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Not all cabs are yellow — London’s iconic ones are decidedly black — but the distinctive color is a classic for taxicabs. In New York City, taxis are yellow because of regulations first enacted in the late 1960s, but the process that got the first yellow cab onto the streets had begun much earlier. Read More...
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If you’ve turned on any connection to the outside world in the past week, you’ve heard the name Rachel Dolezal. If not, the basic details are that a Caucasian woman has been masquerading as a Black woman for years. So successfully, in fact, that she became the president of her local NAACP chapter in Spokane, Washington.
The issue only came to light when her parents (who are, no surprise, Caucasian themselves) blew the whistle on the whole thing, sending the Internet and news-consuming public into a frenzy. Read More...
April 17, 2014 9:43 AM EDT
Portland, Oregon has decided to dump 38 million gallons of drinking water after a 19-year-old urinated into an open reservoir, the Associated Press reports.
Portland Water Bureau spokesman David Shaff said three teens were spotted at the reservoir at around 1:00 am. One male was filmed urinating through a fence into the already-treated water.
Shaff said the urine poses little risk—water quality test sample results are due on Thursday—but the city still decided to ditch most of the water. Read More...
