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![Voters wait in line outside the Ohio Union to cast their ballots during the U.S. presidential election at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio November 6, 2012.]()
![Voters wait in line outside the Ohio Union to cast their ballots during the U.S. presidential election at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio November 6, 2012.]()
Cities 2012: The races we’re watching
The future of U.S. cities hangs in the balance today. Here are the races that will have special bearing on our urban lives.
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Weary New Jersey residents face another ordeal: Voting [VIDEO]
With basic supplies still limited, the election is "the furthest thing from our minds," one resident says. Still, officials are scrambling to keep the polls open Tuesday.
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Hedgehog rescued from potato chip bag by professional hedgehog-rescuers
A hedgehog crawled into a potato chip bag outside a supermarket in Weston-super-Mare. After a three-hour ordeal, it was rescued, and is fine, and still cute.
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British charity is recycling ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ as toilet paper
Fifty Shades of Grey, for the uninitiated, is a madly popular, rather trashy book in which a young woman has an affair with an older businessman.
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Colorado’s Community Solar Program Allots 9 Megawatts in 30 Minutes
When you subtract out shady roofs, renters, and other factors, only about 25% of Americans have a place to install solar power. With the high upfront cost of a complete […]
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Rare whale seen for the first time only to die hours later
Before 2010, no one had ever seen the spade-toothed beaked whale in the flesh, let alone alive.
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This post-Sandy image will seriously mess with your head
This dude either has amazing core strength or lives in a freaky sideways universe.
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Friday music blogging: Alt-J
I’ve been listening to Alt-J’s debut album, An Awesome Wave, for a while now, but it’s taken time to sink in. It is a deeply odd and idiosyncratic album, not […]
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VIDEO: Romney confronted in Ohio, “Do you still think the rising of the seas is funny?”
At a campaign event today in Etna, Ohio, Gov. Romney was asked, “Do you still think the rising of the seas is funny?” Romney responded, “I never imagined such a […]
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The most brutal ad you’ll see this election
Remember when Mitt Romney mocked efforts to "slow the rise of the oceans"? That joke's not so funny this week, as a hard-hitting new ad points out.
