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Zambian ambassador speaks at West Orange High School after calling student by accident
By Halley Bondy/For The Star-Ledger
Alexandra Pais/New Jersey Local News ServiceLazarous Kapambwe, representative of the Republic of Zambia to the United Nations talks to students at West Orange High School on Wednesday April 21, 2010. WEST ORANGE — Logan Svitzer was sitting in his [...]

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Monkey Business

Monkey Business

I found this online and had to share it with you guys.
Bananas and Monkeys
Original source unknown.
Start with a cage containing five monkeys.
Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. [...]

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Smoking Pot = Psychosis?? Just another reason to lay off the weed…

Smoking Pot = Psychosis?? Just another reason to lay off the weed…

Long-term pot use can double risk of psychosis
Young people who smoke marijuana more prone to delusions, study says

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REUTERS LONDON – Young people who smoke cannabis or marijuana for six years or more are twice as likely to have psychotic episodes, hallucinations or delusions than people who have never used the drug, scientists said on [...]

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From Skinhead to Orthodox Jew

From Skinhead to Orthodox Jew

Check out this article:
http://www.nytimes.com
I read this article and I wonder to myself, “what is it that made Pinchas decide to change the way he was leading his life just because of the fact that he found out that he is Jewish? If he really believed in the neo-Nazism that was guiding his life, so what [...]

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Winners And Losers

Winners And Losers

Striking Differences between Winners and Losers

Some people are successful in whatever they do and some people just can’t seem to make it. Besides the little bit of luck and Lots of help from Hashem, there is a distinction between these two groups of people.
It is not a magic formula or an ancient word passed [...]

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Finally Photoshop Baking Software

Finally Photoshop Baking Software

In a world where instant is rarely quick enough (just think about how annoying it is when your celphone takes more than .025 seconds to find a connection…) it’s about time that the folks at Photoshop have come up with the ultimate cooking/baking software. I remember back in the day when I installed Photoshop on [...]

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If You See Something, Say Something

If You See Something, Say Something

Contrary to the typical American kid, Getting help in case of emergency was a different experience.
Growing up in the strong Jewish neighborhood of Boro Park, Brooklyn, 911 was not a number that I grew up with. With all these volunteer organizations surrounding us, like Hatolah, Shomrim, Chaveirim etc. which in most cases had a faster [...]

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The Hidden Reasons of Hashem

The Hidden Reasons of Hashem

תורת משה ד”ה הנני מביא מחר
There was an ongoing מחלוקת between the Kingdoms of מצרים וכנען ופוט וחם, about the exact boundaries of their individual countries.
משה רבינו tells פרעה in the name of ה’ That ” הנני מביא מחר ארבה בגבוליך “, I will bring the plague of locusts in your borders, Wherever the [...]

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Milchemes Mitzvah, or Not…

Milchemes Mitzvah, or Not…

New Zealand will erase codes from gun scopes.

After an ABC News report that secret Bible messages are encoded on gun sights used by the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan, at least two other countries that also use the equipment in Afghanistan are now considering what action to take.
A spokesperson for New Zealand’s Defence Force [...]

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Stuck Between A Rock And A Hard Place

Stuck Between A Rock And A Hard Place

When the environmentalists start fighting among themselves we can finally sit back and relax, not that i do not believe in the cause to save the universe but sometimes they are just too much.
Here is a article that i found online.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to tighten the ozone standard for smog will have an [...]

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