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The brief trial that sent Fouad Mourtada to jail after creating a Facebook profile and impersonating the Moroccan kingÂ’s younger brother, Prince Moulay Rachid, drew a lot of attention to the African country and the "appalling" human rights conditions there. BBC and CNN both covered the story and caused quite a stir, swaying some 9,000 people to sign the petition for MourtadaÂ’s release.

The 26-year-old IT engineer told the judge, at his trial, that the profile he created was meant to be a joke... read more »

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olive-garden-chicken.pngThe food experts at Health magazine have scoured the menus at popular restaurant chains in search of the healthiest foods on the menu, rounding up several healthy menu options at otherwise unhealthy chains. For example, next time you find yourself staring down your fork at a never-ending pasta bowl at Olive Garden, you could opt instead for the low-fat Capellini Pomodoro (644 calories, 14 grams of fat) or the Venetian Apricot Chicken (448 calories, 11 grams of fat). Aside from the Olive Garden, the article runs down a handful of other chain favorites like Denny's, Ruby Tuesday, and P.F. Chang's. We've already covered five fast-food chains you can feel good about, but Health magazine's list offers a few healt read more »

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Writing things down, on paper or on-screen, is the best way to make sure you remember important info and tasks, but sometimes you've got to rely on your plain old brain to keep essential data sorted and handy. Whether it's a client's name, a password or combination you want stored only in your head, or answers for an upcoming test, there are plenty of techniques and tools to help you lock in important stuff and pull it out when needed. After the jump, we round up some memorable memory-boosting hacks. Photo by furryscaly.


memory_nap_scaled.jpg10. Nap to improve me read more »

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Update: Real Simple (on CNN) reports that pairing energy drinks and alcohol can cause heart palpitations and breathing difficulties. Thanks to all our commenters who pointed out the article. Dilemma: It's a Friday night after a long week at work, and you just want to kick back, unwind, and get trashed. Problem is, your friends want to go to some posh bar downtown, and you have only a twenty on you. How in the world are you going to get drunk on twenty bucks at a bar that sells ten-dollar martinis? Solution: Buy an energy drink at a liquor store and use it as a mixer. Why this works: Energy drinks have caffeine in them, which causes your veins to expand, allowing the alcohol the beverages are mixed with to circulate faster. A lot of energy drinks also have an amino acid call read more »

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weights-wellness.pngCNN reports that a third of companies offering health insurance to employees also provide a wellness program, including fitness, weight-loss, and stop-smoking programs. The article focuses on employers' motivation for wellness programs—namely circumventing eventual health insurance costs—and the extent to which they're an invasion of employee privacy, but we're most curious as to whether or not your employer offers a wellness program and, if so, if you're taking advantage of it. Do You Take Advantage of Your Employer's Wellness Program? ( surveys) If your employer does offer a wellness program, let's hear what sort of programs are included and which you've taken advantage of in the comments read more »

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Perspctv is a website created by an independent developer who wanted to make available a tool to forecast all the developments on the political scene and to render an exhaustive image of the moment. The website offers charts that illustrate peopleÂ’s preferences three months before the presidential elections. The categories that the predictions bank on are "news," "blogosphere" and "twitter" mentions, "CNN national poll of polls" results, "electoral-vote.com" survey conclusions and "tweets" since... read more »

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Despite how Facebook is filled with underage children, Mark Zuckerberg recently addressed the issue at the NewSchools Summit where Zuckerberg revealed that he wants to grant younger children access to Facebook.


CNN Money reports that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg
spoke about children under 13 years-old on Facebook while attending a
recent NewSchools Summit in California. Despite the current Facebook
age restriction of 13-years and older, Zuckerberg stated that he wants
Facebook open to younger people.
"In the future, software and technology will enable people to learn a
lot from their fellow students," said Zuckerberg. "That will be a fight
we take on at some point. My philosophy is that for education you need
to start at a really, really young age."

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Foreign media often describe Croatia as a 'naturist paradise', it is therefore not surprising that CNN named island of Rab top destination for nudists.All those who believe that Croatia is a conservative country, will be
surprised at the fact that the Adriatic coast is one of the most
tolerant naturist destinations in the world, and Rab island  cradle of naturist tourism.Naturism in Croatia dates back in 1936, when the first naturist beach on the island of Rab was opened - Paradise Beach.


 

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