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The top 11 promposals in 2013
It's prom season. What's your prom proposal/promposal going to be?What? Wait wait wait, hold on. You're telling me you didn't write an original song, choreograph a routine for it, and present it flash mob-style to your dream high school prom date? Well, listen up rookie, you've got a lot to learn. Promposals these days are elaborately produced mating rituals — think of Planet Earth's Birds of Paradise and mash it up with your favorite episode of Glee. Then upload it to YouTube because this isn't about your exuberant manifestation of true love, it's about that special someone. Don't they deserve Internet fame? Sometimes done well enough to gain national attention – I'm looking at you Kate Upton fan – sometimes too cringeworthy to view, here are 11 promposals you need to consider before planning your own.
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12 promising novels for spring 2013
Here are 12 spring 2013 fiction titles that we're looking forward to picking up.
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Gay marriage laws around the globe
There is no national gay marriage legislation in the pipeline in the US, however, numerous countries around the globe already recognize same-sex marriage or the right to civil unions. Here’s the breakdown by region.
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Top 5 ways to save on your summer vacation
If you're pining for a summer vacation but worried about costs, consider how Wayne and Pat Dunlap of Del Mar, Calif., managed to tour 51 countries over two years, marvel at the Egyptian pyramids, scale a New Zealand glacier, and visit Laotian Buddhist monks all for less than $100 a day. "We often stayed at guesthouses and hostels, ate at local family restaurants, took public transportation, and in some cases, traveled on cruise ships offering reduced rates," says Mr. Dunlap, author of the travel book "Plan Your Escape." This year amid price worries and higher summer airfares, especially to Europe such ingenuity could prove essential. Here are five cost-cutting strategies that can help:
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International Women's Day: How it's celebrated around the globe
International Women's Day has served for more than a century as a day to honor the achievements of women globally. Here are some ways people are celebrating:
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Culture Cafe Monkees announce tour will cross the US this summer (+video)
Monkees announce tour: The Monkees reunion tour will kick off July 15 and could expand into an international tour, according to band member Micky Dolenz. Tickets for the Monkees summer tour will go on sale May 3.
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The top 11 promposals in 2013
It's prom season. What's your prom proposal/promposal going to be?What? Wait wait wait, hold on. You're telling me you didn't write an original song, choreograph a routine for it, and present it flash mob-style to your dream high school prom date? Well, listen up rookie, you've got a lot to learn. Promposals these days are elaborately produced mating rituals — think of Planet Earth's Birds of Paradise and mash it up with your favorite episode of Glee. Then upload it to YouTube because this isn't about your exuberant manifestation of true love, it's about that special someone. Don't they deserve Internet fame? Sometimes done well enough to gain national attention – I'm looking at you Kate Upton fan – sometimes too cringeworthy to view, here are 11 promposals you need to consider before planning your own.
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Global News Blog New Zealand becomes first country in Asia-Pacific to legalize same-sex marriage
The change in New Zealand's law could pressure neighbors such as Australia to consider revising their laws.
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Antarctic ice samples: What do they say about global warming?
Antarctic ice core samples, up to 150,000 years old, may help scientists estimate whether it will take 50 years - or 500 years - for the Ross Ice Shelf to collapse at the current rate of climate change.
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12 promising novels for spring 2013
Here are 12 spring 2013 fiction titles that we're looking forward to picking up.
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Change Agent Cities try a new strategy with immigrants: embrace them
Through its Cities of Migration project, the Maytree Foundation hopes to provide not just inspiration but a set of tools that any city government can use to build a strong, diverse community.
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Difference Maker
Jack Reece helps a Noah's Ark of animals in IndiaFrom elephants to buffaloes, dogs to donkeys, Help in Suffering (HIS), a nonprofit animal welfare group in Jaipur, India, treats animals large and small at low or no cost.
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Downton Abbey: Who's leaving and who's coming?
