The CIA sex scandal is coming to Capitol Hill, with four-star philanderer David Petraeus due Friday for a grilling on affairs — his own and those of national security.
Tapping into carbon dioxide storage potential of mine waste
Economic value should be placed on the CO2 storage potential of mine waste, experts say.
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No pony simply trots into Maredor
Lord Of The Rings… Re-enacted by Ponies. The Bronies bring forth what may be their greatest creation.
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A New Rival for ‘Fifty Shades’
The “Crossfire” erotic trilogy hits No. 1 on best-seller lists, with similar covers and themes as the E.L. James series.
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Rocket defense of Beersheva
If I am to trust Dennis Wilen’s translation, these are inbound Hamas rockets intercepted outside of Beersheva by Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ rocket defense system. It also seems the video was taken from a wedding.
It is a sad but interesting technology. The YouTube comments claim 12 interceptions.
Nate Silver on His Hollywood Future and ‘Moneyball’-ing Box Office
The FiveThirtyEight blogger tells THR he’s been approached by agents and producers, has already done work for a studio and isn’t sure he wants to write a book about the election: “I prefer to go broader.”
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Going on the Pill. The Blue One.
I was among the early, and from what I gather, rare female users of Viagra.
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Paula Broadwell Is Faster Than You
In running circles, Paula Broadwell is under attack not just for having had an extramarital affair with former Central Intelligence Agency chief David Petraeus but also for allegedly overstating her running ability.
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The People’s Bailout: Occupy Wall Street To Erase $1 Million In Debt—Maybe Even Yours
It’s maybe Occupy’s most radical idea: buy up overdue debt on the secondary market and cancel it, leaving lucky people across the country debt free. It’s so crazy it just might work.
Before they became known for hurricane relief or even encampments in public parks, Occupy Wall Street was an intellectual leftist movement with connections to the anti-austerity protests in Greece and Spain. They’ll be returning to those roots this week with an imaginative new action campaign that will strike at the heart of what ails the economy, strike a blow against economic business as usual, and maybe even strike fear in the guts of the 1%, by buying up consumer debt and then forgiving it.
Total American consumer debt, from medical debt to student loans to credit cards, currently stands at a record $2.74 trillion. When payers fall behind on this debt it becomes delinquent, and banks often clear it off their books by selling it to third-party debt collectors for pennies on the dollar. These collectors then try to get you to make good on the full amount plus interest with often unfair or abusive results.
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Palestinians Prepare for Arafat Exhumation
The expected exhumation comes four months after a television investigation raised new suspicions that the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat had been poisoned.
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