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Good news this Thanksgiving: Compared to 50 years ago, some staples of the Turkey Day table have fewer calories.
Forget the apocalyptic earthquakes and alien abductions on the screen, the real movie horror is the fat-saturated popcorn sold by some theater chains, a nutrition advocacy group claims.
"Googled: The End of the World as We Know It" (The Penguin Press, 336 pages, $25.95), by Ken Auletta. Google is best understood in terms of billions. Three billion searches are conducted daily on the site. Company revenues last year exceeded $22 billion. It spent $1.76 billion for YouTube and $3.2 billion for the digital ad company DoubleClick.
"Bowie: A Biography" (Crown, 448 pages, $26.99) by Marc Spitz: David Bowie knows what he's singing about when he performs "Changes." After making a big splash in the early 1970s as Ziggy Stardust, he went on to become the Thin White Duke, an artsy Berlin angst rocker, the "straight" Bowie of "Let's Dance" and more recently the distinguished rock elder who goes to fashion events with his model wife, Iman.
"Eating the Dinosaur" (Scribner, 256 pages, $25), by Chuck Klosterman: Chuck Klosterman has a theory. A lot of them, actually. He has a theory about why grunge rock icon Kurt Cobain was like the late cult leader David Koresh, why the read-option offense signifies something deep and meaningful about football, why ABBA will never reunite, and why Garth Brooks created that goofy alter ego a decade ago.
Is it safe to party when swine flu threatens to crash your bash?
Crews dredging a polluted stretch of the upper Hudson River this year battled high water, old logging debris and unexpected levels of PCB contamination that slowed progress.
So, you know, it is what it is, but Americans are totally annoyed by the use of "whatever" in conversations.
Chickens finally can roost legally in Bozeman, Mont.
Twitter and Facebook are helping Rocco DiSpirito write his new cookbook.
Sigg bottles are leaving Katy Farber with a bitter taste.
At FancyFastFood.com, dashboard dining gets a serious — and seriously upscale — makeover.
Alice Connors-Kellgren was surprised by her boyfriend's new Facebook profile picture a few weeks ago: He was kissing another girl on the cheek.
Forty years after Richie Havens sang and strummed for a sea of people at Woodstock, he still gets asked about it and he still gets requests to sing "Freedom."
Cadets had already fought off an overnight attack by insurgents firing blanks when the morning brought even more simulated problems.
Work on a $4.2 billion chip plant supplying Advanced Micro Devices Inc. starts Friday in a woodsy patch of upstate New York — across the Atlantic from AMD's sister factories and in the middle of a recession.
Welcome to middle age, Woodstock Baby — if you're really out there.
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By any measure, New York's new Democratic U.S. senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, got off to a rocky start. She was neither a Kennedy nor Clinton, just an unknown appointed by an unpopular governor.
John and Yoko hung out in their pajamas for eight days during their "bed-in" at a Montreal hotel in 1969. Reclining on a king-size bed, the famous Beatle and his new wife read Lao Tzu, snuggled and recorded the anthem "Give Peace a Chance."
Robots wag their tail fins and bob along like bathtub toys in a pool at a Vassar College lab. Their actions are dictated by microprocessors housed in round plastic containers, the sort you'd store soup in.
Caroline Miller, a saber in her white-gloved hand, leads cadets of Company D with crisp commands. "Ready ... eyes right!" As hundreds of West Point cadets march across the sprawling green grass for review, she is in lockstep.
A dredging barge began scooping PCB-contaminated mud from a narrow stretch of the Hudson River on Friday, cheered on by environmentalists who waged a sometimes contentious cleanup fight that dragged on for decades.
General Electric Co. plans to boost its profile in the battery business with a new plant in upstate New York that will produce high-tech sodium cells to power locomotives and heavy equipment.
People look funny at David Mathis when he takes a dip off his dock in the Hudson River. Health officials have long warned people not to eat fish caught from this slow-flowing stretch south of the Adirondacks and swimming here is unthinkable to many.
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