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  • Powerful women join Forbes list Powerful women join Forbes list

    Forbes has listed the world's most powerful woman for 2013 as Angela Merkel. She has become Forbes' number one for the 8th time. This year the list featured 8 heads of state, including the German Chancellor. Other women listed were two new billionaires to the list, women's clothing designer Tory Burch and Spanx's Sara Blakely, who both own their own companies. They were two of 24 ...

  • Amazon ventures into fan fiction promotion Amazon ventures into fan fiction promotion

    WASHINGTON - Amazon, the largest online retailer of books, movies, music and games, Friday offered its Kindle e-book platform to fan fiction authors to sell some of their work. Fan fiction is literature inspired by popular books, shows, movies, comics, music, and games. Publication outside of blogs and online fanzines is often difficult because of copyright issues. Amazon Publishing has ...

  • Direct antibody injection boosts cancer therapy

    William B. Coley , proposed in the 1890s that a substance in bacteria stimulated the immune system to attack cancer as well as infection. While Coley achieved some success in treating patients, he was opposed by close-minded ...

  • Thousands Of Jailed Russian Oligarchs May Finally Walk

    Russia's jailed tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky (L) being escorted in a courtroom in Moscow on December 30, 2010. Judge Viktor Danilkin handed down on December 27 a guilty verdict against Russia's former richest man, now in jail since 2003. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) Around 6,000 of Russia's jailed oligarchs, the multi-millionaire business men who ran afoul of the ...

  • Why Im Not Binge Watching Arrested Development

    , we wouldn't have had all of the episodes at once. That glut of episodes means that by the time the Memorial Day weekend is over, many fans will have already watched the entire season. Not me. Although I'm incredibly excited for the return of the Bluth family, I'm going to take my time with the Netflix season. In this case, I refuse to binge watch. Binge watching (which like ...


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Team America: World Police [DVD]

Team America: World Police [DVD]

Team America: World Police is an equal-opportunity offender satire for people in the middle -- you know, all those political independents who had a hard time making up their mind about who to vote for because theyre equally off-put by the Republicans holier-than-thou self ... ...

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  • The Whole Bluth And Nothing But The Bluth An Arrested Development FAQ

    releasing 15 brand new episodes Sunday at 3 a.m. EST, cultural literacy demands that you get up to speed. Herewith, an FAQ on some of the practical aspects of "Arrested Development's" ...

  • Rebuilding rules as rain soaks Jersey shore on Memorial Day weekend

    MANASQUAN, N.J. (AP) -- Saws and sledgehammers joined beer and barbecues -- under covered porches -- as a fixture of the first Memorial Day weekend at ...

  • The ugly truth Apple vs. PC design

    iPad Mini is also very practical for a lot of people. And pretty too (consumers and reviewers seem to think so). Pretty and practical are two reasons Apple can sell tens of millions of ...

  • Fracking energy revolution begins to rock the world

    FILE - In this March 29, 2013 file photo, workers tend to a well head during a hydraulic fracturing operation at an Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. gas well outside Rifle, in western Colorado. The Obama administration is proposing a rule that would require companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands to publicly disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations. The new ...

  • Samsung Debuts The New Galaxy S IV

    People interact with the Samsung Galaxy S IV, March 14, 2013 in New York City. Samsung, the world's largest handset maker, revealed their successor to the Galaxy S III. The Galaxy S IV features a five-inch 1080p screen, a 1.9GHz quad-core processor, a 13-megapixel rear camera and ships with the latest Android version, Jelly ...

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