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Starbucks Announces New Summer Frappuccinos To Retain Customers

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One customer ordered their Cheeseburger Frappuccino with “no pickles, light whip.”Photo by: Stephen Lightfoot With summer approaching, the number of social media posts from millennials are …

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why veganism will die before 2050

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It seems like vegans are everywhere nowadays. Your (perhaps former) best friend, your neighbors, and even your younger brother are all trying to convince you that …

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New Avocado-Filled California King Mattresses Take the Country by Storm

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In an unexpected trend sweeping the United States, many American couples are redefining the few hours they spend asleep by switching to avocado-filled mattresses. The precise …

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Why Does This College Named After Me Have so Little Plant Life?

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It used to be an honor to be attached to a UCSD college. In the ghost world, I secured loads of connections just by pointing that …

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UCSD Introduces ‘Pay-to-Sit’ Classes

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“After calculating statistics on class sizes, waitlist enrollment, and similar things, we realized that we had a major problem brewing,” admitted Natalie Jameson, a representative from …

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Student Unable to Afford Salt, Uses Chip Dust Instead

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With the start of a new academic year, students are publicizing various resolutions. Third-year economics major Antony Brown shared a couple of his in a particularly …

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New Tech Startup “Pomme” on Track to Surpass Apple

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There may soon be a different company named after a fruit controlling Silicon Valley. As the third quarter of 2018 begins to wind down, a new smartphone …

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Secretary of the Interior’s Attempts To Shrink Yellowstone Thwarted by Bear Cub

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After two weeks of conversing with petroleum companies, conservationists, legal authorities, President Trump, and his own wife, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke finally got the …

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Obsessive Anime Fan Claims Waifu as Dependent, Goes Unnoticed by IRS

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Recently, a post from Reddit has gone viral in which a man tells the story of how he claimed his “waifu” – Asuna Yuuki from Sword …

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Muir College Announces New Writing Sequence: John Muir Writing Extravaganza

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Muir College Writing Program (MCWP) director Carrie Wastal recently unveiled a complete overhaul of the MCWP series. She said that the provosts from the other colleges …