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Turkey
Sat, 01 Jun 2013 06:00:00 -0700
New York Times (blog)

Angry Protests Grow in
Turkey
as Police Continue Crackdown
ISTANBUL — Violent protests against the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan engulfed this city on Saturday, as thousands of demonstrators took to the streets and alleyways in a second day of civil unrest and faced the tear gas and water
New York Times (blog)
Turkey 's
building boom unrest conceals fear of corruption
The rapid urbanisation of
Turkey
– and huge growth of Istanbul in the past two decades – has defined the transformation of Turkish society and politics. The continuing migration from rural areas like eastern Anatolia to Istanbul has fuelled the growth
The Guardian
Jean Stapleton
Sat, 01 Jun 2013 15:00:00 -0700
New York Times (blog)

Jean Stapleton , Who Played Archie 's Better Angel, Dies at 90
Jean Stapleton , an actress whose portrayal of a slow-witted, big-hearted and submissive — up to a point — housewife on the groundbreaking series “All in the Family” made her, along with Mary Tyler Moore and Bea Arthur, one of the foremost women in
New York Times (blog)
Jean Stapleton , Edith Bunker on 'All in the Family, ' dies
NEW YORK (AP) —
Jean Stapleton , the stage-trained character actress who played Archie Bunker 's far better half, the sweetly naive Edith, in TV 's groundbreaking 1970s comedy All in the Family, has died. She was 90. Stapleton died Friday of natural
USA TODAY
Houston Fire
Sat, 01 Jun 2013 07:00:00 -0700
ABC News

4 Firefighters Killed in
Houston Fire
Mourned
Anne Sullivan was a gifted athlete filled with energy who came out of high school with a focus on being a firefighter. But about a month after graduating from the
Houston Fire
Department Academy, the 24-year-old was among four firefighters who died
ABC News
Deadliest day in
Houston Fire
Department history
What started as a small restaurant fire - a bit of business faced daily by firefighters everywhere - turned into a motel-engulfing inferno that claimed the lives of four responders from the
Houston Fire
Department when part of the building collapsed on
Houston Chronicle
Miami Heat, NBA Playoffs, Heat, Pacers
Fri, 31 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700
Yahoo! Movies (blog)

Former
All-Star Mookie Blaylock is in critical condition following a car
Mookie Blaylock handles the ball against Michael Jordan in the 1997
Playoffs (Jonathan Daniel/ Getty). One of the most memorable
point guards of the '90s is now fighting for his life. As reported by Alexis Steves of The Atlanta Journal
Yahoo! Movies (blog)
Former
star on life support after Clayton County wreck
The Atlanta Hawks ' Mookie Blaylock cheers his teammates on during the fourth quarter of their playoff game with the Chicago Bulls Thursday, May 8, 1997, in Chicago. Blaylock had 26 points as the Hawks went on to beat the Bulls 103-95 to tie the series
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Tornado, tornado, OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma City tornado, Oklahoma tornadoes
Fri, 31 May 2013 19:00:00 -0700
New York Times

4-year-old swept away by floodwaters in tornado-hit
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
was in the crosshairs of another tornado outbreak on Friday, killing five and injuring more than 50 others. After multiple twisters touched down, the hit areas were struck with high flooding. "This is a shell-shocked city, " said NBC 's Janet
NBCNews.com (blog)
9 dead after tornadoes, floods strike
Oklahoma
Floodwaters topped 4 feet in
Oklahoma
City early Saturday and were expected to rise as flash flooding continued in parts of the state. Across east and central
Oklahoma , repeated rounds of thunderstorms have produced between 4 to 7 inches of rain since
USA TODAY
After Earth
Now You See Me
Fri, 31 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700
New Yorker (blog)

After Earth ' ponders world without humanity
But in
After Earth , which stars Will Smith, the adventure-flick vision of the future without other people looks less ideal. Hidden deep in the "muscular " science-fiction film, says director M. Night Shyamalan, are the lessons of environmental
USA TODAY
After Earth ' Review: Will Smith and son hard to watch in bland, predictable film
Will Smith has become the master of saving the world during summer blockbuster season and it almost seemed – almost – that the Fresh Prince could rescue helmer M. Night Shyamalan from losing even more cache. But with “
After Earth ,” Smith can 't even
Fox News
Mookie Blaylock
Fri, 31 May 2013 18:00:00 -0700

