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Bill Gates And The Toilet Of The Future: Why The World Needs A Revolution In Better Sanitation

Bill Gates And The Toilet Revolution: Why The World Needs Better Sanitation
Bill Gates, the man responsible for bringing software to the masses with Microsoft and Windows, has plans to reinvent another industry: Sanitation. Gates, whose philanthropic efforts have helped bring clean water and resources to developing countries via the foundation founded by he and his wife Melinda, said on Wednesday that he plans to build a toilet that's better suited to developing countries in an effort to cut down on disease and death in those regions.
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Girl Gets Butthole Tattoo: Anal Ink Goes Viral On YouTube [VIDEO]

The YouTube video which is aptly titled "Girl Gets Butt Hole Tattoo" already has 625,624 views-it is nearly 90 seconds of film that shows a 22-year-old unnamed girl getting a tattoo on her butthole. However, not everyone likes the idea of an anal tattoo, with nearly half of the people "disliking" the clip that has yielded over one thousand comments.
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Steve Jobs Home Burglarized: $60,000 Stolen, Suspect Kariem McFarlin In Custody

Steve Jobs Home Burglarized: $60,000 Stolen, Suspect Kariem McFarlin In Custody

The home of the late Steve Jobs, Apple's iconic founder and visionary who died last year at the age of 56, was reportedly burglarized on July 17, but police say they now have a suspect in custody. Tom Flattery, deputy district attorney in Santa Clara County, said that 35-year-old Kariem McFarlin of Alameda broke into Jobs' home on Waverly Street in Palo Alto and stole more than $60,000 worth of "computers and personal items."
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Navy Ship USS Porter Collides With Oil Tanker By Strait Of Hormuz [PHOTOS]

A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer, USS Porter, collided with a Japanese-owned and Panamanian-flagged bulk-oil tanker, M/V Otowasan, on Sunday at 1 a.m. local time just outside the strategically important Strait of Hormuz between the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, according to the U.S. 5th Fleet.
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87 Reported Dead In Iran Earthquakes

Two strong earthquakes struck northwest Iran Saturday, killing 87 people, injuring hundreds and scaring thousands into fleeing their homes as aftershocks continued to hit the area, state media said.
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Idaho Plane Crash Caught On Tape Goes Viral [VIDEO]

A two-minute-long video taken from inside the cockpit of a small airplane that crashed into a protected wilderness area in Idaho in June with four passengers aboard has gone viral online after being uploaded to YouTube by survivors.
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Philippine Flood Death Toll Reaches 60, Over 2 Million Affected [PHOTOS]

The death toll from five days of torrential rains and subsequent floods in the Philippines climbed to 60 Friday while weather forecasts predict more rains across the main island of Luzon. Rescue and relief efforts are under way to help hundreds of thousands of people affected that crippled the capital Manila and surrounding areas.
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Reddit Island Project Might Not Be A 'Technopia'

Online forum Reddit is home to all kind of users, and all of those users are seeking to find another new home on Reddit Island. The community based around the front page of the internet plans to make an island home for themselves, but the Reddit community might not make the best society.
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Ronald Poppo, Victim Of Rudy Eugene Miami Cannibal Attack, Finally Speaks: ‘He Just Ripped Me To Ribbons’ [FULL STATEMENT]

Two months after the Miami face-eating attack by alleged cannibal Rudy Eugene that took place over Memorial Day weekend which grabbed worldwide attention, the victim, Ronald Poppo, has finally spoken out. Poppo detailed the attack that took place on the MacArthur Highway to police in a full statement released on Thursday, summing the harrowing event up: "He just ripped me to ribbons."

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