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Taxed More Than Their Income?

2013-05-18T15:19:45Z

* 8,000 households paid more in tax than they earned * Data show impact of Socialists' one-off levy PARIS, May 18 (Reute...

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Laverne H. Bardy: Unsupported Evidence

2013-05-17T16:12:24Z

I've harnessed my girls every day of my life since eighth grade. When I told my mother that Jackie Young had winked and asked me what I had in my gym-suit pocket, she said it was time for me to wear a bra.

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Danika Boyle: A Spring Picnic in the Land of Milkweed and Honey

2013-05-17T15:13:34Z

In Provence, as spring advances toward summer, fields beckon, red with poppies scattered like gypsy blankets under cherry trees laden with their ripe fruit.

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William E. White: Our Unethical Republic

2013-05-17T14:07:57Z

Obedience to the law is not enough. Americans demand legal and ethical behavior from themselves and their fellow citizens.

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Katie Beck: How You Doin: Mapping The World Through Pick up Lines

2013-05-17T12:35:34Z

I have heard some absolute doozies in cities all over the world and even if the surroundings are pretty, the words are not.

Read more: Palestine, Tel Aviv, Istanbul, Istanbul-Turkey, Turkey, Cat Calls, Ramallah, France, Italy, Israel, Come-on-Lines, Marin, Pick Up Lines, Jeruslem, Travel News

Alex Pattakos: Everybody Say 'OPA!'

2013-05-17T12:32:30Z

The notion of the "good life" can be viewed as the human quest for meaning, a formidable challenge that involves both making a living and making a life that really matters, that has significance.

Read more: Aristotle, Sisyphus, Homer, Viktor Frankl, Greeks, Odyssey, Greece, Illiad, Meaning, Socrates, Plato, Opa, Emotional Wellness, Meaning of Opa, Video, Healthy Living News

Bart van Poll: Where Paris Locals Hang Out!

2013-05-17T12:30:14Z

You've seen the sights and done the highlights (excuse the rhyming). But how about some lesser known sights that, according to Paris locals, are highlights too? Other things that Parisians maybe encounter daily on their commutes through the city?

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King Gives Up Luxury Yacht As Country Faces Biting Recession

2013-05-17T11:10:15Z

Spain's King Juan Carlos is giving up a 21-million-euro ($27 million) yacht named Fortuna, officials say, as his subjects weather a biting recession a...

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Ruby Testifies About Naughty Nun At Berlusconi Party

2013-05-17T10:21:20Z

MILAN — Silvio Berlusconi's private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman...

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Dr. Irene S. Levine: Discovering the French Countryside

2013-05-17T08:00:53Z

Naysayers of escorted trips question whether travelers can have authentic experiences as part of a group. Au contraire, river cruise is one of the most enjoyable and economical ways to discover the French countryside.

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Hey Justin, You Have To Pay For Your Monkey

2013-05-17T05:04:53Z

BERLIN (AP) — Justin Bieber will face a bill for thousands of euros (dollars) for his pet monkey's two-month stay at an animal shelter since it was ...

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Susan Sisko Carter: 'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Paris Sky

2013-05-16T21:37:29Z

have survived without my computer for 20 days. I feel free... light. Actually, I prefer writing with pen and paper in cafes. I am more connected to my surroundings and I am not compromising the ambience.

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Michael Hodin: Alzheimer's, HIV/AIDS and Us

2013-05-16T18:00:39Z

Diverse attention is now being given to Alzheimer's, a disease that is poised to become the nightmare of the 21st century without transformative breakthroughs in care, treatment, and prevention.

Read more: HIV/AIDS, Peter-Piot, United Kingdom, David Cameron, G8, Broadway, Alzheimer's, Philadelphia, Fifty News

Edward M. Weinman: The Deep

2013-05-16T17:42:01Z

With the blockbuster 2 Guns set to explode across U.S. multiplexes this summer, renegade filmmaker Baltasar Kormakur (Contraband) is about to become Iceland's most popular cultural export.

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Ben Barber: Death Finally Came to Vera

2013-05-16T17:06:38Z

Death finally came to Vera on Mother's Day -- 70 years after the French and Germans tried to kill her.

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Man Kills Himself In Front Of Pupils At Paris School

2013-05-16T09:26:53Z

PARIS -- A dozen students and a teacher saw a man kill himself with a shot in the head at a private Catholic school on Thursday, Paris mayor Bertrand ...

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Charles Heck: Regime Change, EU Style

2013-05-16T09:44:41Z

Think of the eventual incorporation of ten former Communist countries in the years after the end of the Cold War. Think of the incorporation of Portugal, Spain, and Greece growing out of an earlier "Europe"-inspired round of regime change.

Read more: European Union, Croatia, Regime Change, Western Balkans, Ivo Sanader, Eurozone, Franjo Tudman, World News

Raymond J. Learsy: EU's Oil Probe Years Overdue. Targets Wrong Benchmark

2013-05-16T08:04:14Z

The European antitrust authorities have finally carried out inspections of oil firms in three countries as well as the offices of the price-index publisher Platts, to determine if they distorted published prices of crude oil and petroleum products. It is a first step, long overdue, but it targets the wrong benchmark.

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German Home-Schooling Family Faces Deportation

2013-05-16T00:33:23Z

By Krista Kapralos
Religion News Service

(RNS) A German family seeking asylum in the U.S. so they can home-school their children lost their appeal...

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Lisa Lori: 5 Things My Italian Parents Taught Me About Food

2013-05-15T19:20:38Z

The Italian approach to life has been well-chronicled in bestsellers such as Eat, Pray, Love and Under the Tuscan Sun, but we shouldn't overlook the valuable lessons the Italian approach to food can teach our children.

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LuxEco Living: Where Can You Find Some of the Best Cheese in the World? The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills

2013-05-13T01:47:12Z

The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills has one of the finest selections of imported cheese.

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J. Michael Welton: Human Scale at Hudson Yards

2013-05-15T18:25:29Z

Fresh out of undergraduate school at the University of Virginia in the late 1980s - and facing the reality of a recession - Thomas Woltz leapt at the ...

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LuxEco Living: The Best Cheese Stores in the World: Venissimo and Murray's in New York

2013-05-14T13:17:27Z

Did you say cheese? We're not talking Velveeta.

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U.S. News Travel: Best Places to Watch the Sunset

2013-05-07T15:26:14Z

There's some kind of magic that happens when the sun drifts down. The world -- it seems -- glows with bright light and brilliant color, but just for a...

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David Thielen: The First Semi-Final -- Beyond Amazing

2013-05-15T15:38:44Z

I'm a 57-year-old guy where living on the edge is having a second beer. I haven't been to a concert in decades. And yet...

Last night I found myself ...

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