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Today's Blogs - Yahoo! News: SAT scores continue decline; 57 percent of incoming freshmen not ready for college TomTato combines two plants in one New York family has close encounter with 40-foot humpback whale Man pretends to be police officer in front of police officer Mariska Hargitay: from Actress to Activist Inside Look at Kate Gosselin’s Post-Reality Show Life Shrimp fight interrupted by peace-loving frog Man finds his stolen SUV with help from Google Earth Special envoy Russ Feingold calls on Rwanda to end its support of M23 rebels in Congo

SAT scores continue decline; 57 percent of incoming freshmen not ready for college  Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 05:16 PM PDT The annual SAT scores have been released to the public and show a continued decline in math and writing scores. Full Story	Top
TomTato combines two plants in one  Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 04:12 PM PDT It sounds like something out of a futuristic Sci-Fi film: the TomTato. Developed by horticulturists in the UK, it's a gardening oddity that delivers cherry tomatoes on its vines, while potatoes grow underground. On one plant! At the same time! It's the Frankenstein of plants. The Frankenplant? Full Story	Top
New York family has close encounter with 40-foot humpback whale  Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 03:01 PM PDT It's rare to see a humpback whale so close to shore off the beaches of Rockaway, New York. It's even more rare to have one of the 40-foot whales spring up out of the water just feet from your boat. Full Story	Top
Man pretends to be police officer in front of police officer  Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 12:36 PM PDT Impersonating a police officer is always a case of Bad Idea Jeans. Even worse: impersonating a police officer in front of an actual police officer. Full Story	Top
Mariska Hargitay: from Actress to Activist  Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 12:05 PM PDT Mariska Hargitay plays a Special Victims Unit detective on TV, but life started imitating art when she started receiving letters from victims of abuse. "I was getting fan mail from survivors of sexual assault," she said, "These letters just started pouring in every day -- and I'm feeling like why isn't everyone talking about this?" [...] Full Story	Top
Inside Look at Kate Gosselin’s Post-Reality Show Life  Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 09:33 AM PDT Kate Gosselin is back, this time with a cookbook, and she invited Katie Couric over to her Pennsylvania home to get an inside look at what her life is like these days. Hint: it included pizza and tug of war. "Can I just say, I've never been so exhausted in my life," Katie said, after [...] Full Story	Top
Shrimp fight interrupted by peace-loving frog  Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 09:15 AM PDT Just because they live underwater doesn't mean shrimp don't get fired up. Full Story	Top
Man finds his stolen SUV with help from Google Earth  Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 07:23 AM PDT So, there's this guy. He's minding his own business, using Google Earth to search for a good hunting spot. While perusing the map, he notices something that looks like an illegal hunting shack. Full Story	Top
Special envoy Russ Feingold calls on Rwanda to end its support of M23 rebels in Congo  Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 04:12 AM PDT Politics Confidential Russ Feingold, the former senator and a leading progressive, is now taking on an entirely different role as the U.S. special envoy charged with helping to find a solution to one of the deadliest conflicts in modern times: the two-decades-long war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Shortly after returning from his [...] Full Story	Top

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