SELDOM n. (\ˈsel-dəm\): A discouraging word.

Obama admin. demands justification for health insurer's 39 percent rate hike

Seeded on Tue Feb 9, 2010 11:43 AM EST (Raw Story)

Insurer spent nearly $9.5 million lobbying against health reforms; CEO's annual salary tops $10 million It's an issue that strikes at the core of America's health reform debate: How much should one have to pay to ensure their health care needs are met?

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'Reality' Show Lets You Decide If Women Get Abortions?

Seeded on Mon Feb 8, 2010 10:47 AM EST (AlterNet.org)

A new web show called "BUMP+" is stirring up controversy and conversation about abortion. It's a "fake" reality show in which three actresses portray women facing unintended pregnancies.

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Former Mexican official urges legalizing marijuana

Seeded on Mon Feb 8, 2010 10:35 AM EST (CNN)

The United States and Mexico should both legalize marijuana in an attempt to break the power of the Mexican drug cartels and end the spiraling violence south of the border, a former Mexican foreign minister said Tuesday.

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Battling Spammers Using 'Contact This Author' Feature

Sun Feb 7, 2010 11:12 AM EST

Looks like spammers are using sitemail to do their bidding. This is an example of the most recent message:Subject: love Name: elizamark Email: hmmd_b@yahoo.com

Continue reading this entry ...

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Court says '80s hit `Down Under' copies kids' song

Seeded on Thu Feb 4, 2010 11:06 AM EST (Yahoo! News)

Australian band Men at Work copied a well-known children's campfire song for the flute melody in its 1980s hit "Down Under" and owes the owner years of royalties, a court ruled Thursday.

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Lesbian albatrosses to raise their chick

Seeded on Wed Feb 3, 2010 1:50 PM EST (Independent.co.uk)

Two females set up 'unusual' family unit after successfully incubating egg When two female royal albatrosses at a New Zealand breeding colony embarked on a lesbian relationship, there were some raised eyebrows.

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Students failing because of Twitter, texting

Seeded on Wed Feb 3, 2010 12:25 PM EST (CANOE -- CNEWS)

Little or no grammar teaching, cellphone texting, social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, all are being blamed for an increasingly unacceptable number of post-secondary students who can't write properly.

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Andrew Wakefield found 'irresponsible' by GMC over MMR vaccine scare

Seeded on Tue Feb 2, 2010 5:13 PM EST (Guardian Unlimited)

Andrew Wakefield, the doctor who claimed to have discovered a link between measles virus, bowel diseases and autism and thereby sparked widespread fear of the combined MMR jab, conducted unnecessary, invasive tests on children, the General Medical Council found today.

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Why do people vote against their own interests?

Seeded on Tue Feb 2, 2010 12:21 PM EST (BBC News)

The Republicans' shock victory in the election for the US Senate seat in Massachusetts meant the Democrats lost their supermajority in the Senate. This makes it even harder for the Obama administration to get healthcare reform passed in the US.

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Texas D.A. Prosecutes Girl, 13, For Prostitution While Her Pimp, 32, Walks

Seeded on Mon Feb 1, 2010 5:27 PM EST (humantrafficking.change.org)

They say everything is bigger in Texas, and the king-sized failures of the justice system are no exception.

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Mafia's annual results show loan sharks doing well

Seeded on Mon Feb 1, 2010 2:34 PM EST (nrc.nl)

Italy's mafia crime syndicates' turnover grew by 5 billion euros to 135 billion euros last year, according Italian small business and shopkeepers' association Confesercenti.

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Rome's Ancient Aqueduct Found : Discovery News

Seeded on Mon Feb 1, 2010 2:28 PM EST (Discovery.com)

The entry to the aqueduct was found through a secret door in a ruined chapueduct was found through a secret door in a ruined chapel.The long-sought source of the aqueduct that brought clean fresh water to ancient Rome lies beneath a pig pasture and a ruined chapel, according to a …

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Can Google really kill IE6?

