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1. Apple's iBooks 2 for iPad cuts to the core of textbook industry
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... iTunes U app, which allows free downloads of lectures and other course content,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle. While iBooks Author and iTunes U app may provide an open venue for anyone to ...

2. N.Y. Giants' Eli Manning returns to practice after pesky 'stomach bug' virus
(Sports/Professional)

... and Tuesday looking at film." Giants tight end Jake Ballard said Manning was in obvious discomfort on Wednesday. "He usually toughs things out like that,” Ballard told the San Francisco Chronicle. ...

3. (VIDEO) Peter Dinklage's Golden Globe speech part of big night for little people
(Entertainment/Movies)

... warned him that fellow nominee, Guy Pearce, would beat him out for the Golden Globe. As the laughter subsided, Dinklage, who also starred in the "Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian," then took on ...

4. Fatal shooting of Texas teen Jaime Gonzalez Jr. leaves parents questioning police
(U.S./Nation)

... and killed Wednesday after he pointed a pellet gun at officers and refused to drop it. According to the Houston Chronicle, Brownsville Police Chief Orlando Rodriguez said that when Gonzalez pointed his ...

5. 'War Horse' red carpet premiere at Lincoln Center
(Entertainment/Movies)

... name. Based on Michael Morpurgo’s 1982 novel, the play chronicles a boy’s journey to the Western Front of the First World War after his beloved horse is sold into the cavalry. The play began in 2007 ...

6. ‘Shame’ movie review, trailer: Shocking but not stimulating
(Entertainment/Movies)

Fassbender can’t get no satisfaction. BY NANCY R. MANDELL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM MOVIE REVIEW “Shame” —a film that chronicles in great detail the joylessness of sex —is a movie that has been taken ...

7. States that help smokers beat addiction blow away N.J.
(Health/Healthquest)

... that make them want to smoke, 
• and avoiding slip-ups and relapses. The Augusta Chronicle reported that Georgia came in first on the “least quit-friendly states” list. Second is Louisiana, then Alabama, ...

8. 'Godspell' on Broadway: God, it was a long spell
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

BY LORI SENDER NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM THE MAYBE CHRONICLES The good news is there’s not a bad seat to be had at the Circle in the Square theatre; the bad news is if you leave during intermission it’s ...

9. REVIEW: World War times unfurl in ‘The Blue Flower’
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

Ambitious new musical chronicles a European past with an American flavor BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OFF BROADWAY REVIEW Opening on Wednesday at Second Stage, “The Blue Flower” is ...

10. I want to go to Paris!
(Life/Style)

BY LORI SENDER NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM THE MAYBE CHRONICLES I know in the current economic climate this may sound rather frothy, not to mention irremediably yuppy, but here goes: I want to go to Paris. ...

11. 'A Chorus Line' at Montclair State University is a singular sensation
(Entertainment/Movies)

BY LORI SENDER NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM THE MAYBE CHRONICLES One, singular sensation is going on at Montclair State University in this Broadway-caliber performance of “A Chorus Line,” staring 17 tremendously ...

12. Troy Davis execution case puts pressure on death penalty
(U.S./Nation)

... Associated Press report in the Houston Chronicle, Davis’ sister Martina Correia said, "We're going to keep moving forward. That's what my brother would have wanted us to do.” Off-duty Savannah police ...

13. Irish Festival in Sea Girt: sweet voices, Irish beer, and penny whistles
(Life/Style)

BY LORI SENDER NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM THE MAYBE CHRONICLES The sky was gray, pregnant with heavy, low clouds you could practically reach up and touch, the chill in the air pushing summer firmly out ...

14. Jersey Shore: Bradley Beach is unavailable
(Life/Style)

BY LORI SENDER NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM THE MAYBE CHRONICLES It's 10 a.m. on a Tuesday and no one is answering the phones at Borough Hall, each extension bearing the same message: "Bradley Beach is ...

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

... to editor Lorraine (Monique Gabriela Curnen) at the San Francisco Chronicle. She is skeptical. That's her mistake. "Print media is dead!" Alan yells as he exits the newsroom. He's not entirely wrong. ...

16. ‘Colombiana’ movie review, trailer: Zoe Saldana powers through this revenge fantasy
(Entertainment/Movies)

... eyebrow at its frequent absurdity. You may laugh anyway. But that's quibbling. "Colombiana" is pulse-pounding escapism. This movie would turn serious indeed if it actually chronicled the ongoing murders ...

17. ‘One Day’ movie review, trailer: Anne Hathaway is not a problem for American ears
(Entertainment/Movies)

BY JOE TYRRELL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM MOVIE REVIEW Like the intermittent yet tangled romance it chronicles, the emotional impact of "One Day" often hangs by a thread. Frequently thwarted friends ...

18. Last-minute travel: The Berkshires, Tanglewood, and a few surprises in between
(Life/Style)

BY LORI SENDER NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM THE MAYBE CHRONICLES It’s day two on what has become our annual five-day vacation in the Berkshires in and around Lenox, Mass., and once again I’m reminded how ...

19. The albatross: Our summer rental house in Bradley Beach
(Life/Style)

BY LORI SENDER NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM THE MAYBE CHRONICLES The house is Bradley Beach won’t rent. Not for a week, not for a month, certainly not for the entire summer like it has for the last 14 ...

20. Another 'Baby Boy Marley' for Lauryn Hill amid paternity rumors
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Marley, helped fuel the baby-daddy mystery when he allegedly tweeted a response to questions fielded by a Houston Chronicle reporter saying, “2 things… I’m not married and I don’t have anyone expecting ...