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They don’t make ‘em like they used to — at least according to the guy who played James Bond in 1969, who’s pissed the new Bond film has axed 007′s signature martini … in favor of a corporate-sponsored beer.If you don’t know … the people behind… Go to Source

The “America’s Got Talent” contortionist who blew away Howard Stern to advance to the next round … is already making serious cash on the streets of Las Vegas, TMZ has learned. In case you missed the episode … Alonzo Jones, aka “Turf,” wowed the… Go to Source

DALLAS — The Boy Scouts of America is trying to recruit a new generation of kids to join its troops with high-energy, high-tech activities that include thrill-inducing zip lines at a new adventure camp, apps and a television show. Wayne Brock, one of two new Boy Scout leaders named this week, told The Associated Press [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan — Officials say two foreign doctors and three of their Afghan colleagues have been kidnapped in a remote area in the extreme northeast Afghanistan. Abdul Maroof Rasikh, the spokesman for the governor of Badakhshan province, said on Wednesday that it’s unclear who kidnapped the five. He says the kidnapping occurred Tuesday as the [...]

By Alex Rasmussen: Buying a stock at well off its 52 week high that has developed support and shown a momentum shift is a simple but effective strategy. It uses the smartest and most beneficial aspects of technical analysis to strengthen a fundamentals-driven investment thesis. I started my investing career with a lot of success [...]

By Zvi Bar: Hybrid mortgage REITs invest in residential mortgage backed securities. While agency mREITs only invest in RMBSs with the backing of a federal agency hybrid mREITs also hold portfolios of RMBSs without agency insurance. Non-agency RMBSs offer considerably higher yields when compared to agency-backed RMBSs, but also carry with them the significant risk [...]

US News & World Report ranked Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Arlington as the second-best public school in the country this year, and the acclaimed, highly selective magnet school in Northern Virginia held the No. 1 rank in each of the five previous years.  But some serious academic concerns have been [...]

From “College Crackup and the Online Future,” by Mark C. Taylor, chairman of the department of religion at Columbia University, writing for Bloomberg: “There is a widening gap between the rate at which knowledge is expanding and the rate at which colleges and universities change. In higher education, as in business, institutions must become more [...]

If you work for IBM, you can bring your iPhone to work, but forget about using the phone’s voice-activated digital assistant. Siri isn’t welcome on Big Blue’s networks. Go to Source