Downton Abbey will say goodbye to housemaid Sarah O'Brien. But Downton Abbey will welcome New Zealand-born soprano Te Kanawa. Shirley MacLaine will be back to Downton Abbey too.
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Humans kill nearly 100 million sharks each year, say conservationists
Shark populations have declined rapidly, driven largely by demand for shark fins, a delicacy in many Asian countries.
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Energy Voices Oil, gas salaries rise amid slumping economy
Oil and gas wages and benefits saw an overall increase in 2012, according to a recent study. Base salaries across the entire oil and gas industry rose by 8.5 percent in 2012, Alic writes.
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Africa Monitor Sugar Man: Did the Oscar-winning documentary mislead viewers?
The film tells the story of an unknown American musician who struck it big in apartheid South Africa – but critics says it omitted crucial facts about the life of Sixto Rodriguez.
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Federal Reserve uncertainties drive down Asian markets
Transcripts from the Federal Reserve's January meeting were made public Wednesday. These documents showed growing doubts about the longevity of the U.S. central bank's bond buying program, which has kept interest rates at record lows.
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Change Agent Caliber Collection fashions jewelry to take guns off the streets
Jessica Mindich designs jewelry made from guns confiscated by the Newark, N.J. police. In turn she donates money to back to the police department to get more guns off the street.
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Lucy Lawless fined $547 for trespassing on Arctic oil drilling ship
Lucy Lawless and seven other Greenpeace activists were each ordered to pay US$547 in costs to a port company and complete 120 hours of community service. Lucy Lawless, called the relatively light sentence a 'great victory.'
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Pacific earthquake hits Solomon Islands: Tsunami warning issued (+video)
Pacific earthquake, centered near the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, prompted a tsunami warning for other South Pacific islands and a tsunami watch in Fuji and Australia.
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Richard III's remains identified, but was he really Shakespeare's villain? (+video)
Though Richard's final resting place has been subject of long debate among historians, scientists announced today the skeleton found in the English city of Leicester is that of the 15th-century king.
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Chapter & Verse Just what the doctor ordered: Books will be prescribed as medicine in the UK
Under the Books on Prescription program, doctors can prescribe books to patients with mental health problems, including anxiety, depression, and panic attacks.
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Cats kill billions of creatures every year according to new study
Cats kill billions: According to new research, cats kill between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion birds and between 6.9 billion and 20.7 billion small mammals, such as meadow voles and chipmunks.
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Android app offers a super-secret burner phone number
The new Hushed app for Android lets Android owners create disposable, fake, fully functional phone numbers usable in 40 countries on five continents.
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Culture Cafe 'Suburgatory' star Jane Levy discusses how her character Tessa will change this season
'Suburgatory' star Jane Levy previews upcoming plot lines on the comedy, including Tessa's relationship with her mother.
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McDonald's Fish McBites and Filet-O-Fish get 'sustainable' label
McDonald's fish in the chain's Filet-O-Fish sandwiches will carry a 'sustainable' rating from the Marine Stewardship Council. The McDonald's fish will be the first from a national chain to carry the rating, according to McDonald's.
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American Idol: In Baton Rouge, judges behave and contestants impress (+video)
American Idol goes to Randy Jackson's hometown of Baton Rouge where the American Idol judges call a momentary truce from the tumult of earlier episodes.
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Saving Money 13 best, cheapest, and weirdest travel destinations of 2013
Decide where to take your next vacation with this compilation of "best of" travel destinations for the coming year, from Amsterdam to New Zealand.
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Chinese businessman pleads guilty to $100 million in software piracy
Chinese businessman Xiang Li pleads guilty to stealing $100 million in software from Microsoft, Oracle, Siemens, and others, marking the first time a software pirate was successfully lured to US soil and arrested.
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Milk prices could double if Congress doesn't act (+video)
Milk prices are poised to move higher next year unless Congress passes legislation to supersede a 1949 law. That law would boost milk prices by forcing up the price at which government buys milk to keep it off store shelves.
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