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MetaSecrets

2007-12-31T13:53:45Z

OMG, it's enough to split one's head. Marketers are now creating secrets for the sole purpose of being discovered because a "secret" is something people will share when they won't talk about being advertised to. "I figured", said Jordan Weisman, h...

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When? Why? By Whom?

2007-12-30T13:33:36Z

It could have been the perfect secret. Nobody knew when, why, or by whom secret cameras were put up. Nobody gave permission for them to be in Newton (Mass.) South High School.But they could still be discovered by curious students. And now the secr...

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Dream, Dream, Dream

2007-12-29T13:56:41Z

Secrets are revealed in many ways. But by a dream? A British reporter was allegedly asleep on the job when he began to track down a secret British nuclear test. Maybe another Brit could dream where Osama Bin Laden's son, Omar, and loony wife Zain...

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Thou Shalt Not Steal, Remember?

2007-12-28T13:56:36Z

As with many who steal, Hasidic rabbis believed their secrets wouldn't be revealed. Not that they had anything to hide in laundering money, if you asked them. A knowledgeable observer commented on their rationalization of "higher authority" maski...

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Beauty Secrets

2007-12-27T13:42:34Z

What lengths will some women go in pursuing beauty? In Iran, they'll go underground to secret salons. Business sites that operate under the constant threat of exposure, the constant bullying or occasional murder of beauticians and even the random ...

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Lottery Secrets

2007-12-26T13:16:49Z

The secret of winning the lottery -- at least in Florida -- is out. Terry has it and shared it with the paper, which now shares it with you, unless, of course, you'd rather believe the secret of winning big is moving to a sparsely populated Spanis...

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Jolly Secrets

2007-12-25T13:30:40Z

Santa reveals that his dream of becoming an Olympic lugeist was doomed when he steered himself into the arctic ocean thus forcing him to turn to charity, among other secrets in a Q&A with the Binghamton (N.Y.) Press & Sun-Bulletin. ** Big Jo inq...

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Obfuscate

2007-12-24T14:01:33Z

You can lie and belittle right out (and perhaps reduce workplace tension) in the open and hurt nobody with a shared secret language. So, hearing (or saying), "We got a code brown on a Hasselhoff FLK and he's giving the O-sign," in a hospital corri...

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And Yet They Trust

2007-12-23T13:24:21Z

Who still trusts when the public information is silly (for want of a better word) and the private information and the alleged explaination of why and/or how the public info is perfectly rational is secret? Some do, whether it is the secret strat...

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Keeping Santa Secret

2007-12-22T13:24:35Z

If all your secrets were like Santa what would you do when people you cared for asked you about them? You could outright lie; tell the truth; tell the partial truth; create a myth about them; or obfuscate and hope the question would go away for no...

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