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Maricopa Neighborhood Seething Over Arrival Of Bristol Palin

Comedian Tracy Morgan may count The Palin Women among the best “masturbation material” available on the Web, but one neighborhood in Maricopa, Arizona is anything but ecstatic about the pending arrival of one of America’s most controversial political families. Palin’s oldest daughter — 20-year-old Bristol Palin — is hightailing it out of the clan’s homebase [...]

Chip Shot: It’s Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Bot

We’d guess that this spider-bot would have a leg up over your vacuum in a cage fight. A student from the University of Arizona has created an Intel Atom processor-based spider robot that is able to self-adjust to move straight forward without pre-programmed walking algorithms. For more information about this embedded application, see the video demonstration of the robot or visit the Intel hexapod robot page.

Amy Winehouse Buying $3.7 Million Mansion In Camden

There Goes The Neighborhood: Wildchild jazz songstress Amy Winehouse is spending big bucks for a new pad in her old ‘hood. The walking health hazard has reportedly forked over $3.7 million for a five-bedroom, four-bath pad in her former neighborhood of Camden, London’s The Sun wrote this week.

Flashpoint Kosovska Mitrovica neighborhood tense again

Tensions are running high once again in the Brđane settlement of northern Kosovska Mitrovica, reports said on Friday. Serbs and ethnic Albanians have gathered at the same location in order to build houses.

Richard M. Benjamin: Mark Another Coup for David Axelrod

The threesome – or Man Date – between the President, Cambridge Sgt. James Crowley, and Skip Gates bears the slight fingerprints of David Axelrod. The…

Kidnapped boy found in Belgrade suburb

A three-year-old boy whom two men kidnapped in the Belgrade neighborhood of Bežanijska Kosa on Saturday has been found alive, MUP said. The Serbian police (MUP) specified that the Roma boy was found near the suburb of Makiš, but did not give any further details about the case.

Jennifer Donahue: Jay-Z: “Every Step You Take, They Remind You, You Ghetto”

The problem isn’t so much what happened with Crowley and Gates. A greater problem is the divide between famous and easily identifiable people of color and those with no defense.

Newark Shootings Leave Three Dead, Seven Wounded

NEWARK, N.J. — Three shootings in Newark on Monday have left three people dead and seven wounded in the latest outburst of violence in northern New Jersey.

The three shootings happened in a six-hour span, in a six-mile radius, and just …

Marc Gunther: Exposed! Starbucks Goes Undercover!

Starbucks is responding to strain of public opinion that says local is better than global, small is better than big and independent is better than chain-owned.

Early CBO Score on Public Plan Says It Should Net $150 Billion In Savings: TNR

According to a pair of Capitol Hill sources, preliminary estimates from the Congressional Budget Office suggest that a strong public option–the kind that the House of Representatives is putting in its reform bill–should net somewhere in the …