(CNN) -- Leo Durocher was right: Nice guys finish last. Or at least they earn less, according to a new study. "'Niceness' -- in the form of agreeableness -- does not appear to pay," the authors conclude starkly. There are upsides to being nice in t ...
Posted Tuesday, August 16th 2011 at 10:59AM
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The detention of a Kuwaiti man for 10 years at Guantanamo Bay highlights the difficulties of establishing a defendant's possible links with al Qaeda after 9/11 and whether they might remain or become a threat if freed.
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Posted Tuesday, August 16th 2011 at 10:52AM
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NIAGARA FALLS—Michael Conner saw her just before she (Japanese student studying in Canada) fell. Dressed in a bright red hoodie and wearing big sunglasses, the woman was talking and taking pictures with a friend. She had climbed up on one of several ...
Posted Tuesday, August 16th 2011 at 10:16AM
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CULLMAN, Ala. — On a sofa in the hallway of his office here, Mitchell Williams, the pastor of First United Methodist Church, announced that he was going to break the law. He is not the only church leader making such a declaration these days. Thousan ...
Posted Monday, August 15th 2011 at 7:59PM
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(CNN) -- Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel has made an emotional appeal after his father was abducted in his native Nigeria. "Please just let him go," he told Sky Sports News. "He's just an old man, he hasn't done any harm to anyone as far as I know ...
Posted Monday, August 15th 2011 at 5:06PM
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Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies is pleased to offer. We offer an innovative online Master of Science graduate program as well as our program uses some of the most advanced Web-based technology in the nation.
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Posted Monday, August 15th 2011 at 4:58PM
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She calls it the most honest conversation she's ever had with sex offenders. Oprah sits down with four admitted child molesters for a frank, graphic discussion of their crimes. Watch the two-hour conversation in its entirety—an Oprah.com exclusive. ...
Posted Monday, August 15th 2011 at 4:44PM
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Posted Monday, August 15th 2011 at 4:05PM
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A double bombing kills 34 people and leaves 68 wounded Monday in the central Iraqi city of Kut, authorities told CNN.
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Posted Monday, August 15th 2011 at 3:37PM
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LOS ANGELES -- At dawn on July 19, nearly 40 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security Immigration (HSI) agents burst into the home home of Carmen Bonilla, 44. The agents were searching for "Robert" an alleged drug dealer, but ...
Posted Monday, August 15th 2011 at 1:57PM
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(Parental Advisory) Lil Wayne's highly anticipated ninth studio album, 'Tha Carter IV,' will make its debut on August 29 and the tattooed rhymer is serving up some more tracks for his legion of fans. The 28-year-old, known for showing up and showing ...
Posted Monday, August 15th 2011 at 1:10PM
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This one goes out to all the pop music icons who perform double duty as mothers and still manage to top the charts, build empires as entrepreneurs, and look absolutely fabulous. We've compiled a photo gallery of our favorite hardworking music moms r ...
Posted Monday, August 15th 2011 at 1:04PM
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August 14, 2011
In exactly one month, America will observe the tenth anniversary of that dreadful day when our country, in so many ways, lost her innocence. Between now and then we will read many thoughtful writings and see many poignant programs ...
Posted Sunday, August 14th 2011 at 10:57PM
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When Sudanese supermodel Alek Wek was 14 years old, she left South Sudan in the heat of civil war. Her family, fleeing both rebel and government forces, trekked through the bush for months, leading to her father's leg infection, paralysis and death. ...
Posted Sunday, August 14th 2011 at 10:46PM
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No Somali mother should have to choose which child to pick up and feed, and which toddler to lay down and "leave him behind to his God on the road." The world has food and resources enough that no parent should be forced to face such a "Sophie's Cho ...
Posted Sunday, August 14th 2011 at 10:39PM
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According to the AFP, on July 15, 2010, a 19-year-old man was bitten by a vampire bat in Michoacan, Mexico. Ten days later, the migrant farm worker left for the U.S. to pick sugar cane at a Louisiana plantation. He fell sick, presenting symptoms of f ...
Posted Sunday, August 14th 2011 at 7:20PM
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Bert and Ernie will not be getting married. To each other, or anyone else.
The demands of a petition calling for Bert and Ernie to get married, which has become an internet sensation in the last few years, has been gently denied by the Sesame St ...
Posted Sunday, August 14th 2011 at 7:06PM
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ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty dropped out of the race for the GOP presidential nomination on Sunday, hours after finishing a disappointing third in the Iowa straw poll. "I wish it would have been different. But obviously the ...
Posted Sunday, August 14th 2011 at 6:56PM
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TORONTO - The CN Tower's latest attraction, which opens to the public on Monday, allows those with nerves of steel to walk on the edge -- literally. EdgeWalk lets thrill-seekers walk hands free along a 1.5-metre-wide ledge around the top of the tower ...
Posted Sunday, August 14th 2011 at 5:41PM
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The Capture of the Green River Killer is a 2008 2-part TV movie that first aired on Lifetime Television and tells the story of the Green River killer serial murders between 1982 and 1998. The film is based on the true story of serial murderer Gary Ri ...
Posted Sunday, August 14th 2011 at 5:51AM
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP)—Recognized for his basketball talents, Dennis Rodman instead talked about his personal shortcomings. He hasn’t been a very good husband or father. His relationship with his mother has been strained. But he had four men he cou ...
Posted Sunday, August 14th 2011 at 4:44AM
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Isaiah 54:17
The Message (MSG)
If anyone attacks you,
don't for a moment suppose that I sent them,
And if any should attack,
nothing will come of it.
I create the blacksmith
who fires up his forge
and makes a weapon designe ...
Posted Saturday, August 13th 2011 at 6:21AM
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I'm a former Member of Congress. If more than 100,000 of us sign this petition, I will go to Washington, DC, myself, and I will deliver it personally to the White House.
-Alan
We Are Against Any and Every Cut to Social Security, Medicare and ...
Posted Saturday, August 13th 2011 at 6:04AM
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Once upon a time, not so long ago, it was an expected and accepted practice to assume a husband's surname. Any deviation from that was viewed with suspicion. After all, it's part of the marriage contract to give up references to a previous life...or ...
Posted Friday, August 12th 2011 at 7:00PM
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