If you are daunted by your New Year?s resolutions to lose weight, quit smoking or stop watching so much reality television, you should see what rapper Wale has planned for 2012.
?New year, new goals,? he told a hometown crowd on Sunday night at his Fillmore Silver Spring show, before running down his ambitious to-do list.
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In the course of writing today?s story on Spaceship Earth I searched for the first photograph of the Earth from space. It hinges on your definition. There were photos of the surface from V-2 rockets back in the 1940s, but they were only about 65 miles up and from that altitude you can?t see the whole planet. The real issue is, when did we first see the entire planet, or at least the portion of the disk in sunlight, in a single photographic frame?
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Thomas L. Schwarz [letters, Dec. 31] argued against means-testing for Social Security. He could have made an additional point:
Suppose Person A and Person B start their working careers with identical work skills. But Person A fully funds a 401(k) plan and Person B chooses not to save. Means-testing will reward Person B for not saving. Is this not a recipe for national financial disaster?
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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) will endorse former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney?s (R) presidential bid on Wednesday, BuzzFeed?s Ben Smith reports.
McCain, who bested Romney in 2008 to win the GOP presidential nomination, will announce his backing of Romney at an event in New Hampshire, a former McCain aide told Smith.
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Ice fishing is generally a long and solitary affair, with hours spent waiting for a bite as a rod dangles through an chisel-made hole in the ice.
But a small group of Finnish fisherman have their own interpretation of ice fishing, as seen in a video posted from their recent adventure at Lake Saarij�rvi in Vaala, a municipality in eastern Finland.
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?I have serious doubts about eloquence,? confesses William Gavin at the start of his memoir of a life spent writing speeches. This is, in its way, a startling admission. Speechwriters, as a rule, put great stock in eloquence. They have a weakness for it. They will strive and strain to achieve it at the slightest provocation, such as a blank piece of paper.
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BAGHDAD ? A convoy carrying a leading Sunni government official was hit by a roadside bomb Sunday night, injuring his bodyguards, according to the official and a police colonel from the heavily Sunni area where the blast was reported.
Finance Minister Rafe al-Essawi survived the blast, which occurred at 9:15 p.m. in the Salahuddin province north of Baghdad.
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