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Boy with Asperger's Syndrome Rides Subway for 11 Days

A 13-year-old boy with Asperger's Syndrome—a form of autism that often causes difficulty with social interaction—spent 11 days in the NYC subway system last month.

Pay What You Wish For Your Food

At A Better World Cafe you can pay what you think the meal is worth. Many pay more.

Going out Black Friday? Take a look at this.

It would appear that some retailers are a little on the slimy side when it comes to these "door-busting" deals...

No.....you don't say.

Black Friday Deals: The Only List You Need

Black Friday is a week away, and thousands of markdowns are already announced. Our master list of Giz-friendly deals—a hefty read—includes similar items priced differently at different stores. Keep it refreshed, cuz we'll be updating it all week.

“Hit The Bitch,” The Danish Domestic Volence Awareness Campaign

From the annals of good ideas gone horribly, horribly, wrong, comes this seriously misguided attempt at a domestic violence awareness campaign.

China's Weather Manipulation Brings Crippling Snowstorm to Beijing

China has long tinkered with Mother Nature's waterworks, even establishing a state organ -- the Beijing Weather Modification Office. Residents are growing weary of their leadership's control-freak tendencies.

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Dad Charged In Son's Execution

Police said Jamar Pinkney Sr. forced his son, Jamar Pinkney Jr., to get naked and then he led him out of his mother's Highland Park home Monday and shot him execution-style in the head in a nearby field.

AMA Acknowledges Medicinal Benefits of Marijuana

For 72 years, the AMA has kept their stance on marijuana constant, classifying it as a Schedule I type substance with no medical value.

Why Is Iran Importing Gasoline?

I mean besides the interest in jacking up gasoline price, why would an oil producing country purchase gasoline?

Baby dies while doctor plays game online

A 5-month old baby died in hospital while the doctor was playing a game online, an investigation has found.

<-- Not the baby

Women need to watch their drinks -- and their drinking

The rumors were everywhere. On Facebook. On Craigslist. At the coffee shop. Young women were being drugged at downtown bars. Someone was slipping them "date rape drugs," like the sedative Rohypnol or party drug GHB. They weren't being sexually assaulted. But someone was making them sick. It seemed like the stuff of urban legend.

American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars posts struggle

American Legion and VFW groups are slowly going away, even though there are thousands of Veterans who qualify, but aren't members.

Pet Cruelty Woman Loses Custody of Her Children

Not surprisingly, a judge ordered he woman who tortured and killed animals to lose custody of 6 out of her 7 children. The oldest, her son, age 21, will care for two of his sisters.
Alternative link if you can't see the Newsday article.

Times are tough, 9 Muppets evicted from Sesame Street

In 40 seasons, Sesame Street has featured over 1,000 characters. Although we’ll always have mainstays like Big Bird, Elmo, Bert and Ernie, many Muppets have been forgotten or deemed unnecessary.

"Easiest . . . arrest in history!"

And it will probably be the easiest conviction as well.

The True, Heartbreaking Faces of the Nuclear Era

There's something fascinating about the technological terror that humans have been developing to obliterate each other for centuries, so it's easy to forget about the real consequences of this mad race.

“Where are all the white guys?”

“Do I have the right to refuse this search.”

I can relate to this post, and that disturbs me.

Half a Million animals to be slaughtered to appease a Goddess

Billed as the world’s largest animal sacrifice fair, the event is expected to attract about five million Hindus. Despite protest from several quarters, the Nepal government has refused to intervene in the religious custom meant to appease Goddess Gadhimai where nearly 500,000 animals, including buffaloes, goats, ducks, roosters and pigeons will be sacrificed.

Framed for child porn _ by a PC virus

Heinous pictures and videos can be deposited on computers by viruses — the malicious programs better known for swiping your credit card numbers. In this twist, it's your reputation that's stolen.

Woman Tortured and Killed Neighbors Pets

A Long Island woman is suspected of torturing and killing as many as 20 cats and dogs — some of them belonging to her neighbors — before burying them behind her home. An update from her son.

Koran Verses Mysteriously Appear On Baby's Body

Ali Yakubov, a nine-month-old baby boy from Russia left doctors stupefied after the word Allah allegedly showed up on his chin when he was only a few weeks old.

Since then, verses from the Koran have emerged consistently on the infant’s back, arms, legs and stomach, before apparently fading away and being replaced with new ones.

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Most potential recruits for US military too fat, dumb, or drugged out

About 75% of Americans eligible as military recruits couldn't serve if they wanted to.

Racism in China Rears Its Ugly Head Online

After a young girl named Lou Jing competes in a televised singing competition in Shanghai, message boards go crazy with those attacking her based on the color of her skin and her background.

Enormous Jellyfish Sink Japanese Fishing Boat

Pink, slimy and repellent, the Nomura’s jellyfish is an authentic horror of the deep that's been assaulting Japan. Now the creatures have sunk a 10-ton fishing trawler.
*Never use peanut-butter for bait*