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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork

Do the risks of stopping foreign aid outweigh the need to balance the budget?

In Fresno, Superintendent Michael Powell is taking nearly a million-dollar hit for the good of his school district.
New research says complaining about money and lives lost in our wars might be a terrible way to try and end them.
Try a tank cosy..
Big-boned meat addict Justin Droms goes hard-core vegan for a month. PLUS: Contributor Video Diary
Well, not exactly. Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center have determined that there are some very strong ties between cold...

Zinc works, if only somewhat, to cure the common cold.

Heat isn't the only force of nature that can loosen molecules of grease and dirt from clothes and speed up cleaning.

These vibrating gloves don't, ahem, do what you think, but they do help your fingers function better in the cold.

New 2009 data shows that the "drunkest" cities in America are also some of the coldest—though drinking still doesn't warm you up.

Proposed budget cuts would shrink funds for tsunami warning systems, like the one that alerted Hawaiians ten minutes after the Japanese quake.
A case-by-case review of every name on the no-fly list ended with half of the names being taken off. Wow, were they just throwing names on there...
According to Rachel Maddow, on the list of things we have learned, not freezing government spending while a bad economy is just starting to...
If you like art, but dislike the Iraq war, you may want to check out "? The War" a new show at Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, Los Angeles...
Steve Mumford, an artist embedded with the U.S. Army, is recreating daily life in Iraq through art.
You may have missed it if you blinked, but last week there was war between Ethiopia and the Islamists who briefly controlled Somalia. The war is...
China is still silent about last week's ballistic missile test that destroyed an innocent satellite, totally minding it's own business. China's...
The U.S. Army is using roleplaying as a new technique to train soldiers heading to Afghanistan.
The $100 laptop, while helping bring technology to impoverished children everywhere, is also creating quite a stir in the technology industries....
