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The Two-Way
2:53 pm
Fri November 11, 2011

The Story Of A Guy And His Pet Buffalo

Shots - Health Blog
2:36 pm
Fri November 11, 2011

This Is A Spinal Tap

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The fictitious band from This Is Spinal Tap performs live at CBGB's in New York in 1984. Nigel Tufnel, the guitarist played by Christopher Guest, favored amplifiers whose volume could be cranked up to 11.

Today is special.

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Shots - Health Blog
2:30 pm
Fri November 11, 2011

Now Children Need Cholesterol Tests, Too

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Next: "Test Me?"

Children today are growing up fast — so fast that they're now being told to have their cholesterol tested before they hit puberty.

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The Two-Way
2:00 pm
Fri November 11, 2011

No Firings At SEC For Missing Madoff's Massive Ponzi Scheme

Seven employees of the Securities and Exchange Commission have been disciplined, but no one has been fired, after investigations into how the agency failed to stop Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme despite repeated warnings that he was stealing billions of dollars from investors, The Washington Post reports.

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World
2:00 pm
Fri November 11, 2011

Obama's Trip Focuses On The Pacific

President Obama left Friday for a nine-day trip to Hawaii, Australia and Indonesia. The president is trying to justify this long foreign excursion by saying that it will create American jobs.

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