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Paperwork with pet - Don't You Dare Deduct These Expenses! - Every tax-filing season, the great quest by filers is to find the most tax deductions. But there are some deductions you should steer clear of. If you claim these wrong write-offs, you'll deduct expenses that don't meet Internal Revenue Service guidelines. And that means you'll end up spending time with a tax auditor and paying more in taxes, penalties and interest.   Getty Images Bankrate doesn't want that to happen...

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Dove hires FBI to teach women they're beautiful


Dove hires FBI to teach women they're beautiful - Dove's latest "real beauty" campaign just got grittier. No more real women laughing in their underwear or crying with happiness at the site of their image posted on a billboard in Times Square. For their latest efforts in self-actualizing beauty, the company hired an FBI sketch artist to hammer the point home: You’re beautiful.  In a two-part experiment, Dove and its agency Ogilvy hired Gil Zamora, an FBI sketch artist to draw seven women...

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Cuban Actors Disappear En Route to New York Film Festival Premiere


Cuban Actors Disappear En Route to New York Film Festival Premiere - In a case of life imitating art, a pair of young Cuban actors who were expected at the New York premiere of their film about defecting to the U.S. have disappeared after landing in Miami. The film "Una Noche" is about three young Cubans who decide to flee the country on a raft after one of them is accused of assault. The film follows the day they attempt to make it 90 miles across the ocean to Florida.  All three of...

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Dangerous booby traps found on popular Utah trail


Deadly traps found on popular Utah trail Dangerous booby traps found on popular Utah trail — The 20-pound spiked boulder was rigged to swing at head-level with just a trip of a thin wire — a military-like booby trap set on a popular Utah canyon trail. Any unsuspecting hiker exploring the makeshift dead-wood shelter could have fallen prey. Two men arrested over the weekend on suspicion of misdemeanor reckless endangerment told authorities the traps were intended for wildlife,...

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New species of purple crab discovered in the Philippines


New species of purple crab discovered in the Philippines - Four new species of crab have been discovered in the Philippine island of Palawan. And one of the crabs truly stands out with its unusually bright purple shell. National Geographic reports that the Insulamon palawanese may use its uniquely colored shell to help identify its own kind. "It is known that crabs can discriminate colours. Therefore, it seems likely that the colouration has a signal function for the social behaviour, e.g....

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Death of DARPA's Superfast Hypersonic Glider Explained


Death of DARPA's Superfast Hypersonic Glider Explained - An ultra-fast U.S. military drone that streaked across the sky at 13,000 mph and met its demise in the Pacific was doomed by the excessive heat of hypersonic travel, which literally peeled away the drone's metal skin, military officials have revealed. A seven-month study by the military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has found that the so-called Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) amazingly recovered from shockwaves...

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North Korea Fueling Long-Range Rocket for Defiant Launch


North Korea Fueling Long-Range Rocket for Defiant Launch - North Korea has reportedly begun fueling its new long-range rocket for what it says is a benign satellite launch, despite continuing condemnation by the United States and other countries, which see the flight as a defiant missile test. The rocket, called Unha-3 (Galaxy-3), could potentially launch as early as Thursday (April 12) to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of North Korea's founder, Kim Il Sung. North Korean officials have...

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