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  1. EnglishLady

    What if ...... you won $12 million

    I like the idea of setting up a fund that the kids can only have when they are 40yrs. Also I would want to make sure that we have enough to make our retirement comfortable. I would like to be able to give some to some less well known charities. Question: For those that would take an annual...
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    Ill. governor weighs bill to abolish death penalty

    Guardian Jan 12 AP Political Writer= SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois again finds itself at the center of the death penalty debate as advocates on both sides wait to hear whether Gov. Pat Quinn will support abolishing capital punishment in a state that had 170 people awaiting execution...
  3. EnglishLady

    Detroits Cultural Decay

    The paper runs a monthly review of the best photographic exhibitions from around the world. Here is the link to The Ruins of Detroit Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre Photography :)
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    Antimatter caught streaming from thunderstorms on Earth

    BBC News jan 11 A space telescope has accidentally spotted thunderstorms on Earth producing beams of antimatter. Such storms have long been known to give rise to fleeting sparks of light called terrestrial gamma-ray flashes. But results from the Fermi telescope show they also give out...
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    Titanic Toad Is One Unhappy Hopper

    AOL She may not look like a happy hopper ... but who feels good about their weight right after the holidays? Agathe is a cane toad at the Hannover Zoo in Germany, and she wasn't singled out for her unflattering measurements -- the check was part of an annual animal inventory. Agathe...
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    'Factory in a box' brings manufacturing to the kitchen table

    Everyday household items could be created on the kitchen table by a "factory in a box" such as dishwasher knobs, bath plugs and even drinking bottles The Thing-O-Matic is a 3D printer which can create any object out of plastic within minutes. It was launched in Las Vegas this week and...
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    Masked vigilante Phoenix Jones suffers broken nose

    Telegraph Phoenix Jones, the masked superhero vigilante protecting the streets of a small American town, has had his nose broken and was threatened at gunpoint over the weekend The incident has prompted police to ask that he and others stop dressing up in costumes and instead notify the...
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    New James Bond film announced

    Telegraph British secret agent James Bond, 007, is set to return to cinemas for a 23rd version of the long-running and lucrative film franchise, its makers at EON Productions and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio said on Tuesday night The announcement follows MGM's emergence from bankruptcy...
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    Joe Biden says US troops in Afghanistan may stay

    BBC News Jan 11 US Vice-President Joe Biden has said that his country will not leave Afghanistan in 2014 if the Afghan people do not want them to go. Speaking alongside President Hamid Karzai, Mr Biden said that the two countries share a common goal of a stable, sovereign Afghanistan...
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    Canada lawsuit filed over car collisions with moose

    BBC News Two Canadians injured in car collisions with moose in Newfoundland have filed a class-action lawsuit against the province, claiming it has not properly controlled the animal's numbers. The pair filed the case against the provincial government in the Supreme Court of Newfoundland...
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