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Benjamin Espina is a medical student with a lot of passions but unfortunately, not a lot of time in his hands. Aside from the challenge that is med school, Benj is also a collegiate debater, a frontman for his metal band and an athlete. He has been blogging on and off for the past four years and is also affiliated with Blog Tutorials, also under the Splashpress Network. His personal blog can be viewed here at Atheista.net

Four more contestants were eliminated as American Idol revealed the names of the hopefuls with the lowest number of votes for their Top20 performances. The theme for this week's shows were music from the 70s. Thursday's results show saw former Making The Band semifinalist Jason Yeager and Robbie Carrico leave the competition from the boys' side while a somewhat shocker of an elimination had Alaina Whitaker and Alexandrea Lushington leave the  girls' side. Interestingly, all four received minimal airtime prior to the semifinals week so they all came into the public voting round at a very big  disadvantage. ...


Just mere hours after news of his secret deployment leaked the mainstream media, Prince Harry - the second son of the late Princess Diana and Prince Charles --- was pulled out of his military detachment amid concerns for his safety. Though only being all of 23 years, the British royal has been serving in the front lines at the province of Helmand for the past 10 months. The deployment was supposedly subject to a news blackout but for some reason or another, foreign media chose to breach that agreement. Since the Prince's presence would have given ...


After two nights of performances featuring from the 1960s, American  Idol saw the elimination of the first four contestant off its roster of 24 semi-finalists. After millions of votes from all across America, Garret Haley and Colton Berry were eliminated on the guys' side while Amy Davis and Joanne Borgella were eliminated from the girls' side. Seventeen year-old Garret Haley from Elida, Ohio failed to wow judges  with his performance of Neil Sedaka's 'Breaking Up His Hard To Do'. Haley has drawn comparisons to Leif Garret and Peter Frampton due to his shaggy blond hair. Not faring much better is another ...


Edwards Is Quitting

John Edwards was clearly an also-ran in this presidential campaign. With the Democratic base revitalized on the tails of two groundbreaking and charismatic candidates. The potential to elect the nation's first woman president in Hillary Clinton has always been intriguing while the incessant rockstar-worship that Barack Obama has been getting has definitely ignited a fire under the idealist youth who support the Democratic Party. This sort of fanfare leaves John Edwards, a former senator from the State of North Carolina and John Kerry's running and losing mate during the last general elections a stale commodity being sold ...


_44392414_shrew_416.jpg Yup, order is in fact needed in the realm of animals for a new peculiar creature has recently been added to the growing list of animals. The mountains of Tanzania was the fitting venue for the discovery as scientists from California Academy of Sciences documented the existence of a previously unknown species of giant elephant shrew or sengi. The newest member of Class Mammalia - Rhynochocyon udzungwensis - is the size of a cat and curiously looks like a cross between a small antelope and a small anteater. The animal has delicate thin legs and a flexible snout, ...


The Blades Won’t Cut It

Oscar Pistorius is an inspiration to those who know him. As you would see in the picture, he is the fastest man ... on no legs. Pistorius is the current world record holder for double amputees on the sprint events (100m, 200m and 400m) and he has been dominating the Paralympics for quite some time now. He has done these feats through the use of carbon fiber transtibial artificial limbs or simply "cheetah blades". If you compare his record times with the winning times during the last Olympics (yes, the REAL Olympics), his clocking will only be off ...


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