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...company that's dominated the Internet by doing one simple thing well, Google has also managed to build a thriving side business in bells and whistles: its features offer everything from the ability to search inside books and videos to the ability to watch a kid fall off a bike from the privacy of your own home. So when I heard that Google had unveiled a new feature called Mail Goggles that is designed to stop you from sending embarrassing e-mails while drunk by requiring you to do math problems, my first thought was, That's the most ridiculous...
...When Barack Obama was 6 years old, he was the only foreign child in his neighborhood in Jakarta, Indonesia. He didn't know the kids, didn't speak the language. At first the locals were a little freaked out, says Zulfin Adi, 47, who as a kid lived a block from Obama. "He was so much bigger than the rest of us." So they decided to haze him. One day a group of children ambushed him, carried him to the local watering hole and threw him in. They had no idea if he could swim. But when Obama came...
...quite a few of our evictions myself and - I'm not kidding with you, I run the 2nd largest jail in the country - we have a very large police department so we see alot of nasty things. But my experience on these evictions are truly some of the most traumatic things I have ever seen. I'm going to these homes while the family is being put outside, because we first have to clear the house, and the movers then come in and take whatever possessions these folks have, and they put them out on the street...
...years ago this past weekend, Matthew Shepard died. He was 21 but looked maybe 17, and everyone who knew him called him Matt, never the more formal Matthew. He was mostly still a kid, but he became an international symbol after two men he met in a bar pretended to be gay, lured him into a truck, savagely beat him and left him to die tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyo. He held on for five days after being found but never recovered consciousness...
...spite of us having a child who had problems, there were so much more serious ones than ours. We ran into parents with two children who are schizophrenic, and they tried desperately to keep them at home and take care of them, and they went broke and the kids are in jail. That's when I first started finding out about the issue, how parents were losing control of their children physically, and they were in jails because there wasn't any place to put them ultimately. If it's some average worker trying to find a place for their...