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The Super Bowl Binge

There’s the pigskin, the Patriots and the Seahawks. But Super Bowl Sunday wouldn’t be complete without the pizza, chicken wings, chips and beer, right?

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Auschwitz Remembered

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and memorial services are being held in Europe and around the world.

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Poverty

The rich are getting richer. According to Oxfam International, the richest 1% of the population will own more than half the world’s wealth by 2016.

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Haiti: 5 Years Later

Five years after the deadly earthquake, Haiti continues to have a long road ahead to recovery.

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Orion Orbit Launch

On Dec. 5 2014, NASA’s newest spacecraft designed to eventually take humans to Mars, lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on its first test flight.

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Airplane Germs

While some travellers bring home souvenir trinkets, other travellers bring home souvenirs of another kind—the seasonal flu.

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E-Cigarettes

Electronic cigarettes are battery powered and an alternative to consuming nicotine. While e-cigarettes are often designed to look like regular cigarettes, e-cigarettes do not contain tobacco and don’t require a flame.

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