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Thousands Of Dogs Saved From Dinner Table

Thai police intercepted four trucks stacked high with crates packed with the animals in an operation in northeastern Thailand near the border with Laos.

Thousands of dogs have been rescued after they were found stuffed into tiny cages destined for dinner tables across Vietnam.

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Mean People Make More Money

Psst! Want to earn more money? The secret to earning more money in the workplace is … to be mean.

That’s right: a new study found that agreeable workers earn significantly less than their meaner counterparts.

The researchers examined “agreeableness” using self-reported survey data and found that men who measured below average on agreeableness earned about 18% more—or $9,772 more annually in their sample—than nicer guys. Ruder women, meanwhile, earned about 5% or $1,828 more than their agreeable counterparts.

“Nice guys are getting the shaft,” says study co-author Beth A. Livingston, an assistant professor of human resource studies at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

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News from 1991: Parents upset at the high cost of the SNES

In 1991, local newsstation reports Nintendo released their successor to the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) in America. But the parents wasn’t too happy about it. The parents thought Nintendo was exploiting their children into buying new and expensive hardware for new games when the improvements to the new hardware were obvious.