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22 Oct 2010 10:38

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World: Because Haiti doesn’t have enough problems, let’s add cholera

  • 138 dead in the biggest crisis since the quake source
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04 Sep 2010 20:15

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Offbeat: South Korean woman turns bad luck with driving tests into free car

This unlucky woman here, Cha Sa-soon, gained notoriety because it took her 960 tries to get her driver’s license. But by golly, she did it. She got a free car. source
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18 Aug 2010 20:47

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U.S.: Furlough funday: 150,000 state workers in California are screwed

  • They’re caught in the middle of California’s never-ending budget fight. After a lengthy court battle as part of the seemingly-yearly budget deadlock that comes up in California, the California Supreme Court allowed governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to force a three-day-a-month furlough on state government employees. By the way, Schwarzenegger and the legislature have yet to decide on how to solve the state’s $19.1 billion budget deficit. Nice to see the people in the middle get screwed. source
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06 Aug 2009 11:27

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U.S.: The L.A. Fitness shooter kept a diary. Read parts of it here.

George Sodini's diary
  • Dude sure couldn’t stop thinking about that bad-luck-with-women thing, could he? A lot of his frustrations are clear in this document, some of which is blacked out, by the way.source
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