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Suicide Rate In U.S. And Europe Climbed During Great Recession

http://n.pr/1n7G4F6

How Male Dwarf Spiders Use Chastity Belts to Safeguard Their Fatherhood

http://bit.ly/SQvcCm

Genome confirms the origin of string beans

http://www.futurity.org/genome-beans/

Human In Robotic Exoskeleton To Kick Off The World Cup

http://bit.ly/1nyEC0l

Residents bare their rears in Soweto, claiming their bucket toilets had not been emptied in over three months.

http://aje.me/1mMJGed

Russia holds military exercises in Baltic in response to NATO

http://reut.rs/1hMDVAV

Iraq Kurds take Kirkuk; Sunni militants surge toward Baghdad

http://reut.rs/TOi3um

Texas Governor Perry compares homosexuality to alcoholism

http://reut.rs/1lj9FNO

India's courts 'condone' Dalit atrocities

Caste-blind judiciary fails Dalit victims as number of sex attacks are reported against former untouchables.

http://aje.me/1ohBNnF

In US, political split outgrows the voting booth

http://bit.ly/1hRrPaf

Health Care Can Be Key To A Better Life For Former Inmates

http://n.pr/1s8HHcm

Thousands of Syrian refugee children in Lebanon forced to work

http://reut.rs/1iqXlqc

Mysterious kidney disease plagues Central America

http://cnn.it/1mMMBne

US resumes drone strikes in Pakistan

http://aje.me/1pNc0B3

In Russia or in America, freedom begins at home.

http://vnty.fr/1oXJXxC

Adorable pictures of adorable rats adorably sniffing out mines. (The mines aren't adorable.)

http://bit.ly/1kriC2H

Alleged NYC Serial Stabber Is Indicted As 7-Year-Old Victim Goes Home

http://nym.ag/1mMOIY6

Sierra Leone Declares Ebola Emergency in District

http://bit.ly/SCYzaG

Chasing the heroin resurgence.

The resurgence of the deadly drug has sparked a flurry of action from governors' mansions and statehouses across New England and the Midwest to small-town police stations from northern Kentucky to Wisconsin.

http://usat.ly/1nyGRAF

Inefficient dryers waste $4B a year in energy costs

http://usat.ly/1jmH6dN

Blowback As Canada Muzzles Public Talk of Climate Change

http://bit.ly/1oSU8VS

Yes, black people talk about climate change

http://bit.ly/1ohGAp8

Here’s how California could fix its drought-time water woes

http://bit.ly/1q7V8Hy

I finally have it!

The very last school newsletter from Ana's school. I've been good the past 6 years, waiting for this moment, and I shall have it. I'm sending the whole thing over to the "blog", and provide their heads don't utterly explode over there you can expect to see it in all its quoted up glory shortly.

Special mention must go to the fact that It is hard to say "goodbye" and, of course, the statement that one of the things they did this year as a school is raise $1500 to build an orphanage in Haiti for homeless orphans. There were no quote marks in the latter sentence, it was just redundant.

On that note, did anybody here live through Katrina? Evangeline urgently needs to interview you.

( Here are her questions )

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Declassified report: Two nuclear bombs nearly wiped out North Carolina

My mother sent me this article, but without the title, so all I saw was the URL, which I won't bitly for you guys. Scared the crap out of me!

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/12/us/north-carolina-nuclear-bomb-drop/index.html

26 cents short, middle schooler watches cafeteria worker throw his lunch in the garbage

http://yhoo.it/1llvY5s

If You’re a Strict Parent, Your Kid Is More Likely to Smoke Pot

http://ti.me/1udw1Ry

Facebook Is Now Using Your Browsing History to Target Advertising

http://bit.ly/1n8hIec

How a $10.10 minimum wage could affect workers in every congressional district

http://wapo.st/1lrDxqQ

Founder of Mormon women’s group threatened with excommunication

http://bit.ly/1kt1iKH

A bill that would have let millions of people refinance their student loans at a lower interest rate has failed in the Senate, after Republicans objected that it included a tax on the wealthy to pay for it. The measure would have allowed people with older loans to benefit from today's low interest rates.

http://n.pr/1xQN8gH

Teens Hack Into ATM Just to Let Everyone Know They Can

http://ti.me/1oZ7Swt

Congo mines no longer in grip of warlords and militias, says report

Enough Project finds 2010 US law requiring companies like Apple and Intel to prove products are conflict-free has worked

http://bit.ly/1l6ucGn

Ditch 'Old Hickory' and Put Martin Luther King on the $20 Bill

The civil-rights leader helped America to realize its founding ideals as surely as any president, and ending the run of exclusively white faces on bank notes is long overdue.

http://bit.ly/1oj9Goe

After the Booker T. Washington Public High School in Pensacola, Florida, placed best-selling author and popular Boing Boing blog editor Cory Doctorow’s young adult novel Little Brother on its “One School/One Book” summer reading list, the school’s administration promptly cancelled the school-wide reading program.

http://bit.ly/1oZ8lPu

Climate change could flood your streets with doo-doo and toxic waste

http://bit.ly/1jnAvjs

Ukraine says 'Russian tank incursion' unacceptable

http://bbc.in/1udy0oX

State-by-State Temperature Map: Red-Hot Out West

http://bit.ly/UxMG7P

Dinosaurs 'neither warm nor cold blooded'

http://bbc.in/1llAscn

The Shame of Shuhada Street

In Hebron, Palestinians are subjected to daily indignities—large and small.

http://bit.ly/1s9Wa83