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1. Is Apple iPhone slower than Google’s Android?
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... Google has said it designed the desktop version of its Chrome browser in part because it felt that older browsers deal with JavaScript and other rich Web content inefficiently, and the improvements it ...

2. Gene Atkins: A discarded and disabled former football player forgotten in the NFL lockout
(Sports/Professional)

... gives him in SSI and Medicare benefits. "In 2007 Gene was diagnosed with post-concussion syndrome by Dr. Robert Cantu yet the NFL owners have fought hard to deny him," Dahl said. In 2008, a Seattle ...

3. What are the Ides of March and why should we be wary of them?
(Life/Style)

... day of the remaining months. The Ides of March celebrated the god Mars with a military parade. Jennifer Vernon of National Geographic News has written that everything changed in Rome after Caesar’s assassination. ...

4. NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour next up for ambitious final mission
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... the Launch Pad took six-hours as Kennedy Space workers and their families watched. Endeavor will launch on April 19, and tote the $2 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) particle detector, which has ...

5. Skiing in the Austrian Alps: Culture, copters and the birthplace of ‘Silent Night’
(Sports/Professional)

... into hundreds of languages, it is sung by untold millions every December from small churches in the Andes to great cathedrals in Antwerp and Rome. Mohr wrote the words when he was a young priest. Some ...

6. NKBA survey reveals 2011 trends in kitchen and bath design
(Life/Style)

...  4. Fixed on faucets. The most popular finish for the faucet fixtures is satin nickel closely followed by bronze, oil-rubbed bronze and polished chrome or nickel. Given the slumping economy and sluggish ...

7. Return of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
(Life/Style)

... into the East River, I reminisce about what this final Friday afternoon will leave behind. There will be no more lunches along the promenade in Battery Park, no street concerts at Bowling Green, no more ...

8. ‘The Five Greatest Movies Ever Made’
(Entertainment/Movies)

... original – and the original no longer shines as brightly. Older gangster movies are competing against the Godfather films. The 1930 Jerome Kern musical film “Sally,” starring Marilyn Miller and with ...

9. Dogs have it better than adoptees in New Jersey
(Opinion/Commentary)

... Jonathan, then 14, had been diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, a congenital abnormality of the heart. WPW can be fatal. Although the risk of sudden death was small, the doctor told us that ...

10. 2011 Honda Accord review: Packs a lot for the price
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... more for drag racing than snow plodding. But errands could not wait. I slid the chrome and leather gear shift into first, popped Sly Stone's Hot Fun in the Summertime into the six-disc CD player ...

11. Yes, Snooki and ‘Jersey Shore’ to film in Italy
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Situation check out The Sistine Chapel? Will the cast have an audience with the Pope? Most of the beaches in Italy are topless. Will it be JWoww WOOWWWWW? I visited Italy once, and I went to Rome, ...

12. Bishop moves out caused by lack of Trenton Accountibility
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... His Excellency for bowing to instant gratification while Rome burns (okay, Trenton burns) but who is holding the match? It's not the Church I can assure you of that. Trenton is blood deep in gangs, crime ...

13. JUMBO
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

Actually, the 1962 film of JUMBO is not a completely different story, but a new script and treatment of the same story. It is still a Romeo and Juliet love story between to rival circuses and much improved ...

14. ‘Spider-Man’ way back when: ‘Jumbo’
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Orchestra, a real elephant (plus 500 other animals) and a 100-member company of Broadway artistes and circus performers. The mammoth 4,500-seat Hippodrome, located at 43rd Street and Sixth Avenue, was ...

15. REVIEW: ‘Cymbeline’ gets a keen showing
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Imogen, whose commoner husband Posthumus is exiled to Rome and duped into believing she's untrue. Quitting the castle of her dotty royal dad Cymbeline and evil queen stepmother, pursued by the doltish ...

16. The rise and fall of Fidelity Magellan
(Money/Economy)

... lesson, beware the Icarus syndrome. If you're continually going to fly close to the sun, the wax in your wings may melt and down you will go. To beat an index fund, you have to turn your back on the ...

17. New Jersey might have shot at New Orleans Hornets when N.J. Nets move
(Sports/Professional)

... the problem. Corporate support. Neither the Nets nor the Devils have been able to get a high level of support (if attendance figures are a true barometer) of corporate backing over the decades that the ...

18. Autism study linked to childhood vaccines called a ‘fraud’
(Health/Healthquest)

... 14 states found an average of 6.6 of every 1,000 8-year-olds in 2002 had autism or a related disorder like Asperger's syndrome. In New Jersey, the number was 10.6 in 1,000. Among boys in New Jersey, 16.8 ...

19. Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe review: Luxury with performance
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... on the console and doors is polished mahogany offset by thick, cream colored leather interrupted by chrome dials. The grain in the mahogany panels is bookend matched, something you find in high end, hand-crafted ...

20. A year in New Jersey’s Dismal Swamp
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... white-nose syndrome. Now, another new year begins. I can't wait to see what it brings to the Dismal Swamp. David Wheeler's book, "Wild New Jersey: Nature Adventures in the Garden State," will be published ...