LIVING & LIFESTYLE

May 14, 2013
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Angelina Jolie has healthy breasts removed Actress Angelina Jolie has revealed that she has undergone a preventive double mastectomy to reduce her risk of cancer. Her mother died from cancer aged 56. Angelina Jolie has revealed that she recently underwent a preventative double mastectomy. The actress, whose mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died of ovarian cancer...
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Totally Nuts!

April 28, 2013
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No nuts warning on bag of nuts. Booths decided to pull its Whole Hearted Roasted Monkey Nuts from the aisles because its label does not declare it contains peanuts, MSN News reports. The firm has stores in Lancashire, Cumbria, Yorkshire, Cheshire and a recently-opened branch at MediaCityUK in Salford. A spokesman for the company...
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What Doctors Don’t Know About the Drugs They Prescribe

April 7, 2013

Ben Goldacre Physician, author TEDTalks can sometimes portray science in triumphalist tones, with fabulous innovations that are changing the world forever. But the real action in science is often around dirty, messy, angry problems, and my TEDTalk is about the dirtiest I’ve seen yet. Doctors need the results of clinical trials to make informed...
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Burger Urge ad ‘promotes bestiality’

February 28, 2013
Burger Urge ad ‘promotes bestiality’

A Brisbane burger company’s advertising campaign has been accused of promoting bestiality. The Burger Urge ad, which shows a woman licking a cow, was described in the complaint as loathsome, sick, wrong and perverted, according to The Courier Mail. Australian Christian Lobby group officially registered the complaint via company director Wendy Francis, who said...
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£40m for any man who can turn gay daughter straight

September 27, 2012
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By Mail Foreign Service PUBLISHED: 16:46 GMT, 26 September 2012 | UPDATED: 00:39 GMT, 27 September 2012 As a billionaire playboy who claims to have bedded 10,000 women, Cecil Chao has no doubts about his own sexuality. Now he is trying to dictate the sexuality of his children too. The 76-year-old property and shipping...
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The ten habits of remarkably charismatic people

September 24, 2012
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Some people instantly make us feel important. Some people instantly make us feel special. Some people light up a room just by walking in. We can’t always define it, but some people have it: They’re naturally charismatic. Unfortunately, natural charisma quickly loses its impact. Familiarity breeds, well, familiarity. But some people are remarkably charismatic:...
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Smartphone users paying double for texting smiley faces

September 21, 2012
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SMARTPHONE users that punctuate their text messages with a smiley face could be paying twice for a single text. Telstra last night admitted that consumers that used emoticons or smiley faces that contained bullet points could be paying double because the punctuation was splitting text messages in two. The billing issue was first discovered by...
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COMPANY LAUNCHES SNEAKERS MADE FROM STINGRAYS

May 31, 2012
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Fashion gone too far? In a controversial move, new footwear company Rayfish has launched a line of sneakers made entirely out of genetically engineered stingray parts. Retailing for the hefty sum of $1,800, the “stingray” shoes can be custom designed for the consumer by scientists, who are reportedly able to “etch” colouring and designs...
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The $1b new town where nobody’s home

May 10, 2012
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An artist rendering showing the $US1 billion scientific ghost town that will be developed in Lea County near Hobbs, New Mexico. Photo: AP A scientific ghost town in the heart of southeastern New Mexico oil and gas country will hum with the latest next-generation technology – but no people. A $US1 billion city without residents...
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Scotland’s Dull And America’s Boring Join Up

April 26, 2012
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James Matthews, Scotland correspondent The Dull and Boring plan was hatched after a resident of Dull, near Aberfeldy in Perthshire, cycled through Boring in Oregon. The Dull folk of Perthshire then contacted their Boring counterparts across the Atlantic with a view to striking up the partnership. It may be dull and boring but the two towns...
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