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Italian man king of university degrees

Luciano Baietti holds 15 bachelors and master degrees from different Italian academic centers. A 70-year old Italian man is the world record holder for the number of university degrees. Luciano Baietti is a former headmaster of a secondary school, living in a city near Rome. Baietti holds 15 bachelors and master degrees from different Italian academic centers. He received his first degree in physical education in 1972. Other degrees include criminology, military strategies, food science, sociology, literature, law, political science and philosophy. The record holder says he was inspired by the 19th century French essayist, Louis-Francois Bertin. The study-lover is also volunteering with Italy's Red Cross.

Arizona Man Gets 30-Year Sentence in Texas Attack Inspired by ISIS

An investigator outside the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Tex., in May 2015. BRANDON WADE / ASSOCIATED PRESS An Arizona man was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Wednesday for aiding the Islamic State by helping two followers who attacked an anti-Islam event in Texas, leading to a deadly shootout with the police. Prosecutors were seeking a 50-year sentence for the man, Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, an American-born Muslim convert who became the second person in the United States to be convicted on charges of supporting the Islamic State. He was convicted of conspiring to support a foreign terrorist organization, interstate transportation of firearms and other charges. His friends Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi were the only ones killed in the May 2015 shootout outside a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland, Tex. A security guard was wounded. The contest featured images that are offensive to Muslims. The authorities said Mr. Kareem had watched videos depicting violence by j

A man who took magic mushrooms for a scientific study said it helped him see a basic truth about relationships

  1990 was a year of life and death for Clark Martin. His daughter was born, and he was diagnosed with cancer. Over the next 20 years, as his daughter took her first steps, experienced her first day of school, and eventually grew into a smart, fiercely independent teenager, doctors waged a blitzkrieg on Martin's body. Six surgeries. Two experimental treatments. Thousands of doctor visits. The cancer never went into remission, but Martin and his doctors managed to keep it in check by staying vigilant, always catching the disease just as it was on the brink of spreading. Still, the cancer took its toll. Martin was riddled with the effects of anxiety and depression. He had become so focused on saving his body from the cancer that he hadn't made time for the people and things in his life that really mattered. His relationships were in shambles; he and his daughter barely spoke. So in 2010, after reading an article in a magazine about a  medical trial that involved giving people