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1. Planned Parenthood’s abortion business shouldn’t be funded by New Jersey taxpayers
(Opinion/Commentary)

... money is fungible; providing funding to Planned Parenthood effectively underwrites its abortion business. A recent former director of a Texas Planned Parenthood, Abby Johnson, explained it very clearly ...

2. ‘Bottom of the World’ looks flat
(Entertainment/Movies)

... time Thurber attempts a gentler, less realistic style of play meant to indirectly meld contrasting stories. A young woman in the city, Abby (Crystal A. Dickinson) is coping badly with the untimely death ...

3. Abby Sunderland, 16, found on sailboat in Indian Ocean
(World/International)

BY TERRY WING VOA NEWS An American teenager who went missing in the Indian Ocean while attempting a solo voyage around the world has been found safe. The family of Abby Sunderland, 16, said a search ...

4. ‘Please Give' a film for those interested in people
(Entertainment/Movies)

... works to befriend Andra, and her granddaughters. Alex, the smooth, dry Oliver Platt, indulges his wife out of habit. But their teen daughter Abby (Sarah Steele), whose goals are eliminating zits and acquiring ...

5. Dianne Wiest flits amid ‘The Forest’
(Entertainment/Movies)

... of a loudmouth tradesman (Sam Tsoutsouvas) but that's a nyet without a dowry. Into this seething household swaggers Raisa's long-lost nephew (John Douglas Thompson), a shabby vagabond tragedian pretending ...

6. ‘The Glass Menagerie’ glows anew in an exceptional staging
(Entertainment/Movies)

... of a playwright able to create art from his sorrows. Rather than open directly upon the Wingfield family's shabby apartment in St. Louis, the director locates Tom in a large, sparsely furnished hotel ...

7. ‘Clybourne Park’ surveys how racial attitudes have changed (or not)
(Entertainment/Movies)

... now-shabby house in the predominantly black enclave and plan to demolish it for a McMansion. Representing the community association, a young black couple meets with the newcomers to discuss their concerns ...

8. The best of the decade in New Jersey college basketball
(Sports/Professional)

... stats of 21.4 ppg and 9.8 ppg aren't too shabby either. Neither was being selected 14th overall in the 2001 Draft. C Joakim Noah – Noah makes this team, despite being a native New Yorker, because he ...

9. New Jersey native Daryl Roth, producer of 6 Pulitzer-Prize winning plays, reaches out to kids in ‘Dear Edwina’
(Entertainment/Movies)

... "sweet spot." Roth says it's the kind of show kids will love, while entertaining their parents and grandparents. The show is about Edwina, a young girl who's a sort of budding Dear Abby. She puts on ...

10. ‘Precious’ shows moviegoers how resilient humans can be
(Entertainment/Movies)

... of hope. Only the young girl's fantasies, where she escapes at her darkest moments, are in vivid color. This is the first movie role for Gabby Sidibe who plays Clareece Precious Jones and she is ...

11. NFL Week 7: Game preview for Arizona Cardinals (3-2) at New York Giants (5-1), 8:20 p.m., NBC
(Sports/Professional)

... the Saints rush defense. While the Saints have been said to be unbeatable at home, the Giants are not exactly shabby at the Meadowlands. With Arizona making the trip across the country, and deprived ...

12. Bravo renews ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ for second season
(Entertainment/Movies)

...  "The Real Housewives of D.C." is produced by Half Yard Productions for Bravo. Abby Greensfelder, Sean Gallagher and Rich Calderone serve as executive producers.  ...

13. Flavorful acting sells ‘Superior Donuts’
(Entertainment/Movies)

... done in powdered cinnamon. Opening at the Music Box, Letts' play is an enjoyable character study of a Polish-American guy who runs a crummy donut parlor in a shabby part of Chicago. His day-to-day gone ...

14. Suspect arrested for duct-taping, abandoning cat in Phila.
(U.S./Nation)

... SPCA. "The cat had wandered into his yard," Williamson says of the nearly eight-pound feline. The female tabby was spotted Tuesday, Sept. 22 by the woman in whose North Philadelphia yard she was left. ...

15. Authorities searching for person who duct taped cat
(U.S./Nation)

... short-haired female gray tabby, she's thought to be between 1-2 years old and weighs nearly eight pounds. She hasn't been spayed, though that would happen if she's ultimately adopted out. But for now, ...

16. The Outer Banks: The journey is as wonderful as the destination
(Life/Style)

... always breezy-to-windy, however warm. Think sandy and scrubby, with giant weathered gray shingle houses along the beach. Kind of shabby-chic. As far as flora goes, it's the antithesis of Loveladies, ...

17. The 21 universal truths and rewards of exercise
(Health/Healthquest)

... in the long run. You'll lose the jiggles: Regular exercise tightens flabby arms, legs and waistlines. So wave goodbye to the jiggles with a solid exercise program. You'll increase insulin sensitivity: ...

18. Christie Rampone’s pregnancy secret helped keep Sky Blue FC focused on winning WPS championship
(Sports/Professional)

... and secrets are kept like they are being held by gabby high schoolers, Rampone never had any intention of letting her big announcement make any noise. If it was going to come out that she was three months ...

19. Christie Rampone and Heather O’Reilly named WPS All-Stars
(Sports/Professional)

... Lilly, F, Boston Breakers Heather O'Reilly, M, Sky Blue FC Christine Sinclair, F, FC Gold Pride Hope Solo, GK, Saint Louis Athletica Abby Wambach, F, Washington Freedom Cat Whitehill, D, Washington ...

20. Sky Blue FC’s playoff chances still alive after loss to Washington Freedom
(Sports/Professional)

Abby Wambach connected twice and Lisa De Vanna added a goal as the Washington Freedom clinched third place in the Women's Professional Soccer regular season with a 3-1 victory over Sky Blue FC at the Maryland ...