Seeded on Mon Feb 1, 2010 2:24 PM EST (thenextweb.com)

When Google announced yesterday that it was to start phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6, a million web developers will have cheered. Is this the big catalyst the "Kill IE6″ campaign needs?

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Poll: Most states remain blue

Seeded on Mon Feb 1, 2010 2:06 PM EST (Politico)

Despite strong Republican performances in recent off-year elections, most states still favor Democratic candidates, according to a new survey by Gallup.

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School system in Va. won't teach version of Anne Frank book

Seeded on Mon Feb 1, 2010 12:24 PM EST (The Washington Post)

Culpeper County public school officials have decided to stop assigning a version of Anne Frank's diary, one of the most enduring symbols of the atrocities of the Nazi regime, after a parent complained that the book includes sexually explicit material and homosexual themes.

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Memories of the Holocaust: Kitty Hart-Moxon

Seeded on Mon Feb 1, 2010 12:20 PM EST (Guardian Unlimited)

In Birmingham, after the war, ­people would ask Auschwitz ­survivor Kitty Hart-Moxon about the tattoo on her forearm: "Is that your boyfriend's telephone number?" "People simply knew nothing," says Kitty.

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Schools prohibit anti-hate banners

Seeded on Mon Feb 1, 2010 12:14 PM EST (wyomingnews.com)

School board members in Wheatland rejected a request this week to put back up banners for an anti-hate campaign at several of their schools. The reason: They were sponsored by a gay and lesbian organization.

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'Calvin and Hobbes' Creator Watterson: No Regrets Ending Strip 15 Years Ago

Seeded on Mon Feb 1, 2010 11:08 AM EST (Editor & Publisher)

In what's believed to be the first interview granted by the reclusive creator of "Calvin and Hobbes" in more than a decade, Bill Watterson tells the Plain Dealer in Cleveland that he has no regrets about ending the strip 15 years ago.

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Miramax Dies: Rest in Peace

Seeded on Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:46 PM EST (thewrap.com)

It's been a slow death, but Miramax dies on Thursday. The New York and Los Angeles offices of the arthouse movie studio owned by Disney will close.

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Australian Gov. Bans Small Breasts, Female Ejaculation

Seeded on Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:43 PM EST (inquisitr.com)

Any pretense from the Australian Government that its proposed internet filter will not extend to millions of sites has died with news that the Government has banned small breasts and female ejaculation in adult material.

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Hispanics in the crosshairs

Seeded on Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:32 PM EST (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

On July 12, 2008, six white teenagers confronted Luis Eduardo Ramirez Zavala... Screaming racial slurs at him, the teens viciously kicked and beat him. He died in intensive care two days later.

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Fox Nation touts "hero" labeling of Obama photos, ignores that it's a photographic term

Seeded on Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:25 PM EST (Media Matters for America)

The Fox Nation highlighted a Mediaite post claiming that "the individual responsible for the naming convention of the presidential imagery on the official White House website has literally 'given' hero status to the photos" of President Obama because the file names of "all the Pr …

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Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger

Seeded on Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:34 PM EST (The Onion)

CORNISH, NH—In this big dramatic production that didn't do anyone any good (and was pretty embarrassing, really, if you think about it), thousands upon thousands of phonies across the country mourned the death of author J.D. Salinger

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The Problem with the Apple iPad

Seeded on Thu Jan 28, 2010 1:59 PM EST (Lifehacker)

Yesterday, Steve Jobs worked his charm, attempting to wow the world with the Apple iPad, a new, super-slim computer he touted as the missing link between iPhones and laptops. It's an undeniably beautiful device, but it also represents some serious problems.

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J.D. Salinger Dies at 91: The Hermit Crab of American Letters

Seeded on Thu Jan 28, 2010 1:49 PM EST (TIME)

Take the austere little paperbacks down from the shelf and you can hold the collected works of J.D. Salinger — one novel, three volumes of stories — in the palm of one hand.

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