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OK, this one freaks me out a little:

COVINGTON, Ind.

What we had better learn from the Minneapolis bridge collapse, from Popular Mechanics:

The difference between art and journalism.

Thornton Wilder, contemplating the collapse of a bridge that killed five people: Who were they? How did they live? Why did they die? Was it the divine hand of God or merely random fate? What does it all mean?

News accounts of bridge collapse in Minneapolis: It's not terrorism! Really!

The disclaimer in this story,

Sigh. Guess I'll just go back to bed and pull the covers over my head:

The annual Harris Poll measuring public perceptions of 23 professions and occupations came out Wednesday -- and you can find journalists in the Bottom Ten.
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I have been hoping I would get Restless Leg Syndrome, the new disorder that requires a drug that has the best potential side effects in the world:

“Some patients taking ropinirole have shown urges to behave in a way unusual for them. Examples of this are an unusual urge to gamble or increased sexual urges and/or behaviors.”

This year's winner in the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, which annually honors the worst opening sentence for a nonexistent novel, to honor the Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, whose 1830 novel "Paul Clfford" famously begins, "It was a dark and stormy Night":

This just in:

Can adding a cup or two of coffee to the exercise routine increase protection from skin cancer? New research indicates that just might be the case.

The combination of exercise and caffeine increased destruction of precancerous cells that had been damaged by the sun's ultraviolet-B radiation, according to a team of researchers at Rutgers University.

What if I double the coffee and just skip the exercise?

I want me one of these:

Brigham and Women's Hospital has given a surgical team permission to perform partial face transplants on certain disfigured patients, making it the second US hospital that has gone public with plans to do this rare and hotly debated procedure.

Then I can be smart AND pretty, which is much better than cute and dumb.

Darn. I was almost sure it would be me:

Indianapolis - Ball State University plans to name its new communication building after alumnus and late night talk show host David Letterman.

I was glad to learn that one of my favorite comedians got a long-lasting and well-paying gig. I doubt that even Drew Carey's being the host would make me want to watch "The Price Is Right," but it might make me hate it less.