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  • UK mum does house chores in her sleep

    A woman from Newport, South Wales, has developed a peculiar condition in which she cleans and tidies the house while she is still sleeping. Claire Bartlett, 50, has an odd habit of doing the dishes, dusting and even shining the windows in a deep slumber, the Sun reported. It started in October 2012, but since she does such a good job of cleaning up, neither she nor husband Crispin, want to ...

  • Senator Carl Levins Entirely Bizarre Thoughts On Apples Cash Taxes Paid

    and the taxes that they do or don't pay which seems to me to be entirely bizarre. Yet it appears that people are taking it entirely seriously. The point is that the committee (or, as I assume was the case, its driving force Senator Carl Levin) noted the difference between Apple's provisions for taxes it would have to pay and the actual amount of cash that it handed over. What makes it ...

  • Beer thief leaves apology note cash

    The elderly Villa Hills residents recently received a confession from the beer thief, along with $140 in cash on their back patio, according to Cinncinati.com. The letter was addressed "Dear Homeowner" and read, "Enclosed is a sum of cash that my friends and I owe you and your family to repay you for all of the times we have stolen from your poolside fridge/bar over the past few ...

  • Cashier sells herself winning lotto ticket

    While Mary Jane Hart didn't win the $600 million jackpot, she did manage to collect a cool $1 million. She used the numbers of her favorite NASCAR drivers to fill out her ticket, which she checked only after getting a call from work, Jonesboro, Ark., TV station KOIT reported. "Someone had called me and told me that there was a winning ticket sold at the store, so I went to the ...

  • Daniel Dennett You can make Aristotle look like a flaming idiot

    Daniel Dennett, a cheerleader for Darwin and atheism, attracts fierce criticism for his views on free will. He talks about his new book and explains why philosophers have to walk a ...


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Scream

I grew up during the heyday of teenage slasher movies. I was four years old when the genre was started in 1978 with John Carpenter's masterful "Halloween," and in my early twenties when it was giving its last dying breaths with such junk as 1993's "Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday" and 1995's "Halloween 6." During that period, Hollywood produced a seemingly endless stream of graphically violen ... ...

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  • The humor of candid camera

    With the advent of the digital camera, mobile phones and social networking, the world is now drowning in photographic imagery. This raises the question: Can photography survive as an art form in a world where it is ubiquitous? The exhibition of work by Kayo Ume, under the title ';Umekayo,'; at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery offers a partial response to this question, and suggests ...

  • True the Vote Files Suit Against the Internal Revenue Service

    True the Vote, the nation's leading voters' rights organization, filed suit in federal court in Washington, D.C., against the IRS. True the Vote is asking the court to grant its long-awaited tax-exempt status and is seeking damages for delays in the processing of its application. According to court documents filed by True the Vote, True the Vote's application for tax-exempt status ...

  • Video Doctor Cancer test cost outrageous because of monopoly

    CBS News contributor Dr. David Agus, director of the Westside Cancer Center at the University of Southern California, talks to the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts about why the cost for a genetic test for breast cancer is so ...

  • Japans humble space dream to come true triumphantly

    "I came to Japan for the first time in 1987, when I attended the well-known Japanese Atomic Industrial Forum (JAIF), which gathers nuclear scientists from around the world. It takes place in spring when cherry trees blossom, so everything was very beautiful and unusual. I delivered a speech on Chernobyl, and, among other things, Academician Legasov. Some time later, I went to Japan for the ...

  • Harper’s tried-and-true crisis management tactics fall short

    Stephen Harper's approach to managing crises - fire, stonewall and punt - was on vintage display as he addressed caucus over the Senate expenses scandal. That approach has served the Prime Minister well in the past. But it may not work this time, because this time is ...

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