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Coca-Cola's New Venture: Expensive Milk (Newser Daily Digest)

Coca-Cola's New Venture: Expensive Milk

(Newser) - With soda sales sagging, Coca-Cola is moving into the dairy business. It plans to offer milk with some big differences to the stuff now on supermarket shelves: For starters, it will cost twice as much. A Coke exec told a conference last week that the company's Fairlife will be... More »

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New Roman God Leaves Experts Baffled

(Newser) - Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient sculpture of a bearded man standing in a plant and say it's a newly discovered Roman god, LiveScience reports. Found at the site of a Roman temple in Turkey, the roughly 2,000-year-old relief was found in a supporting wall of a Medieval Christian... More »

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'Angry Mistress' Sends Millionaire's Wife Nasty Tweet

(Newser) - A woman who claims she was a millionaire's mistress has slapped him with a lawsuit and sent his wife a nasty little tweet, the New York Post reports via CNBC . Katherine Nelson (described by the Post as "blonde" and "pillow-lipped") is suing 72-year-old Robert Rosenkranz, a... More »

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MacArthur Genius Spends Her $500K on Others

(Newser) - What would you do with $500,000? For Seattle poet Heather McHugh, it took some figuring out. "Nobody deserves that kind of money, and I think something in me was chastened by being awarded such a big amount of money," McHugh tells KPLU . After receiving the money with... More »

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Supreme Court Wades Into Major Environmental Case

(Newser) - The Supreme Court is stepping into a new case about Obama administration environmental rules, agreeing to review a ruling that upholds emission standards for mercury and other hazardous air pollutants from coal- and oil-fired power plants. The justices today said they would hear arguments from industry groups and states that... More »

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Expert: Mystery Sword Was Ivan the Terrible's

(Newser) - A medieval mystery sword found nearly 40 years ago in Siberia belonged to the notorious Ivan the Terrible, if a rather colorful theory can be believed. Scholars have long wondered how the 12th-century blade—which looks central European by design and was adorned with Norse runes and a silver handle... More »

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Suck It, Barbie: You're Not Most Popular Anymore

(Newser) - Bad news, Barbie: Parents these days kinda prefer Queen Elsa and her animated co-stars from the movie Frozen, CNBC reports. A holiday toys survey finds that one in five parents plan to purchase merchandise from the Disney flick for their girls, while Barbie ranks second (for the first time in... More »

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NJ College Buys $219K Table, Doesn't Get the Fuss

(Newser) - New Jersey's Kean University has a big new conference table. It seats 23. And it happened to cost $219,000. And that has one lawmaker up in arms over the purchase, which was made from a company in China, where Kean recently opened a branch campus that is being... More »

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Powerful People Don't Exactly Speak Softly

(Newser) - When we want to be perceived as powerful—think parents scolding misbehaving kids or shoppers haggling with car dealers—we tend to focus not just on our words, but the way we deliver them. Researchers at San Diego State University report in the journal Psychological Science that when people want... More »

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Why Dogs Are Messy Drinkers —But Cats Aren't

(Newser) - When grabbing a drink, neither cats nor dogs are able to squeeze their cheeks closed to suck up liquids the way humans can. Instead, they have to use their tongues in processes researchers didn't understand until recently, Reuters reports. Cats, researchers found a few years back , put their tongues... More »

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Most Common Name in the US Is Identified

(Newser) - Statistical experts at FiveThirtyEight.com undertook a project last week to discover the most common name in the US. Based on an investigation of Social Security Administration first-name records, Census data on last names, adjusted probabilities, and a number of statistical steps, the site ultimately estimated that "James Smith"... More »

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