Pop singer Fergie married boyfriend Josh Duhamel

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Pop singer Fergie married boyfriend Josh Duhamel today at a private ocean-side wedding in Malibu, Calif., Us reports. Draped in Dolce & Gabbana, the couple exchanged personally engraved rings; Fergie wore a diamond-draped veil worth millions. Despite Fergie’s efforts to ditch them, paparazzi hovered over the wedding in helicopters, the San Francisco Chronicle [...]

U.S. Fires Release Enormous Amounts of Carbon Dioxide

Large-scale fires in western and southeastern states can pump as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in a few weeks as the states’ entire motor vehicle traffic in a year, according to newly published research by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Their paper, “Estimates of [...]

How Much Is a Year of Life Worth?

Let’s say you were wrongly convicted of a crime and sent to prison. Several years later you are exonerated and released. Should the government compensate you for those lost years, and if so how much?
Dallas Morning News columnist James Ragland dug up the answer to that question, and you may be surprised.
According to Ragland:

Ohio provides [...]

Poor air from wildfires a health threat

LOS ANGELES – Even as many of the wildfires in flame-ravaged Southern California died down and residents returned home, lingering dust and soot-laden air made it difficult for many to [...]

Some Calif. fire evacuees return home

SAN DIEGO – Thousands of evacuees from areas hard hit by this week’s Southern California wildfires were returning Friday to neighborhoods stripped bare, but other communities remained emptied because of [...]