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VIA: New York Times PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Maxi Extralien, a twig-thin 10-year-old in a SpongeBob pajama top, ate only a single bean from the heavy plate of food he received recently from a Haitian civic group. He had to make it last. “My mother has 12 kids but a lot of them died,” he said, […]

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VIA: Washington Post Washington Wizards reserve guard Javaris Crittenton pleaded guilty in D.C. Superior Court on Monday to a misdemeanor gun possession charge stemming from his locker room confrontation with Gilbert Arenas at Verizon Center last month. He was sentenced to a year of unsupervised probation. As part of a plea agreement, prosecutors agreed to […]

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VIA: Los Angeles Times Giving its blessing to a deal that could transform the music industry, the Justice Department on Monday approved the controversial merger of the nation’s dominant ticket seller and the world’s largest concert promoter — but only after extracting major concessions to address concerns that Ticketmaster and Live Nation would have a […]

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Mehmet Oz, MD, frequent guest on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and regular contributor to her Satellite XM radio show, has five rules to help you fight your body’s cravings and stay slim for life. The unfortunate truth is that most diets do not succeed, and it’s easy to blame that fact on a lack of […]