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Russian scientists reach hidden Antarctica lake
VOSTOK STATION -- A team of Russian scientists successfully drilled down to an "alien" lake deep below the ice in Antarctica that was hidden for an estimated 20 million years, the Ria Novosti news agency reported Monday.
"Yesterday [Sunday], our scientists stopped drilling at the depth of 3,768 meters...
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Watch Live: Super Bowl champion Giants arrive at Timex Center
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Iran bans 'Simpsons' dolls
Don't have a jihad, man!
Iran has banned "Simpsons" dolls from the Islamic Republic, saying Bart, Homer, Marge and Lisa would corrupt the country's youth.
The Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults made the decision to block the promotion of Western culture, the independent...
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US closes Syrian embassy, presses Assad to go
BEIRUT — The US closed its Syrian embassy Monday and Britain recalled its ambassador to Damascus in a dramatic escalation of Western pressure on President Bashar Assad to give up power, just days after diplomatic efforts at the United Nations to end the crisis collapsed.
The US evacuated all its diplomats...
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Giving ’em five
Chris Ferretti’s impression of Christopher Walken is so spot on, he could be anywhere — even a funeral — and people will ask him to say something in the actor’s voice. The skill was never more than a clever party trick, though, until he advertised his Walken talking on the...
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Facebook tells IPO banks not to talk about stock offering
Shut your pie hole!
That’s the message that notoriously press-averse Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has sent around Wall Street recently, telling Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and the other banks involved in his company’s $100 billion IPO to stop leaking juicy tidbits to the media and to...
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9/11 cops’ cancer woe
A startling number of healthy, young cops who responded to the 9/11 attacks have since been diagnosed with cancer, according to new data obtained by The Post.
The statistics — which show nearly a tripling in the number of cops applying for cancer-related disability pensions post-9/11 — are the first...
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Firing bad apples
In a series of articles last week, The Post chronicled how New York’s taxpayers continue to pay for the salaries and benefits of several bad — and sometimes downright dangerous — teachers for doing nothing all day. The school system pays these teachers not to teach because it lacks the tools...
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Giants parade in Canyon of Heroes tomorrow
Giants fans will bask in the glory of last night’s victory with a massive parade in lower Manhattan honoring Big Blue tomorrow.
The city will host a ticker-tape parade and City Hall ceremony to commemorate the Super Bowl XLVI champs starting at 11 a.m.
Fans who are at...
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Bam’s bogus youth agenda
President Obama is making a big push to recover his lost popularity with youth — but his promises don’t address the real needs of the under-30 crowd.
Since Inauguration Day, the president’s approval rating with the 18-to-29 crowd set a record for the most precipitous drop in Gallup Poll...
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Investigator: LI grid star did get grade boost
Top administrators at a Long Island school district intentionally inflated a star football player’s grades in order to make him eligible for an athletic scholarship to Syracuse University, according to a bombshell report obtained by The Post.
The damning probe of Bellport HS found that district brass conspired to...
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Giants fans shop 'til they drop in Times Square
Giants fans are shopping up a storm, scooping up T-shirts and other Super Bowl champions merchandise at a Times Square store.
Shopper Stu Miller of Ringoes, NJ, wouldn't say how much he was spending Monday: "My wife is liable to kill me."
His loot included at least three T-shirts...
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It was a Madge of honor
At the biggest, most important performance Madonna has ever mounted, the Material Girl was loud and over the top in her 12-minute, too-much-is-just-enough spectacle — like the Super Bowl itself.
In other words, she what comes naturally — found success in excess.
Anybody who tuned in to hear how a pop star...
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'I deserve a second term,' Obama says in interview
WASHINGTON -- President Obama said in an interview aired Monday he deserves to be re-elected, confronting his claim three years ago that if he hadn't fixed the economy by now his presidency would be "a one-term proposition."
Obama said in an NBC interview that in early 2009 when he...
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Norwegian gunman Breivik demands immediate release
OSLO -- Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik on Monday asked an Oslo court to free him immediately, saying his killing spree last year in which 77 people died was "a preventive attack against state traitors."
"I do not accept imprisonment. I demand to be immediately released," Breivik, 32, said in...
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Shoe throw at Yemen prez
Cops arrested a protester attempting to throw a shoe at Yemen president Ali Abdullah Saleh outside the Ritz-Carlton hotel yesterday.
Amin Almroot, 34, of Brooklyn, was charged with disorderly conduct for the attempted shoe toss — an act deemed a grave insult in Arabic culture.
Cops say Almroot had crossed Central...
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Yes!
They did it again!
The Giants bested the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl last night for the second time in four years, pulling out an absolutely spectacular 21-17 win in the final minutes.
And what a game it was!
New Yorkers just couldn’t be prouder.
It’s...
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Accused Cashman stalker's mom says she made up pregnancy: sources
Only a week after Brian Cashman gave his alleged stalker $6,000 for an abortion, her mom revealed that the unstable woman was never pregnant, The Post has learned.
Caroline Meanwell made the disclosure about her daughter, Louise, during a meeting with the Yankee general manager and his advisers on...
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Dream come true for slain cop’s girls
What a Super trip!
Two of slain hero cop Peter Figoski’s daughters lived it up and rubbed elbows with A-listers during the trip of a lifetime yesterday as the Giants’ guests of honor at Super Bowl XLVI.
Corrine, 14, and Caroline, 16, made the journey with mom Paulette courtesy...
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It’s big ‘woooo!’
It’s G-men mania!
Euphoria swept Giants nation from Indianapolis to the Big Apple last night as a gutsy Big Blue squad snatched its second Super Bowl crown in five years by dispatching the New England Patriots again.
“I’m absolutely super excited!” screamed Karen Szpyhulsky, 29, of South Amboy...
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