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Yahoo vows not to “screw it up” with Tumblr
Yahoo is acquiring Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash, a bold bet by Chief Executive Marissa Mayer to revitalize the struggling Internet pioneer by co-opting a Web property with strong visitor traffic but little revenue. The deal will use about a fifth of Yahoo’s $5.4 billion in cash and marketable securities.
“Per the agreement and our promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business,” Yahoo said in a statement on Monday.
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No Text is worth Dying For. It Can Wait.
Please join us, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile US, Inc. and more than 200 other organizations to stop texting while driving. Encourage everyone in your community to join the movement and take the pledge today to never text and drive at www.itcanwait.com.
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White House releases over 100 pages of emails about Benghazi (PDF)
There are some events the public, truly, cannot handle. This particular event is one of them.
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If you said the “s” word in the ninth century, you probably wouldn’t have shocked or offended anyone. Back then, the “s” word was just the everyday word that was used to refer to excrement.
That’s one of many surprising, foul-mouthed facts Melissa Mohr reveals in her new book, Holy S- - -: A Brief History of Swearing. Though the curse words themselves change over time, the category remains constant — we always have a set of words that are off-limits.
“We need some category of swear words,” Mohr says. “[These] words really fulfill a function that people have found necessary for thousands of years.”
Mohr joined NPR’s David Greene to talk about curses through the ages and how the words that offend us reveal a lot about society and its values.
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President Barack Obama stopped in Austin, Texas yesterday, where he met with local high school students, grabbed some Texas BBQ, spoke with tech entrepreneurs, and toured an advanced manufacturing company.
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World Trade Center rises again
The spire on New York’s One World Trade Center has been added, completing the building to its full height of 1,776 feet. (reuterspictures)
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”Let me just start off with a public service announcement to dads, partners, kids of America — Sunday is Mother’s Day. You should not forget. You can’t go wrong with flowers, a homemade card … giving mom some relief, some quiet time. That is appreciated.
President Obama, May 10, 2013 (via whitehouse)
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Documenting the missing children of New Delhi: between January 1 and May 8 of 2013, 725 children in Delhi were reported missing and are untraced.
REUTERS/Mansi Thapliyal
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If you said the “s” word in the ninth century, you probably wouldn’t have shocked or offended anyone. Back then, the “s” word was just the everyday word that was used to refer to excrement.
That’s one of many surprising, foul-mouthed facts Melissa Mohr reveals in her new book, Holy S- - -: A Brief History of Swearing. Though the curse words themselves change over time, the category remains constant — we always have a set of words that are off-limits.
“We need some category of swear words,” Mohr says. “[These] words really fulfill a function that people have found necessary for thousands of years.”
Mohr joined NPR’s David Greene to talk about curses through the ages and how the words that offend us reveal a lot about society and its values.
— Interview: Melissa Mohr, Author Of ‘Holy Sh*t’](http://24.media.tumblr.com/6041787e1badc2ad9c55ec4b026c2193/tumblr_mmqwunL0Rw1qdkv8qo1_500.jpg)
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Peace Corps Announces New Service Opportunity for Same-Sex Couples
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Charles Lindbergh in Paris
