All Stories from December 25, 2015 (Change date)
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HEY! These are the best song lyrics of 2015Dec 28, 2015 5:23 am - Like it or not, humanity is adapting to this fractious information age. Hungry and distracted, we now absorb our brain-vitamins from an infinity of crumbs. So if you lov...
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Steve Carell hopes you want to throw up after seeing 'The Big Short'Dec 28, 2015 5:23 am - Like its subject matter, "The Big Short" is hard to describe. Based on Michael Lewis' best-selling 2010 nonfiction book about a small group of money managers who made mi...
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The 'Dogist' blog and book makes dogs look humanDec 28, 2015 5:08 am - LOS ANGELES - Elias Weiss Friedman has photographed thousands of dogs for his blog and book "The Dogist." What sets his pictures apart is how human he makes his canines ...
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Sweet victory: The parsnip has its dayDec 26, 2015 7:00 am - "I'm a facultative vegetarian," my friend said, when asked whether she'd eat our Thanksgiving turkey. Which meant, she explained, that her vegetarianism was situational....
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1904 World's Fair souvenir is a shoe inDec 28, 2015 11:06 am - Q. Enclosed is a photo of a pair of porcelain shoes that belonged to my grandmother. On the bottom of each shoe are the words "World's Fair - 1904." They are a cream and...
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Correction: Rutgers Hire storyDec 25, 2015 10:50 am - PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) - In a story Dec. 24 about Rutgers hiring an offensive line coach, The Associated Press reported erroneously the first name of the school's head fo...
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Titans receiver Wright, safety Searcy probable vs. TexansDec 25, 2015 2:40 pm - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee wide receiver Kendall Wright and safety Da'Norris Searcy are probable to play against Houston on Sunday. Rookie quarterback Marcus Mari...
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Oops: UK astronaut Tim Peake calls wrong number from spaceDec 25, 2015 8:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Anyone can dial a wrong number, but it's not often done from outer space. British astronaut Tim Peake tweeted an apology on Christmas Day from the Internat...
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Bristol Palin announces birth of second childDec 25, 2015 1:00 am - ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Bristol Palin is a mother for the second time. Palin, who launched an abstinence campaign after giving birth as an unwed teenage mother, posted ...
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3 shot outside bar north of Chicago early Christmas DayDec 25, 2015 11:00 am - LAKE BLUFF, Ill. (AP) - Authorities say three people have been shot outside a bar-and-grill north of Chicago. A Lake County Sheriff's Office statement says the shooting ...