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Too Much Sarah Palin?
A roundup of lit-related questions. Too Much Sarah Palin? The former Alaska Governor is slated to discuss her forthcoming memoir Going Rogue: An American Life on Oprah’s show, November 16, the day before the book releases. Big surprise to me, Palin’s book, which only took four months to write, is already a bestseller on the…
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Listen Up! Toxic Chinese Drywall Creates Housing Risk
Along the Gulf Coast and across the country, it’s being called a “silent hurricane.” Between 2004 and 2007, an estimated 100,000 homes in more than 20 states were built with toxic drywall imported from China. Emissions from the drywall corrode plumbing and electrical systems. Homeowners also blame them for headaches and respiratory ailments. Replacing Chinese…
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World Series: Can Pedro Bury His Yankee Ghosts?
Unless you have grown jaded by ESPN’s treatment of baseball which places all teams in the northeast corridor on one level and the other 26 teams in some pseudo-minor league, then this is an easy World Series to like. The New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies have many compelling story lines, and the two teams…
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Forty Cities Not as Bad off as The Rest of the Country
Though it doesn’t seem like it, there are some American cities still thriving in the recession. And when I say thriving, I mean by the standard of, “well, they’re not floundering as bad as the rest of the country.” BusinessWeek.com used data and analysis from the Brookings Institution’s new MetroMonitor to come up with the…
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'War in Afghanistan' Too Long, Too Heroic
Posting news of the eight US troops reported killed in Afghanistan today in the deadliest month of fighting since this war began, I had what one might call a slip of the eye. Reading the Associated Press report, I read the following Eight American troops were killed in multiple bomb attacks Tuesday in southern Afghanistan,…
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Jump Ball: Lakers in the West; Magic in the East
THE EAST Weeks before the Mad Men season premiere this summer, the Cleveland Cavaliers and Orlando Magic engaged in an arms race that recalled the 1960s, when every spring Bill Russell’s Boston Celtics battled Jerry West’s Los Angeles Lakers for the title, and every summer each team vied furiously for additional talent. The Cavs traded…
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Bomb Attack Kills 8 US Troops in Afghanistan
Further into the quagmire we sink. Eight US servicemen were killed in southern Afghanistan following a bomb attack. From NBC News (via the AP): The U.S. military said on Tuesday that eight American troops have been killed in bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan, making October the deadliest month for U.S. forces in the eight-year Afghan…
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Clippers Rookie Griffin Breaks Kneecap
Welcome to the Clippers, Blake. After an off-season that saw star power forward Blake Griffin injure his shoulder, his regular season debut has been postponed after suffering a broken kneecap in an exhibition game last Friday. Though initially reported as a sore knee, it was revealed late Monday that Griffin’s kneecap was, in fact, broken.…
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Pew Study: Sistas Top Twitter
In a story The Buzz peeped on The Grio, it appears a Pew Study has outed Black women who’ve graduated from college, make less than 30K and have mobile devices as serial Twitterians. If you’re online, the chances are 1 in 5 that you’re updating your Twitter or Facebook status, according to a new study…
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Reid Says Public Option Will Be Included in Bill
The health care debate drones on and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced their will be a provision added to the reform bill that allows for a public option that states can opt out of. Though Reid seemed opposed to the idea of a government-run option just two weeks ago, some see this as…