The Luxury Repo Men

The white yacht bobbed at the end of a pier on the St. Johns River in Central Florida. On the opposite riverbank, several men tried to convey boredom from a distance: stretching, taking off sunglasses, yawning, squinting, replacing sunglasses. The small team’s leader, Ken Cage, peeked at the boat through binoculars, then turned with a snap. “That’s the one,” he said.The...

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Amnesty Int: Ivory Coast torturing detainees

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast security officials are torturing dozens of detainees by administering electric shocks and other forms of abuse, Amnesty International alleged Friday.The victims include people charged with endangering state security in the wake of a recent spate of attacks targeting military installations. Since early August, unknown gunmen have...

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High School Teacher Lesson Plans Go Open Source

Educators can download free teaching materials and get paid to share their lessons.For a high school French teacher looking for a creative approach to verb conjugation, new lesson plans are only a website away. The same is true for a biology teacher covering a unit on mammals, or a history teacher trying to spice up a lesson on the Gettysburg Address. Educators...

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Vatican: Savile’s papal honor cannot be removed

LONDON (AP) — The Vatican said Saturday it never would have given Jimmy Savile his papal knighthood had it known of allegations the British TV star was a child sex predator, but that it can’t rescind the honor now that he has died.The Catholic Church of England wrote to the Holy See last week, asking it to consider whether it could posthumously remove the honor awarded...

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Meds a good “first step” for treating alcoholism

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Two drugs commonly used to treat alcoholism may be appropriate for people in different stages of recovery, a new analysis confirms – likely because they work differently in the brain.The drugs, acamprosate (marketed as Campral) and naltrexone (ReVia), are both non-addictive themselves and don’t make users sick when mixed with alcohol. So...

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Facebook Barely Beats Twitter, Trounces Google+ Among Teens [VIDEO]

It came as little surprise that Facebook was the social network of choice in a recent survey of 7,700 teens across the U.S. But now that the study’s authors have revealed its numbers, we can see just how much — or indeed, how little — Facebook won by.[More from Mashable: Facebook Messages Update Rolls Out To More Users] The teenagers in the...

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