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Now best deals on Facebook in 5 US cities

Tue, 26/04/2011 - 17:37 by Anupreet Kaur

Facebook, the social networking giant launched deals program Tuesday in five cities in the United States.

Milwaukee is America's drunkest city

Sat, 01/01/2011 - 15:59 by Neka Sehgal

Wondering which city is the most sloshed in the United States?

Some Texas moms taking placentas home

Tue, 30/11/2010 - 09:18 by Prince damin

Austin, Texas -- An Austin, Texas, hospital official says an increasing number of women are braving lengthy paperwork and fees to take their placentas home after giving birth.

Eileen Dunne, director of waste management for St. David's North Austin Medical Center, said placentas are considered medical waste under the Texas Administrative Code, so mothers who want to keep them have to file paperwork at a courthouse and pay fees of as much as $300.

Dunne told the Austin American-Statesman a growing number of applications to keep placentas have been crossing her desk.

"All of a sudden, it seems like one or two a month this year, which is definitively more than the one or two I'd see every couple of years," Dunne said.

Skin color cited in Mexican inequality

Thu, 07/10/2010 - 07:27 by Prince damin

Austin, Texas -- A U.S. study says skin color leads to profound social inequality in Mexico despite state-promoted ideology denying the existence of such prejudice.

The study from the University of Texas at Austin found individuals with darker skin tones have less education, have lower status jobs, are more likely to live in poverty, and are less likely to be affluent, a university release said Wednesday.
The study by Andres Villarreal, an associate professor of sociology, was published in the October issue of the American Sociological Review.

Texas, Notre Dame to meet in football

Fri, 06/08/2010 - 09:57 by Prince damin

Austin, Texas -- Officials at Texas and Notre Dame announced Thursday the schools had agreed to play a four-game football series beginning in 2015.

Texas is second and Notre Dame is third on the all-time NCAA football victory list.
"We have a wonderful relationship with Notre Dame," Texas Athletic Director DeLoss Dodds said. "We are excited to pull this off.

"Texas and Notre Dame have met in a lot of great games over the years and I was lucky enough to be here for the series we had with them in 1995 and '96. Those games created a lot of interest and we've had a number of talks over the years to try to do it again.

Oprah’s network denies rigging contest votes, ensures legitimacy

Sat, 26/06/2010 - 19:44 by Samia Sehgal

Oprah Winfrey has been accused of fraudulent conduct in her ‘Search for the Next TV Star.’ Reports have been running rampant on the web-o-sphere suggesting how Oprah’s network, OWN, manipulated vote results.

Jesse James plans to move closer to Sandra Bullock

Sun, 20/06/2010 - 09:31 by Samia Sehgal

Sandra Bullock’s disgraced husband Jesse James is trying to move closer to his estranged wife. James is shifting permanently to Austin, where Bullock already has a house.