By Alex Schmidt Published: March 10th, 2014 The most important step in preventing the spread of any disease is public awareness. Coincidentally, this is also the first thing everyone forgoes in a zombie movie. For some reason, all the characters forget that the word "zombie" even exists and ha

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I decided not to hold a press conference because I didn't want to have to say things that were cliché. I've done enough of that since I've been playing football. I actually didn't really plan on saying anything about my retirement at all. I just kind of wanted to disappear. The fact that I was done playing would've been clear once some time had passed, and I hadn't signed back with the Cardinals...

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Despite massive search involving eight countries, no sign has been found of a Malaysia Airlines flight that went missing two days ago.

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point guard Rajon Rondo and two-way forward were teammates once upon a time, and now they’re thinking of a possible reunion on basketball’s highest stage. “The conversation comes up,” Smith said prior to Detroit’s 118-111 loss against the Celtics on March 9, per . “We always tell each other how surreal a moment that would be for us to...

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doesn't want your "MVP" chants, Chicago. Following the ' 95-88 overtime victory over the Miami Heat Sunday, () asked the big man about Noah-specific "MVP" chants that rang throughout United Center. Noah's response was predictably unpredictable. "I don’t like it," he said. "No, I don’t like it." Um, why? "Because our MVP is not...

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Nebraska senior guard Mike Peltz will probably never forget his senior night. While Peltz may not get much playing time, he probably got the biggest applause at senior night after he proposed to his girlfriend. You can watch the video above of the amazing moment. [BTN, Snappy TV]Read more news on BleacherReport.com

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A magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck off the coast of Northern California Sunday night, the U.S. Geological Service reported.The epicenter was 48 miles west-northwest of Ferndale and 50 miles west of Eureka at a depth of 4.3 miles, the USGS said.The quake, which occurred at 10:18 p.m. PT (1:18 a.

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Dr. Nuland’s book, which won the National Book Award in 1994, depicted death as messy and often humiliating, and it urged readers to approach late-life care with tempered expectations.

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An educational TV show based on a Facebook page? Sure, why not? At South by Southwest on Saturday, CBS’ "Late Late Show" host for the Science Channel based on the popular Facebook page and blog . The page, created by Elise Andrew, is dedicated to bringing people “." It offers highly sharable and highly interesting tidbits about all things science and scientific-history....

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Rashard Mendenhall was tired of living a "private life in the public eye" as an NFL player, which included being called racial slurs online, he wrote in his most recent blog for Huffington Post in which he explained why he retired at 26 years old.

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