In today’s New York Times, Angelina Jolie shares that she underwent a preventive double mastectomy after learning that a specific gene had left her with an 87 percent chance of developing breast cancer. After three months of medical procedures, that number has plummeted to 5 percent. Jolie explains the importance of gene testing, the advances in breast reconstruction, the benefit of a partner’s support, and the strength she feels after making a dramatic decision for herself and her children.
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In today’s New York Times, Angelina Jolie shares that she underwent a preventive double mastectomy after learning that a specific gene had left her with an 87 percent chance of developing breast cancer. After three months of medical procedures, that number has plummeted to 5 percent.

Jolie explains the importance of gene testing, the advances in breast reconstruction, the benefit of a partner’s support, and the strength she feels after making a dramatic decision for herself and her children.

Source: The New York Times

The parody videos, they are a-comin’. Autotune by noon, I’m thinking, of Charles Ramsey’s must-see interview after rescuing three Cleveland women held captive for many years.

At 2:25 mark: “Bro, I knew something was wrong when a little, pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wroooong here. [Nods confidently.] Dead giveaway. Dead giveaway. Deeeeaaad giveaway. Either she’s homeless or she’s got problems.”

And if you’re shopping early for Father’s Day gifts, consider the leather vest shown proudly at the 0:15 mark, which reads on the back of the left shoulder, “I’d talk about my dick, but it’s a long story.”

brooklynmutt:

President Obama at the White House Correspondents Dinner

The Telegraph: Metropolitan Museum of Art Receives $1 Billion Cubist Art Donation Talk about a windfall for one of the world’s most famous museums. Leonard Lauder, son of Estee Lauder, is donating 78 paintings, drawings and sculptures by Pablo Picasso (33), Georges Braque (17), Juan Gris (14) and Fernand Leger (14). Shown here, clockwise from top, are Picasso’s “Woman in an Armchair,” Braque’s “Trees at L’Estaque,” and Leger’s “Le Fumeur.”
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The Telegraph: Metropolitan Museum of Art Receives $1 Billion Cubist Art Donation Talk about a windfall for one of the world’s most famous museums. Leonard Lauder, son of Estee Lauder, is donating 78 paintings, drawings and sculptures by Pablo Picasso (33), Georges Braque (17), Juan Gris (14) and Fernand Leger (14). Shown here, clockwise from top, are Picasso’s “Woman in an Armchair,” Braque’s “Trees at L’Estaque,” and Leger’s “Le Fumeur.”
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The Telegraph: Metropolitan Museum of Art Receives $1 Billion Cubist Art Donation Talk about a windfall for one of the world’s most famous museums. Leonard Lauder, son of Estee Lauder, is donating 78 paintings, drawings and sculptures by Pablo Picasso (33), Georges Braque (17), Juan Gris (14) and Fernand Leger (14). Shown here, clockwise from top, are Picasso’s “Woman in an Armchair,” Braque’s “Trees at L’Estaque,” and Leger’s “Le Fumeur.”
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The Telegraph: Metropolitan Museum of Art Receives $1 Billion Cubist Art Donation

Talk about a windfall for one of the world’s most famous museums. Leonard Lauder, son of Estee Lauder, is donating 78 paintings, drawings and sculptures by Pablo Picasso (33), Georges Braque (17), Juan Gris (14) and Fernand Leger (14).

Shown here, clockwise from top, are Picasso’s “Woman in an Armchair,” Braque’s “Trees at L’Estaque,” and Leger’s “Le Fumeur.”

Source: telegraph.co.uk

brooklynmutt:

The Fox station in Connecticut ran a piece on Women’s Day, and this is the b-roll footage they chose to run. Unreal.

(via BuzzFeed)

This has to have been a prank, right?

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