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"The weather in NY City this winter has been awfully strange. With temperatures hovering around the 50 degree mark and nearing 60. The most bizarre weather-related incident happened in Brooklyn where cherry blossoms decided to make an early appearance."

"The city's birth rate hit a 25-year low in 2005, even as Mayor Bloomberg is projecting a population spike of 1 million people by the year 2030."

"Prosecutors dropped rape charges Friday against three Duke University lacrosse players accused of attacking a stripper at a team party, but the three still face kidnapping and sexual offense charges."

"NASA managers cleared Discovery to return home Friday, planning for a possible touchdown in New Mexico for only the second time in space shuttle history because of bad weather on both coasts."

"Known as the Lockerbie bombing, the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 killed 270 people from 21 countries, including 11 people on the ground." Today, December 21st is the 18th anniversary of this terrible incident...

So this online site called Oriental Trading Company posted a product which happens to be a pinata of a US Humvee with American soldiers in it. This product sparked outrage over the Internet and was soon pulled off from the site..Check it out below.

"During a speech delivered in the Western Iranian province of Javanroud, Ahmadinejad said: " The Islamic Republic of Iran is now a nuclear power, thanks to the hard work of the Iranian people and authorities."

"The deputy leader of al-Qaida criticized both sides of the Palestinian power struggle in a video aired Wednesday, calling the Palestinian president "America's man" but also lashing out at the Islamic group Hamas."

"Iranian student activists who staged an angry protest against Ahmadinejad last week have gone into hiding in fear for their lives." This is an update from my post last week where some DG members commented about the students lives....we were right.

"The four from Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, ignited aerosol sprays to burn Katy James, 17, during four-hours of torture."

"Los Angeles pediatrician Francine Kaufman is on the front lines of the childhood obesity epidemic, which has flooded her office with diabetes patients and put kids at risk of adult health problems."

"An Indian runner who won a silver medal in the women's 800 meters in the Asian Games this month has failed a gender test and is expected to be stripped of the medal."

"In an interview reported by Time the Iranian President and Person of the Year candidate discusses his conference questioning the Holocaust, his letter to the American people, and the state of his nuclear plans."

"Detailed observations from the first comet samples returned to Earth are debunking some of science's long-held beliefs on how the icy, celestial bodies form."

Cuban President Fidel Castro is very ill and close to death. Everything we see indicates it will not be much longer . . . months, not years

I found this article on Wired where a member received 34,000 passwords from a MySpace phishing attack. He used these passwords to analyze the data. Check out the results.

"2006 is set to be the sixth warmest year on record, continuing the trend of global warming and extreme weather conditions worldwide."

"It was called Holy City, but it was not exactly a model of Christian piety. It was, rather, a commune and tourist trap created in the 1920s by a white-supremacist huckster."

"TMZ has learned that officials from the Miss USA pageant will make a "major announcement" today and may strip reigning Miss USA Tara Conner of her title due to inappropriate behavior."