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Joplin Tornado Survivors Find Connection, Support on Facebook

After a devastating tornado hit Joplin, Mo., frustrated families around the world are still searching for missing family members. So local newspaper The Joplin Globe has created a Facebook page to reconnect them.

Protesters rest in their sleeping bags at the Puerta del Sol square in Madrid on May 22, 2011 during a protest against Spain's economic crisis and its sky-high jobless rate.

Give Peace a Chance: Iceland, New Zealand Top List of Most Peaceful Countries

Though its Grimsvotn volcano is currently causing some disruption, Iceland has something to brag about.

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Amazonian Tribe Lacks Abstract Concept of Time

While you’re rushing to meet deadlines and trying to make it to places on time, there’s one tribe in the Amazon that doesn’t have that problem.

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Weather Channel Reporter Tears Up After Joplin’s Deadly Tornado

The Weather Channel’s Mike Bettes was on “The Great Tornado Hunt,” a show about storm chasers. The crew was exasperated chasing Friday, Saturday and Sunday. But when a tornado hit Joplin on Sunday, Bettes couldn’t help but shed tears.

Larry Knoblauch helps his wife Evelyn as they climb through the wreckage of what was once their children's home in Joplin

How You Can Help the Victims of the Tornado in Joplin, Mo.

In Missouri, triage centers and shelters have been set up around Joplin, where over 85 people have been killed, and emergency officials have been rushing around trying to clear the way for search and rescue operations. But you don’t necessarily have to be in Missouri to give a hand.

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Frightening Video: Tornado Rocks Joplin, Missouri, Killing Almost 100

Despite the darkness in this video, the noise of everything breaking, terrified people screeching and children crying are sufficient to portray just how frightening and out of control the tornado that ripped through the Missouri city of Joplin was.

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Study: College Men Who Post About Alcohol Have More Facebook Friends

If you tend to mention or post photos of alcohol on Facebook, you’re likely to have more Facebook friends — at least if you’re a college-age man.

An aerial view of a natural lake fed by a spring in the Amazon River basin near Manaus

Brazil ‘s Amazon Deforestation Prompts ‘Crisis Cabinet’

Not even Brazil’s environmental minister can explain the cause of a sudden and unexpected surge in deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon. All Izabella Teixeira could say was that the 27% spike between August 2010 and this year was “alarming.”

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Yale Suspends Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity After Sexist Chants

The Ivy League school is under fire after a fraternity’s new members allegedly chanted phrases relating to sex acts and other obscenities against women, while marching across the campus in October.

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Area 51 as Cold-War Espionage: Believable or Conspiracy Theory?

Journalist Annie Jacobsen has shocked even the most devoted conspiracy theorists with claims regarding a U.S. military installation in the Nevada desert, known as Area 51.