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One mother, Kristen Grasso, is fighting back, after her daughter, 11-year-old Lily, came home from school with a body mass index letter labeling her as overweight. Lily is on the school volleyball team and eats healthy foods. “This whole thing…
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 was awarded jointly to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs, the Higgs Boson physicists, “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles,…
Get outside tonight, October 8, 2013! The draconid meteor shower begins tonight. Draconids is generally more faint, they’re slower-moving meteors, so the light trails linger. In 1933 and 1946, the shower produced thousands of meteors an hour. Two years ago,…
Here is the full transcript courtesy of Federal News Service when House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) issued his statement regarding the government shutdown and debt limit. Q: Mr. Speaker, can you tell us please, what would you say to military…
A prank well done! The Carrie Prank was carried out inside a New York City coffee shop. The prank shows a girl with telekinetic powers — able to move tables and chairs and bookshelves without touching them. The prank is…
TNT Orders Second Season of Hit Real-Life Drama Cold Justice Docu-Drama from Executive Producer Dick Wolf and Magical Elves Ranks as One of Basic Cable’s Top 5 New Unscripted Series of the Quarter TNT has booked a second season of…
Actor Tom Hanks visited the Late Show with David Letterman on Monday, October 7, 2013. He revealed something the world did not know about — he has Type 2 diabetes for two decades now. This type of diabetes occurs when…
Forester Max Millan Jr. of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) stumbled upon the world’s largest flower, Rafflesia manillana, while doing a biological survey in the thick forests of the Sierra Madre mountains in Aurora, Philippines. Millan, together…
African billionaires occupied a little over 1% of the positions on 2013 Forbes list of world billionaires. Here are the 20 Africans who made the cut: Aliko Dangote, $16.1 billion Nigerian. Sugar, Cement, Flour Johann Rupert & family, $6.6 billion…
Here is the current 2013 Tennis Rankings Men released by ATP on Monday, October 7th (Last week’s positions in brackets): ATP world rankings 1 Nadal, Rafael (ESP) 11,160 (+1) 2 Djokovic, Novak (SRB) 11,120 (-1) 3 Murray, Andy (GBR) 6,895…