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• Designers lend their glamour to Obama campaign

  Tuesday, Feb 7, 8:00 pm

  Can President Barack Obama's campaign recapture the glamour quotient of four years ago? Read more...
  
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  Pa. vending machine dispenses 'morning-after' pill

  Tuesday, Feb 7, 5:59 pm

  Students at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania can get the "morning-after" pill by sliding $25 into a vending machine, an idea that has drawn the attention of federal regulators and raised questions about how accessible emergency contraception should be. Read more...
  
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  Zsa Zsa kept behind closed doors at birthday party

  Tuesday, Feb 7, 3:50 pm

  After what felt like an eternity but was actually just a few minutes, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt emerged from a white door into the foyer of the old-fashioned Bel-Air mansion that he shares with his wife of 25 years, former glamour queen Zsa Zsa Gabor. Read more...
  
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  2 more autism-friendly shows planned for Broadway

  Tuesday, Feb 7, 3:10 pm

  Two more autism-friendly performances of Broadway musicals will be offered this spring and fall following the success last year of the first showing of a Broadway show specially altered for those diagnosed with the disorder. Read more...
  

• Publisher John Sargent Sr. dies in NYC at age 87

  Tuesday, Feb 7, 2:36 pm

  John Turner Sargent Sr., a publisher, editor and socialite who as CEO of Doubleday worked with authors from Dwight Eisenhower to Stephen King and helped recruit his friend Jacqueline Kennedy as an editor, died Sunday at age 87. Read more...
  
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  CDC: Bread beats out chips as biggest salt source

  Tuesday, Feb 7, 2:15 pm

  Bread and rolls are the No. 1 source of salt in the American diet, accounting for more than twice as much sodium as salty junk food like potato chips. Read more...
  

• 'Love, Loss and What I Wore' to close in March

  Tuesday, Feb 7, 1:50 pm

  The off-Broadway show "Love, Loss and What I Wore" will end its run March 25 after more than 1,000 performances. Read more...
  
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  Britain marks Charles Dickens' 200th birthday

  Tuesday, Feb 7, 1:38 pm

  He wrote about life in the modern city, with its lawyers and criminals, bankers and urchins, dreamers and clerks. He created characters still known to millions _ Ebenezer Scrooge and Tiny Tim, Pip and Miss Havisham, Fagin and Oliver Twist. And it made him a star, mobbed by fans on both sides of the Atlantic. Read more...
  

• Adam Mars-Jones wins Hatchet Job of the Year award

  Tuesday, Feb 7, 1:19 pm

  A critic who accused a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of scattering literary allusions like "tin cans tied to a tricycle" has won a prize for the year's most lacerating book review. Read more...
  

• CDC: Fewer smokers go to the dentist

  Tuesday, Feb 7, 12:33 pm

  Smokers not only have more problems with their teeth than non-smokers, they also go to the dentist less often. Read more...
  

• E-books by crime writer Jim Thompson coming soon

  Tuesday, Feb 7, 11:27 am

  Novels by acclaimed crime writer Jim Thompson are coming out as e-books. Read more...
  

• Vienna mayor promises redress for malaria victims

  Tuesday, Feb 7, 11:26 am

  Vienna's mayor on Tuesday promised compensation for anyone injected with the parasite that causes malaria after two former foster home children claimed to have been given such shots in the 1960s. Read more...
  

• Blood clot guidelines challenge economy class risk

  Tuesday, Feb 7, 10:25 am

  Good news for budget-minded travelers: There's no proof that flying economy-class increases your chances of dangerous blood clots, according to new guidelines from medical specialists. Read more...
  

• NYC's Times Square gets huge heart for Valentine's

  Tuesday, Feb 7, 10:11 am

  There's a giant red heart in the middle of New York City's Times Square that can measure love's pulse. Read more...
  

• The top iPhone and iPad apps on App Store

  Tuesday, Feb 7, 9:57 am

  App Store Official Charts for the week ending Feb. 6, 2012: Read more...