icebergs, Copenhagen hot topics in Southern Ocean

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  The Southern Ocean is toying with us, like some killer whale tossing its prey before devouring it. The small French research ship l’Astrolabe is being battered by 55 kmh (35 mph) winds and tossed like a cork in icy, three metre (9 feet) waves. Many onboard have retreated to the safety of their bunks where, ...
  4 days ago

• Balls in your court, Bill!

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 580
  From the Daily News : "The use of eminent domain is like a gun to the community’s head which basically says, If you don’t give it up we’re going to take it," [State Senator Bill] Perkins said outside City Hall this afternoon. "And as a result, those who do not have the wherewithal of a Nick Sprayregen or a ...
  4 days ago

• College Men’s Roundup: Duke Hands St. John’s Its First Loss

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Hardly anything fell for Kyle Singler — until Duke’s blowout became a close game.
  5 days ago

• College Men’s Roundup: Duke Hands St. John’s Its First Loss

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Hardly anything fell for Kyle Singler — until Duke’s blowout became a close game.
  5 days ago

• Cooling therapy protects brain after cardiac arrest

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Dec 5 (IANS) Revival of the heart after it stops may save a patient’s life, but it permanently damages the brain. Cooling the patient for some time is known to mitigate this harmful effect and improve survival, under a procedure known as therapeutic hypothermia.Cardiac arrest interrupts the blood supply, ...
  5 days ago

• Self-Storage King Takes a Moment to Savor His Victory Over Columbia

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Nicholas Sprayregen at one of the buildings that he owns on Broadway, and that Columbia wants.
  6 days ago

• Taking the Tesla for a spin

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  We took a short spin in a Tesla to see what an all-electric sports car was like. The Roadster Sport wasn’t totally silent, but it wasn’t loud — and it was fast (zero to 60 miles per hour in under 4 seconds). We got lots of looks, too. Tesla calls it “performance with a clean conscience” but building the ...
  6 days ago

• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
  6 days ago

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