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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 [...]

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. [...]

I don’t usually share things that are sent to me by e-mail but this one was so good I just had to. I have no idea who the original author is so sorry can’t give credit where it is due.
FINALLY–I understand how the economy really works…

It’s a slow day in some little town……..
The [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

God Bless America….and…Hulu.
That was the feeling I had in my heart after one of my close friends introduced me to Hulu.
I did not have a TV in my house and my Blockbuster account was way too expensive for me, living on a limited student’s budget, but Hulu changed all of that.
There was no more late [...]

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 [...]

The rise of the SarcMark – oh, how brilliant
Great news, says Tom Meltzer. There’s a new punctuation mark for sarcasm

You may not yet have heard of Michigan-based ­Sarcasm, Inc but it would be no exaggeration to say that it may soon be as big a household name as Tesco or Google.
Its product, perhaps the most [...]

It’s rare when a special Senate election might have a direct effect not just on the Health Care sector, but the broader Stock Market in general… and the direction of governmental policies until the next mid-term election in November 2010.
However, that’s exactly what might happen when residents in Massachusetts go to the polls on Tuesday, [...]

A Spanish MP has been horrified to learn that the FBI used an online photograph of him to create an image showing what Osama bin Laden might look like in the present day.
The image using Gaspar Llamazares’ photo appeared on a wanted poster updating the US government’s 1998 photo of the al-Qaeda leader.
Llamazares, a former [...]