Ninjas rescue student from muggers
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/ninjas-rescue-student-from-thugs/story-e6frf7l6-1225868928257
A STUDENT has been saved from a vicious assault - not by the boys in blue but the men in black.
Ninjas scared off three thugs who had the misfortune...
Bieber nominated for black music award
Posted Wed May 19, 2010 9:00am AEST
Baby-faced Canadian teenager Justin Bieber has scored a nomination for a 2010 Black Entertainment Television (BET) award.
Bieber, 16, will compete in the best new artist category.
The BET awards typically honour black...
http://citynoise.org/article/10623/by
As soon as Shepard Fairey's "May Day" mural at the corner of Houston and the Bowery was installed to advertise for his show at NYC's Deitch Projects, it immediately became a magnet for the city's taggers and bombers to leave some very high profile marks...
They Came. They Sawed.
In 1973 a ragtag group of Texans scrounged up $60,000 and created a film so violent and visionary that it shocked the world. But if you thought The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was strange, then you haven’t heard the story of how it got made.
by John Bloom
MORE THAN THIRTY...
Hotshot sniper in one-and-a-half mile double kill
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7113916.ece
A BRITISH Army sniper has set a new sharpshooting distance record by killing two Taliban machinegunners in Afghanistan from more than a mile away.
Craig Harrison, a...
On this day in 1886, workers were killed by police in Chicago for striking to get an 8 hour day. International Workers' Day is a holiday to commemorate this occasion..a holiday celebrated worldwide...EXCEPT in the United States
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/04/cuban-health-lessons/
What Cuba Can Teach Us About Health Care
Just a morning’s boat ride from the tip of Florida is a place where medical costs are low and doctors plentiful. It’s Cuba, and Stanford University physician Paul Drain says it’s time for...
So long, nerds! Syfy doesn’t need you
Network’s programming shakeups deliver the ‘SmackDown’ to sci-fi fans
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/36698985/ns/today-entertainment/
By Ree Hines
TODAYshow.com contributor
updated 6:26 p.m. CT, Tues., April 27, 2010
Presumably fulfilling its...
These are a few pictures from my trip to Thailand, not the best or the worst, just a random sample. Obviously I've already taken the pictures so there isn't anything I can do about the subject or composition, but I was wondering if there was anything I could do now that they've been taken to...
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html
A PowerPoint diagram meant to portray the complexity of American strategy in Afghanistan certainly succeeded in that aim.
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
Published: April 26, 2010
WASHINGTON — Gen...
Full Text of Human Rights Record of the United States in 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-03/12/c_13208219.htm
Below is a summary of the report:
From: Chinese report documents human rights disaster in the United States
19 March 2010 by Patrick Martin...
How Do Movie Theaters Decide Which Trailers To Show?
By stereotyping their audiences.
By Hillary BusisUpdated Thursday, April 15, 2010, at 10:14 AM ET
Before seeing Clash of the Titans in 3-D, filmgoers at AMC theaters must sit through previews for the Nightmare on Elm Street remake, Salt...