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How to behave on Instagram
Instagram has had a big, big, big last couple of weeks: Its Android app dropped at the beginning of April, and Facebook recently acquired the photo-sharing service for a whopping $1 billion.
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Justice Department investigates handling of rape allegations in Montana
The U.S. Justice Department has launched a probe into allegations that up to 80 complaints of sexual assault were not investigated thoroughly in a college town in Montana.
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Prominent blogger: ‘I’m leaving the Internet for a year’
Maybe it seems like the fastest way for a gadget-and-technology blogger to commit career suicide, but Paul Miller gave up the Internet at midnight Tuesday.
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Why Occupy May Day fizzled
Occupy Wall Street called on the masses to skip work and school on May 1, and to close their wallets. All this was supposed to amount to a general strike, if not an American Spring. Some even talked about bringing down capitalism. But the small demonst…
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Chinese activist leaves U.S. Embassy on ‘own volition’
A Chinese human rights activist who escaped house arrest and took refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing left for a hospital Wednesday, raising questions about the future of a man at the center of a controversy between the United States and China.
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Do you need a BA, MA, MBA, JD, and PhD?
Over the last several decades, the reasons used to justify acquiring a university education has morphed from the academic to the applied, to the sublime and the ridiculous.
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My Mother’s Day gift to me: Joyful parenting
I am exhausted from the middle of the night “Will she or won’t she throw up?” session.
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Obama vows to ‘finish the job’ in Afghanistan
President Barack Obama marked the first anniversary of the death of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden with an unannounced trip to Afghanistan, where he reiterated that U.S. troops will not remain in the country “a single day longer” than necessary.
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Coroner mystified by death of British spy in bag
It is unlikely that the death of a British spy found at his home in 2010 — his naked body padlocked inside a large red carrying bag stowed in the bathtub — will ever be satisfactorily explained, coroner Fiona Wilcox said Wednesday.
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Six killed, dozens injured in Egypt clashes
Assailants targeted protesters demonstrating against the barring of a presidential candidate in Cairo early Wednesday, killing six, the Health Ministry said.
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South Africa’s rooibos a hit with tea lovers across the world
In cafes across Cape Town, brewing the perfect cup of rooibos has become a fine art.
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Cricket pitch to parliament: Sachin Tendulkar’s political move
From the boisterous crowds of stadia to a noisy assembly of mostly politicians, India’s cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar faces a new test.
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Takedown: How the media almost blew Obama’s secret trip to Afghanistan
Hours before the official announcement that President Barack Obama had landed in Kabul, Afghanistan for a surprise visit, the media — both social and electronic — were already buzzing with reports about the trip.
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Election could swing in swingy D.C. suburbs
President Barack Obama arrives in Richmond this weekend for his first official campaign visit to the battleground state of Virginia, a hyped rally that is mobilizing both Republican and Democratic ground troops for the general election.
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Australian billionaire to build Titanic replica
An Australian mining magnate has commissioned a Chinese shipyard to build a replica of the ill-fated Titanic, complete in every detail but equipped with modern technology to prevent a repeat of the original’s fateful maiden voyage 100 years ago.
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Rights group documents ‘war crimes’ in Syria
As international envoy Kofi Annan negotiated a cease-fire in Syria, government forces raided opposition strongholds, killing and detaining residents in attacks amounting to war crimes, a rights group said Wednesday.
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Is workplace boredom ‘the new stress?’
Boredom is an unlikely new frontier in workplace research. Commonly associated with goofing off, taking absurdly long lunch-breaks, and playing internet games on the sly, new studies suggest it’s something that affects high-performing employees as well…
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EU leaders snub Euro 2012 finals due to Ukraine’s human rights row
Pressure is mounting on Ukraine to clean up its human rights record ahead of the Euro 2012 finals next month, with the EU Commission’s president the latest high-profile leader to boycott the football championships.
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Rupert Murdoch not fit to run business, UK lawmakers rule
Global media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is “not a fit person” to run a major international company, British lawmakers investigating phone hacking at his tabloid News of the World reported Tuesday.
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Two very different characters rewriting China’s script
They are two men, separated by a gulf of power and privilege. One was born of the Chinese Communist Party, the son of a revolutionary hero and seemingly destined to shape China’s destiny; the other has lived in the shadow of the state, poor, persecuted…
