Republican bumper sticker mocks Obamacare website's problems

404 stickers from the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

The problems with Healthcare.gov, the online portal for Americans to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, have been well-documented, infuriating users and inciting congressional hearings. And now, they're the inspiration for a new series of Anti-Obamacare-themed bumper stickers.

The "Error 404" is, of course, a reference to the code that Internet users get when accessing a site that doesn't work. A $5 donation to the National Republican Senatorial Committee gets you one of these. "Your contribution fuels our fight to build a Republican majority in the Senate in 2014, which is absolutely critical if we want to repeal and replace Obamacare."

Just don't everyone go at once. That'd crash the NRSC site, and boy, would that be embarrassing.

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Engineering students use dance to solve problems

EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — Engineering students at Northwestern University are getting a leg up on the competition. They're learning to swing dance in a for-credit class called Whole Body Thinking.

Joe Holtgreive (HOHLT'-greev), an assistant dean at the McCormick School of Engineering, started the class to help future engineers break outside their comfort zone.

Holtgreive says the course, led by Northwestern University Professor of Dance Billy Siegenfeld (SEE'-gen-feld), is teaching students known for left-brain thinking to use more of the right side of their brains.

The students include biomedical, mechanical and chemical engineering majors who say they're learning more than dance. They say the class is teaching them to think on their feet and work collaboratively with dance partners — skills they say will help make them better engineers.

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