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 OBAMA: STOP HEALTH CARE ‘MISREPRESENTATIONS’TOWN HALL MEETINGS ACROSS THE COUNTRY HAVE BEEN DISRUPTED BY PROTESTS: Hoping to blunt the momentum of critics, President Barack Obama went on the offensive in support of his health care plan, urging the country not to buy into those who seek to “scare and mislead the American people.” “For all the scare tactics out there, what is truly scary is if we do nothing,” Obama told a friendly town hall audience.
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 JFKS SISTER EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER DIES AT 88:SPECIAL OLYMPICS FOUNDER REMEMBERED FOR LOVE AND SERVICE TO OTHERS: President John F. Kennedy’s sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who carried on the family’s public service tradition by founding the Special Olympics and championing the rights of the mentally disabled, died early Tuesday surrounded by relatives at a Hyannis hospital. She was 88. Shriver had suffered a series of strokes in recent years and died at Cape Cod Hospital, her family said in a statement. Her husband, her five children and all 19 of her grandchildren were by her side, the statement said.
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 ANGRY CROWD CONFRONTS SENATOR ON HEALTH CARE: A hostile crowd shouted questions and made angry statements today at a Pennsylvania town hall meeting on health care led by Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter. The meeting drew an overflow crowd of about 250 people, with more gathered outside to demonstrate for and against President Obama’s push to expand health insurance for 46 million people without coverage while bringing down costs.
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 GOOGLE PROVIDES PEEK INTO NEW SEARCH ENGINE: Google has lifted the lid on a new version of its search engine, allowing users to look at the results it will generate. The new engine, available at a separate address, looks the same as the current one but ranks results differently, which could affect businesses who rely on Google results to drive traffic. In a blog posting late Monday, Google Inc. says the new engine, code-named “Caffeine,” will be faster, more accurate and more comprehensive.
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 MYANMAR COURT CONVICTS NOBEL LAUREATE SUU KYI: DEMOCRACY ICON TO SERVE TIME UNDER HOUSE ARREST; U.S. MAN GETS HARD LABOR: A Myanmar court convicted Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday of violating her house arrest by allowing an uninvited American to stay at her home. The head of the military-ruled country ordered the democracy leader to serve an 18-month sentence under house arrest. The 64-year-old opposition leader has already spent 14 of the last 20 years in detention, mostly under house arrest, and the extension will remove her from the political scene when the junta stages elections next year.
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 NORTH KOREA STAGES PROPAGANDA SPECTACLE: Festival shows off synchronized performances mostly by children: Some 100,000 performers flipped and twirled in perfect synchronicity as North Korea’s most lavish spectacle, the “Mass Games,” opened in Pyongyang, footage from television news agency APTN showed. The “Arirang” show is a major propaganda machine for North Korea, with the huge cast mostly children dancing, singing and tumbling in unison. It’s one of the few times average Americans, typically prohibited from visiting the communist country, are allowed visas to visit.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By SAM HASKELL: One day, Steve Kram, one of my best friends at the company, confronted me about my Wiatt cheerleading. Why are you supporting this guy? Dont you know what he is saying behind your back? I hated to ask. What? Sam Haskell is a Clydesdale horse, trudging along with blinder on, supporting mediocrity, carrying everybody on his back. Really? That was a bit hard to take. The success of the TV department was, for all practical purposes, the success of the agency. If I was carrying anyone on my back, Wiatts motion picture department was included.
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 LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By ANDREW CARNEGIE: The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship. (1889)
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LBN-COMMENTARY By MICHAEL SIGMAN (Writer, Editor & Music Publisher): Since CNN’s Lou Dobbs and other loonies merely “believe” President Obama to be a U.S. citizen, and since a new Pew Research poll finds that 39 percent of self-identified Republicans think there hasn’t been enough coverage of the “debate” over the legitimacy of Obama’s citizenship, maybe it’s time for a reprise of CNN’s “Crossfire” debating format: The face-off could pit birther intellectual luminaries Pat Boone and Chuck Norris against a simple close-up of Obama’s Hawaii birth certificate, which, as lawyers like to say, speaks for itself. The soundtrack? The stirring but ironic strains of Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In the U.S.A.”
