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South Park New Episode Exposes ‘Cash For Gold’ Conspiracy [VIDEO]

The second episode in South Park's 16th season took on Cash for Gold stores and cable shopping networks, mapping out a ridiculous conspiracy in which gold is continuously made into jewelry, sold to old Americans, gifted to their children and grandchildren, sold for a few bucks at pawn shops, smelted down and then forged into jewelry again in a never ending cycle designed to rip off the elderly. Of course Stan sets out to solve the mystery and right the wrong while Cartman attempts to cash in ...
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Biggest Freighters Hit Hardest In Global Shipping Storm

While shipping costs have been recovering over the past month from historical lows earlier this year, rates for the biggest vessels keep falling. Mistrust in the market, bad luck for iron exporters and a slowdown in world steel consumption are to blame.
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Toulouse Siege Ends: Suspect Found Dead After Jump

Mohammed Merah, suspected in the killings of seven people in recent days, was found dead Thursday morning after jumping from a window of his Toulouse apartment building, France's interior minister said.
Euro coins in a montage

3 Things You Need To Know About Greece's Default

Developments in the two weeks since the credit event confirmed that the world's first test of using credit default swaps as protection involving sovereign debt turned out fairly well. But broader concerns abound, such as the fragile Greek economy and what could be in store for fellow euro zone members Spain and Portugal.
Denmark queen Margrethe II

Danish Queen sets stage for Tivoli Nutcracker

Denmark's Queen Margrethe II is designing stage sets and costumes for a new production of The Nutcracker that will situate the ballet with Tchaikovsky's music in Copenhagen in the era of Hans Christian Andersen.
Google homepage logos are seen on a wall at the Google campus near Venice Beach, in Los Angeles, California January 13, 2012.

Ex-Googler Does His Best Ex-Goldman Sachs Executive Impression – Says Google+ Destroying Company

James Whittaker, a Microsoft executive who recently left Google after about three years, posted his Why I Left Google tell-all on a Microsoft blog a day before Greg Smith had his scathing Goldman Sachs op-ed posted in the New York Times. The Smith op-ed has taken the Internet and news world by storm in the first 24 hours since being posted. A London based executive director for the investment banking giant Goldman Sachs, Smith fired off a searing report March 14 on the company's toxic and des...

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