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1. Fossil hunters donate 215 million-year-old specimen to N.J. State Museum
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... ahynis belongs to the Protosauria, a group of aquatic and terrestrial reptiles characterized by long necks. Though some members of this group grew to be 9 feet long, this species only reached about 20 ...

2. N.J. Congressmen Frank Pallone and John Adler face tough elections after health care battle
(Opinion/Commentary)

... to rescue a dependable ally for the future, notwithstanding the Congressman's negative vote on health care. It would play to Runyan's strong suit and enable him to characterize Adler as someone willing ...

3. Frank Sinatra sings while Tharp’s dancers burn through ‘Come Fly Away’
(Entertainment/Movies)

... meant to characterize their changing rivalries or seductions or heartbreaks during a dusk-to-dawn blowout. Incidentally, by the time "Take Five" and "Makin' Whoopee" conjoin, the dancers have stripped ...

4. Teachers are not the problem - so back off! Part 3
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... AM, what time are they leaving for work...try 4:50AM. What time do they get home...6:00 PM...7:00 PM...8:00 PM...yeah, it's not a 6.5 hour job as so many people would love to characterize it as. It's ...

5. Tea party activists are angry, motivated and determine
(U.S./Nation)

... mischaracterize the movement." Madonna's latest poll shows more voters in Pennsylvania were likely (45 percent) than unlikely (34 percent) to vote for a candidate who supports the tea party movement's ...

6. New Jersey’s tale of the two Red Banks
(Life/Style)

... as Dead Bank. Now it is characterized by brick sidewalks and Victorian street lamps, a dining and nightlife scene said by some to rival New York's Greenwich Village. After the food there's antiquing, art ...

7. Electronic devices like iPod fuel demand for conflict minerals in Congo
(World/International)

... trade. The illicit exploitation of natural resources is not a new phenomenon in eastern DRC. It has characterized the conflict since it first erupted in 1996 and has been well documented by non-governmental ...

8. Year of the Tiger
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... reason to be optimistic," Baltzer told reporters Wednesday in Washington. He hopes that the next Year of the Tiger — 12 years from now — will be full of celebration, rather than the anxiety that characterizes ...

9. Arming Taiwan causes trouble between China and U.S.
(World/International)

... tensions," as Freeman characterized them, in the U.S.-China relationship leave some analysts concerned that domestic pressures may be pushing both China and the U.S. to adopt more protective trade policies. ...

10. Ross Baker: President Obama needs to reach the people who matter most
(Opinion/Commentary)

... White House that the presidency is, above all, a therapeutic office. Theodore Roosevelt characterized it as "a bully pulpit" and FDR proclaimed it to be a place of moral leadership. Bill Clinton expressed ...

11. Hope for Haiti with Navy hospital ship on the way
(World/International)

... departure from Baltimore, the Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy, Vice Admiral Adam Robinson, addressed hundreds of camoflauge-clad men and women gathered in the ship's dining hall. He characterized this ...

12. Roughly 900,000 New Jersey Cablevision customers still without Food Network and HGTV
(Entertainment/Movies)

... as recently as Sunday afternoon. "Cablevision is trying to characterize our rate increases as exorbitant and our negotiating strategies as unusual or unethical. "Yet, every other cable and satellite ...

13. Time to attack wasteful spending in New Jersey’s prisons
(Opinion/Commentary)

... reckless, or deliberately mischaracterized it. Some have enjoyed humoring themselves with rants defending the status quo of wasted taxpayer money and wasted lives. But these reforms would be among the ...

14. In search of perfect N.J. holiday Main Street that time forgot ...
(Life/Style)

... mall. But it wasn’t all that long ago that Christmas shopping meant heading down to Main Street. The Main Streets of those times were characterized by a range of stores. They were in towns with real ...

15. Welfare of the people is bottomline for Cuba’s pharmaceutical industry
(World/International)

... start we realized that we were too poor to indulge in competition with each other," said Herrera, who added that as well as integration, the industry is characterized by a "vocation" for applied research ...

16. NFL Week 9: Game preview for San Diego Chargers (4-3) at New York Giants (5-3), Sunday at 4:15 p.m., CBS
(Sports/Professional)

... pass. Even the 17-yard touchdown to Brent Celek could be characterized as a big play. Celek had scored a touchdown two plays earlier that was called back due to a penalty. This did not stop McNabb from ...

17. Mendelssohn: Celebrating his 200th birthday with a talk
(Entertainment/Movies)

... a shrewd critic, Shaw also absurdly characterized Schubert as "brainless.") Mendelssohn certainly was conservative; the composer Hector Berlioz complained that he was "rather too fond of the dead." A ...

18. Neil Simon’s beguiling ‘Brighton Beach Memoirs’ unfolds once more on Broadway
(Entertainment/Movies)

... the siblings finally vent their mutual frustrations. A quiet Dennis Boutsikaris characterizes his understanding, beleaguered husband-father figure with a growing sense of physical exhaustion. Director ...

19. America’s food supply, imported foods vulnerable to terrorism
(U.S./Nation)

... programs. For example, politicians push for vaccinating millions of Americans against what they characterize as a deadly flu epidemic, yet they do not seem concerned over a very real threat to all Americans ...

20. With two weeks to go, poll finds Corzine and Christie in dead heat with Daggett gaining
(N.J./State)

... voters say the governor's race has been largely negative. Only 19 percent would characterize it as positive. Among those who see the race as negative 36 percent say Corzine is the bigger transgressor ...