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Compare and contrast UC Berkeley vs. Auburn University through comparative figures:

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US Marshalls caught caught a fugitive in Costa Rica by putting out an ad for a yoga instructor at various hostels. The suspect allegedly murdered someone, fled to Costa Rican expat communities, assumed a new identity, and got plastic surgery to change her appearance.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/killer-lured-arrest-phony-yoga-employment-ad-placed-authorities-rcna136182

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[NSFW topic] The most Australian thing you'll read today - it's about a farrier from Humpty Doo who plead guilty to the magistrate after he showed his whopper at Hungry Jack's

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/darwin-australia-man-escapes-jail-for-exposing-his-penis-at-hungry-jacks-after-super-viagra-orgy/3SJODTXZQFDKTMH6J24CH3FEEI/

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Name a town that changes name once you cross a state line, but is clearly part of the same city.

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Light beer

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OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY

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DBD AV CLUB

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PRO

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CAL

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ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE

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Kobayashi Maru

Entertainment Weekly said the Kobayashi Maru test is one of the top ten elements of Star Trek with which non-fans are likely to be familiar;

is this true? what do the non-fans say?

i heard a senior managing director very causally make a reference to it a work on a trading floor once right before the credit crisis. she was probably a ST fan though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru

The Kobayashi Maru is a training exercise in the Star Trek franchise designed to test the character of Starfleet Academy cadets by placing them in a no-win scenario. The Kobayashi Maru test was first depicted in the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and it has since been referred to and depicted in numerous other Star Trek media.

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Ketchup - There was once a time in my life that I hated ketchup, but now I'm at the point where I acknowledge and enjoy its taste, even if just for the nostalgia.

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