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Al-Qaeda Crippled As Leaders Stay In Hiding, CIA Says (203 diggs) Relentless attacks against al-Qaeda in the Pakistan tribal region appear to have driven Osama bin Laden and other top leaders deeper into hiding, leaving the organization rudderless and incapable of planning sophisticated operations, CIA Director Leon Panetta said Wednesday.

Those Authoritarian, Torture-Loving French (109 diggs) A new experiment reveals truths about submission to authority that ought to be obvious to all Americans.

It's Official: PS3 The Heaviest Console Ever! (167 diggs) Try not to drop it on your foot!

And so it begins...Walgreens: no new Medicaid patients Apr16 (147 diggs) Effective April 16, Walgreens drugstores across the state won't take any new Medicaid patients, saying that filling their prescriptions is a money-losing proposition — the latest development in an ongoing dispute over Medicaid reimbursement.

A Banking Battleground (Infographic) (107 diggs) Despite the power of big banks, small institutions still dominate huge swaths of the country and hold nearly half of bank deposits overall.

GM Unveils Frickin' Lasers to Help Driver Visibility (212 diggs) The system uses a combination of sensors and cameras to gather information that is then projected onto the windshield by small ultra-violet lasers. The technology is part of a joint R&D project between GM and teams at the University of Southern California and Carnegie Mellon University.

White Death: the Sniper Who Killed 700 Soviets in 100 Days (332 diggs) Ensconced in the snow, his all-white camouflage suit rendering him invisible to the invading Soviet soldiers he stalked, Simo Häyhä steadied himself to fire. During the 1939–1940 Winter War, the Finnish sniper undertook a killing spree that saw him single-handedly take the lives of at least 700 men in less than 100 days.

51 Headless Vikings in English Execution Pit Confirmed (288 diggs) Naked, beheaded, and tangled, the bodies of 51 young males found in the United Kingdom have been identified as brutally slain Vikings, archaeologists announced Friday.

Teacher Arrested For Encouraging Teen Fights (128 diggs) A teacher who allegedly organized fights between teenage boys has been arrested on suspicion of six counts of child endangerment.

Colbert on the Wannabe Fattest Woman (Video) (212 diggs) On last night's Colbert Report, Stephen covered the latest in the world of eating, from inhalable food to Donna Simpson, a New Jersey woman who is actively trying to become the world's fattest woman.

Catholic Exorcist: Pedophiles Tempted by Satan,not Possessed (240 diggs) "The devil tempts everyone -- people in politics, in economics, in sport. And naturally, he tempts, above all, the religious leaders, so you shouldn't be surprised if the devil tempts those in the Vatican. That's his job."

Can Killer Whales decide to kill a person? (228 diggs) Researchers have yet to find evidence that an orca in the wild has ever killed a person. But they aren't surprised that the world's biggest, most powerful and possibly smartest predator, captured and kept for years in a tank, cut off from the influences of an extended family, could have a fatal encounter with a human.

Revealed: Bush warned 9/11 Commission about 'crossing line' (311 diggs) Senior Bush administration officials sternly cautioned the 9/11 Commission against probing too deeply into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, according to a document recently obtained by the ACLU.

The Monsters' Fantasy League (330 diggs) Zombies FTW!

Twilight: The Drinking Game (223 diggs) Let's face facts here, folks: Twilight is not very good, and there's no way that we're getting through it sober.

MacGruber Delivers The Goods (267 diggs) To answer the immediate question at hand, "MacGruber" is in fact the funniest Saturday Night Live spinoff since "Wayne's World" in 1992. Time to break down who's in it and why it's funnier than the last decade plus of SNL movie adaptations.

Darpa Wants Self-Guiding, Storytelling Cameras (156 diggs) The Pentagon’s risk-taking research agency is kicking off a new program to turn everyday cameras into autonomous ‘bots with problem-solving smarts. Darpa is already after all kinds of highly intelligent robo-critters.

St. Patrick's Day Massacre Of White House Shamrocks (144 diggs) I've always wondered what happens to the shamrock that the Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen will present to President Barack Obama at the White House today...

Chinese ad partners beg Google for information (168 diggs) Twenty-seven advertising partners in China also ask Google how they will be compensated if the company goes ahead with a threatened withdrawal.

How to know if your iPhone battery is on Death Row (154 diggs) The ugly truth about your iPhone battery? It's got a lifespan of less than two years, but may not even last that long if you're careless. Here are expert tips to help you take better care of it - and then know when to send it to that recycling bin in the sky.

Missing Woman's Body Found in Bed Frame of Memphis Hotel (233 diggs) The room had been rented at least five times since her disappearance. Victim, missing since January, was found after a foul odor was reported coming from the room.

11 Badass Conspiracy Theories (276 diggs) Even with Bush out of the oval office, and 9/11 many years in our rear view mirror, America is still fascinated by conspiracy theories. Why? Well, who doesn’t love tapped phones, untraceable weapons, and secret government agents in Ray Bans?

10 Ways Women Turn Men Off (544 diggs) Find out which female habits drive guys crazy -- and not in a good way.

Alex Chilton Of Big Star Dies In New Orleans (114 diggs) Alex Chilton, the influential and undeniably odd yet talented musician who fronted the Box Tops and later Big Star, has...

Universal Admits Defeat and Shows Promising 2010 Material (184 diggs) Between their recent problems with The Wolfman being pushed to Land of the Lost and Funny People basically being ignored, out of the billions of dollars spent at the cinemas very little of it went to Universal in 2009.