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Harvard Endowment Passes $25 Billion

BOSTON (AP) - Harvard University’s riches
have surged past $25 billion, the school announced Friday, but the news
came amid signs that the world’s wealthiest university is struggling
to find a permanent CEO for […]

Harvard Endowment Passes $25 Billion

BOSTON (AP) - Harvard University’s riches
have surged past $25 billion, the school announced Friday, but the news
came amid signs that the world’s wealthiest university is struggling
to find a permanent CEO for […]

Harvard Endowment Passes $25 Billion

BOSTON (AP) - Harvard University’s riches
have surged past $25 billion, the school announced Friday, but the news
came amid signs that the world’s wealthiest university is struggling
to find a permanent CEO for […]

There Is No Iraq

Everyone is wrong — from the arrogant
neo-clowns who brought you this war to the mindless bureaucrats who maintain
it to the well-intentioned intellectuals that are grasping for a decent
and humane way out. […]

Can’t Look, Can’t Look Away

Human
nature being what it is, we were unable to read one more story about
the porno site offering GI’s free
access in return for gory pictures from Iraq and Afghanistan without
[…]

Ready for Next Season

Nature
Physics magazine explains the
secret for building the perfect sand castle - but only 7 people in the
world can understand it, and none of them has ever been to the […]

Suck a Fisherman’s Friend for Luck

Sucking a Fishermen’s Friend could get you into trouble
Police in Germany are warning motorists that sucking a Fishermen’s Friend could get them into trouble.
It comes after a 24-year-old driver was found to be over the legal drink-drive limit during a routine control in Munich.
He was taken to the police station where blood tests found he […]

Penile Panacea: Licensed to Kill

As
part of our continuing efforts to warn Americans of the growing Wave
of Asian Weirdness represented by the emergence of the demographic colossus
China on the world stage,
[…]

The Gray Lady Strays into Pay to Play

As all regular on-line readers undoubtedly
know by now, the gray lady of American journalism, the New York Times,
as gone to a two-tiered system for their web content - just the facts,
m’am, […]

Photo of the Day

No story to go with this photo, we just liked the look of it. Perhaps because the wild blue yonder represents the light at the end of a long, dark seven months of teaching without a break, due to end its limited engagement Dec. 9th.

Why We Need to Watch the Chinese, But Not Too Closely

Woman, 71, pulls car with teeth

A 71-year-old woman has pulled a car for 65ft - with her teeth - in
China.
Wang Xiaobei performed the stunt with a car weighing more than a tonne
[…]

Divine Nine

Back
in the early 1960’s, five young dudes moved separately to New York City
from different states.  They
met at the basketball courts at Green and Washington streets, where a
[…]


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