Sadly, last night's brawl between the Los Angeles Sparks and the Detroit Shock will probably be the only storyline that puts the WNBA above the fold for the rest of the regular season. As far as sports melees go, it was monumental; it involved two of…
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Plans for Rhee to Discuss Pay Proposal Criticized
Continued tensions within the leadership of the Washington Teachers' Union over contract talks with the D.C. school system broke into the open yesterday as two members of the group's executive board protested plans for Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee to…
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Shopping Cart Washing Machine Ensures at Least One Thing in the Grocery Store is Safe to Put in Your Mouth [Cleanliness]
Shopping carts are festering hotbeds of germs and disease, or so one would think seeing the expense Chevy Chase Supermarket has put into installing shopping car washing machines in their store. The fancy new machine sprays down every cart in the store…
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Education & crime
Mayor Carcetti might be right. In The Wire, hes cutting police spending in order to protect the education budget. This might make sense even in terms of reducing crime, at least in the long run*. This new paper estimates that increasing high school…
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Ethan Hawke And The Nanny Had A Baby
Ethan Hawke And The Nanny Had A Baby Meth faced Ethan Hawke and his new wifey, Ryan Shawhughes, had a baby last Friday in NYC reports UsWeekly. Her name is MyDaddyIsACheatingSkeeze Hawke. No, her name is Clementine Jane Hawke. Like the orange or like the…
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Two Weeks of Shopping - Two Weeks Under Budget
The past two weeks, Ive managed to come in significantly under budget on grocery shopping.ÃÂ Which is no big mystery - my parents visited for a week, so one of those two weeks, we ate dinner out a lot of the time courtesy of my parents.ÃÂ My parents like…
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Matthew McConaughey shouldn't be allowed in a delivery room
Matthew McConaughey's longtime girlfriend Camila Alves gave birth to their son Levi Alves McConaughey on July 7, and two weeks later, they popped him on the cover of OK! Magazine for a cool $3 mil. Thankfully, unlike the Jessica Alba and Jamie Lynn…
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Heres the Autistic Adults
Researchers pulling back the veil on adult autism read the headline in a Vancouver Sun article on July 20th. Noting that autism, and in particular Asperger Syndrome, is being recognized in more and more adults, the article cites these examples: A doctor…
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