Water Biking

Two women paddle their way across the Lake of the Ozarks, circa 1955. Missouri State Archives / Flickr Commons.

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Saudi King Abdullah admitted to hospital for tests

Saudi Arabia's 90-year-old King Abdullah was admitted to a hospital on Wednesday for medical tests, the official Saudi Press Agency reported.

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The Birth of Pulp Fiction

Louis Menand on the paperback revolution that transformed publishing: did it transform culture, too?

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Baby girl 'starves to death' in car as parents visit American buffet restaurant

A baby girl was found to have died of starvation as her parents drove to a buffet restaurant, according to officials in the US state of Florida.

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No Doubt about It: Waterboarding Is Torture. Period.

Waterboarding is a controlled death—I died multiple deaths, three times each day, for seventeen days.

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World Celebrations Bring in 2015

Celebrations for the start of 2015 have taken place across Asia and Europe, with firework displays in a host of major cities.

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Newly published NSA documents show agency could grab all Skype traffic

A National Security Agency document published this week by the German news magazine Der Spiegel from the trove provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden shows that the agency had full access to voice, video, text messaging, and file sharing from targeted individuals over Microsoft’s Skype service.

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