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This holiday, take your diet advice and stuff it

Should you do anything when your unfit family is stuffing themselves at Thanksgiving? And how can a husband motivate his wife to get on board the wellness train before baby comes along? Smart Fitness answers your queries.

Scoop: A big Oscar upset in the works?

LOS ANGELES - The buzz about an Oscar upset in the Best Actress category is too great to ignore. Perhaps everyone just wants something new to talk about at this point, or maybe it’s true — “Frozen River” star Melissa Leo could walk away with 8-1/2 pounds of golden Academy love in her hand. One voting member of the Academy echoed sentiments I’ve heard several times this weekend. “I couldn’t decide between Kate (Winslet) or Meryl (Streep) so I went with Melissa.”

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BBC: SuperPower: Visualising the internet
Source: BBC News

Interesting Nielsen ratings along with a few stats and visuals. Attaching 3 more articles with this seed, the same way its tabbed on the BBC page. Internet billionaires

Baffled police log six incidents of snowball fights as 'serious violent crimes' - the same category as murder
Source: the Mail online

Children caught throwing snowballs are being recorded as 'serious violence crimes' by confused police officers. Six incidents were logged in the same category as murder or using a weapon to inflict injury by the Greater Manchester force during the cold snap in January.

Annual 'Banished Words' List Unveiled
Source: ClickOrlando.com

DETROIT -- You can finally call it a "recession," thanks to President George W. Bush's recent use of the term to describe the fragile state of the U.S. economy. But word-watchers far and wide forbid you to say the pain has spread from "Wall Street to Main Street."

The unmarried women's vote
Source: msnbc.com

Much has been made about how an increase in turnout among African Americans or young voters could end up benefiting Obama in the fall.

Post-Katrina Promises Unfulfilled
Source: The Washington Post

Nearly five months after Hurricane Katrina swamped New Orleans, President Bush's lofty promises to rebuild the Gulf Coast have been frustrated by bureaucratic failures and competing priorities, a review of events since the hurricane shows.

Newsvine and languages: a potential issue?

As the beta goes on, more and more users are starting to post things from all around the world.

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