Ahead of Memorial Day, relatives and volunteers have planted 33,000 American flags in the Boston Common in tribute to Massachusetts soldiers killed in conflicts as far back as the Civil War.
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Mitt Romney has been delivering campaign speeches recently that aides say are aimed at framing the central themes of his presidential bid ahead of the conventions. So what has he been talking about? Our Speech Deconstructor finds that education trumped the economy as the most common theme.
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the deadly tornado that ripped through Joplin, Mo., taking 161 lives and leaving a swath of destruction in its wake. See how far the town has come since then.
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Is your degree worth it (financially speaking)? We have a new interactive that allows you to calculate the cost-benefit analysis of the degree required for 750 professions – check it out.
“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.” – President Barack Obama
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Is getting an advanced degree worth it? As Congress is hitting a deadlock on keeping student loan rates at 3.4 percent, some experts worry there is a student loan bubble being created by the lack of jobs available to young people who borrow money to pay for their education. But student loans aren’t just a blind risk – this infographic combines data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on the expected salary of three professions and the degrees required to break into those fields and data from the Department of Education on the cost of those degrees.
Sun Fengqin, a 60-year-old retired grandma in China, has an unusual hobby for a woman her age: pole dancing. She took it up because of her admiration of what she saw as a sexy sport, even though older women in China are expected to lead a quiet life.
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This computer-simulated image released by NASA shows gas from a shredded star falling into a black hole. In a first, scientists identified the star that fell victim to this gravitational monster. Black holes only rip apart stars about once every 10,000 years per galaxy, and the death of the identified star may give more clues into the inner workings of the supermassive object that devoured it.
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1. He wanted to kill President Obama
2. He fantasized about blowing up oil tankers
3. He was a hoarder
4. He had an ‘extensive’ porn collection
5. He liked to watch himself
6. He felt threatened by the Arab spring
7. He was largely isolated, and flailing
8. He was ‘delusional’
9. He was so depressed, he wanted to rename al-Qaida
10. He was nonetheless the last word on terror
