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More Federal Dollars Go To Twinkies Than Fruits And Vegetables

Hear me out:  I'm not against eating Twinkies.  Hell - eat what you want.  But somehow this story doesn't sound right.
In its efforts to curb the nation's obesity epidemic, the U.S. government seems to be taking inspiration from the infamous Twinkie diet, with more federal dollars going to subsidize the production of junk food than to growing fresh fruits and vegetables

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Missing Lunar Rock Turns Up In Former President Clinton’s Arkansas Files

You would have thought they would have unearthed this when  they were searching former President Clinton's files for information related to Whitewater or Monica Lewinsky.

The missing Good Will Rocks - samples from the moon - have turned up in Clinton's old gubernatorial papers

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Guess How Many Americans Don’t Have Enough Saved To Cover A $1000 Emergency

To tell you the truth, I believed the percentage would be higher. When we consider the number of Americans out of work, under-employed, and part -time workers, the figure sounds reasonable.
 

According to a recent study from The National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC), 33 percent of Americans do not have a savings account of at least $1,000 or more to cover emergency expenses.

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‘Ziggy’ Creator Tom Wilson Dead at 80

Tom Wilson, who created the comic strip ‘Ziggy,’ has died at the age of 80, due to complications from pneumonia.

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Is ‘White House Gate-Crasher’ Michaele Salahi Missing?

Michaele and Tareq Salahi, best known as the “White House gate-crashers” and the sometime stars of ‘Real Housewives of DC,’ may or may not be in the midst of a true crime drama.

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Post Office Turns To Small-Town Mini-Mart For Savings

Something has to be done, and this sounds like a reasonable idea. Maybe the cost of stamps will go down as a result. You're not buying that are ya? Me neither.
The Postal Service, a government-supervised private operation running billions of dollars in the red, wants to cut costs by closing as many as 3,700 small post offices and replacing some of them with what it calls "village post offices."

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Ozzy Osbourne And Al an Jackson Help Find Missing Autistic Boy

A missing 8 year old boy in California was found when searchers blasted music from his two favorite artists:  Ozzy Osbourne and Alan Jackson.
Joshua Robb, who ran away from a school playground in Twin Peaks on Monday to look for his mom and dad, was found in good shape Tuesday afternoon, more than 24 hours after he went missing, the Los Angeles Times reported

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Amelia Earhart’s Goggles Sell For $17,775

I've been fascinated by Amelia Earhart for years. Researching several stories and books about her life and last flight have left me with more questions than answers. Somebody bought several pieces of history.

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Misspelling On 9/11 Memorial

Architectural plans:  check.  City permits:  check.  Stone mason to build the memorial:  check.  Ceremony to commemorate the 10th year since September 11th:  check.  Spell-check for names listed on the memorial wall --

Seems that a name of one of the 9/11 victims has made it to marble with an incorrect spelling

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President Obama’s Uncle Released From Jail

Onyango Obama - the uncle of President Barack Obama, was released from jail over the weekend.

Obama was arrested last month on a drunken-driving charge.

Obama's uncle freed from custody after drunk-driving arre

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A Look Back at Iconic Images of 9/11/01 [PHOTOS]

The images that emerged in the hours and weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks have been imprinted in many of our minds. With the 10-year anniversary of the attacks, we take a look back at some of the more iconic pictures from the attacks.

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Touching Animated Shorts From 9/11 Initiative Honor Lives Lost [VIDEOS]

Working with the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, the oral history project StoryCorps is on a mission to record at least one story honoring each of the victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center that occurred on February 26, 1993 and on September 11, 2001.

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