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What’s the Best Mother’s Day Gift? — Survey of the Day
According to a new survey, what mothers want for Mother’s Day and what the men in their lives think they want for Mother’s Day aren’t necessarily the same thing.
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Should the Post Office Eliminate Saturday Delivery? — Survey of the Day
Congress is currently considering a postal service overhaul which would eventually eliminate Saturday delivery in a bid to make the postal service more cost efficient.
How would that go over with the public?
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‘The Avengers’ Trailer From the ’70s Is Fantastically Awful
‘The Avengers,’ which hits theaters on May 4th, is the first live-action movie adaptation featuring the complete team of Marvel superheroes.
Or at least we thought it was. But it turns out The Hulk, Captain America, Iron Man and the rest assembled and did battle with Loki in a little known TV movie in 1978. Take a trip in the way back machine and check out this fantastic (and fake) trailer.
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10-Year-Old Boy Designs Video Game for His Blind Grandmother
10-year-old Dylan Viale has a very close relationship with his grandmother Sherry, who is blind. The two walk dogs and go to the movies together, and recently went to a Lego event where they helped build a giant Lego Yoda.
But because of her vision impairment, Dylan wasn’t able to share with his grandmother his love of video games. So the fifth-grader at Hidden Valley Elementary in Martinez, CA, did something about that — he developed a video game which blind and sighted people can play together.
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Are Older Adults the New Face of Addiction?
One generally associates the onset of drug and alcohol addiction with the recklessness of youth.
However, two new studies are challenging those assumptions, with findings suggesting that older folks are also quite susceptible to addiction’s trap.
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Why Does a 76-Year-Old Naked Man Live on His Own Island?
One of the advantages of being an island’s only resident is that you don’t have to wear clothes. Masafumi Nagasaki, a 76-year-old man who has lived alone for the past 20 years on the “inhospitable” one kilometer island of Sotobanari, has certainly taken advantage of that.
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Six-Year-Old’s Lemonade Stand Raises $10,000 For Dad’s Cancer Treatment
Lemonade stands are usually symbolic of the carefree nature of youth. Six-year old Drew Cox, however, has had to grow up fast. That’s because his dad, Randy, was recently diagnosed with seminoma, a rare form of cancer.
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14-Year-Old Performs Perfect Imitation of the ‘Movie Trailer Guy’
At a time when many of his peers’ voices are still cracking, 14-year-old Jake Foushee’s voice is deep and smooth. Deep enough, in fact, to allow him to do a pretty spot-on imitation of legendary movie trailer guy Don LaFontaine. Check out the impressive display below.
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Hero Mayor Corey Booker Rescues Woman From Fire
Newark mayor Corey Booker arrived home last night to find his neighbors’ home on fire. His security detail, led by officer Alex Rodriguez, had preceded him home and had already gotten most of the residents out of the burning building.
But one more woman remained, and when Booker heard this, he insisted that he enter the house to rescue her.
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Is ‘Political View’ a Factor When Deciding to Block People on Facebook? – Survey of the Day
As we get closer to the 2012 Presidential election, more and more people are using social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to express their political views. According to a survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, these views are sometimes a little too surprising to the poster’s web friends.
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Soldier in Afghanistan Witnesses Son’s Birth Via Skype
Technology is awesome. And not just because it helps us play Words With Friends on our phone when we’re bored at work. It also allowed Specialist Brock Howland to witness the birth of his son.
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David Letterman Set to Break Late Night TV Record
CBS’s late night schedule is set for the next couple years. On Monday the network announced that ‘The Late Show’ host David Letterman and ‘The Late, Late Show’ headman Craig Ferguson have both had their contracts renewed through 2014.
When he completes his new contract, Letterman will have been a late night talk show host for 32 years, which would break the record previously held by former ‘Tonight Show’ host Johnny Carson.