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Cirque du Soleil Founder Flies Into Space and Returns With Gaia

Jay Weston | Posted 08.28.2011

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Jay Weston

"Why did you want to go into space?" was the first question that I asked of Guy Laliberté. I was intrigued by a man who would spend 11 days in a space station 220 miles above the earth... and return with 10,000 photographs.

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Survivor 21: Infants vs. Senior Citizens: They Baffle Science!

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tallulah Morehead

I've been complaining for a few weeks now that this season of Survivor has been tortuously dull. Well this week it bounced back with twists so bizarre that, in the words of my idol W.C. Fields: "They baffle science!"

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Boehner-McConnell: The Movie

Martin Nolan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jim Carrey, Robert Mitchum, Mitch McConnell, Jerry Lewis, John Boehner, John Sherman Cooper, James Traficant, Napoleon, Robert A. Taft, George v. Higgins, Barack Obama, Clint Eastwood, Charlie McCarthy, Henry Clay, Edgar Bergen, Walter Brennan, Franklin Pangborn, Frank Luntz, W.C. Fields, Politics News
Martin Nolan

Both Boehner and McConnell have deluded themselves into believing they have already triumphed. Health care was to be Obama's Waterloo, but he won that battle. Those he defeated have become Napoleons.

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How Philadelphia Got Its Groove Back -- And Why N.Y. Is Jealous

Will Bunch | Posted 05.25.2011

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Will Bunch

New York became a black-hole-like force, sucking the energy from Philadelphia, stealing everything from our college grads to tourists. New York got Broadway, the UN, the World's Fair -- and baseball.

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Beer Metaphor Becomes Frosty-Cold Reality

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

Barack Obama is the first president to not just accept the premise of the "having a beer" test, but to embrace it and turn it into reality.

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