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1. Sports programming deals will raise your cable TV bill in 2012
(Sports/Professional)

... because of cable television, the once bankrupt Rangers franchise is now swimming in money and in part explains how the Texas franchise was able to submit a more than $50 million bid for Japanese pitcher ...

2. Yankees Spring Training tickets – Yankees look to establish starting rotation
(Sports/Professional)

... the pitching rotation along with their extensive current pitching roster.  Another Japanese pitcher who may be in Girardi's sights is Hiroki Kuroda.  Kuroda was released by the Dodgers at the ...

3. Oyster Creek emergency test postponed due to Hurricane Irene and October snowstorm
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... earthquake and all the power plants were cut off. Hearings in Congress last spring on similarities between the Japanese and American plants’ preparedness revealed that it has long been considered impossible ...

4. Top 10 indie and foreign films of 2011
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Japanese. Indeed, the Japanese soldiers are presented as human beings, but their brutality isn’t glossed over. Deeply affecting presentation of a historical event that most Americans know little about. ...

5. Toyota 2012 Aqua hybrid boasts 83 mpg
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... 12,000 models every month in Japan. The vehicle is billed as achieving a “world-leading fuel efficiency of 35.4 km/L” under a new test cycle administered by the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, ...

6. REVIEW: ‘Maple and Vine’ retreats to the 1950s
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

... of a “mixed-race couple” (Ryn is Japanese-American), Katha eventually becomes so gung-ho 1950s that she urges her neighbors to be less tolerant around them. Always a persuasive actress, Ireland nicely ...

7. REVIEW: 'Happy Hour' may drive you to drink
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

... business associates sharing a motel room and contrasting nights: The horny gent gets stuck at an uncomfortable Japanese restaurant with two rather dull women while the depressed fellow tries to kill himself. ...

8. Entergy Nuclear wants heavier weapons for Indian Point guards
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... of a 767, and the NRC stated that the current fleet of power plants was designed to withstand the crash of a 747. In fact, the video showed the test of crash reconstruction software developed by the Japanese ...

9. Lessons of Fukushima come to Indian Point
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... small delegation of Japanese farmers and the country’s best known anti-nuclear activist, Aileen Mioko Smith, who came to the US to talk to anti-nuclear groups and government officials and present a petition ...

10. ‘Contagion’ movie review, trailer: A medical thriller
(Entertainment/Movies)

... who is (gasp!) not her husband. Perhaps that's why she's sweating. On another plane, a Japanese executive is feeling poorly. A just returned Ukrainian model looks run down. Meanwhile, back in Kowloon, ...

11. Are N.J. nuclear facilities prepared for worst case scenario?
(Opinion/Commentary)

... above ground spent fuel rod storage system. The Japanese reactor had a cement dome over the containment vessel and Oyster Creek does not, possibly making it more at risk if a build up of hydrogen occurs. ...

12. Give Me Liberty (State Park) or Give Me Death (Camden)
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... No real Navy sailor would choose Death (Camden) over Liberty (State Park). It would be the greatest U.S. Navy recruiting tool in history since the Japaneses bombed Pearl Harbor, hands-down. ...

13. REVIEW: Korean 'Hero: The Musical' stirs up history
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

... group of insurgents – who chop off their ring fingers in the opening number to signify their resolve – An Chunggun eventually assassinated a top Japanese official, Ito Hirobumi, who was the governor of ...

14. Photos of Kelly Rowland’s breast slip raise bar on Minaj, Kardashian and Jackson (VIDEO)
(Entertainment/Movies)

... on Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop charts, “Motivation.” The club 4Sixty6 calls itself N.J.’s Vegas. Its web site says: 4Sixty6 has a sunken lounge, piano bar, authentic Japanese nook, Miami VIP cabanas ...

15. The history of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
(Entertainment/Movies)

... It’s the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO), not Israeli, he points out, and Israelis object to that mistake. The orchestra, after all, now includes French, German, American, Italian, and Japanese musicians ...

16. Ten good reasons to buy the Appleseed Fund
(Money/Economy)

... in Japanese equities. NJNR: You think their economy is going to rebound? JS: You don’t need much of a rebound for these stocks to work. You need to separate out the high-quality global companies that ...

17. In movie theaters: ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ review, trailer
(Entertainment/Movies)

... represent a cross-section of citizen-soldier society. Captain America's henchmen include a Brit, a Frenchman, a black guy, a more-or-less Japanese warrior and one fellow in a derby who was either too late ...

18. New Jersey in natural fight against insects and weeds
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... of Agriculture began developing biological pest control programs in the 1920s, beginning with the Japanese beetle. The savings can be huge. In 1987, for example, an estimated $1 million in research costs ...

19. A naughty thought about U.S. corporate stock buybacks
(Opinion/Commentary)

... foreigners: Germans (Siemens and Mercedes Benz), Japanese (Toyota and Nissan), Koreans with their American assembly plants and others who have opened up American plants. General Electric, whose president ...

20. Apple COO Tim Cook tested by ‘mother of all backlogs’
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... during the second quarter. But Cook said to PCMag.com, "I wish we could have made a lot more iPad 2s, because there were a lot of people waiting for them.” Cook also said the Japanese earthquake had ...