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LIFESTYLE

Eminem Winning The Celebrity Online Popularity Stakes

by Eric Taw 24 February 2011

Eminem, real name Marshall Bruce Mathers III, has been cleaning up recently in the online popularity stakes. Earlier on today, the rapper from Detroit overtook Lady Gaga for the amount of Facebook ‘likes’. He’d been threatening to catch up with Lady Gaga’s total all week, but 41,000 votes from Facebook fans took him 16,000 clear [...]

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Administration Refuses To Fight Back Against Same-Sex Suits

by Eric Taw 23 February 2011

President Obama’s administration has refused to defend Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage act in a court of law. In a move that is seen as highly significant, the President has said that when applied to same-sex legal marriage, the Act is not protecting equal rights as set out in the Fifth Amendment. The [...]

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Legislators Rush to Ban “Bath Salts” Drug Menace

by Eric Taw 17 February 2011

When people discussing drugs are talking about staying clean, there’s usually a good connotation to that phrase. The latest fad, however, in the world of recreational drugs takes cleanliness to the next disturbing level. “Bath Salts” are the new moniker for the latest craze in drugs, and the chemical compound that they’re made up of [...]

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Facebook Wants its Slice of the Mobile Market

by Eric Taw 11 February 2011

The Gods of social networking, Facebook, are to venture beyond the constraints of the online world by partnering with manufacturers to bring the Facebook phone. This foray into the physical world of gadgets will allow them even more access to people’s time, tying up the loose ends of when their users are between work, school, [...]

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Chinese Commuters Feeling The Heat Of Car Ownership

by Eric Taw 9 February 2011

The daily lives of commuters in China, no longer the land of bicycles, are starting to echo those of the West and it’s happening because the Chinese are getting richer. The current economic boom in China is leaving more money in the pockets of workers and now everybody wants their own car. Scenes in Shanghai [...]

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Silly Traffic For Royal Wedding Scilly Isles

by Eric Taw 7 February 2011

A small archipelago of islands off the South West coast of Britain has been all the rage this week with vacation hunters and royalists alike, as the rumors circulate that Prince William and Kate Middleton could be honeymooning there. Tourist websites dedicated to the quiet islands, famed for its Gulf Stream climate and lack of [...]

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Jihad Jane Agrees to Plead Guilty

by Eric Taw 1 February 2011

Colleen LaRose was once a normal woman in the US, going about a mundane existence just like a lot of other people. She lived with her boyfriend and took care of his elderly father while he worked. But her boyfriend started noticing that she was spending a lot of time on his computer and then [...]

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Charlie Sheen Released from Hospital

by Eric Taw 28 January 2011

The early morning hours on Thursday were undoubtedly a worrying time for the star of Two and a Half Men – Charlie Sheen. He was rushed to the hospital from his Malibu home with severe pain in the chest and stomach. The first thoughts and reports on the matter suggested that Sheen was overdosing. Probably [...]

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Manson Family to be Featured in New Film

by Eric Taw 26 January 2011

The name Charles Manson tends to bring about a picture of evil in the minds of many. As the ring leader of the famed family that carried out the Tate-Labianca murders, Manson managed to convince dozens of young people to do his bidding. This was the 1960’s when the US was in a time of [...]

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Jack Lalanne Dead at 96

by Eric Taw 25 January 2011

Fitness guru and pitchman Jack Lalanne died on Sunday after a long illness and a battle with pneumonia. Lalanne is best known as the grandfather who looked like Mr. Universe. For years he has pitched his fitness programs as well as other such products over the television and he has millions of fans the world [...]

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