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Reason magazine

I'm saddened to write that the great essayist and writer Christopher Hitchens is dead at the age of 62. He had been weakened by the cancer of the esophagus that he disclosed publicly in 2010 and the treatments he had undertaken to fight his illness.

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Washington Post

Federal investigators said Tuesday that they had uncovered “gross mismanagement” at the Dover Air Force Base mortuary that cares for America’s war dead after whistleblowers reported horror stories of lost body parts, shoddy inventory controls and lax

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The Political Commentator

Marketing a cash cow/mature product to a "hole" new customer! As the joke goes, cemeteries are a great business that people are just dying to get into. But how does one cemetery differentiate itself from the one across the street? Babbling

News Link • Global Reported By Michael Haltman
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online.wsj.com

Less than four months after racing driver Dan Wheldon won his second Indianapolis 500, the British champion was killed in a 15-car pile-up on at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Sunday in one of the final events of the motorsport season.

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arclein

Steve Jobs reportedly underwent both. His chemotherapy treatments at the Standard Cancer Center are now well known (http://www.marksmarketanalysis.com/...), and his secret radiotherapy treatments in Switzerland have now been made public by former A

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Politico

At one end of the fire hose were officers deployed by Bull Connor, the notoriously racist police commissioner fond of telling his men to use sticks, dogs and whatever else was necessary to scatter peaceful black protesters. At the business end was

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online.wsj.com

Steven P. Jobs, the Apple Inc. chairman and co-founder who pioneered the personal computer industry and changed the way people think about technology, died Wednesday at the age of 56.

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Premise The film takes place in a dystopian future in which the US government mandates total egalitarianism in all things, by having everyone attach wearable mind "handicapping" devices to their heads and showing only mind numbing shows on TV. The

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According to the witness:  "The policeman, Shawn Wilson, pulled Bill out of his property and a confrontation ensued.  Had Mr. Wilson ordered Bill to get out of his Automobile?  If not, it appears that the Officer Assaulted Bill.&n

Letters to the Editor • Global
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RawStory.com

Forty people died late Monday when a Russian plane crashed onto a highway near Petrozavodsk airport in Karelia, northwest Russia, the emergency situations ministry said as quoted by Russian news agencies.

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Lew Rockwell

John Hospers, the distinguished philosopher and libertarian scholar and sometime political activist, has died at the age of 94. I met John only briefly, two or three times, but I was familiar with his well-reasoned and jargon-free works.

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AP

As a young man, aspiring opera singer Norio Ohga wrote to Sony to complain about the quality of its tape recorders. The company promptly recruited the man whose love of music would shape the development of the compact disc and transform the Japanese

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John Howard Wooldridge, dead at 51, may he rest in peace. Frosty, Rex, Howard, Linda and our mother Vivien bid John a fond farewell.May his transition into a new facet of the spirit carry him and his pursuits to limitless heights.

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