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Rosie is looking at "The Price is Right." Maybe she's interested in those backstage perks that Bob was rumored to enjoy.
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Kinda neat: Catholic Business Owners.
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Next time use your foot to, like, stomp on the spark. It's a vigorous up-and-down motion known to suddenly take away the oxygen necessary for a fire to spread:

A US golfer who hit a bad shot inadvertently started a 20 acre brush fire.
The golfer had knocked his ball into the grass outside Wildcreek golf course, near Reno, Nevada.
When he tried to play back to the fairway, his club struck something that created a spark that started the fire.

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Pretty wild: Crazy freeway interchanges.

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A couple of items from the current issue of The Atlantic. It's a triumvirate of unsurprising information, but interesting nonetheless because it confirms things I would've assumed:

Although we live in the information age, a new Pew Research Center study suggests that the American public is no better informed than it was before round-the-clock cable news and the Internet invaded our homes.

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Can married soldiers breathe easier when they're parted from their spouses? The men can, but the study found that the risk of divorce for female service members, particularly enlisted women, is several times the risk for their male counterparts. Men, it seems, have a harder time waiting at home for the return of their soldier wives.

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Young people are generally full of themselves, but a new study suggests that today's kids are far more self-centered than preceding generations.

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