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Under the administration of Kenneth Feinberg, BP's $20 billion Gulf Coast claims fund has been up and running for about a month. After a rocky start, there have been some promising developments with the fund, but significant questions remain unanswered and BP continues to point fingers to avoid accountability for the worst environmental disaster in our nation's history.We remain hopeful that the fund will be an effective way to quickly compensate those with straightforward claims. But it's important to remember that BP is not showing magnanimity by participating in this compensation program - fund or no fund, they are legally obligated to pay for damages caused by their explosion and spill.More...

The Well Is Capped, But BP Saga Continues

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When my family takes vacations, airlines stop flying, luggage goes missing and hotel reservations get lost. So why bother spending loads of cash when almost everything can go wrong -- do it on the cheap! Plus, some of the best times and family bonding happens when you have a time-out together that requires you all pulling together to see the beauty that only Mother Nature can provide.We've learned there is incredible joy -- better joy in fact in facing nature head-on rather than in luxing it up on a Caribbean beach. And no, not in an Adam Sandler Grownups frat pack way. The joy is in spending 3, 4, 5 days, even a week in real wilderness.More...

My Kids Got Wet and Dirty, My Husband Dresses Like a Swedish Mountaineer and We Came Face to Face With a Moose: Why You SHOULD Try a Camping Trip!

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With the November elections just weeks away, a growing number ofAmericans are being tricked by a sinister con game that's morphing into aMore...

Crime and Politics: The Final Fusion

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Scroll down for images from the pink carpet."I've always been really interested in fashion," 13-year-old Lourdes Leon, the daughter of pop icon Madonna, told The Huffington Post on Wednesday evening. "My outfits when I was little and started dressing myself were awful. But I think the '80s are really back right now."More...

Madonna, Lola & Taylor Momsen Launch Material Girl (PHOTOS)

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French Vogue will celebrate its 90th anniversary next month and model Lara Stone covers the issue in a lace mask, a choker, gloves and not much else. Lara's images is just a hint of what's inside, with editor-in-chief Carine Roitfeld telling WWD, "Vogue Paris has always played the card of audacity," and "We couldn't do a lukewarm issue." Check out Lara's cover and scroll down to see more pics of the Dutch beauty.More...

Lara Stone Goes Topless On French Vogue Cover (PHOTOS)

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"There needs to be a new vision for Haiti, and that vision needs to come from the people," says  Marc-Arthur Fils-Aimé, director of the Karl Leveque Cultural Institute (commonly known by its Creole acronym ICKL), a grassroots center which supports peasant and other popular organizations to help them develop their analysis and capacity as a movement.Post-earthquake Haiti is often portrayed in the international media, by some international humanitarian organizations, and by the U.S. government as a nation of victims whose future depends on the largess of the international community.More...

Getting Their Reward on Earth: Haitian Social Movements and Reconstruction

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Yes, that was real meat after all. Franc Fernandez, the Argentinian designed of the dress made from flank steak told E! Online what would become of the already-legendary Gaga costume:

"The dress will go through a process where it becomes a sort of 'jerky' and will be archived. Thank you."

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Lady Gaga Meat Dress To Become Jerky

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Early risers might get the worm, but they would do well to get to bed early, too, or they might start missing that worm.If you're among the millions who get up before dawn or worse, and arrive at work before dawn because your shift starts between 3:00 a.m. and 4:30 a.m., then chances are you don't get to bed early enough to make up the difference in sleep time.  More than one in ten people occasionally wake up before sunrise to go to work. About two percent of people do it all the time. What time are these people going to bed? According to a new survey published in the journal Chronobiology International, early risers rarely go to sleep early enough. Those who report to work extremely early are sleeping less than five hours per night.More...

Late to Bed, Early to Rise? Think Again!

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Good Samaritan Jamie Perkins rushed to the aid of sleeping family members inside a Niagara Falls, N.Y. home early Friday morning.WIVB News reports he noticed flames coming from the home after a fire erupted in the basement. Perkins woke the sleeping inhabitants and rushed them to safety.More...

Good Samaritan Saves 9 Lives From Burning Niagara Falls Home

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Whatever your politics, you probably have something in common with President Obama: You have an interest in seeing the economy create more jobs.For anyone whose job security and income is affected by the employment market, stronger job creation would be a big help. For the President, job creation would improve his party's chances in the upcoming midterm election. For anyone with money in savings accounts, money market accounts or other deposit vehicles, growth in employment may be the key to getting money market rates and other bank rates up from near-zero levels.

Obama's Jobs Program a Mixed Bag for Savings Accounts and Money Market Rates