Reddit on July 20, 2011: Top Posts and Discussions

Wednesday, Jul. 20th 2011

News on 7/20/11

BBC News - You're hired: How the apprentice gets ahead in Germany. Germany may have an ultra-modern economy but one of the pillars at the very centre of it is very traditional: the idea that people learn a skill on the job.
r/worldnews · spainguy · 1477 pts
TSA to pull plug on naked scanners and introduce scanners that only display hidden objects and show a generic human form
r/news · hitcho12 · 812 pts
NZ quake may have revealed Israeli spy ring
r/worldnews · ScarlettMadi · 678 pts
How Finland became an education leader: Harvard professor Tony Wagner explains how the nation achieved extraordinary successes by deemphasizing testing
r/worldnews · maxwellhill · 637 pts
News Corp tabloid employees come forth with stories of Rebekah Brooks' reign. The Harry Potter correspondent had to wear a Potter costume to work and *officially change his name*. When he showed up in normal clothes on Sept. 11, 2011, he was chewed out and ordered to put on his full Potter regalia.
r/worldnews · danwin · 522 pts
Borders forced to liquidate, close all stores; 10700 people will be out of work
r/news · rflnoway · 336 pts
In Egypt, Fighting For A $50-A-Month Factory Job --- Factory workers block road to protest over unpaid wages. The result? "'Run them over. The blood money for each one is 50 pounds ($8).' The engine revved, once, then a second time. On the third time, the truck lurched forward"
r/worldnews · DrRichardCranium · 267 pts
Iran says it shot down a US spy plane over nuclear site
r/worldnews · rational · 230 pts

Politics on 7/20/11

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I've waited 9 years...time to kick back and relax.

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White people are crazy

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Faith in humanity...restored!

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..prank I pulled on a co-worker today...

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Dramatic Sloth

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OMG MALFOY

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Einstein's Haters

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Seeing the new Harry Potter film

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Tommy Wiseau is a Dramatic Sloth.

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After watching the Harry Potter films, I feel like this could have helped him a lot.

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Netflix Has Its Problems

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Scumbag Brain

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One Can, One Condom. How make effective the fight against AIDS in Africa

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Scumbag Steve Jobs on the new Macbook Air

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Scumbag Brain on that girl you like

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Scumbag Steve

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Success Kid is "A little" optimistic

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Watching a movie with GGG

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Reddit on July 20, 2011

Wednesday, Jul. 20th 2011

News on 7/20/11

BBC News - You're hired: How the apprentice gets ahead in Germany. Germany may have an ultra-modern economy but one of the pillars at the very centre of it is very traditional: the idea that people learn a skill on the job.

TSA to pull plug on naked scanners and introduce scanners that only display hidden objects and show a generic human form

NZ quake may have revealed Israeli spy ring

How Finland became an education leader: Harvard professor Tony Wagner explains how the nation achieved extraordinary successes by deemphasizing testing

News Corp tabloid employees come forth with stories of Rebekah Brooks' reign. The Harry Potter correspondent had to wear a Potter costume to work and officially change his name. When he showed up in normal clothes on Sept. 11, 2011, he was chewed out and ordered to put on his full Potter regalia.

Borders forced to liquidate, close all stores; 10700 people will be out of work

In Egypt, Fighting For A $50-A-Month Factory Job --- Factory workers block road to protest over unpaid wages. The result? "'Run them over. The blood money for each one is 50 pounds ($8).' The engine revved, once, then a second time. On the third time, the truck lurched forward"

Iran says it shot down a US spy plane over nuclear site

Politics on 7/20/11

Police officer: Aren’t we known for saying, “If you’ve got nothing to hide, what are you worried about?” This same mentality should also apply to us. If we’re doing our job professionally and within the law, what’ve we got to worry about if someone’s filming us...

Why the wealthiest Americans are actually the "job-killers" and not "job-creators": The top 1% of earners takes in more than twice the share of national income today than they did 30 years ago, and that's a big reason why consumers are tapped out

Al Franken totally destroys anti-gay "Focus on the Family" witness in DOMA hearing; witness claimed a study showed same-sex parents were bad for children, but Franken ripped him and said the study actually showed two-parent households are best for children regardless of parents' sexual orientation

Fellow American redditors, I know it seems classy because it's British, and everything that's British seems classy, but the Daily Mail is a shit newspaper, on par with Fox News. They don't welcome it on /r/worldnews. Can we please agree to stop submitting and upvoting it on /r/politics?

Chevron was sued in the US for polluting the Amazon. It argued the case be tried in Ecuador. It lost in Ecuador. Now it is in a sympathetic US court trying to throw out the Ecuador verdict for 'fraud'.

Sports on 7/20/11

Rick Ankiel throws a pair of lasers to gun down baserunners.

Crazy play at the plate by Detroit's Victor Martinez

These just came.... can't wait!

Myra Kraft, Wife Of Patriots Owner, Dies

Former players sue NFL claiming they covered up the results of a study about the risks of multiple concussions

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