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1. Nutley Rotary, community, Assemblyman Scalera team up to aid Panamanian infant with heart defect
(Health/Healthquest)

A 7-month-old baby from Panama will arrive Thursday at Newark Liberty International Airport for lifesaving heart surgery after the Nutley Rotary Club with help from Assemblyman Fred Scalera (D-Essex) and ...

2. The Jersey Winter 2010 mindset: Can we still find calm after all these storms?
(Life/Style)

... still been ice in that parking lot. At this writing, things have thawed a lot. I find myself being twice as careful on the slippery highways this winter. I might arrive at my destination a half hour or ...

3. Hudson County Assembly members to hold public hearing on ways to improve New Jersey
(N.J./State)

... do not need to register in advance but will be asked to sign in at the door. Speakers will be heard in the order in which they arrive. Anyone who wishes to bring written remarks or documentation is requested ...

4. Gay ‘Boys in the Band’ host their ‘60s party in a real penthouse
(Entertainment/Movies)

... busily sashays around his pad, switching on lamps and setting out the cracked crab. Soon his eight guests begin to arrive and the festivities get going. Quite an outspoken sensation during the pre-Stonewall ...

5. Time for New Jersey to be counted for 2010 Census
(N.J./State)

... by March 2011. He said New Jerseyans will receive a letter about March 9 informing them questionnaires will soon arrive in the mail. He said they will receive postcards about March 23 urging them to complete ...

6. Deserving films that never won Oscars
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Again, two. "Rules of the Game" and "Citizen Kane." Some worthy films of the past were overlooked because they happened to arrive before the Academy began giving out awards, in 1929. (Like Charlie Chaplin's ...

7. Sex and Consequences: The giant condom and the SI swimsuit issue
(Life/Style)

... issue, which arrived in yesterday's mail and again had me thinking of summer. The issue transported me to beautiful, sun-drenched beaches – and even a glacier or two – on continents all over the world ...

8. The stimulus one year later
(U.S./Nation)

... and the rising burden of public debt. The new jobs Democrats promised still haven't arrived, and while the recovery should finally produce job growth this year, Americans know they have received little ...

9. New Jersey’s Meryl Streep a ‘once in a generation’ actor
(Entertainment/Movies)

... and acclaim that continues for her ability to do accents. Her first Oscar arrived for the 1979 custody battle film "Kramer vs. Kramer". Streep plays Joanna, a mother who chooses to give up custody of ...

10. New Jerseyans comment on Christie's budget cuts
(N.J./State)

... of the state problem. We get it,'' Devereaux said. "We have been wondering when the big one would arrive. This is it. We know, we understand, we get it.'' Devereaux said cutting aid to districts that ...

11. Bag tax has arrived
(Money/Economy)

BY REBECCA WARD VOA NEWS WASHINGTON DC — Washington's Anacostia River is filthy. Litter collects on its shores and plastic bags float in its current. Known as the District of Columbia's "forgotten ...

12. N.J. medical volunteers heading to Uganda to treat orphans
(World/International)

... from Bay Head, N.J. When the group arrives at the Mbiriizi Advanced Primary and Day Care School, a school 40 miles away from the nearest health facility, they will have with them donated supplies, such ...

13. Carl Golden: Raising gasoline tax would benefit New Jersey
(Opinion/Commentary)

... at the ‘Jersey Shore' Expect Tiger Woods to emerge stronger, smarter, humbler Day of reckoning has arrived for both Christie and N.J. Tiger Woods foolishly following lawyer/agent PR playbook  ...

14. Bill Clinton’s heart surgeon says procedure went ‘very smoothly’
(U.S./Nation)

BY MARGARET BESHEER VOA NEWS NEW YORK — Former U.S. President Bill Clinton arrived at his suburban New York home early Friday morning following an overnight stay in a city hospital where he had a procedure ...

15. Carl Golden: So much for Gov. Christie’s New Jersey bipartisan express
(Opinion/Commentary)

...  Day of reckoning has arrived for both Christie and N.J. Tiger Woods foolishly following lawyer/agent PR playbook Sweeney's first act as N.J. Senate President-elect angers same-sex proponents within ...

16. New Jersey celebrates the Chinese Year of the Tiger
(Entertainment/Movies)

... to arrive at the Pacific to find Asians holding jobs. Over the coming decades, racism grew into a wave of ethnic clearances from California to British Columbia. One businessman advised his son to "go back ...

17. Journey to Africa: Uganda, Rwanda … and in search of mountain gorillas
(Life/Style)

... eight volcanoes, one of which has just erupted. We won't know until we arrive how the falling ash and lava flows have affected the gorillas, chimpanzees and other animals of Virunga, or how they might ...

18. New Jersey’s great expectations of Chris Christie
(Opinion/Commentary)

... to "defy expectations." There's no doubt that Christie has signaled a new day has arrived. Clearly, he's ready to force a morbid bureaucracy to conduct a self-examination and find cures for what ails ...

19. Oprah Winfrey’s words of wisdom about sex
(Life/Style)

... Peter Orszag On John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage after N.J.'s same-sex marriage vote Some good/bad news about sexuality as 2010 arrives From N.J. to D.C.: How — and why — I lobbied to stop ...

20. In Bergen where Italian restaurants are a dime a dozen, Amarone Ristorante stands out
(Life/Style)

... the entrees. Portions were generous and satisfying. Since my companion happened to slip that it was my special day – a lovely surprise awaited me at the end of the meal. Team members arrived singing ...