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talky

Definition:	(adjective) Full of trivial conversation.
Synonyms:	chatty, gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talkative
Usage:	After the board meeting ended, my talky neighbor, Martha, cornered me and spent an hour lecturing me about the bylaws surrounding welcome mat use in the building. Discuss.

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Year and a Day Rule

The year and a day rule was an English legal principle holding that a death could not be deemed murder—or any other form of homicide—if it occurred more than a year and one day after the act that was allegedly its cause. Though it became enshrined in common law, the rule was finally abolished in 1996. Now, if an act can be proved to have caused a death, it can constitute murder regardless of how much time has passed. In what other ways has the specific time limit of a year and a day been used? More... Discuss

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Huffing More Popular with Adolescents than Pot

According to a new government report, more 12-year-olds in the US get high by sniffing inhalants than by using marijuana, cocaine, or hallucinogens combined. Alcohol was found to be the only intoxicating substance 12-year-olds used more than inhalants. A potentially addictive habit, sniffing, or huffing, involves inhaling the vapors of products like gasoline, nail polish, bleach, paint solvents, glue, and aerosols. The practice can cause brain, heart, liver, and kidney damage and may even lead to cardiac arrest. More... Discuss

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The Truman Doctrine (1947)

In the early stages of the Cold War, US President Harry Truman sought to protect Turkey and Greece from falling under Soviet influence when the UK announced that it could no longer provide them with aid. The Truman Doctrine, which called for the US to "support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures," shifted US foreign policy to a strategy of Soviet containment. How much money did Congress appropriate in response to Truman's message? More... Discuss

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Jack Kerouac (1922)

Considered the father of the Beat movement, Jack Kerouac was an American novelist whose semiautobiographical, "spontaneous prose" reflects a frenetic, restless pursuit of new sensation and experience and a disdain for the conventional measures of economic and social success. His best known works are The Subterraneans, The Dharma Bums, and On the Road, which is widely considered the testament of the Beat Generation. Why was Kerouac arrested as an accessory to murder in 1944? More... Discuss

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Year and a Day Rule

Huffing More Popular with Adolescents than Pot

The Truman Doctrine (1947)

Jack Kerouac (1922)

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