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- How Obama Gave Rise to the Occupy Wall Street Movement (89 comments)
- BREAKING: Elizabeth Warren, Can She? (7 comments)
- Why We Regulate (2 comments)
- A Risky Chase Bet Gone South, a Lack of Oversight, and JPM Chase Chairman Jamie Dimon (7 comments)
- Rewrite means millions more likely to be called addicts (7 comments)
Kate's adoptive family scrimped to give her idyllic childhood... yet she was still desperate to find the parents who gave her up - no matter who it hurt
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 6:54 AM EDT (the Mail online)
When I was 18, I changed my name. Crucially, I gave myself a new middle name — Justine. Actually, it wasn’t new at all. It was the name my birth mother gave me before I was adopted. I can still remember the horror my teenage self felt when I saw my bir …
Diet tips: Cut out 300 calories for good or you'll pile the pounds straight back on
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 6:46 AM EDT (the Mail online)
As every slimmer knows, it is when the diet ends that the hard work really begins. Despite the best of intentions, only a few lucky ones manage to avoid piling the pounds straight back on. Now experts think they know why – and it’s nothing to do with a lack of wil …
BREAKING: A Good Laugh for Us Fellow Viners (includes funny links to The Dictator)
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 4:35 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
Introducing The Dictator to the Vine--we need laughs in the midst of this Great Recession, our dueling candidates for president, death in Afghanistan, threats against Iran, and the plunging Euro. What is it with our obsession with satirising dictators? Thank the Lord we …
A Risky Chase Bet Gone South, a Lack of Oversight, and JPM Chase Chairman Jamie Dimon
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 11:22 AM EDT (Truthout - All Articles)
While President Obama and his Hollywood apostles broke fundraising records at a sumptuous $40,000 per plate dinner at George Clooney's place, word of JPM Chase's 'mistake' rippled through the news. Not long ago, Dimon's name was batted about to become Treasury Secre …
BREAKING: Elizabeth Warren, Can She?
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 11:12 AM EDT (Truthout - All Articles)
It will be entertainment, Brown versus Warren, though with very serious consequences. The ordinary Massachusetts voters—the kind who doesn't tune in until the last minute—will have to choose between two story lines. They will talk about it this way: he's a small-town Wren …
In Graduation Speech to Women, Obama Leaps Into Gender Gap
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 8:14 AM EDT (The New York Times)
President Obama, shifting the focus from his recent endorsement of same-sex marriage to what he portrays as a lifelong belief in the essential role of women, told female graduates of Barnard College in New York City on Monday that they should go out and “fight for a seat …
REVEALED: Inside the £65m apartment London's most exclusive address
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 7:13 AM EDT (the Mail online)
It is a central London pied-a-terre with a price tag that only the world's richest can afford to pay. A lavish apartment at the Candy & Candy development One Hyde Park has come up for sale - one of only a handful of properties in the billionaire-friendly block to reach the …
The Real Death Panel: For-Profit Healthcare
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 7:06 AM EDT ( Is Rick Santorum The Second Coming Of Bush/Cheney? | Addicting Info)
With great emotion and hyperbole, supporters of private healthcare have passionately advocated that a not-for-profit healthcare system would decrease the quality of care patients receive and create an environment where healthcare professionals would not have adequate tools and …
London 2012 Olympics: Civil servants to work from home
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 6:57 AM EDT (the Mail online)
Tens of thousands of civil servants will be allowed to work from home for seven weeks over the Olympics. Whitehall officials have been told that they can take advantage of flexible working arrangements even after the Games have finished. Seventeen government departments have …
Rewrite means millions more likely to be called addicts
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 2:24 PM EDT (The Minneapolis Star Tribune)
In what could prove to be one of their most far-reaching decisions, psychiatrists and other specialists who are rewriting the manual that serves as the nation's arbiter of mental illness have agreed to revise the definition of addiction, which could result in millions more peop …
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