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27 Jan 2009 10:22

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Culture, Sports: The gender gap: Who watches the Super Bowl?

  • 45.8 million viewers were over 18 and male in 2008. In case you forget, the Giants/Patriots game was the most-watched Super Bowl in history, with over 97 million eyes glued to the tube.
  • 37.7 million viewers were over 18 and female – a percentage of the viewership that’s increased steadily over the last decade. Surprisingly, though, the advertising doesn’t reflect it, according to AdWeek. source
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27 Jan 2009 10:11

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Offbeat: A MP3 player with sensitive U.S. data crops up … in New Zealand?

  • He just wanted to listen to tunes. Chris Ogle, a 29-year-old New Zealand man, came upon the data when putting songs on his new tech toy. “The more I look at it,” Ogle says, “the more I see and the less I think I should be looking.” Most of the files are from 2005 and are unlikely to compromise security, but the files did include things such as social security numbers of troops. If asked, Ogle would give the MP3 player to the U.S. Government. source
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27 Jan 2009 09:27

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U.S.: Rod Blagojevich: He’s too busy with Larry King to testify

The Illinois governor’s private words could come to haunt him. source
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27 Jan 2009 09:19

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Biz: Another goofily-named guy arrested in an alleged Ponzi scheme

  • $400 million, the size of Nicholas Cosmo’s empire source
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27 Jan 2009 09:07

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Offbeat, U.S.: How the doctor handled birthing eight kids

  • My eyes got to be the size of saucers. We just went on and delivered the babies.
  • Dr. Karen Maples • who helped deliver the octet, on her reaction to the last birth • source
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27 Jan 2009 09:03

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Offbeat, U.S.: Mom gives birth to an octet of little ones – really fast

  • eight the number of kids the Bellflower, Calif. mother had – just the second octet in medical history
  • five minutes, the amount of time it took for the mother to give birth to the children (mostly by c-section) source
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