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MEDIA
News Corporation Subsidiary News Outdoor Russia Denies Bribing Officials
Murdoch says he was shocked, shocked to discover bribery going on in Russia.
 
ENTERTAINMENT
Google, Yahoo, Other Online Giants Pouring Millions Into Original TV Programming
Challenging traditional model where only networks have enough money to produce such mindless crap.
 
INTERNET
Harvard Study: Just 36% of Tweets Worth Reading
But that's 100 million tweets a day — who has the time?
 
BUSINESS
SEC: Stock-Picking Robot a Fraud
Scheme convinced many investors to move their funds from dart-throwing chimp.
Younger Workers Being Pushed into Low Wage Service Jobs
Serving burgers to older workers pushed into retirement.
POLL
One in Ten Believe World Will
End in 2012

And no longer care about their credit scores.
 
SCIENCE
Our Brains See Metaphors,
Similes Differently

And confuse them on SATs.
 
Inflatable Stonehenge Has Experts Baffled
Who built it, and at what point in history, among many questions still unanswered.
 
HEALTH / MEDICINE
Health Spending Has Leveled Off
As more Americans choose an early death.
U.S. Teen Tobacco Use Plummets
Only wealthiest 1% of teenagers can afford cigarettes.
Study: Tasers Pose Risk to Heart
Ask your doctor if being jolted by 50,000 volts of electricity is right for you.
 
ENVIRONMENT
Great Relief as La Niña Ends
Panic as El Niño begins.

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