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Why so many men are living with their parents

Edit New York Post 31 May 2016
A Pew Research poll released last week found that American men age 18 to 34 are more likely to be living with their parents than in any other living situation ... The problem is that, despite this shift, a majority of Americans continue to say that men should be the primary breadwinners ... Most importantly, Americans are waiting longer to get married, a trend that long predates the recession.”....

Snoop Dogg doesn't want people to watch 'Roots' miniseries

Edit The Examiner 31 May 2016
The 44-year old rapper added that he would prefer to see a series that doesn't retrace the painful past of African-American history. "Roots" tells the story of Kunta Kinte, the African boy who became an American slave. A record 140 million Americans watched the original miniseries in 1977....

Zoo stands by decision to kill gorilla amid activists’ outcry

Edit Boston Herald 31 May 2016
Animal behaviorists and advocates say it wasn’t clear if a western lowland gorilla was poised to harm a 4-year-old boy who entered his exhibit before the gorilla was shot dead by Cincinnati Zoo staff, a decision the zoo defended yesterday amid a vigil and social media outcry ... He said the 17-year-old gorilla could crush a coconut in one hand and there was no doubt that the boy’s life was in danger....

Why Alabama USA Peyton Brown takes extra care of her skin

Edit The Examiner 31 May 2016
There was a time when women who took extra steps to take care of their skin were seen as vain, maybe a little too boy crazy or, perhaps, simply a bit too insecure ... She is also active in a number of other causes, including the Make A Wish Foundation and the Boys and Girls Club of West Alabama....

'Gorillas don't attack': Animal expert says screaming onlookers likely sealed Harambe's fate at Ohio zoo

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 31 May 2016
A gorilla shot dead at an American zoo wouldn't have attacked a four-year boy who fell into its enclosure, an animal behaviour expert says. Professor Gisela Kaplan, who has worked with great apes, told radio station 3AW the 200 kilogram "gentle giant" was carrying the boy as if he was its own child ... She said Harambe was likely startled by screaming onlookers and was trying to drag the boy away....

Why So Many Young Men Live With Their Parents

Edit Huffington Post 31 May 2016
According to a recent Pew Research Center survey, young American men are more likely to live in their family home than in any other form of accommodation ... Generation Y is very much the 'Boomerang Generation' and its young men are a generation of 'Boomerang Boys' ... While my personal circumstances should soon allow me to move out; I am, for the time being, a 28-year-old Boomerang Boy ... The economy has not been kind to the Boomerang Boys....

Chicago’s Memorial Day weekend toll: at least 69 shot, 6 fatally

Edit Stars and Stripes 31 May 2016
A 53-year-old was taken to Norwegian American Hospital with a foot wound and police believe he was not the intended target ... A 17-year-old boy was shot in the 3600 block of West 30th Street in the Little Village neighborhood about 5.25 p.m., police said. The boy was shot in the hand by a known male attacker who fired from across the street, police said. The boy was taken to St ... Someone shot a 17-year-old boy about 10.35 a.m....

Judging the Mom Who Let Her Boy Run Away at the Zoo

Edit The Atlantic 31 May 2016
A mother in Cincinnati allowed her 4-year-old boy to slip her attention and wander into a gorilla exhibit Saturday. After the 400-pound lowland silverback named Harambe dragged the boy roughly through in the exhibit’s moat, Cincinnati Zoo officials shot and killed the animal ... She heard the boy saying he wanted to jump into the gorilla compound....

Girls play baseball in boys’ world

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 31 May 2016
Charlie Martin, 7, a girl with a traditional boy’s name playing in a boys’ world, stood at home plate in her baggy uniform, determined to remain as stoic as a big-leaguer in front of everyone at the Towson, Md., recreational field ... “A girl who has been part of a team of boys hits the glass ceiling and suddenly she and the boys get the message she’s not good enough anymore,” Ring said....

This folding machine gun hides in plain sight

Edit Business Insider 31 May 2016
Here’s how a little girl who lost her Marine dad taught the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff the full cost of war Here are the best military photos of the week The mother of the boy in this iconic photo has a Memorial Day message all Americans should read This is how the ‘Miracle at Dunkirk’ saved World War II for the Allies 6 ......

Fire erupts during Memorial Day banquet at American Legion

Edit Times Union 31 May 2016
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say a blaze erupted during an annual Memorial Day banquet at an American Legion post in Philadelphia and required more than 100 firefighters to get it under control....

How we made Air's Moon Safari

Edit The Guardian 31 May 2016
‘Before we came along, French pop was synonymous with Sacha Distel. I hated it’. Jean-Benoît Dunckel, singer-songwriter-musician ... all these clubs were opening up ... We were poor ... One day I played a riff to JB and he said “sexy boy” out of the blue – and that was how we got the song ... Sexy Boy felt different ... Unlike American or British bands, we weren’t always thinking “verse-chorus” ... The night we did Sexy Boy, I knew my life would change ... ....

Man Who Raised Gorilla Devastated By Its Death

Edit Newsday 31 May 2016
The gorilla, who was born at the Gladys Porter Zoo, was killed on Saturday after a boy fell into his enclosure....
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