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Bryant scores 26, Lakers beat Jazz 111-104

Sports – Bryant scored 26 points, his teammates kept Utah at bay down the stretch, and Los Angeles Lakers extended the stunning home success by NBA teams in the second round of the playoffs, beating the Jazz 111-104 on Wednesday night to take a 3-2 lead in the Western Conference semifinals.

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Top 10 Famous Historic Misquotes

Do-It-Yourself – Throughout history, quotes of famous people are often misrepresented. This happens for a variety of reasons - some original quotes are clumsy, some don't seem to match the style of language we expect of a person, and some are changed for propaganda reasons. This is a list of ten of the most well known quotes that are, in fact, misquotes.

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Tooth Loss Increases Cancer Risks

Health & Fitness – Tooth loss is not only very unappealing, it is also extremely unhealthy: a new research study published in the Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention journal found a tight connection between tooth loss and increasing risks of developing 3 forms of cancer (esophageal, head and neck, and lung).

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The world's responsibility?

Politics – In an article a couple of days ago, Gareth Evans attempted to articulate why - and especially why not - the concept of "Responsibility to Protect" applies to the humanitarian disaster in Burma. It is an important article, which is part of an important debate; but both serve to illuminate the deep morass in which the international system i

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McCain believes Iraq war can be won by 2013

Politics – COLUMBUS, Ohio - Republican John McCain declared for the first time Thursday he believes the Iraq war can be won by 2013, although he rejected suggestions that his talk of a timetable put him on the same side as Democrats clamoring for full-scale troop withdrawals.

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Dear Barack Obama

Politics – Dear Barack Obama: I grew to like you over the last year. I've always thought of you as dangerously naive at best. Eloquent, gifted, genuine, yes. But dangerously naive at best.

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Curses! Anchor Sue Simmons slips
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Curses! Anchor Sue Simmons slips

Television – Sweet Sue Simmons said w-h-a-a-a-t? The 64-year-old lead female anchor at WNBC-TV shocked thousands of viewers Monday night by shouting the F-word during a promo for the 11 o'clock news. The usually amiable newswoman revealed a harsher side at 10:26p.m. while doing the promotion live.

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Save A Marriage - 5 Great Ways To Save A Marriage

Love & Personals – A troubled relationship in which at least one partner is trying to save it is already on its way to salvation and unity. But the relationships in which both partners have called it quits have little or no chance of being saved. Since you're reading this article it proves that you want to save this relationship.

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Divorce Wars

Politics – Imagine not being able to leave a bad/boring/sexless/loveless marriageââ;¬"ever. Diana Kapp reports on the bitter divorce wars in states where 'till death do us part' is more than just a marriage vowââ;¬"it's practically the law

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How do glaucoma symptoms manifest themselves?

Health & Fitness – Eye diseases often strike as you are getting older. After all, your eyes have been around a bit, seen a lot, and have been given a lot of pressureÃ;¢ââ;;¬Ã;¦by you! When it comes down to it, glaucoma is all about pressure in fact. The kind of pressure that inf

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Vitamin E and Vitamin C Reverse Emphysema

Health & Fitness – Many people believe that emphysema can be treated only through lung transplant and other surgery to remove diseased portions of the lung. However, people are currently looking at different kinds of treatment. Vitamins are coming to the forefront of emphysema treatment.

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Roots of Haiti's food crisis run deep

Food – Subsidized U.S. rice began flooding in 30 years ago, so cheap that Haitians began eating it instead of the corn, sweet potatoes, cassava and domestic rice that had sprouted from plains and mountainsides from the colonial era to the late 1980s.

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Google Trends and the ghost of T.S. Eliot

Television – So imagine my surprise when something as bookish, stuffy and uncool as a line from Modernist poetry popped up on Hot Trends in one concentrated burst. It was more than surprise, actually -- it was bafflement: what could explain a hike large enough to beat a field of popular searches that included "bikini-wearing teacher?"

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Islam's refuseniks

Women – Wafa Sultan's debut on al-Jazeera , where she bleated hysterically about the irredeemable retardation of the Islamic faith, made her conservative Muslim opponent seem positively temperate. What is to be gained from this comprehensive assault other than an alienation of those whom you are allegedly trying to reform?

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McCain Was For Talking To Hamas Before He Was Against It...

Politics – Two years ago, in an interview with James Rubin for Sky News, Sen. John McCain expressed a willingness to negotiate with the terrorist group Hamas -- the very group that McCain has been relentlessly using to smear Sen. Barack Obama over the last several weeks.

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