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the_new_york_times_business
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS: Wal-Mart has been compared to this early grocery chain whose name goes back to 2 oceans
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A&P
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love_songs_in_german
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LOVE SONGS IN GERMAN: The Captain & Tennille:<br />"Liebe Halt Uns Zusammen"
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"Love Will Keep Us Together"
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first_in_our_hearts
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FIRST IN OUR HEARTS: The first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was made by this Italian-American physicist in 1942
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Fermi
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it's_not_alex_trebek
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IT'S NOT ALEX TREBEK: Despite the uncanny resemblance in the photo seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-05-11_J_16.jpg" target="_blank">here</a>, it's actually <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-05-11_J_16a.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> Russian born in 1870
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Lenin
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science_briefs
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SCIENCE BRIEFS: Conceived around 1686, "G" is known as this man's constant
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Newton
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rated_"r"
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RATED "R": (<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-05-11_J_08.jpg" target="_blank">Kelly of the Clue Crew works out on a machine in the gym.</a>) I'm doing exercises to strengthen this group of four shoulder muscles; damaging it could be deadly for my pitching career
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the rotator cuff
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the_new_york_times_business
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS: This oil company with record profits of $36 billion in 2005 appears to have a gradual liquidity strategy
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ExxonMobil
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love_songs_in_german
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LOVE SONGS IN GERMAN: Stevie Wonder:<br />"Sie Sind Der Sonnenschein Meines Lebens"
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"You Are The Sunshine Of My Life"
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first_in_our_hearts
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FIRST IN OUR HEARTS: The first of these cast for a woman was Roger MacBride's, going to 1972 Libertarian V.P. candidate Theodora Nathan
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an Electoral College vote
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it's_not_alex_trebek
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IT'S NOT ALEX TREBEK: It's not me in <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-05-11_J_17.jpg" target="_blank">the photo</a> but <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-05-11_J_17a.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> man, who was second in his class at West Point in 1829
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Robert E. Lee
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science_briefs
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SCIENCE BRIEFS: This symbol for the element mercury is downright Wellsian
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Hg
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rated_"r"
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RATED "R": Sculptor Constantin Brancusi was born in this Eastern European nation
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Romania
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the_new_york_times_business
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS: A Times writer's "Scandalot" featured Maurice Greenberg, who resigned as CEO of this insurance giant
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AIG
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love_songs_in_german
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LOVE SONGS IN GERMAN: Joe Cocker:<br />"Sie Sind So Schon"
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"You Are So Beautiful"
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first_in_our_hearts
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FIRST IN OUR HEARTS: Having no reeds, pipes or vibrating parts, this man's 1935 organ was the first of its kind
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(Laurens) Hammond
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it's_not_alex_trebek
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IT'S NOT ALEX TREBEK: It's not me seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-05-11_J_18.jpg" target="_blank">here</a>, it's <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-05-11_J_18a.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> World War II-era British politician
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Neville Chamberlain
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science_briefs
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SCIENCE BRIEFS: The unit of magnetic flux density, abbreviated "T", is named for this scientist
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(Nikola) Tesla
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rated_"r"
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RATED "R": (<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-05-11_J_10.jpg" target="_blank">Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from in front of a statue in West Point, NY.</a>) West Point cadets struggling academically come to spin <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-05-11_J_10a.jpg" target="_blank">these</a> on General Sedwig's spurs for better luck
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the rowls
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world_capitals
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WORLD CAPITALS: It's served by Keflavik airport
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Reykjavik
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off-broadway
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OFF-BROADWAY: This Baldwin brother was extremely entertaining in the 2006 revival of "Entertaining Mr. Sloane"
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Alec Baldwin
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riddle_me_this
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RIDDLE ME THIS: He used the strength of his mind when he proposed a riddle to the Philistines in Judges 14
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Samson
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"t"_birds
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"T" BIRDS: Common species of this duck include blue-winged, green-winged & cinnamon
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the teal
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authors_in_their_youth
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AUTHORS IN THEIR YOUTH: As a child, Joseph Conrad pointed to the center of this continent on a map & said, "I shall go there"
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Africa
