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Generous Gesture Surprises Campus (Newser Daily Digest)

Generous Gesture Surprises Campus

(Newser) - A college president's generous move and an incredible family reunion highlight the list of the week's most uplifting stories: University Prez Takes $90K Pay Cut to Help Lowest Paid : Kentucky State University's new president has given the lowest-paid workers on campus a pay raise—out of his... More »

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Guy Shoots, Kills Himself While Taking Selfie

(Newser) - A selfie turned deadly for a 21-year-old man, thanks to the toxic mix of alcohol and a loaded gun. After a night drinking with two friends in Mexico City, Oscar Otero Aguilar decided to take a picture of himself with his loaded .45-caliber pistol pointed at his head. Unfortunately, he... More »

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Scientists Reveal Equation for Happiness

(Newser) - How happy will you be at a given point in time? Scientists have come up with an equation to answer the question, or as they call it in the journal PNAS , "a computational and neural model of momentary subjective well-being." Mathematicians can marvel at the actual formula here... More »

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Online Ebola Tracker Beats WHO to the Punch

(Newser) - Those looking to keep track of the Ebola outbreak know it can take days for the World Health Organization to update cases, a source of frustration when it comes to the fast-spreading disease. Which is why an online tool created by Boston Children's Hospital is seeing a spike in... More »

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NY Hotel Fines $500 for Bad Reviews

(Newser) - The Union Street Guest House in Hudson, NY, wants you to keep your crummy opinions to yourself. So if you post something about the hotel’s "rude customer service, unclean, terrible odor," as NY Pix 11 quotes one reviewer, the hotel will collect a $500 fine. It’s... More »

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Parents, Look at Your Kid, Not Your Smartphone

(Newser) - A pediatrician's plea in the Washington Post for parents to put down their smartphones and make actual human contact with their kids might be worth it for the opening anecdote alone. Jane Scott explains that a dad brought his 2-year-old boy into her office, each absorbed in his own... More »

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Year's Best 'Supermoon' Arrives Tomorrow

(Newser) - The full moon that rises tomorrow night should look especially bright: It's another so-called "supermoon," and this one will be the closest one to Earth all year, reports Universe Today . Another supermoon—or perigean full moon, for purists—comes next month, though it won't be as... More »

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Restaurant Reservations Getting Phased Out

(Newser) - Classy restaurants across the country are doing away with traditional reservations. Instead, well-heeled diners at these establishments need meal tickets—quite literally, NPR reports. At Trois Mec in Los Angeles, for instance, you can score $100 tickets for a five-course meal; that includes tax and tip. (The tickets are sold... More »

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Ice Age Fossils Found in Wyoming Cave

(Newser) - It's called the Natural Trap Cave for a reason: The 15-foot-wide hole in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming is all but impossible to see until it's too late, and animals have been falling to their deaths there for eons. But what was bad news for them is great... More »

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Woman Beats Cancer, Dies in Freak Bucket-List Fall

(Newser) - After four years of chemo in facing down—and recently beating—breast cancer, 51-year-old Geraldine Jones set out to fulfill a "lifelong dream" of riding a horse on her favorite stretch of beach in South Wales as a way to "appreciate every moment," a close friend tells... More »

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