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1. November 2010 | 14:39Fallout: New Vegas Companion Guide
Much like in every other Fallout game, New Vegas introduces a number of recruitable allies. These poor schm… valiant souls will join you on your path of destruction through the Mojave Wasteland. (News Source: Games Radar - 20:57:50)
With wealth comes fat, China finds; meat, oil, snacks, cars
Obesity becomes more common as the traditional diet of vegetables and rice is weighted down with meat, oil and sugary snacks. And why ride a bike when you can drive your car? Tian Ning shuffled unsteadily across his room at a weight loss clinic in Beijing, not exactly looking like the picture of health, but triumphant nonetheless. (News Source: Chicago Tribune - 23:15:30)
Pat Conroy comes to Memphis with ‘My Reading Life’
In his homage to the literary life, the books Pat Conroy honors become characters as vivid and influential as the flesh-and-blood teacher, friends and family who introduced him to them. (News Source: Memphis Commercial Appeal - 14:02:00)
Everyone will go batty for these sweet treats
If calories are the only thing standing between you and that cupcake, consider yourself lucky. Ancient Celts worried about way more than waistlines. (News Source: Peoria Journal Star - 04:13:06)
Mulani: Republicans are there for America’s rich, no one else
As we enter the final stretch of the midterm elections, Republicans look poised to take the House and possibly the Senate, as Americans seem to want a different direction for the economy and the country. (News Source: Colorado State Collegian - 07:37:53)
Town Talk
Andover native takes crash course in being hero Duane Innes, a 1979 Andover High graduate whose family still lives in town, is being hailed nationally as a hero for a very unlikely reason - he caused a traffic accident. Innes intentionally pulled in front of a vehicle on Highway 167 and let it hit his bumper to slow it down to save a man’s life. The car had been drifting across lanes of traffic … (News Source: The Andover Townsman - 19:23:33)
‘Gossip Girl’ recap: Tim Gunn and Taylor Momsen meet at last
The moment when Jenny finally meets Tim comes halfway through the hour, after Blair has quarantined Little J to her apartment for the duration of her one-day visit to New York and Chuck has manipulated his stepsister into showing up at his hotel for B’s minions to photograph. (News Source: Los Angeles Times - 15:17:25)
‘How I Met Your Mother’ is going to ‘get complicated’
After an uneven fifth season, the show has rebounded with a stronger focus, returning to the emotional and romantic journeys that make “How I Met Your Mother” more than just a sitcom. (News Source: Los Angeles Times - 15:17:12)
November 2010 Geology and GSA Today highlights
( Geological Society of America ) Geology includes two papers on the 2009 6.3 L’Aquila earthquake, one of which features a new analysis technique, focal mechanism tomography; a study on the impact of the Three Gorges Dam on the middle Yangtze; three papers on methane hydrates; findings of “easily recognized signatures of life” in iron-oxide-rich spheres and pipes near Escalante, Utah; and … (News Source: EurekAlert! - 13:01:49)
‘Gossip Girl’ recap: Tim Gunn and Taylor Momsen meet at last
Were you anticipating this week’s episode as anxiously as I was, Upper East Siders of the world? After the CW taunted us with a rerun last Monday, I was curious for the return of Taylor Momsen, who seemed to transform… (News Source: Los Angeles Times - 05:11:00)
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