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New Email Etiquette: Let's Just Say 'Nice To Meet You,' Okay?
Forbes - 5 Mar 2014 19:22
I recently moved to a new city and transitioned onto a new beat, so I've been meeting a lot more people than usual for the past few weeks.
Chrysler orders destruction of $250K Dodge Vipers
New York Post - 5 Mar 2014 19:22
Chrysler giveth and Chrysler taketh away. On Tuesday, the Detroit-based automobile manufacturer ordered that the complete collection of educational donation Dodge Viper SRTs must be crushed within two weeks. It...
HIV Gets a Shot in the Arm
Time - 5 Mar 2014 01:20
Treatment could end need for daily pills
Arundhati Roy, the Not-So-Reluctant Renegade
The New York Times - 5 Mar 2014 12:00
The writer has turned again to fiction. But will her politics get in the way?
China Stuck After Russian Intervention
Time - 5 Mar 2014 07:35
With Moscow's move into Crimea, Beijing has a tricky line to toe concerning national sovereignty
Teen Loses Effort to Make Parents Pay High School Tuition
ABC News - 5 Mar 2014 01:23
A New Jersey family heads to court today with the teenage daughter facing off against her parents in a battle to get them to pay for her schooling and living costs even though she's 18.
Israel Invents #IranFail Hashtag After Stopping Weapons Meant for Gaza
The Atlantic Wire - 5 Mar 2014 15:18
Early this morning the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced that it blocked a ship carrying advanced weapons from Iran to Palestinian militants in Gaza, suggesting that Iran and Israel aren't going to bury the hatchet ...
S Sudanese refugees forced to flee to Darfur
Al Jazeera English - 5 Mar 2014 07:18
Desperation and hunger forces South Sudanese civilians to continue to flee, even to war-stricken Darfur, UN says.
C.I.A. Employees Face New Inquiry Amid Clashes on Detention Program
The New York Times - 5 Mar 2014 06:25
An inquiry into the conduct of agency employees began after lawmakers complained that the C.I.A. was improperly monitoring the work of staff members of a Senate committee.
Russia's Use Of Unmarked Troops In Simferopol, Crimea: Shady, But Not Illegal
IBTimes - 5 Mar 2014 01:20
"Armed men of uncertain allegiance," the New York Times called them in a dispatch from Simferopol, on February 28: "Their military uniforms bore no insignia and it was not clear who they were or who was commanding them."...
Welcome to the Embassy of Satan! As Iran's Revolution Turns 35, Former U.S. Embassy In Tehran Remains Popular Rallying Point -- And Tourist Site
IBTimes - 5 Mar 2014 01:20
TEHRAN -- In black chadors that cover them from head to toe, the women shuffle forth like a procession of nuns, occasionally whispering a few words and furtively taking snapshots with the reverence due a sacred place.
Chipotle Warns of Climate Change Guacpocalypse
Time - 5 Mar 2014 01:20
Chipotle Warns of Climate Change Guacpocalypse
E.U. to Russia: It's Complicated
Time - 5 Mar 2014 01:20
Europe and Russia both have plenty to lose in the standoff over Ukraine
Barbara Bush warming to idea of Jeb Bush in 2016?
Fox News - 5 Mar 2014 20:01
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is "the most qualified person in the country" to run for president in 2016 -- that, according to his mother Barbara Bush.
Photos: Gwyneth Paltrow Looks Flawless Sans Makeup
ABC News - 5 Mar 2014 17:57
Celebrities go for the au natural look!
Check Out the National Zoo's Four New Baby Lions
The Atlantic Wire - 5 Mar 2014 16:39
Over the weekend, the National Zoo welcomed its second litter of lions this year.
5 Fascinating Things You Don't Know About Your Body
The Huffington Post - 5 Mar 2014 17:01
By Corrie Pikul From head to toe, it's full of surprises.
Arizona State Senator Comes out as Gay
ABC News - 5 Mar 2014 22:11
Arizona state senator who plans to run for open US House seat comes out as gay
USSA Junior Nationals held in Vermont
Boston - 5 Mar 2014 21:50
STOWE, Vt. (AP) -- A week after the Winter Olympics came to a close, possible future Olympians from around the country are competing in the USSA Junior National Cross-Country Skiing Championships.
And America's Most Gridlocked Cities Are...
Time - 5 Mar 2014 12:50
And America's Most Gridlocked Cities Are...
Netanyahu Promotes Efforts Toward a Peace Deal
The New York Times - 5 Mar 2014 06:54
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel suggested that he had listened to President Obama's plea to sign on to a framework being drafted by Secretary of State John Kerry.
What California's Rainstormageddon Looked Like from Space
Discovery News - 5 Mar 2014 06:39
It rained in Los Angeles. No kidding, I was shocked too. Three days without so much as a ray of sun, this transplanted Brit was beginning to feel right at home -- wet and dreaming of a sunny day.