Latest Weapon In War Against Concussions: The Wii Fit?
Video game site Kotaku shared an interesting tidbit yesterday that some universities--namely Maryland and Ohio State--have begun using the Wii Fit as a way to track athletes' progress returning from concussions: "The athletes love it because what we...
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LA Unveils $578 Million School, Costliest In The Nation
LOS ANGELES -- Next month's opening of the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools will be auspicious for a reason other than its both storied and infamous history as the former Ambassador Hotel, where the Democratic presidential contender was a...
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Brigitte Bardot Slams Planned Biopic: ‘I’m Not Dead!’
Iconic French film actress Brigitte Bardot is furious over plans to produce a film based on her life. Kyle Newman, producer and director of the project, has tapped his wife, actress Jaime King, for the unauthorized role. "A film about my lif...
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Religious War On A Global Scale? An Interview With Mark Juergensmeyer
As director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Mark Juergensmeyer brings the sociology of religion to bear on the analysis of violent conflict in the contemporary world....
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Utah Immigration List: Two State Employees ID’d As Source Of List Meant To Scare Immigrants
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah officials said Friday they have identified at least two state workers who apparently accessed confidential documents to create a list of 1,300 purported illegal immigrants that was mailed to law enforcement official...
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Top 5 White Collar Crimes: Eugene Gentsch Posed As Vet, Butchered Pets For Profit
The star of today's Top 5 White Collar Crimes is a man who not only scammed humans out of their money -- but deprived animals of their well-being, too. Eugene Laurence was recently bust...
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HUFFPOST HILL – JULY 13TH, 2010
Harry Reid didn't say much about his energy bill but did disclose that it deals with "pollution" which "means there's bad stuff in the air." Other politicians were a bit more forthcoming. Rand Paul thinks poor people should quit their yapping ...
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Obama Bypassing Senate To Fill Medicare Post
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama intends to use the congressional recess to bypass the Senate and appoint Dr. Donald Berwick, an expert on patient care who's drawn fire from the GOP, to oversee Medicare and Medicaid, the White House a...
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Churches, Nonprofits Fight For Survival Amid Spill
BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. — God only knows what will happen to churches and other nonprofit organizations who say they are struggling for survival because of the Gulf oil spill crisis. Months after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and its ...
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University Of Georgia President Makes AD Damon Evans’ Resignation Official
According to the Associated Press, University of Georgia president Michael Adams made an official announcement regarding the future athletic director Damon Evans in the wake of last week's DUI arrest. The announcement? Evans is officially resigning, ...
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