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<p>Washington (CNN) -- Americans are sharply divided along racial lines as to whether Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson should be charged with murder in the shooting death of Michael Brown, a new CNN/ORC poll out Monday finds.</p>

Based on a 5 year old girl, this robot is supposed to be more lifelike than ever.

A screen grab I just took after feeding my babies. Never seen a more direct hit in my life, nor have I seen a more well defined storm come through on radar.

The construction worker accused of killing indie actress .Adrienne Shelly tied a sheet around her neck, dragged the unconscious woman to a bathroom - and strung her up while she was still breathing, sources said yesterday. Then 19-year-old illegal immigrant Diego Pillco fled the West Village building and calmly went to work at another job site - leaving her to die in what originally appeared to be a suicide, the sources said. "This woman did not die from a strike to her head," Assistant District Attorney Marit DeLozier said as Pillco was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court. Pillco "fought with...

While his helpless, pregnant wife watched in horror, a Woburn man says, he was viciously beaten outside the Buffalo Bills’ football stadium last week by a liquored-up mob of New York fans embittered after the Pats crushed their team. “I thought they were going to kill him,” a pregnant Diane Donaghey said yesterday of the booze-fueled ruffians who allegedly attacked her husband, Barry, 30. The couple filed a police report and have retained a lawyer. They say they never saw a security guard during their ordeal.Police in Orchard Park, N.Y., where the stadium is located, did not respond to calls...

Chris “Tiger” Stockbridge is on a last-ditch quest to devour every last scrap of steak, bacon and home fries in sight as he counts down to the day when surgeons staple his ample stomach - a potentially lifesaving but bittersweet turning point for this Dorchester dad. “I’m gonna go everywhere I wanna go. I’m gonna eat everything I wanna eat. I’m in full swing now,” said Stockbridge, a 325-pound, 5-foot-10-inch city worker who’s halfway through a two-week binge as he hits all his favorite local food haunts prior to undergoing gastric bypass surgery. “I think I’m going to miss the...

When Andrew thought about what he wanted his Wish to be, the first and only thing he ever considered was going to a Patriots game and meeting Tedy Bruschi. Andrew wanted to meet him not only because he was a Patriot, but because he'd also undergone heart surgery for an undetected congenital heart defect and then returned to the football field. The Make-A-Wish foundation granted Andrew a meeting with Bruschi and a return trip in the fall to attend a Patriots game. Sharing Andrew's excitement was something that seven years ago I never dared dream. You see, "heart parents" don't...

CAIRO (AFP) - Ghana defender John Paintsil's waving of an Israeli flag to celebrate his team's World Cup goals drew a barrage of insults and furious reactions in Monday's Egyptian newspapers. Paintsil, who plays for Israeli club Hapoel Tel Aviv, celebrated the two goals in Ghana's 2-0 win over the Czech Republic by pulling an Israeli flag out of his sock and waving it at the cameras. "The ignorant and stupid Paintsil, who spent 20 days in Egypt during the last African Nations Cup, plays for Hapoel," sports commentator Alaa Sadek wrote in the daily Al-Akhbar, explaining to baffled Egyptian...

Most freepers probably aren't aware of (or give a crap about) seeing the full 30 minute pilot of "Heat Vision and Jack" - a show that was just too wierd to be picked up back in 1999. I had only heard of the show and it is almost legendary - though nobody I know has seen it - now it is finally online: http://www.panandscan.com/news/show/Web_Video/Viral_Video:_Legendary_Jack_Black_TV_Pilot_Hits_Web/502 It was directed by Ben Stiller, stars Owen Wilson and Jack Black and is one of the wierdest things you have ever seen. If you like off beat Gen-X humor (Conan, etc) you'll like this otherwise,...

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Dec. 5, 2005 issue - Only one day after Hurricane Katrina tore through the Gulf Coast, Tranquilino Jimenez already had a job offer. An undocumented immigrant from Mexico, he set off from his home in Mobile, Ala., to join a convoy of 80 other workers hired to rip out soggy carpets and tear down Sheetrock from Biloxi, Miss., to Port Arthur, Texas. He eventually settled in New Orleans, where he's cleaning up schools in St. Bernard Parish, east of the city. Earning $12 per hour, Jimenez, 40, works 10 hours a day, seven days a week, retiring at night to...

Question: Can anyone point me to some political book sales data, particularly conservative vs liberal books? I know there are resources out there.

White Sox designated hitter Carl Everett probably wouldn't be very successful as a politician because of his candor, but that's exactly the quality that makes him such a compelling interview. Everett often chooses not to talk with reporters, but he recently gave an interview to the Sun-Times that touched on several subjects, including rapper Kanye West saying that President Bush doesn't care about black people. ''Based on what I saw and heard, Kanye was absolutely correct,'' Everett said. ''But people can't take the truth. And not everybody is brave enough to speak the truth. They want to deny the truth...

The Lost premiere is on now, find out what is down the hatch (some wierd dude stuck in the 70's?), who the others are and what is up with that flying cloud.

New gullies that did not exist in mid-2002 have appeared on a Martian sand dune. That's just one of the surprising discoveries that have resulted from the extended life of NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, which this month began its ninth year in orbit around Mars. Boulders tumbling down a Martian slope left tracks that weren't there two years ago. New impact craters formed since the 1970s suggest changes to age-estimating models. And for three Mars summers in a row, deposits of frozen carbon dioxide near Mars' south pole have shrunk from the previous year's size, suggesting a climate change in...

Sometimes, I wonder how gullible people can be. Yahoo News, which will repeat anything it finds on the web as if it's true, published an article on September 12th about a "chaos cloud" headed toward Earth. This cloud, the article breathlessly exclaims, ...dissolves everything in its path, including comets, asteroids, planets and entire stars -- and it's headed directly toward Earth! Oh no! Fear! Horror! ... skepticism? Disbelief? C'mon, folks! The source of this story is the Weekly World News. This is the same epic rag that brought us BatBoy, remember. I can make this clearer: it's a joke. J...

I made it home just in time last night to catch the "Grapple in the Apple" debate between my new hero George Galloway, and the former lead singer of INXS, Christopher Hitchens. I was so worked up for it, I couldn't sleep for days. Well, the fact that I was worked up for it and that I couldn't sleep are only marginally correlated. I just hope dad doesn't notice all teh $40 withdrawls from my trust fund over the last 5 days (if you catch my drift). My New Hero Anyway, back to the grapple. My new hero is George...