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After Eight Years Of Bush Presidency American Life Is Suddenly One Million Dollars Cheaper

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It's not just the American dollar that's losing value. A government agency has decided that an American life isn't worth what it used to be.

The "value of a statistical life" is $6.9 million in today's dollars, the Environmental Protection Agency reckoned in May — a drop of nearly $1 million from just five years ago.

Commission Cracks Down On Bully Doctors

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Bullying doctors can make nurses afraid to question their performance, resulting in medical errors, according to a hospital group that announced new requirements for cracking down on intimidating behavior.

Latest Dictionary Debuts With About 100 New Words

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Why 4% Food Inflation Figure Is Bullshit (USA TODAY Article)

Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Tue, 2008-07-08 18:31.
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Rebecca Woods and her family in Lathrop, Mo., have turned to the land, planting hundreds of vegetables and relying on their own chickens for eggs.

Retirees Sally and Robert Jones of Alpine, Texas, have reverted back to some of the menus that got them through graduate school many years ago, l

Irish woman seeks 'husband' for beer

Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Mon, 2008-07-07 08:10.

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Julia Galvin came to Finland looking for a man that would carry her 120 kg over a 253-metres track – the incentive being the chance to win the wife-carrying world title and beer worth her body weight.

Feelings 2.0

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No doubt you've heard about file sharing. How about feeling sharing? That's exactly what Peegly.Com founders strived to do. Since you can share just about anything online now, from expenses to music files, why not human emotions?

Here is how site founders describe the service:

Kung-Fu Capitalism. The business empire of Jackie Chan.

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Widely portrayed as kung fu's loveable goofy hero, Jackie Chan's wide-ranging business empire attests to a very different persona; a driven, ambitious man whose financial acumen is more fearsome than his fist.

Man sells soul for $3,800 ... to a pizza joint

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A New Zealand man has sold his soul to hell -- Hell Pizza, that is.

The New Zealand pizza chain said Thursday it had struck a deal with Walter Scott, 24, to buy a deed to his soul, shortly after an online auction site that initially agreed to the sale withdrew it from the Internet because of complaints it was in bad taste.

Australians making odd choices for funeral songs

Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Thu, 2008-07-03 08:46.

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ADELAIDE, Australia -- Hymns are being replaced at funerals in one Australian city by popular rock classics like Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" and AC/DC's "Highway to Hell," a cemetery manager said Wednesday.

Man Wants To Change His Name To 'Fuck Censorship'. Judge Says 'No'.

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SANTA FE, N.M. - A New Mexico appeals court on Friday ruled against a Los Alamos man who wanted to change his name to a phrase containing a popular four-letter obscenity.

The man appealed after a state district judge in Bernalillo County refused his request to change his name to "F--- Censorship!"

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