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align="justify">College student losing their sensitive side

College students are not sensitive as they used to be some years ago and the maximum change in the behavior of college students towards their friends was seen in 2000.A research was conducted by University of Michigan where it was found that the students are less empathetic as compared to their counterparts in 1970.

The research was done on 14000 college students from the last 30 years by the researcher Sara Konrath ,who said the biggest change was seen in 2000 and it could be due to introduction to non work related information and exposure to technology. The exposure to violent media is also behind the change.

Shrek tops the Memorial Day weekend collections

Dreamworks animation movie "Shrek Forever After" topped the list of movies in the Memorial Day weekend as it made a total collection of $43.3 million in the three days Friday to Sunday. The total collection made by the movie is $133.1 million.

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Lindsay Lohan back from Cannes Film Festival to get into another legal issue

Lindsay had to attend a court hearing but she was missing and the twenty -three year old actress was to be arrested but the judges recalled the warrant late as Lohan posted the bail. Lohan had been to Cannes although she was late to the function because she was not aware of it.

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Obama to promote efficient cars

Obama has outlined his vision to promote a clean and efficient car. The agenda was discussed by Vice President Joe Biden and Obama .The President plans to prepare the government to promote new fuel efficient standards.

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Pakistan blocks Youtube

Pakistan government had blocked facebook as the social networking site encourages people to upload the photographs of Prophet Muhammad. Islam prohibits the use of images of Prophet and therefore the practice was condemned by Pakistan government.

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Cyclone Laila hits the south Indian coast

On Thursday south Indian coast was hit by heavy rains and winds as the cyclone Laila slammed the coast. The wind speed was up to 90 kilometer per hour and many trees and electric lines were uprooted by the severe winds.

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Iran not impressed by UN sanctions

Iran said it would it is not impressed by the new UN Security Council sanctions and it will wait for another sanctions. Atomic chief Ali—Akbar Salehi said to the new network called Khabar “the issue of sanctions has now become futile. “

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The questionnaire had a series of cartoons from light to dark color and the five year old white girl selected the black cartoon for the question “who is mean?” and she points out to light color cartoon when she is asked “who is the smart child.”She said she selected the white for smart because it resembled her.

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Mother’s depression has low effect on growth of children

Children whose mother suffers from depression may suffer from poor growth and low weight gain and Brazilian researchers conducted a research on more than 3800 children and mothers, in which 30% of the mothers suffered from depression.

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Miss USA provocative photographs raises controversy

Rima Fakih , Miss USA 2010 from Michigan was celebrating her win and in minutes a number of photographs were posted on internet which generated a series of controversies. In the year 2007 Miss USA crown was taken back after a topless photograph of the winner came into limelight.

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