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quotations
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QUOTATIONS: In 1981 he quipped, "You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans"
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Ronald Reagan
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world_capitals
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WORLD CAPITALS: It has a museum devoted to composer Zoltan Kodaly
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Budapest
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off-broadway
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OFF-BROADWAY: "Red Light Winter" centers on a love triangle that begins in the famous Red Light District of this European city
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Amsterdam
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riddle_me_this
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RIDDLE ME THIS: Sphinx: What animal walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 at noon & 3 in the evening? Oedipus: This
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man
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"t"_birds
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"T" BIRDS: Toco, the largest species of this colorful bird of the American tropics, may have a 7-inch bill
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a toucan
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authors_in_their_youth
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AUTHORS IN THEIR YOUTH: Poet Gregory Corso went on the beat path after meeting this poet in a Greenwich Village bar in 1950
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Allen Ginsberg
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quotations
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QUOTATIONS: In his prime this athlete said, It's hard to be humble "when you're as great as I am"
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Muhammad Ali
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world_capitals
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WORLD CAPITALS: It's home to the Holmenkollen ski jump
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Oslo
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off-broadway
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OFF-BROADWAY: We'd like to "enlighten" you about the musical "Sidd"; it's based on this novel
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Siddhartha
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riddle_me_this
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RIDDLE ME THIS: He created the musical riddles called the "Enigma Variations"
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(Edward) Elgar
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"t"_birds
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"T" BIRDS: One species of this bird breeds in the Arctic tundra & "vacations" at the other end of the globe
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a tern
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authors_in_their_youth
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AUTHORS IN THEIR YOUTH: In his teens he worked in an assistant D.A.'s office; later his Perry Mason character made fools of D.A.s
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(Erle Stanley) Gardner
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quotations
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QUOTATIONS: Oscar Wilde called this 4-letter word "the curse of the drinking classes"
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work
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world_capitals
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WORLD CAPITALS: Guyanese capital named for a Hanoverian monarch
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Georgetown
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off-broadway
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OFF-BROADWAY: A naughty 18th c. novel originally titled "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" inspired the 2006 musical named for her
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Fanny Hill
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riddle_me_this
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RIDDLE ME THIS: If this riddling Belgian surrealist painter, born 1898 worked for "Jeopardy!", he might write, "This is not a clue"
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Magritte
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"t"_birds
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"T" BIRDS: Nightingales & robins belong to this family of melodious songbirds
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thrushes
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authors_in_their_youth
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AUTHORS IN THEIR YOUTH: Her hotsy-totsy diaries trace back to one she began as an 11-year-old aboard ship in 1914
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Anaïs Nin
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quotations
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QUOTATIONS: A motto of hers was "in politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman"
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(Margaret) Thatcher
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world_capitals
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WORLD CAPITALS: It's on the Suriname River
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Paramaribo
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off-broadway
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OFF-BROADWAY: In 2006 the cast of this long-running hit embarked on <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-05-11_DJ_26.wmv">an exuberant & noisy campaign</a> to clean up New York City
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Stomp
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riddle_me_this
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RIDDLE ME THIS: This Puccini opera turns on the solution to 3 riddles posed by the heroine
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Turandot
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"t"_birds
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"T" BIRDS: In North America this term is properly applied to only 4 species that are crested, including the tufted
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a titmouse
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authors_in_their_youth
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AUTHORS IN THEIR YOUTH: In Penny Lane, where this "Hellraiser" grew up, the barber shaves another customer--then flays him alive!
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Clive Barker
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quotations
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QUOTATIONS: From Ft. Sill, Okla. he made the plea, Arizona is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to... return"
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Geronimo
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historic_names
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HISTORIC NAMES: A silent movie title includes the last name of this 18th c. statesman & favorite of Catherine the Great
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Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin
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