Mookie Blaylock
improves after crash, may face charges
JONESBORO, Ga. — Former NBA All-Star
Mookie Blaylock , one of the best defensive-minded guards of his era, was upgraded to serious condition after an accident Friday in this Atlanta suburb that left one woman dead. Blaylock had been on life support for
USA TODAY
Mookie Blaylock
upgraded to serious
Tags:
Mookie Blaylock
middot;
Mookie
Blaylock
In Critical Condition Following Car Crash. ATLANTA -- Former NBA All-Star guard
Mookie Blaylock
has been upgraded to serious condition a day after his SUV crashed head-on into a van and killed a woman.
Knaidel
Fri, 31 May 2013 06:00:00 -0700
TMZ.com

Famous NYC Deli -- Free
Knaidel
for Spelling Bee Champ
Arvind won the competition by spelling the word "
knaidel " -- which means small mass of leavened dough cooked by boiling water (i.e. a matzoh ball) -- but has reportedly NEVER tried it. TMZ spoke to the Carnegie Deli in NYC -- arguably the most famous
TMZ.com
Knaidel ' for the win (mazol tov!)
But what, exactly, does "
knaidel " mean? And could it also be spelled “kneidel”? Or is it “kneydl”? According to the bee 's official pronouncer, Jacques Bailly, a
knaidel
is “a small mass of leavened dough cooked by boiling water or steaming as with soup.
Yahoo! News
ESPN3
Fri, 31 May 2013 13:00:00 -0700

Watching the Bulldogs battle the Hogs on
ESPN3
Decided to check in on how Bryant was doing in its NCAA baseball tournament debut and will be watching the rest of the way now on
ESPN3 , available online. Peter Kelich, the Bulldogs ' ace senior righthander, threw no-hit ball for four innings against
The Providence Journal
Alexis Wright
Fri, 31 May 2013 11:00:00 -0700
Business Insider

Alexis Wright : Zumba Instructor Sentenced 10 Months For Prostituion
Alexis Wright , 30, sat in a Maine courthouse on May 31, struggling to fight back tears as her trial came to a close. She had just been sentenced to 10 months in jail on counts of prostitution, conspiracy, tax evasion, and theft by deception, among
Hollywood Life
Zumba Instructor at Center of Prostitution Scandal Sentenced to 10 Months In Jail
Sniffling and fighting back tears,
Alexis Wright
said she felt relief when police raided her business on Feb. 12, 2012, because she wanted out. "In my eyes I 'm free. I 'm free from this, " she told the judge. "I have an incredible amount of strength that
People Magazine
Chris Andersen
Fri, 31 May 2013 06:00:00 -0700
SB Nation

Chris 'Birdman
Andersen
suspended for Heat 's Game 6
INDIANAPOLIS — The NBA suspended Miami Heat forward-center
Chris Andersen
for Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals after reviewing his Game 5 incident with Indiana Pacers big man Tyler Hansbrough. "I did look at the tape, and I have no thoughts
USA TODAY
David Stern says
Chris Andersen
should have been ejected for shove on Tyler
Chris Andersen
was called for a technical foul along with a flagrant one for his altercation with Tyler Hansbrough during the Miami Heat 's victory over the Indiana Pacers in Game 5, but NBA commissioner David Stern believes Andersen should have been
SB Nation
Amelia Earhart
Fri, 31 May 2013 10:00:00 -0700

Amelia Earhart
mystery again rises to the surface
(CNN) -- Could search crews be just a few hundred feet from solving a mystery that has riveted millions for 76 years? That 's the question raised by tantalizing evidence published this week by teams trying to find out what happened to famed aviator
Is This Faint Line Below The Sea
Amelia Earhart 's
Plane?
The group that 's been searching for the remains of aviator
Amelia Earhart
and her long-lost plane has released what it calls "exciting ... frustrating ... maddening " evidence of where her Lockheed Electra might be. A sonar image collected last year by
Julius Richard Petri
Thu, 30 May 2013 22:00:00 -0700
EducationGuardian.co.uk

Julius Richard Petri : Google Doodle honours Petri dish inventor
Google has celebrated the birth of the inventor of the petri dish,
Julius Richard Petri , who was born on May 31, 1852 with a doodle on its home page. He studied medicine at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Academy for Military Physicians in Berlin and later worked
EducationGuardian.co.uk
Gross, growing Google doodle celebrates
Julius Richard Petri
Ick factor of this Google Doodle aside, the
petri
dish was an ingeniously simple device that allowed researchers to grow and test microbes without contaminating them. The dish works by filling one side of the round, clear glass dish with agar and
Los Angeles Times
Prancercise
Thu, 30 May 2013 17:00:00 -0700
Daily Beast
's
Prancercise 's aware that people think her exercise routine “
Prancercise
” is “goofy,” and that by extension its founder must be “spooky and goofy and weird and wacky. I say bring it on. I love it. Look at all the attention it 's getting me. If I wasn 't all those
Daily Beast "
Prancercise " takes Web by storm, but is the exercise effective? "
Prancercise " is sweeping the country, as anyone with an Internet connection may have noticed this week. A video recorded last December that depicts
Prancercise
founder Joanna Rohrback showing off the exercise she created in the 1980s went viral this
CBS News
PGA Tour
Thu, 30 May 2013 13:00:00 -0700
USA TODAY (blog)


