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Teen Depression’s Latest Foe: Video Game ‘SPARX’

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Depression in teens has a new foe in the form of a video game called “SPARX.” The game, whose name stands for Smart, Positive, Active, Realistic, X-factor thoughts, was developed in New Zealand by a team of researchers looking for ways to teach kids to fight depression. Sally Mary, M.D., a researcher at the University of [...]

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Hillary Duff: Baby Luca Living Off Breastmilk ‘Rewarding’

‘American Idol’ Boots Colton Dixon

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“American Idol” delivered a shocking blow, as 20-year-old Colton Dixon of Murfreesboro, Tennessee was booted from the reality TV show Thursday evening. The alt-rock singer admitted that Wednesday’s performance was not his best, as he struggled through renditions of Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” and Earth Wind and Fire’s “September.” Speaking to the show’s judges, who were [...]

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‘Pregnant Man’ Announces Separation From Wife

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The “Pregnant Man” Thomas Beatie has announced he is currently separated from his wife of 9 years. Beatie, 38, is the world’s first documented transgender male to give birth. Beatie announced the separation on CBS program “The Doctors.” The show has previously aired interviews with Thomas and his family about his female-to-male surgery. Thomas, who [...]

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‘Movie Trailer Guy’ Impression Goes Viral For 14-Year-Old [Video]

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‘Movie Trailer Guy’ Don LaFontaine could have a successor: a gravelly-voiced 14-year-old who uploaded his own movie trailer voiceover impression to YouTube. Everybody who’s seen a film trailer in the past thirty years will know LaFontaine’s voice: that deep, throaty near-growl that would often introduce trailers with the words “In a world where …” is [...]

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Orlando Magic Center Dwight Howard Done For Season, Will Undergo Surgery

Oreo Breast Milk Ad Should Never Have Gone Public, Says Kraft

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A South Korean advert that sells Oreo biscuits with a picture of a baby breastfeeding has leaked to the public, provoking an outcry. The ad shows a mother’s breast (the nipple is partially exposed), and Oreo’s slogan – ‘Milk’s Favorite Cookie’ – at the bottom. I’m guessing the pun is fully intended. Food giant Kraft, [...]

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Starbucks No Longer Using Dead Insects To Color Specialty Drinks

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After receiving more than 6,500 letters to email accounts at its corporate headquarters Starbucks on Thursday announced that it would no longer use dead insects to color its speciality drinks. The company received the emails after Change.org setup a campaign to end the use of cochineal extract, a coloring agent that is created with the [...]

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Japan Whopper Burger Ordered With 1,050 Bacon Strips [Video]

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Japan – - A Whopper burger garnished with 1,050 bacon strips has defeated an ambitious diner who took advantage of a new Burger King promotion. Burger King Japan is currently offering customers the chance to add an additional 15 slices of bacon to their order for a mere ¥100, or $1.25. After hearing of this, [...]

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Rihanna’s ‘White Powder’ Pic On Twitter Causes Outrage

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Rihanna has tweeted pictures of herself at the Coachella 2012 festival, where she is seen handling a white powdery substance on top of her bodyguard’s head. The pictures were posted to the star’s Instagram account, but have since been deleted. Of course, because the Internet never forgets, you can see the offending pictures above and [...]

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Nicolette Sheridan Granted Desperate Housewives Retrial

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Desperate Housewives is all but over, capping off its eighth and final season in May, but legal wrangling between the show and ousted star Nicolette Sheridan has been going on for what seems like forever. And the off-screen drama is set to continue, with a lawsuit filed by Nicolette Sheridan against the network on which the [...]

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Nancy Pelosi ‘Disgusted’ Over Secret Service Hooker Scandal

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Following the salacious tale of several Secret Service agents consorting with paid sex workers during a conference in Colombia, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has said the incident is “disgusting,” a “disgrace,” “disconcerting,” and added that the alleged actions on the part of the Secret Service agents was “every D-word you can think of.” (Douchey. Nancy Pelosi [...]

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Joe Paterno Estate Given $5.7 Million

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Long-time Penn State coach Joe Paterno passed away in January and now his estate has received $5.7 million from his former employer, the very university that fired JoePa for failure to properly report Jerry Sandusky for suspected sexual assault against children, even though Paterno had directly reported Sandusky to school officials. The $5.7 million includes [...]

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Lindsay Lohan Started Nightclub Fight, Another Witness Comes Forward

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Lindsay Lohan came under fire once again over the last week when she allegedly started a fight at The Standard Hotel’s Smoke And Mirrors Nightclub and now yet another witness has come forward to verify that Lohan was in fact responsible for instigating the fight with another female patron. That witness tells TMZ that Lohan started [...]

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Sex Robots The Future of Prostitution, Researchers Say

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In what almost sounds a bit like a Penthouse letter, researchers have predicted that sex robots will be the future of buying sex, and robots. In a journal called Futures, management professor Ian Yeoman and sexologist Michelle Mars imagined a sex club in Amsterdam populated by the sex robots, where punters could be serviced by virtual creatures [...]

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Food Stamp Use Increased By 70% Since 2007

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Nearly 45 million Americans are currently receiving food stamps and according to a new report issued on Friday by the Congressional Budget Office that number is 70% higher than it was in 2007, right before the housing bubble burst and sent millions of Americans to the unemployment line. According to the CBO report the number [...]

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McDonald’s Shareholders Are Lovin’ It: Nearly 5% Profit Increase

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The McDonald’s fast-food empire reported a “fat” 4.8% increase in profit in the first quarter of 2012. McDonald’s profit increased to $1.27 billion or $1.23/share. Last year at this time, the world’s largest restaurant chain  reported profit at $1.21 billion and $1.15 share. McDonald’s operates about 33,000 outlets around the world.  Although franchises already seem to [...]

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Mitt Romney’s Polygamist Family Past Could Be A Sore Spot On Campaign Trail

Robert Griffin III Responds To Criticism: I’m Not Selfish

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Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III will be heading to the NFL at the top of the 2012 draft, but that doesn’t mean that everyone’s a fan. Earlier this week an unnamed scout called him selfish and doubted the effectiveness of his athleticism against a professional NFL defense. The scout said: “He’s got a little [...]

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