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'The Amazing Race' recap: High on life
Reality CheckBucky returns with a recap of last night's Amazing Race. Take it away, Bucky!:The fifth leg of The Amazing Race begins on the border between Sweden and Norway, last week’s Pit Stop, and the Doctors depart first. The instructions tell......Tags: Health, Chad, Internists, Trips and Vacations, Diets and Dieting
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Think Still Selling Electric Cars in the U.S.
KickingTiresWe haven???t heard much from electric upstart Think since its parent company based in Norway went into bankruptcy. Today, Think North America announced it has a new owner and is still selling Think City electric cars out of its Elkhart,......Tags: Bankruptcy, Hybrid Vehicles, Indiana, Nissan, Companies and Corporations
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Nobel doubts: Obama's prize debated
The Swampby Mark Silva While members of the Nobel Committee that awarded President Barack Obama the Peace Prize have defended their decision -- particularly the outspoken chairman of the five-member committee -- a Norwegian newspaper reports today that there...Tags: Parliament, National Government, Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Parties and Movements
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Nobel laureate's lint remover: First lady
The Swampby Mark Silva Behind every successful man (In Saudi Arabia and Japan, perhaps), there stands a successful woman. But she stands in front of the man (from the United States, in this case) when there's lint on the lapel of......Tags: Michelle Obama, National Government, Barack Obama, Saudi Arabia, Awards and Prizes
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U.S. tax breaks favor oil industry
The SwampResidents of Grand Isle, La. express their frustration with BP Monday. (EPA/Bevil Knapp) by Kim Geiger and Tom Hamburger It was close to 2 a.m. when Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and others on a House-Senate conference committee saw......Tags: Natural Resources, Gulf of Mexico, Bill Nelson, Texas, Government
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A melancholy day: 'Oslo, August 31' ★★★★
Simple, honest and very possibly great, "Oslo, August 31" spans a day, an evening and an early morning in the life of a recovering drug addict. Right there most of you reading this review will think: No, thanks. Life's difficult enough. But some films,...
Tags: Human Interest, The Kid with a Bike (movie), Reprise (movie), Movies, Entertainment
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Interview: Former 'American Idol' hopeful Chris Medina finds success in Scandinavia
Chris Medina is big in Europe. More specifically, Scandinavia. The Oak Forest resident had all of the U.S. pulling for him on “American Idol” last year after learning of his loyalty to fiancee Juliana Ramos, who was in a car accident and...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Social Media, American Idol (tv program), Sweden, Medina (Saudi Arabia)
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Problem Solver: DuPont herbicide Imprelis kills tree, but restitution moves slowly
The herbicide was supposed to kill the weeds in Bill Tortorello's yard. It did, but the chemical applied by Lawn Doctor of McHenry County in April 2011 didn't stop there. In late May, the needles on Tortorello's 48-foot Norway spruce began turning...
Tags: McHenry, Jon Yates, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Aquaculture, Environmental Issues
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Agent P on assignment at Epcot
Little girl crime fighters are out. Platypus crime fighters are in. Those are the trends at Epcot, which was home of the Kim Possible World Showcase Adventure from early 2009 until last month. Now the theme park offers the Disney Phineas & Ferb: Agent P'...Tags: Interstate 4, Theme Park Vacations, Walt Disney, Television, Germany
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Free Tilly? Sounds nice, but it would just add to tragedy
Should we free Tilikum? Do we do right by our mammalian brother and send him packing out to sea? That's the growing sentiment among animal-rights advocates following the killer whale's lethal attack on a SeaWorld Orlando trainer. Not only would they...Tags: Whale (animal), Nature, Animals, U.S. Air Force, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Rutten: The end of American optimism
It's sometimes useful to see ourselves as others do, and reports this Independence Day weekend in a couple of English-speaking newspapers usually sympathetic to the United States are sobering. Britain's Daily Telegraph — a conservative paper and...Tags: Nevada, Newspapers, Florida, Elections, Arizona
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Rodriguez: Zero-sum games in an interconnected world
What's wrong with this picture: Even as the world is becoming increasingly interconnected and interdependent, we seem to be approaching conflicts more in zero-sum terms and with all-or-nothing politics. Because digital networks and the global economy...Tags: Bill Clinton, Arts and Culture, Islam, Demographics, Elections
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