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5:11am

Mon April 4, 2011
Television

Addict TV: Collapse, Redemption On Many Channels

Addiction is the problem of our time, according to Dr. Drew Pinsky. It's certainly been big business for him. He's built a TV empire around shows such as VH1's Celebrity Rehab and Sober House. He's starting a new series tonight on HLN (the network once known as CNN Headline News). Also tonight, A&E debuts Relapse, a spin off from one of its popular addiction series, Intervention.

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5:09am

Mon April 4, 2011
Books

Life 'In The Plex': The Future Of Google

Google is getting a new CEO: Larry Page — who who co-founded Google as a young Stanford postgraduate and was briefly CEO before handing the position to the more experienced manager, Eric Schmidt — is now taking the reins. Although Page has remained a key decision-maker, he is taking the lead of a company that is very different from the one he helped found 13 years ago.

Page once said: "Google is not a conventional company, and we do not intend to become one." But it's now a public company with more than 20,000 employees, making tens of billions of dollars.

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10:11am

Sun April 3, 2011
Commentary

800-273-TALK: The One Number Everyone Should Know

Credit suicidepreventionlifeline.org

Suicide is a difficult topic to discuss. That’s exactly why KUNC commentator Dr. Marc Ringel is talking about it.

  

In 35 years of family practice only two of my active patients committed suicide:  a young man in his thirties who’d suffered brain damage in a motorcycle wreck and lost his health, job, family and self-respect; and a woman in her forties who had a severe personality disorder and endless complications, some real and some imagined, of a major surgery.

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8:04am

Fri April 1, 2011
Around the Nation

N.Y. Library To Hold All-Night Scavenger Hunt

Want to pull an all-nighter at the New York Public Library? In May, the Manhattan library will have an all-night scavenger hunt to celebrate its centennial. A legendary gamer has created the clues with creepy treasures to find.

8:01am

Fri April 1, 2011
Strange News

Toxic Waste Candy Lives Up To Its Name

The candy is called Toxic Waste, and for the second time this year, the FDA has found the company's sweets to actually be toxic. First it was the Nuclear Sludge Chew Bars. Now it's their Short Circuits bubble gum.

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