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It seems like the leaking of nude photos of famous women has become a routine occurrence, a perhaps-inevitable consequence of the social media age and human error. But the publications of two sets of topless photographs of celebrities this week, a phone camera photo actress Alison Pill intended for her fiance, Jay Baruchel but accidentally tweeted publicly, and a set of paparazzi shots of the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, illustrate that while we may have come to expect to see women in public life naked, we’re a long way for establishing where the zones of privacy lie—and how far we should go to enforce them.

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by Joe Smyth, via The Witness blog Oil is washing up along the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Isaac, confirming concerns that the storm could churn up oil in the Gulf of Mexico. A Greenpeace research team took samples from beaches along the Alabama coast on September 2, including from an area with hundreds of tar balls in the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge.

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The Internet has fundamentally changed the way that buyers and sellers meet and interact in the marketplace. Online retailers make it cheap and easy to browse, comparison shop, and make purchases with the click of a mouse. The Web can also, in theory, make for better-informed purchases—both online and off—thanks to sites that offer crowdsourced reviews of everything from dog walkers to dentists

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Gray pines and oaks dominate the forest near Mariposa, Calif., in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada.

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Former President Bill Clinton today endorsed Dan Roberti in the Democratic primary for Connecticut’s 5th District nomination to the U.S. House of Representatives.

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About Georgia Elections News. Covering Georgia elections and campaigns , through Election Day and beyond. Georgia Elections News RSS feed.

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Russian police have discovered 57 cult members living in an underground bunker in the Republic of Tatarstan . Many of the children ensconced in the bunker have never seen the sun, according to authorities. How long can you live without exposure to sunlight?

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Spike Lee’s Red Hook Summer , shot in just 18 days in the projects of the Brooklyn waterfront neighborhood for which it’s named, feels by turns casual and studied, tossed-off and meticulously constructed. A self-financed in-between-projects lark for the director (his next major release, a documentary on the making of Michael Jackson’s album Bad , is due out in the fall), Red Hook Summer takes its sweet time getting going.

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DANBURY, Conn.—The New Milford Patriots’ fourth annual Tax Day Tea Party took place on April 15, near a flag-bedecked gazebo in the center of town. Former Republican congressman and current U.S.

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Prime Minister of Bulgaria Boyko Borissov in Downing Street, 7 August 2012.

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