Diddy, his son?s football scholarship and the debate over how we treat celebrity kids

Justin Combs, the son of Sean ?Diddy? Combs, is going to UCLA on a merit-based $54,000 football scholarship. He announced that decision back in November, but it has suddenly became a massive media issue because CNN ran a story this week asking whether it was fair for the son of an extremely wealthy rapper/fashion designer/thrower of parties that require people to wear all white attire should get a scholarship like this one.

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Alexandra Petri: The real joke of the John Edwards verdict

Some crimes are their own punishment.

And for everything else, there?s show trials.

Usually the idea that your name is about to be turned into mud in front of a mud-hungry public is enough deterrent.But this is the John Edwards case, where nothing is quite usual.

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Emmy categories merge once again, will combine acting prizes for miniseries and TV movies

Say farewell to separate Emmy Award categories for lead actor/actress and supporting actor/actress in a miniseries or TV movie ? now, all acting prizes will be combined into one category, the TV academy announced on Thursday.

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After the death of Jack Kevorkian, Lawrence Egbert is the new public face of American assisted suicide

Dust speckles shelves up on the third story. Wood floors creak. Walls and cabinets in the cramped office, tucked into a red-brick Baltimore rowhouse, channel a generation?s worth of sloganeering.

?We shall overcome Reagan?

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Community comes to the aid of jailed Texas honor student

A 17-year-old Texas honors student who was jailed for missing too much school because she had to work two jobs to support her siblings, refused to accept the more than $100,000 a website raised for her.

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?Free Will? by Sam Harris

Have you ever wondered why you did something? I?m not talking about some momentous, life-altering decision, but such ordinary matters as what led you to purchase this newspaper or go to the Web site and click on this article. Do you prefer vanilla or chocolate, wine or beer, ?Mad Men? or ?Breaking Bad?? And, again, why?

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An engineering professor who combines mechanical know-how with creativity, Dennis Hong is the U.S. star in humanoid robotics

On a visit to the American Museum of Natural History in New York three years ago, Dennis Hong was captivated not by the giant blue whale, or the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, but by the ankle bone of a timid prehistoric deer.

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FDA rejects new name for high fructose corn syrup

High fructose corn syrup won't get a wholesome new name after all.

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The threat to global health from the hunt for bin Laden

As an intelligence operation, it must have seemed like pure genius: Recruit a Pakistani doctor to collect blood samples that could identify Osama bin Laden?s family, under cover of an ongoing vaccination program. But as an ethical matter, it was something else.

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