“Today, instead of walking miles every day to school, they’re sitting on couches for hours playing video games, watching TV,” she said of black youth. “Instead of dreaming of being a teacher or a lawyer or a business leader, they’re fantasizing about being a baller or a rapper.”
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A new Cosmograd launch site is to be built on the Chinese border. Vladimir Zhirinovsky suggested that Russia should use its space programme to send leaders of the liberal anti-Kremlin opposition to another planet, and leave them there.
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Many European billionaires choose tiny South Pacific islands to hide their money from the taxman. But there are easier ways: just bring it to the Netherlands, where there are hardly any taxes to be paid on profits.
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another attempt is made, but so far none of the preceding initiatives came very far. Backed by influential investors, a Washington company intends, within a decade or so, to have an unmanned robotic mining mission to the asteroid belt.
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Adult entertainers were found to have higher self-esteem, a better quality of life and body image, and to be more positive, with greater levels of spirituality.
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The conclusions from the Bank of international settlement experts are amazing. Once a financial sector reaches the size of 3.9 percent of GDP it starts to work negatively on the economic development in a given economy.
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With a little bit of help from Hollywood stars and — yes — German politicians, Greece is back on the tourist map, experiencing an unexpected boost to its economic mainstay that has surprised even officials.
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Digital Domain Media Group, creators of a Tupac Shakur hologram that rocked this year’s Coachella festival, said Monday it has raised .5 million to help build a roster of virtual stars.
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Psychiatrists are treating more people for so-called ‘Truman Show’ delusions — named after the 1998 movie starring Jim Carrey as a man who spends his entire life unwittingly at the center of a fictional world that’s being broadcast to millions of homes.
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A Texas private investigator claims he knows who really killed Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman in 1994. And it wasn’t OJ Simpson.
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