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An animal-rights group has released a video showing what it says is the abuse of elephants and tigers used in Ringling Bros. circuses. Source

Police have arrested a 36-year-old ex-con for his alleged role in the slaying of Long Island motivational speaker Jeffrey Locker last week in East Harlem. Source

The World Health Organization says there have been more than 700 deaths from swine flu since the start of the outbreak. Source

Never speak ill of the freshly dead. Source

She jots notes on every question. She blinks quickly as she speaks, leans forward a bit on the table and gestures slowly. She smiles at jokes alertly and on cue. She pauses before delivering cool, crafty and lawyerly responses to pointed questions. Source

If you’re growing tomatoes, potatoes or nightshade this year, be on the lookout for late blight disease, the same fungus that caused the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s. Source

Q. Why does Starbucks iced coffee have 90 calories? Source

Correspondent for The Atlantic and author of a 2002 report on the obesity epidemic (“The Hungry Gene”), Ellen Ruppel Shell explores complicated issues by delving into their history, putting them in a broad social context and delivering the occasional zingy one-liner. “Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture” (Penguin Press, $22.95), for example, warns us … Devamını oku

More than any news program in recent memory, NBC’s “The Wanted” comes with a reputation preceding it. And it isn’t good. The series about chasing alleged terrorists and war criminals was the subject of stories questioning its reporting five months before its debut, set for tonight at 10. Unflattering references were made to “To Catch … Devamını oku

What’s next for Inter-Media Arts Center’s founders? The closing of the Inter-Media Arts Centre (IMAC) Theater in Huntington is sad for Long Island music lovers and artists. But don’t worry about the theater’s founders, Michael Rothbard and Kathy Bodily. They’re going to be just fine. Source