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Gavin Newsom, the lieutenant governor of California, was worried about being recognized while at Rancho Pescadero, a remote eco-spa in the Baja Peninsula of Mexico…
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Hollywood uber-producer Brian Grazer has landed a hefty book deal to write about curiosity. We’re told the Oscar winner got a six-figure deal with…
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A hand-carved mouse auctioned off as part of Sotheby’s recent $18.8 million auction of Brooke Astor’s estate had a secret tale. “Whenever…
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A 25-year-old man initially arrested Sunday on an assault charge after Lindsay Lohan claimed he grabbed her in her New York hotel room in an argument over cellphone images was freed hours later and his arrest voided when the charge could not be substantiated, law enforcement officials said.
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CARR: Tired Cries of Media Bias…
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After the panic over Mitt Romney’s characterization of 47% of his fellow citizens as moochers, rightbloggers flailed for a way to make the maker-and-taker philosophy of the modern conservative moveme
via Runnin' Scared http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/09/rightbloggers_m_1.php
A key witness against convicted child molester and former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky has a book deal and will soon reveal his identity.
via Yahoo! News – Latest News & Headlines http://news.yahoo.com/victim-1-jerry-sandusky-trial-book-deal-135726460–spt.html
Between 30 April and 1 May of the year 1006 the brightest stellar event ever recorded in history occurred: a supernova, or stellar explosion, that was widely observed by various civilizations from different places on the Earth. More than a thousand years later researchers have found that the supernova of 1006 (SN 1006) probably occurred as a result of the merger of two white dwarfs.
via ScienceDaily: Latest Science News http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120927091538.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29
One of the young Libyan rebels credited with capturing Moammar Gadhafi in a drainage ditch nearly a year ago died Tuesday of injuries after being kidnapped, beaten and slashed by the late dictator’s supporters — the latest victim of persistent violence and instability in the North African country.
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