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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

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Kansas Barley Breaks A Sweat Against Illinois, Will It Be A Cakewalk To The Final Four?

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Not only did top-seeded Kansas barely break a sweat in its win over Illinois on Sunday, but the bracket chaos around the Jayhawks has provided them with a road to the Final Four that looks remarkably easy—at least on paper.

Louisiana Student Suspended for Having Long Hair

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A student was suspended for two days from his middle school for refusing to cut his hair.

Antiwar Group Plans Protest for Obama Visit to Ireland

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Anti-war activists have threatened to protest if Air Force One lands at Shannon Airport this coming May when U.S. President Barack Obama will arrive in Ireland.

Fresh blow in nuclear plant crisis

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A pool for storing spent fuel at Japan's crippled nuclear plant is heating up, with temperatures around boiling point, an official said today.

Mozilla's Firefox 4 bags 1M downloads in 3 hours

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More than 1 million Firefox 4 browser were downloaded during the first three hours of availability, a pace that would beat Microsoft's claim that 2.4 million copies of IE9 were downloaded the first day it was available last week.

Naked Juice Serves Up Nutritious, Delicious Sanctimonious Bullshit

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I'm a fan of Naked Juice. The Protein Zone and Protein Zone Mango smoothies are great ways to refresh and rebuild after a long run. I'm not a fan of sanctimonious b.s., though, and Naked Juice is peddling that along with its juices and smoothies.

Libya: Targeting Gaddafi 'risks alienating Arab nations'

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Military attacks targeting Colonel Gaddafi risk alienating Arab nations and splitting the international coalition on Libya, ministers have been warned.

Psych Exam Ordered For Charlie Sheen

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Charlie Sheen will not be allowed to see his estranged twin sons until he submits to a psych exam.

Patriotic Teen Fails Spanish (Video)

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Jean Anne Whorton goes Beyond The Facts, talking to the high school sophomore who has become a conservative hero for refusing to learn his Spanish vocabulary.

EXCLUSIVE: CIA Psychologist's Notes Reveal True Purpose Behind Bush's Torture Program

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Dr. Bruce Jessen's handwritten notes describe some of the torture techniques that were used to "exploit" "war on terror" detainees in custody of the CIA and Department of Defense.

12% of Search Results Were Affected Last Month in Google's "Panda" Update But What Really Happened in Google Vs. Content Farms (Infographic)

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Last month, Google most one of the most consequential algorithm updates of the last decade which affected nearly 12% of search results. Deemed the Farmer or Panda update

First glasses-free 3D smartphone arrives on AT&T

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It's smartphone season and everybody's going for dual-core this and four-inch screen that.

Dead Island Logo Censored in NA

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The North American release of Dead Island will not feature the hanging zombie on the game's boxart.

Food Prices Make Biggest Jump in 36 Years

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Wholesale food prices spiked 3.9 percent in February from January, largely due to a sharp rise in vegetable costs, although meat and dairy prices also increased.

Wake Up

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When pillows and buckets of cold water just won't do the job, it's time to pull out the heavy artillery.

Vision: Revolution Is Unpredictable and As Beautiful as Spring

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When do the abuses that have been tolerated for so long become intolerable? When does the fear evaporate and the rage generate action that produces joy? Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

Family mourns U.S. teacher killed in Japan

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A Virginia couple is mourning the death of their daughter after learning that her body was found in disaster-ravaged Japan, where she had been teaching English.

Baby Elephants in a Swimming Pool. Overwhelming Cuteness... (vid)

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Great moment near the end, when the "second" elephant finally jumps in...

Neanderthal's Brain Development Created a Divergent Evolutionary Path

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Brains of newborn human babies and Neanderthals, who became extinct about 28,000 years ago, were about the same size and appear almost identical at first. But after birth and particularly during the first year of life the differences in development...

HTTPS is great: here's why everyone needs to use it (so we can too)

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A piece from Wired that recently ran on Ars wondered why all HTTP traffic wasn't encrypted. Now we're taking it a step further and explaining some of the issues that are standing in the way of universal HTTPS adoption, as well as why Ars isn't there yet.

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