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Visitors return to Kashmir’s paradise lost

http://www.youtube.com/v/UYGZGQZ4zAU?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Visit site: Visitors return to Kashmir’s paradise lost

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Conflict harms Kashmir tourism

http://www.youtube.com/v/sRLWxDwji8w?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Continued -  Conflict harms Kashmir tourism

Justin Bieber hopes Anne Frank ‘would have been a belieber’

Teenage heartthrob and recent controversy magnet Justin Bieber has again left the internet slack-jawed, this time over comments left at the Anne Frank House. The Canadian pop star used part of his downtime from touring the cities of Europe to visit the Amsterdam hiding place of the young Holocaust…

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A Mass Suspension for Dress Code Violations

This week in
overkill:
About 100 students at a Leflore Magnet High
School are suspended for not following the dress code.

The school’s Principal Alvin Dailey said he has had enough telling
students to abide by the dress code.

“Everyday I’m saying pull your pants up. Get out of that jacket,”
said Principal Dailey. “Well there comes a point where you have to
say enough is enough.”

That day came Monday. School officials performed a sweep of each
classroom at Leflore High School, searching for dress code
violators.
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Obama calls for U.S. manufacturing revival

US President Barack Obama called on Saturday for quick congressional action designed to grow the US economy, create jobs and making America a magnet for manufacturing. “After shedding jobs for more than 10 years, our manufacturers have added about 500,000 jobs over the past three,”…

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The Pirate Bay ditches its servers to become raid-proof

The Pirate Bay has been making a few adjustments to how they operate the infamous file-sharing site over the years to avoid potential takedowns from authorities. They shut down its tracker in November 2009, stopped hosting .torrent files in favor of magnet links this year, and even allow users to… Read More

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Hackers accuse The Pirate Bay of collecting personal user data

Hackers citing affiliation with Anonymous have recently taken to Twitter claiming that torrent file and magnet link sharing site The Pirate Bay has been logging personal user information. @pokex says the site collects information like email and IP addresses – data that could potentially be used by authorities to identify… Read More