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IT HAPPENED TO ME: My Mom Dumped Me in Foster Care When I Renounced Her Religion

Yahoo Travel 

Mom found an exceptionally nice friend at the Kingdom Hall. Fran babysat my low-functioning autistic sister and me for almost nothing a week so that my single mother could try to wean our family off of welfare by training to be a medical assistant at one of those colleges advertised on TV. Fran ...

We need diverse influences

Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) 

Artist Shahzia Sikander on her multicultural past and our future.

Human identity is mercurial. Like a human being, it is alive and liable to shift, evolve, challenge and surprise.

I was born in Lahore, Pakistan, to a family of storytellers. My father was an enthusiastic narrator, with oratory prowess....

What we're into: Magma Powder, insanely hot chiles you'll want to put on everything

Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) 

Walk into Cape Seafood and Provisions, the newly opened fish shop from chef Michael Cimarusti (Providence, Connie & Ted's) and his partners, and you'd expect, well, fish. So there are enormous cases filled with king salmon, Spanish mackerel, striped bass, oysters, caviar and all the rest of it....

Former TierOne exec gets 34 months in prison

JournalStar.com 

Former TierOne President James Laphen will serve nearly three years in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to cover up loan problems at the bank before it collapsed in 2010.



11 common myths about the brain that need to be smashed

BusinessInsider.com 

Getty Images/Dan Kitwood

We know surprisingly little about one of the most important organs in our body — the brain.

Nevertheless, the world is filled with dozens of ideas about why we think the way we do.

Here are 11 of the most common brain myths — and the surprising science to counter them:

Myth #1: You only use a fraction of your brain.

Universal

If this were true, we'd be able to remove a large portion of our noggins with nearly no consequences! Some scientists... Читать дальше...

6 things award-winning TV producer Shonda Rhimes learned when she spent a year saying 'yes' to everything

BusinessInsider.com 

Charley Gallay/Getty

She owned Thursday nights on television with her hit series "Grey's Anatomy," "Scandal," and "How to Get Away with Murder."

She got to make things up for a living — something she'd thrived on since childhood.

But Shonda Rhimes was unhappy. She was overworked and unhealthy, and she didn't feel like she was living her life to the fullest.

So she embarked on a yearlong experiment in which she'd agree to any and every request that came her way — in her personal or professional life. Читать дальше...

Victim families mark 1 year since doomed Germanwings flight

«Seattle Post-Intelligencer» (seattlepi.com) 

LE VERNET, France (AP) — In a solemn day of remembrance, grieving families gathered in a French Alpine village to pay homage to loved ones a year after the co-pilot of a Germanwings plane flew the passenger jet into a mountainside, killing all 150 people aboard. The Airbus A320 was en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf when co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, 27, locked the pilot out of the cockpit and thrust the aircraft into an accelerated dive. A spokesman for Duesseldorf prosecutors confirmed Thursday... Читать дальше...

Man chooses to wear ‘I am a thief’ sign over going to jail

Las Vegas Sun (lasvegassun.com) 

A man has chosen to wear a sign proclaiming he's a thief rather than go to jail for theft in Ohio. Forty-three-year-old Greg Davenport, of Liberty Township, pleaded no contest this month to a theft charge for stealing merchandise ...

'Tainted' testimony leads to Ghomeshi acquittal on all charges

CBC 

An Ontario Court judge has acquitted Jian Ghomeshi on four counts of sexual assault and one count of choking, saying the "deceptive and manipulative" evidence of complainants raised a reasonable doubt in the guilt of the former CBC Radio host.

Review: Beyond size, what you get and give up with iPhone SE

«Seattle Post-Intelligencer» (seattlepi.com) 

NEW YORK (AP) — Unless you take a lot of selfies or need a bigger phone, Apple's new 4-inch iPhone SE is a good choice at a good price. [...] that Apple has started taking orders, with shipments due in a week, keep these differences in mind: [...] with software improvements, selfies taken with the SE came out better compared with the iPhone 5S it replaced. — Though you get the same rear camera as the 6S, you don't get an image-stabilizing feature found in the jumbo iPhone 6S Plus. — The SE lacks a barometer... Читать дальше...

Review: Beyond size, what you get and give up with iPhone SE

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

NEW YORK (AP) — Unless you take a lot of selfies or need a bigger phone, Apple's new 4-inch iPhone SE is a good choice at a good price. [...] that Apple has started taking orders, with shipments due in a week, keep these differences in mind: [...] with software improvements, selfies taken with the SE came out better compared with the iPhone 5S it replaced. — Though you get the same rear camera as the 6S, you don't get an image-stabilizing feature found in the jumbo iPhone 6S Plus. — The SE lacks a barometer... Читать дальше...

Glenn Maxwell does Bhangra, plays Holi

«The Times of India» (indiatimes.com) 

Australian cricketer Glenn Maxwell on Thursday celebrated Holi, the festival of colours, ahead of their match against Pakistan in the ICC World Twenty20 on Friday.


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