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There are a lot of good reasons to pay your student loans. For one thing, it’s the right thing to do. For another, defaulting will mess up your credit history, making it difficult or impossible to get a mortgage, or even a car loan.

Plus, if you don’t, they may send a SWAT team after you.

Stockton, Calif. resident Kenneth Wright says that 15 SWAT officers broke down his front door at 6 a.m. Tuesday, according to a report bySacramento’s ABC station.

Put down the loan!

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An eyewitness to a fatal police shooting in Miami Beach last week claims police officers attempted to confiscate the video he filmed of the incident, and even crushed his phone underfoot in an attempt to destroy the recording.

Narces Benoit says he just happened to be in the area driving with his girlfriend when police fatally shot an erratic driver early Memorial Day morning.

He said after the disturbance started, he pulled over his truck, and started recording with his cell phone camera capturing the shooting.

“When he noticed me recording, one of the officers jumped in the truck, put a pistol to my head,” he said. “My phone was smashed – he stepped on it, handcuffed me.”

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Two new elements have been added to the periodic table after a three-year review by the governing bodies of chemistry and physics.

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The new elements have temporary titles of ununquadium and ununhexium, but final names have yet to be settled on.

(un=1,quad=4,hex=6,ium=element.)

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Share of total income for top 10%, 1%, and 0.1% incomes in the United States vs. in the Netherlands.

Brand Reversions, Brand identities with split personalities.

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Industry regulators have known for years that Roundup, the world’s best-selling herbicide produced by U.S. company Monsanto, causes birth defects, according to a new report released Tuesday.

The report, “Roundup and birth defects: Is the public being kept in the dark?” found regulators knew as long ago as 1980 that glyphosate, the chemical on which Roundup is based, can cause birth defects in laboratory animals.

But despite such warnings, and although the European Commission has known that glyphosate causes malformations since at least 2002, the information was not made public.

Instead regulators misled the public about glyphosate’s safety, according to the report, and as recently as last year, the German Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety, the German government body dealing with the glyphosate review, told the European Commission that there was no evidence glyphosate causes birth defects.

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On June 1, 2011, a supercell thunderstorm developed over western Massachusetts. The storm produced an EF3 tornado that cut a 39-mile (63-kilometer) track of destruction across southwest and south-central Massachusetts. Not only did the long-lived tornado remain on the ground for many miles, but it also widened to 0.5 miles (0.8 kilometers).

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Steve Jobs rests his head against his wife, Laurene Powell Jobs, after delivering the keynote address to the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at Moscone West on Monday.