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Here's how insanely competitive Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison really is

BusinessInsider.com 

AP Photo/Dean Purcell

Larry Ellison, Oracle's billionaire cofounder and current CTO, is famous for his brash personality.

He's shown time and time again that he's willing to go to great lengths to win, both in business and in his extracurricular activities. 

In honor of The America's Cup — one of Ellison's favorite hobbies, which begins Saturday in New York City — we've rounded up the stories that best show how competitive Ellison really is. 

Ellison wants to be dominant in everything he does. Читать дальше...

Lexus achieved something incredibly important with the luxurious new RX 350

BusinessInsider.com 

Hollis Johnson

The Lexus RX has been around for so long that it's easy to forget how significant a vehicle it was when it hit the scene way back in 1998.

Up to that point, SUVs had essentially been upscale trucks. Lexus' parent company, Toyota, realized that many people, especially in America, were buying rugged four-wheel-drive SUVs when all they really wanted was SUV scale and utility. Their SUVs never got a whiff of trail; the closest they came to off-roading was when the parking lot of the Short Hills Mall needed a repaving.

UN expert says torture still used by Sri Lanka investigators

«TDN» (tdn.com) 

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A U.N. human rights expert said Saturday that torture is still being used by Sri Lanka's criminal and terrorism investigators, even though the tactic has decreased since the island nation's decades-long civil war ended seven…



Injured soldiers compete at Disney in Olympic-like games

«Gazette Times» (gazettetimes.com) 

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — More than 500 soldiers from around the world are competing this week at the Invictus Games, an Olympics-like competition for veterans who have survived injuries.

Injured soldiers compete at Disney in Olympic-like games

«La Crosse Tribune» (lacrossetribune.com) 

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — More than 500 soldiers from around the world are competing this week at the Invictus Games, an Olympics-like competition for veterans who have survived injuries.

Injured soldiers compete at Disney in Olympic-like games

«The Bismarck Tribune» (bismarcktribune.com) 

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — More than 500 soldiers from around the world are competing this week at the Invictus Games, an Olympics-like competition for veterans who have survived injuries.

​Keith Urban in the moment

CBSNews.com 

With a new album, "Ripcord," and an impending world tour, the country superstar opens up about his early struggles, and how his life began when he married Nicole Kidman

6 buildings that were designed to save humanity from itself

BusinessInsider.com 

Bjoertvedt/Wikimedia

On April 26th 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine suffered a catastrophic failure, resulting in a nuclear meltdown and a series of explosions which scattered radioactive material across large areas of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. More than 50,000 people were evacuated the following day, and over the next 14 years another 300,000 people were moved, leading to an exclusion zone today measuring 2,600 square kilometers that... Читать дальше...

Aston Villa 0-0 Newcastle United

BBC Sport 

Newcastle United drop into the Premier League's bottom three as relegated Aston Villa end a run of 11 defeats amid fan protests.

Saturday one-liners

NBCSports.com 

Bills rookie LB Eric Striker doesn’t yet understand what’s so special about the chicken wings in Buffalo. Dolphins rookie WR Leonte Caroo will use the fact that eight receivers were drafted before him as motivation. Get to know Patriots second-round CB Cyrus Jones. Jets first-round LB Darron Lee got in trouble on Friday for tackling RB Julian…

Oreo Bagels Exist And The World Will Never Be The Same

BuzzFeed 

GIMME.

A new bagel is taking over Instagram (and our hearts), and it is this OREO BAGEL WITH OREO CREAM CHEESE AND OREOS IN THE MIDDLE.

It's called the "Oreo Overload," and it comes from The Bagel Nook in Freehold, NJ.

@hannahouimet / Via instagram.com

OK, all together now: WOOOOOAAAHHH.

Did rainbow bagels just meet their match?

@jillyyyx / Via instagram.com

People are really, really into them. Читать дальше...

Haymarket Farmers Market opens

JournalStar.com 

When Yvonne Mimick started going to the Haymarket Farmers Market nearly 20 years ago, there were only four small tents in front of the train station.

Greek Finance Minister Calls IMF Contingency Measures Impossible To Legislate

International Business Times 

Greece is applying reforms to meet bailout pledges, but extra contingency measures demanded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are impossible to legislate, the country’s finance minister said in a leaked letter to eurozone finance ministers before a Eurogroup gathering Monday. The eurozone’s 19 finance ministers will meet in Brussels to discuss Greece’s reform program and a new set of contingency measures that Athens has been asked to adopt to ensure it can achieve agreed fiscal targets in 2018.

Selena Gomez Opens 'Revival' Tour in Vegas (Set List)

«Just Jared» 

Selena Gomez shines in a slinky silver number backstage after her kick off concert on her Revival tour in Las Vegas on Friday (May 6). “I haven’t toured for two years, and there’s such a difference when you perform music that you created,” the 23-year-old singer dished to EW. “Singing songs that represent everything I [...]





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