Enjoy your BILLY bookcases and HEMNES coffee tables, because IKEA is using...
Enjoy your BILLY bookcases and HEMNES coffee tables, because IKEA is using one percent of the world's wood every year to make them. But apparently one in ten Europeans are conceived in an IKEA bed...
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Hangovers Cost America About $1.90 Per Drink
Excessive drinking costs the American economy more than $220 billion a year, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which is enough to really make you need a drink. The fine folks...
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Firefighter Versus Cop: An Epic Queens T.G.I. Friday's Battle
A Lower East Side firefighter was arrested Friday after he mugged an off-duty cop and tried to steal his gun. The brawl began when fireman Angel Valerio left a Queens T.G.I. Friday's with three of his...
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Via Negativa: Poetic Notes on White Boy Privilege
In Polish, worshippers often use an honorific when referring to God. Pan Bóg. Mr. God. As in, Mr. God, please give us health and happiness. Please grant us peace, Mr. God. Please let my basketball...
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Sheryl Sandberg Successfully Makes SF Plane Crash About Herself
It's not news when someone isn't somewhere, but Facebook's top celebrity author sure convinced the internet otherwise: Sheryl Sandberg has thousands buzzing about the fact that she was not aboard a...
View ArticleArt collector Charles Saatchi — who was caught on camera choking his wife,...
Art collector Charles Saatchi — who was caught on camera choking his wife, Nigella Lawson — now says that he is divorcing her for not defending his reputation.
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A Disease Without A Cure Is Spreading In The Western United States
An airborne fungal disease without a cure, coccidioidomycosis — also known as valley fever or cocci — is affecting more people than ever in the Southwest, where more than 20,000 cases have been...
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Asiana Airlines Flight 214: Here's What We Know So Far [UPDATE]
Yesterday's crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 was a clear tragedy, with two deaths and upwards of 180 injured. After the initial work of battling the blaze that followed and triaging the passengers,...
View ArticleA solar-powered flight made history last night when it successfully landed at...
A solar-powered flight made history last night when it successfully landed at JFK airport, capping off a cross-country trip. The Solar Impulse first took off from San Francisco in May and stopped in...
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Yet Another Gun From ATF's Fast And Furious Op Used To Murder Someone
The ATF's failed "Fast and Furious" operation has reared its ugly head again, this time in the form of a high-powered rifle used to murder a police chief in Jalisco, a state deep in central Mexico....
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Trains Derail In Canada, Russia, Killing Five And Injuring Many More
This has been a terrible weekend for travel. Seriously, just stay inside. Don't go anywhere. Wait until Mercury is unretrograded, or whatever. Pack a bug-out bag. Is that what the kids are calling...
View ArticleWell, you can always count on death and taxes.
Well, you can always count on death and taxes. James Gandolfini's $70 million estate is a "tax nightmare" that could end up netting the IRS more than $30 million.
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Brooklyn Politician Wants Partiers To Notify Police Before They Party
You gotta fight for your right to party! A Brooklyn City Council member is trying to propose legislation that would require anyone trying to have a no-sleep-til-Brooklyn rager with more than 40 people...
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BETTER. CALL. SAUL. According to Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, a Saul Goodman-centric spinoff is going "full speed ahead." No half-measures, Gilligan, okay?
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Liz Cheney Is Pissing Off Conservatives In Wyoming
Liz Cheney wants to be in the Senate, and she wants to be in the Senate now. So much so that's she's thinking of challenging her not-not-evil father's old fishing buddy, Michael B. Enzi, which could...
View ArticleAfter White House Down and After Earth, The Lone Ranger became the third...
After White House Down and After Earth, The Lone Ranger became the third big-budget blockbuster to bomb this summer, bringing in just $48.9 million over the five-day July 4th weekend. Despicable Me 2...
View ArticleNot willing to let Anthony Weiner have all the fun, Eliot Spitzer has...
Not willing to let Anthony Weiner have all the fun, Eliot Spitzer has announced plans to run for comptroller of New York City.
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Flight Attendant Denies Smuggling Pet Rat in Her Underwear, Files Suit
This is a weird one: a veteran American Airlines flight attendant accused by her colleagues of smuggling a pet rat onto an international flight in her underwear has filed a lawsuit against the...
View ArticleTeresa Heinz Kerry, US Secretary of State John Kerry's wife, was flown to a...
Teresa Heinz Kerry, US Secretary of State John Kerry's wife, was flown to a Boston hospital Sunday evening after falling ill while in Nantucket. Kerry has been stabilized but remains in critical...
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Tigers Maul Man to Death, Trap 5 Others in Tree for at Least 4 Days
A group of six Indonesian men were attacked by several tigers on Thursday, forcing five of the men to climb a tree, where they've remained since. The sixth man was mauled to death as he attempted to...
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