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My Fellow Americans, I come before you tonight as a candidate for the Vice Presidency and as a man whose honesty and integrity has been questioned. Now, the usual political thing to do when charges are made against you is to either ignore them or to

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Theyre everyones worst nightmare when it comes to swimming in the ocean: great white sharks. Thats despite the fact that the number of fatal shark attacks annually can usually be counted on the fingers of one still attached hand. But a new study find

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Two trampers died in the Tararua Forest Park during a snow storm at the weekend. They were 61 year old Dr Seddon Bennington, and 54 year old Marcella Jackson. Dr Bennington had been the CEO of Te Papa, the National Museum, for six years. Mrs Jackson

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For all our research, resources, technology and collective intelligence theres still way more that we dont know about managing the human body, than we do. We like to think were more enlightened than ever but in many ways were still failing miserably

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Simon and Marie hadn't been to a movie theater in years. He didn't like theaters because of certain people. Certain people like to talk during a movie. Certain people like to kick the seats in front of them. Certain people like to eat loudly. Certain

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