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Ex-child-soldier: 'Shooting became just like drinking a glass of water'

As a teenager in war-ravaged Sierra,Leone, Ishmael Beah was brainwashed, drugged and forced to kill.

"We went from children who were afraid of gunshots to now children who were gunshots," says Beah who became separated from his family at just 12 years

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Police stunned by elderly couple's huge cannabis plant

British police have decided not to press any charges against the elderly couple who had been unknowingly cultivating a huge cannabis plant in their garden.

A police spokeswoman told CNN: "The plant was mistakenly bought by the elderly couple. We will

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Toxic leak in South Korea sickens thousands, ruins crops

October is supposed to be the busiest month of the year for Lim Chae-ho's vineyards and rice fields in the southern part of South Korea.

In a normal year, the 50-year-old farmer would be in the midst of harvesting the crops he had spent months cultiva

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Cab Cash

A cab driver found a laptop bag in his backseat stuffed with $221,510 cash in Las Vegas. The cab driver did the right thing and turned the money in, much to the owners delight. An hour after cab driver, Adam Woldemarim, found the money and turned it

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Gas for Cash

Recently there have been more and more robberies on gas stations in California.   For those who don’t know, the average gas price there is around $5 a gallon.  Here is a story of one robbery.    A man and a woman stole more than $4,500 or 1,100 gallo

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SpaceX Dragon capsule launched to space station marks first commercial take off

THE COMMERCIAL era of space travel began this morning as the world witnessed the first private space craft launch into space.

It was the second launch of a Dragon capsule to the orbiting lab by the California-based SpaceX company. The first was last s

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Romney Hates Big Bird?

During the presidential debate wed. Mitt Romney was quoted as saying, "I'm sorry Jim (debate moderator) I'm going to stop subsidy to PBS. I"m going to stop other things, I like PBS, I like Big Bird, I actually like you too." The twitter community was

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Earth's Magnetic Field Flip Overdue?

Geologic record shows that the earth's magnetic field flips every 250,000 years. the last one was 800,000 years ago. This could have a large effect on earth. The magnetic field is the only thing that keeps earth from having an environment like mars.

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Boy told he couldn't have a pink mohawk

A sixth grade boy was told that he couldn't try out for his schools basketball team unless he shaved off his pink mohawk.  The pink mohawk was in support of his mother who has been battling against breast cancer. The principle who told him this has n

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1986!

Tell me events that took place in 1986!

Here are the top songs:

1. That's What Friends Are For, Dionne Warwick, Elton John, and Gladys Knight
2. Say You, Say Me, Lionel Richie
3. I Miss You, Klymaxx
4. On My Own, Patti Labelle and Michael McDonald
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Electoral College Blog Assignment

The Electoral college is where 538 electors who officially elect the president and vice president of the United States. Each state is given a specific number of electors they get. The legislatures of that state get to choose who those electors are.

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Gold or Not

Two professors at Michigan State University found a way to turn gold chloride into real gold. What they did was mix the chloride with some bacteria and Cupriavidus and metallidurans, (whatever they are). Once the bacteria is put in the mix it takes 1

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School Bus Crash

A school bus driver was driving about five kids to school one day, when the driver of the bus had some kind of medical problem, and crashed into someones house. The bus driver then was life flighted to a hospital. Everyone who was involved in the cra

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Extra Credit Opportunities

All extra credit is done individually unless specifically stated otherwise. You can earn up to 50 extra credit points per quarter. I believe students should always have a second chance if a test or project didn't go their way if they are willing to w

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Who Won the First Presidential Debate?

Please share your thoughts on who you felt won the first debate-Barack Obama or Mitt Romney?

If you did not watch the debate, you can do so here.

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Big Green

Recently a giant marijuana farm was found on the south side of Chicago, this farm is one of the biggest in Chicago’s history.  The farm is about the size of two football fields, there are more than 1,000 plants growing up to the size of Christmas tre

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Year Round Haunt Spooks Vegas

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     Sending you running and screaming will be the mission of the Goretorium when it opens this weekend in Las Vegas. The haunted hotel, is being marketed as the only year round haunted house in Las Vegas. The haunted hotel will feature, b

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Dogs On Dope

The popularity of medical marijuana in Colorado has had an unintended side effect - dogs getting stoned, sometimes with deadly results.

Some people firmly believe that if medical marijuana helps people, it also helps their pets, but that's not always

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Teen Tweets about Intruder

Kara Alongi tweeted that there was an intruder in her house. After she tweeted the message she had a taxi come and pick her up and take her the nearest train station. Many of her followers on Twitter had thought she was missing so they retweeted #hel

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FBI says it's using Facebook, Twitter to find 'wanted terrorist'

The FBI says it is deploying Facebook and Twitter to find "a wanted terrorist" who grew up near Boston and may now be living in Syria.

He is Ahmad Abousamra, 31, a French-born dual citizen of the United States and Syria. Abousamra was indicted in 2009

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