Month: June 2015

Only 18% of kids who eat free or reduced-price lunch during the school year receive meals over the summer.

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Taylor Swift announced she won’t allow her latest album, "1989," to be included in the new streaming service, Apple Music, because she says Apple won’t pay artists during the initial three-month trial period.

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Germans activists want Europe to accepting more of the millions fleeing the world’s conflict zones. They’re exhuming migrants from unmarked graves in Italy and reburying them in Berlin.

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The drug can also allegedly wipe out AIDS and TB and just about every other disease. The state-run media announced the news, so exaggeration is to be expected.

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Few countries or cities have dared to try a "sin" tax on soda, so no one really knows if a tax would actually get people to drink less. Preliminary results suggest that the tax in Mexico is working.

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The first one percent is the hardest to get.

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Scientists already knew starfish have superpowers. They can regenerate entire lost limbs or organs; some can even regrow a whole body from one arm. And these animals have just revealed another bizarre ability. To two Danish students, it first appeared as the power to really wreck an experiment.
At the University of Southern Denmark, students Frederik Ekholm Gaardsted Christensen and Trine Bottos Olsen were asked to tag some starfish. The task was simple: inject the Asterias rubens with mi

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