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Sweet: PartyBeans Makes It Easy To Send Customized Candy Gifts

The site allows users to add their own logos or photos to the tops of their candy containers, along with a few lines of text. Each candy also has a few customization options - you can choose if you’d like your Jelly Bellys to come as a standard random sampling, or in a flavor or two of your choosing. The site plans to introduce more candies and options in the near future... PartyBeans is trying to appeal to more casual purchasers... In my testing the site seemed to work quite well
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Report: Torture started with Bush

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Dec. 12, 2008 | "The fact is that senior officials in the United States government solicited information on how to use aggressive (interrogation) techniques, redefined the law to create the appearance of their legality, and authorized their use against detainees." That is one of the raw conclusions of a two-year Senate investigation into torture. On Thursday, as the incoming Obama administration is mulling whether or not it even should investigate torture under the Bush administration, the Senate Armed Services Committee released the executive summary of its own investigation of the treatment of U.S. detainees. (The full report is still being declassified.)
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Paramedics Accused of Molesting Patients

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This Oregon paramedic is serving a five-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to inappropriately touching female patients in the backs of ambulances. But Lannie Haszard, 62, is not a unique kind of criminal. An investigation found that at least 129 ambulance attendants across the country have been accused of sex-related crimes in the past 18 months, some while on duty.
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Powell: GOP Must Stop "Shouting At The World"

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The Republican party must stop "shouting at the world" and start listening to minority groups if it is to win elections in the 21st century, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday.
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Illinois first lady scrutinized before husband arrested

"Hold up that f---ing Cubs s---. F--- them," she allegedly said as her husband, Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, bandied about a scheme to withhold state funds from the Cubs' parent Tribune Company unless the owner agreed to fire certain Chicago Tribune employees.
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Obama names Daschle to lead new health-care reform office

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President-elect Barack Obama reasserted his pledge to overhaul the nation's health-care system when he takes office, signaling Thursday that despite the economic downturn he would attempt a major reworking of the sector that has eluded presidents since Franklin Roosevelt. "The time is now to solve this problem," Obama said at a Chicago news conference, where he formally announced that former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle would head his health-care team.
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Top 10 Douchebags of 2008

As 2008 winds down, giving us a time to reflect on just how dreadful the past 12 months have been for everyone except Nate Silver, what better time to highlight the Top 10 Douchebags of 2008? For those of you keeping score at home, a douchebag isn't simply a loser, jerk, nitwit, or small slice of fecal matter. A true douchebag is a person or thing with some or all these qualities, plus a substantial amount hubris.
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Riots Spread From Greece Across Europe

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MADRID, Spain (Dec. 11) - The unrest that has gripped Greece is spilling over into the rest of Europe, raising concerns the clashes could be a trigger for opponents of globalization, disaffected youth and others outraged by the continent's economic turmoil and soaring unemployment. Protesters in Spain, Denmark and Italy smashed shop windows, pelted police with bottles and attacked banks this week, while in France, cars were set ablaze Thursday outside the Greek consulate in Bordeaux, where protesters scrawled graffiti warning about a looming "insurrection."
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Study Reports Anal Sex on Rise Among Teens

Recently, researchers at the Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center in Rhode Island suggested that anal sex is on the rise among teens and young adults, particularly those who have unprotected vaginal sex. Experts say girls and young women like Carry are often persuaded to try such sexual behavior for the wrong reasons -- to please a partner, to have sex without the risk of pregnancy or to preserve their virginity. But many don't understand the health consequences.
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Nintendo Goes After Kindle Crowd With GameBoy DS E-Reader

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How will this work out? click [more] for pic. "Count one more e-reader on the market: Nintendo inked a deal with publisher HarperCollins to turn its DS portable game console in a electronic book reading device in the UK. A new cartridge coming on the market has the full text of about 100 classic (old) books."
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