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Baltimore made headlines in 2011 with three-bedroom homes listed at $5,000. The catch: foreclosures, repair bills, and neighborhoods in freefall.
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Baltimore made headlines in 2011 with three-bedroom homes listed at $5,000. The catch: foreclosures, repair bills, and neighborhoods in freefall.
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Reuters reported in August 2011 that Apple's Asian suppliers were building a cheaper 8GB iPhone 4 — a play for emerging markets ahead of the iPhone 4S.
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Professor John Speakman's energy-expenditure research found we are not less active than in the 1980s — we just eat a third more. The fork beats the treadmill.
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The party was in full swing , everybody seemed to be enjoying the music , some swayed with their cocktails and others enjoyed delicious looking appetizers .…
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'Follow your passion' is the standard career advice. But research shows unmanaged passion can invite exploitation, burnout, and worse negotiating outcomes.
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After admitting he fathered a child with a household staffer, Arnold Schwarzenegger began the long road back — personally and professionally.
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FLDS leader Warren Jeffs was sentenced to life plus 20 years for sexually assaulting two underage 'spiritual wives.' The evidence included his own tapes and
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A 2011 review in the Journal of Family Practice found no evidence that colon cleansing helps healthy adults — and documented real risks, from infection to
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A 2011 University of Tennessee study found marriages happier when the wife's BMI was lower than the husband's. But the headline was better than the truth.
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Psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson's research-backed nine strategies for reaching goals — from getting specific to building your willpower muscle.
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In 2011, a Colorado woman grabbed a TSA agent at Phoenix airport and called it protest. Was it courage, or just assault? The uncomfortable debate.
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In 2011, an 11-year-old Brazilian boy made spoons stick to his chest. Fun to watch — but science says the trick is sticky skin, not superpowers.
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A 2011 analysis of online emotion reportedly found anger peaking on Thursdays. The likely culprit: the accumulated frustrations of the working week.
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Osama bin Laden hid next to Pakistan's top military academy for years. The 2011 jokes wrote themselves — here is our lovingly illogical explanation.
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A Danish company turned autistic adults' attention to detail into a software-testing advantage — proof that matched jobs beat conventional hiring rituals.
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Kerala tops India on female literacy and health stats, yet patriarchal norms in districts like Kannur show progress on paper is not progress for all women.
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A Meerut bride tied a rakhi to her husband to reunite with her lover, then the lover dumped her. The strange, sad twist in a viral UP story.
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Botox may do more than smooth wrinkles — research suggests paralyzing frown muscles can blunt emotional experience itself. The science of facial feedback.
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John Abraham confirmed his nine-year relationship with Bipasha Basu had ended — quietly, directly, and without the usual Bollywood drama.
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A Hamburg teen forgot to mark her 16th-birthday invite private on Facebook. Some 1,500 strangers showed up — and she fled her own party.
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