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12 questions about eight kids
Source: MSNBC

Bobbi McCaughey answers viewer questions about raising septuplets and 9-year-old Mikayla

NOAA: 2008 Global Temperature Ties as Eight Warmest on Record
Source: NOAA

Even though it has seemed cold in the United States, the global average temperature remains above average and near record levels:

Joe the Plumber to become war correspondent on Yahoo! News
Source: Yahoo! News

"The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the conservative Web site pjtv.com." I really want want to know what this man really has to offer for us as Americans.

Report: Athletes test scores lag behind class
Source: MSNBC

Football and men's basketball players are averaging hundreds of points less on their college entrance exams than their classmates, according to a newspaper's study of 54 public universities.

Mean cuisine: An Axis of Evil cookbook
Source: MSNBC

Political analyst and South Asia expert Chris Fair dishes about her new cutting-edge cookbook, "Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States"; why talking foreign affairs is safer over dinner, and the politics of falafel.

Mean cuisine: An Axis of Evil cookbook
Source: MSNBC

Political analyst and South Asia expert Chris Fair dishes about her new cutting-edge cookbook, "Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States"; why talking foreign affairs is safer over dinner, and the politics of falafel.

Beckhams are Poor and Becks
Source: The Sun Newspaper Online

In Pictures: They've been transformed into average folk by computer wizards for a new viral email. It also features mock-ups of how Jo-Lo, Tom Cruise and Britney might have looked without fame and fortune.

PartyID-Weighted Poll Average - Oct 31st

Daily update from my partyID-weighted polling average. For more information on the methodology and for the spreadsheet I used to calculate these numbers, visit: -------------------------------------- October 31st

PartyID-Weighted Poll Average - Oct 30th

Several days ago I started accumulating the polling data from as many of the pollsters as I could, and starting averaging their results together.

Study: Urban areas are the ultimate 'bear trap'
Source: MSNBC

Urban black bears are much heavier and more likely to die violent deaths than their wilder peers, a new study found. And if female, they're more likely to get pregnant at a younger age.

Families spend 34 minutes a day shouting at each other
Source: Telegraph

Members of the average British household spend 34 minutes a day shouting at each other, with shouting persisting for an hour or more in a third of homes a survey has shown.

EPA: Your Life is Worthless, or Rather $6.9 Million
Source: cato-at-liberty.org

Splashed across the front pages today — well, at least one paper I saw — are headlines about the EPA slashing the value of life revising the value of a statistical life downward.

Obama got discount on home loan
Source: MSNBC

Compared with average terms, Obama's rate could have saved him more than $300 per month.

7 Reasons Men Die First - On Men (usnews.com)
Source: US News & World Report

Popular culture may paint men as the stronger sex, but from the moment a boy is born, his life is more likely than his sister's to be cut short.

Have an Average Day
Source: Utne

I once was talking to my friend and mentor Steve Chandler when he said to me, "Have an average day!" Taken aback, I asked him what he meant. Isn't the idea to have great days, even exceptional ones?

Do we spend too much time at our Computers?
Source: the Mail online

The average Brit will spend an astonishing 24 years and eight months of their lives sitting in front of a computer - an amazing 8,984 days spent writing emails, surfing the net or working.

Another day in the life of Mr and Mrs Average Finn
Source: Uutiset - HS.fi

The roughly 40-year-old Finn is at the halfway point of his life. He lives in a residential block in a 3 to 4-room flat of 78.4 square metres that he owns and he pays a housing loan on, of which he still has left EUR 22,400 euros owing to the bank.

Five crucial things the Linux community doesn't understand about the average computer user
Source: blogs.zdnet.com

Question: Why is it that the average computer user still chooses to spend hundreds of dollars on Windows or Mac when there are countless Linux alternatives that they could download, install and make use of completely free of charge?

Why women fall for \'Mr Average\'?
Source:

High-flying men are not as attractive to women looking for love as those with an average job, scientists say.

College prices keep rising for 2006-07 school year
Source: CNN

The average cost of a four-year private college jumped to $30,367 this school year, the first time the average has broken the $30,000 mark.As they have for the past 11 years, average college costs rose faster than inflation, according the latest report from the College Board, a n …

September 2006 U.S. temperature 0.7 degrees BELOW 20th century average
Source: noaanews.noaa.gov

September 2006 was cooler than average for the continental U.S., providing relief from the second-warmest summer on record, according to scientists at the NOAA National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.