PGA Tour
career
Tiger Woods begins his 301st
PGA Tour
event Thursday at the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village, three weeks after collecting his 78th career
PGA Tour
victory at The Players Championship, and the world No. 1 is tantalizingly close to yet another
USA TODAY (blog)
Haas out front at The Memorial
Woods has never won a
PGA Tour
event from 10 shots behind going into the weekend. He won at Torrey Pines in 1999 when he was nine shots behind Ted Tryba. Woods has never made up more than a six-shot deficit on the weekend at Muirfield Village.
CBSSports.com
Grumpy Cat
Thu, 30 May 2013 17:00:00 -0700
New York Daily News

Grumpy Cat
lands film deal
But first, the famous cat is heading to New York this week to promote her new book,
Grumpy Cat : A Grumpy Book: Disgruntled Tips and Activities Designed to Put a Frown on Your Face at BookExpo America, the publishing industry convention.
USA TODAY
Grumpy Cat
Goes from Meme to Movie
Grumpy Cat
–the king of the internet cat meme – is breaking off from the computer screen and heading to the silver screen.
Grumpy Cat 's
agent has sold a one-picture deal for a Garfield-like feature film in which
Grumpy Cat , whose real name is Tardar
Boston Strong concert
Thu, 30 May 2013 18:00:00 -0700
Billboard

Boston Strong concert
for the One Fund
Don Law, president of Live Nation New England and the man who pulled the “
Boston Strong
concert
together, was widely hailed for organizing a major concert in only a few weeks, including lining up the artists, getting them hotel rooms, and securing TD
Boston Globe
Boston Strong Concert
A benefit
concert
Thursday for victims of the deadly
Boston
Marathon bombing featured performances by Aerosmith, the Dropkick Murphys,
Boston , New Kids on the Block, and James Taylor and Carole King.
Concert
proceeds from the sold-out, 5½-hour
Washington Post
John Tortorella
Thu, 30 May 2013 10:00:00 -0700
Christian Science Monitor

Did player mutiny lead to Rangers firing
John Tortorella
When asked what the reason why
John Tortorella
was fired as coach of the New York Rangers, GM Glen Sather didn 't say much other than to say there wasn 't any one particular thing. That 's because he couldn 't say the players told him to. If there is any
CBSSports.com
John Tortorella
fired: Who will replace him?
The Rangers have fired coach
John Tortorella , four days after New York was eliminated from the Stanley Cup playoffs. Skip to next paragraph. Related stories. NHL to return to the ice: Take our pro hockey quiz
middot; 20 most obscure team nicknames in pro
Christian Science Monitor
The Voice
Adam Levine
Wed, 29 May 2013 08:00:00 -0700
CBS News

The Voice ' goes country again -- Why last night 's eliminations could be the
After last night,
The Voice
is officially on it 's way to the Top 6 and quickly falling into the all-too-familiar pattern of last season. With the shocking elimination of Team Adam 's Sarah Simmons and Judith Hill — both of whom my colleague Adam
Entertainment Weekly
Adam Levine explains "I hate this country " remark "Being a part of
The Voice ' I am passionately invested in my team and want to see my artists succeed, " Levine added. "Last night 's elimination of Judith and Sarah was confusing and downright emotional for me and my comments were made based on my
CBS News
Miranda Lambert
Blake Shelton, Healing In The Heartland, Usher
Wed, 29 May 2013 19:00:00 -0700
Us Magazine

Miranda Lambert
Tears Up During Oklahoma Benefit Concert
Tears for a good cause! After a moving introduction by husband Blake Shelton on Wednesday, May 29,
Miranda Lambert
fought back tears while singing on stage at the Healing in the Heartland: Relief Benefit Concert for the victims of May 20 tornado that
Us Magazine
VIDEO:
Miranda Lambert 's
Tears At 'Healing In The Heartland
Singing star
Miranda Lambert 's
tears, though, are worth some special attention. NBC News has video showing how she struggled to get through her hit "The House That Built Me. " As EW.com PopWatch blogger Annie Barrett wrote early Thursday, after seeing