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LBN-HEALTH WATCH: *****More happiness may come with age, studies suggest that generally, people in their 80s and 90s are happier than younger people. *****The Restaurant Worker’s Health Care Cooperative, currently servicing 15 restaurants in lower Manhattan, provides free health care to all restaurant employees, from bus boys to bartenders. *****The experimental drug Denosumab may be on its way to becoming the newest way to treat osteoporosis. According to the New England Journal of Medicine biological drug given by injection every six months, looks safe and effective.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***In late 2010, Chevy is expecting to release a car that will hopefully boost the sales of their company, the Chevrolet Volt. GMs electric car, the Volt, is estimated to get 230 miles per gallon. General Motors, alongside the Environmental Protection Agency, have calculated that you can drive about 40 miles on the lithium-ion batteries alone after being charged 10 kilowatt hours. In essence, people who drive less than that have an unlimited gas mileage. ***Recent studies have proved that the design of a logo can revolutionize not only the company image but the brand equity, as seen with Apple. ***Tensions between Facebook and Google rose as Facebook announced it just bought the social networking aggregator, Friend Feed.
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LBN-BOOK NEWS: *** Cuba issues Fidel dictionary. Cubans accustomed to hours-long speeches, thousand-word essays and lengthy interviews can now get Fidel Castro at a glance, thank to a new dictionary of El Comandantes teachings. *** 54-year-old author E. Lynn Harris died of natural causes while promoting his latest novel. Coroners official says heart disease, complicated by high blood pressure and a hardening of arteries, is what killed Harris. *** Judge allows objection to Google Book deal. A judge has granted The Media Exchange Company Inc. the opportunity to file an objection to a settlement reached between Google Inc. and the publishing industry over its book-scanning project.
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LBN-NOTICED: ***AnnaLynne McCord treated her sisters Angel and Rachel to a spa day at Thibiant Beverly Hills. ***Usher was spotted getting a manicure and pedicure at the Amp Salon in Las Vegas’s Palms Resort & Casino. ***John Mayer and pal Rob Dyrdek were seen hanging out at Hollywood hot spot MyHouse. ***Jaime Pressly dropped by Fred Segal in West Hollywood with her new fianc Simran Singh and 2-year-old son Dezi. ***BE AN LBN CORRESPONDENT Send your celebrity sightings to LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
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 LBN-SEE IT:…World’s Largest Free-Floating Soap Bubble…
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LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***Lakers center Pau Gasol underwent surgery on the index finger of his left hand after breaking it during practice with Spains national team. Gau will be sidelined at least 3 weeks. ***Tiger Woods has said he was not fined by the PGA Tour for his critical remarks about a rules official putting the last group on the clock at Firestone. ***Glen Davis happy to skip packing. Celtics re-sign Davis for a 2-year deal worth about $6 million. *** Many wonder how Patrick Kanes recent arrest will affect his future with the Blackhawks and the U.S. Olympic hockey team. Much like the Blackhawks, USA Hockey is letting the legal process take its course before any action is taken, if any.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***GI Joe took the top of the box office with bringing in $52,713,046 this weekend. ***In the midst of many media and entertainment companies financial decline, Lionsgate had its second-best quarter in almost every division on Monday. ***The State Council of China has appointed film censor and producer Zhang Pimin to replace retiring Lei Yuanling as deputy director of the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television.
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LBN-OVERHEAD: ***Princess Madeleine of Sweden has just gotten engaged to her boyfriend, attorney Jonas Bergstrom. ***American Idol alum Jennifer Hudson gave birth to a bouncing baby boy on Monday named David Daniel Otunga. ***Country legends Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn have announced that “it’s just time” for them to leave the country music scene and will be breaking up after a 2010 farewell tour. ***The Pee-Wee Herman Show, starring Paul Reubens as Pee-wee, will go on stage this November at The Music Box theater in Los Angeles.
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LBN-DID YOU KNOW: ***The Tasmanian Devil has the strongest bite of any living mammal. ***Wombats can run at speeds of up to 40 kilometers per hour and maintain that speed for 90 seconds. ***Human fingers do not contain any muscles, other than small muscles attached to finger hair follicles. The muscles that move the finger joints are located in the palm and forearm. ***The Mitsubishi Eclipse car model was named after an English racehorse from the 1700s.
***Anablephobia is the fear of looking up.
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LBN-QUOTE: I failed to make the chess team because of my height. -Woody Allen.
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LBN-HISTORY: On Aug. 11, 1965, deadly rioting and looting broke out in the predominantly black Watts section of Los Angeles.
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LBN-CORRECTION: ***Chris Ludacris Bridges is not currently nor has he ever been represented by CAA. Please make note and we apologize for the mistake.
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