Chinese ordered to smoke more to boost economy
Even local schools have been issued with a smoking quota for teachers, while one village was ordered to purchase 400 cartons of cigarettes a year for its officials, according to the local government's website.
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Most Wanted Games for May 2009
A familiar face returns at the number one spot as the most anticipated game...
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Lilly Tomlin’s Pac-Man Addiction, PSA Video in the 80’s
In the 80’s there was a time when people were addicted to Pac-Man. Everybody coined the name ‘Pac-Man Fever’ and over time a lot of people had addiction issues with the game. Here is a Public Service Ad from the 80s by Lilly Tomlin.
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New Trailer For District 9 Suggests Sci-Fi Greatness
The film is done documentary style and tells the story of an alien race that comes to Earth for an unknown reason. They attempt to settle in South Africa but encounter fear, anger, and racism (speciesism?) from the locals. Like the short it’s based on, District 9 plays as a not-so-subtle analogy for past and present human race relations
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New Star Trek Pics Take You Back To Starfleet Academy
Paramount just released its entire gallery of promotional images for next week's Star Trek movie, including this great shot of Spock (and another alien) at Starfleet Academy. Plus Captain Pike's away-mission uniform, and Uhura's workstation.
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The Effective Strategy For Choosing Right Domain Names
Naming is linguistic design, and a good domain name is an important part of the overall design of a website. Name plays a prominent role when people discover, remember, think about, talk about, search for, or navigate to a website. It establishes a theme for the branding of a website before people even visit it for the first time
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Piracy Works! WOLVERINE Is A HIT
Despite fears that the Wolverine leak would hinder the film's performance, studio execs woke up today pleasantly surprised... to the tune of 35 MILLION dollars in one day.
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ABC News: Public Support's Pot Legalization
46 percent of Americans now favor legalizing small amounts of marijuana for personal use, the most in data back to the mid-1980s and more than double its level 12 years ago. While 52 percent remain opposed, that’s down from 75 percent in the late 1990s and 78 percent in 1986
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15 Unusual and Creative Bus Stops (PICS)
Creative and unusual bus stop designs that make the time you spend waiting for the bus a bit more bearable.
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Isn't she beautiful? Oh yes! Isn't she hot? Yes! Yes she is!
Her name is Space Shuttle Atlantis--and this photo is the closest most of us will ever get to her. She's getting ready to go on a trip (NASA STS-125 mission) to upgrade the world's greatest & bestest telescope with new hardware. That most beloved telescope, with millions and millions of admirers, is Hubble Space Telescope, a NASA Great Observatory.
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Mayweather Junior Comes Out Of Retirement
Boxer Floyd Mayweather Junior is coming out of retirement to fight Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez on July 18th.
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