From coolest-gadgets.com
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Grown up on a diet of illusionists and magicians, that you want to emulate the careers of David Blaine and David Copperfield instead of taking the traditional engineer/doctor/lawyer route? The Freaky Body Illusions set ought to get you started on the right footing then, letting you perform seemingly “miracles” by stretching your ear to an [...]
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I'd like to award a medal - a gold medal - to David Crawford and all those sensible souls who've swung behind his report's call for more emphasis on participation in sport and exercise, and less on elite achievement. They are, of course, perfectly right. Sport is something we should be doing, not merely watching.
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From business.theage.com.au
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David Shulman
Detained Palestinians near an IDF post in Hebron, photographed by an Israeli soldier (Shovrim Shtika)
Questions of human rights abuses in Israel and the charges of war crimes put forward by the UN’s Goldstone report have produced little more than the usual disingenuous accusations of anti-Semitism. Even Moshe Halbertal, an unusually cogent Israeli participant-observer, takes the Goldstone commission to task in The New Republic...
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From feedburner.com
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"For all the fun we have with them, illusions do serious work in illuminating how our brains work, and in particular how perception works. They may also help us understand how consciousness developed, and tell us about our 'neuro-archaeology'."...
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From artsjournal.com
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This guy kinda creeps me out. The artist describes himself as a "face paint illusionist" and he’s recently been featured in a 'Ripley’s Believe It or Not!' picture book. His particular form of artistic body painting is just for fun, though his other artwork has been displayed in galleries.
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From digg.com
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Thirteen dead and 31 wounded would be a bad day for the US military in Afghanistan, and a great victory for the Taliban. When it happens in Texas, in the heart of the biggest military base in the nation, at a processing center for soldiers either returning from or deploying to combat overseas, it is not merely a tragedy (as too many people called it) but a glimpse of a potentially fatal flaw at the heart of what we have called, since 9/11...
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From freerepublic.com
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Within every organization is a need for pillars – they are the go-to people who are steadfast and committed to success. These pillars are grounded in the qualities that inspire confidence and shape an in-house culture of excellence.
Support pillars are not hard to spot. Their qualities are indispensable, transferable, and attainable. Pillars rise to the top. A pillar not only represents the foundation of a building or organization, but...
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From salem-news.com
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