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    The Week In Pictures

    Slideshow • ISSUE 47•41 • Oct 19, 2011
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    • New Bipartisan Law Would Make Dog Neckerchiefs Mandatory

      WASHINGTON—Cutting short its Columbus Day recess, Congress held a special emergency session this weekend to push through comprehensive legislation requiring every dog in the United States to wear a neckerchief, with both parties hailing the outcome as a "major step forward for the nation" and "downright adorable."
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    • U.S. Back On Top As Gas Prices Drop Slightly

      WASHINGTON—With gasoline prices dropping a full 26 cents from where they were a month ago, a new era of confidence and hope washed over Americans this week, confirming the United States is once again the greatest nation in the world.
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    • Actor Sometimes Feels Silly Pretending To Be Someone Else

      MALIBU, CA—Calling the process of acting as though you are someone you are not a "pretty ridiculous thing to do," actor Ed Harris, 60, admitted to reporters Tuesday that he frequently feels silly pretending to be another person.
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    • Report: All The Good Seashells Taken

      CORAL GABLES, FL—According to a report released Monday by a group of environmental researchers, all the good seashells worth picking up and bringing home have already been taken, a development that threatens the very future of shell collection regionally.
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    • Nation's Sports Fans Demand To Spend $21.99 On Something

      UNITED STATES—In cities across the nation, thousands of sports fans rallied together this weekend to demand the world provide them with something to purchase for $21.99, ideally something that would offer immediate enjoyment in addition to providing long-term keepsake value.
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    • Bowling Birthday Party Enters 5th Agonizing Hour

      MANCHESTER, CT—According to bored and increasingly irritated sources currently sitting at lane 8 of Manchester Family Bowl, Nick Morwood’s fourteenth birthday party has now dragged on into a fifth excruciating hour.
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    • Saudi Women Receive Husbands' Explicit Permission To Celebrate Right To Vote

      RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA—In the wake of the watershed decision granting them the right to vote in the 2015 elections, Saudi women have received their husbands' explicit consent to rejoice, sources reported Wednesday.
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    • Fans Of Victorious Nobel Laureates Riot In Stockholm

      STOCKHOLM—The annual announcement of Nobel Prize winners was once again marred by vandalism this year, with triumphant fans of the 2011 laureates mobbing Stockholm streets last week, breaking shop windows and setting bonfires as they celebrated rema...
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    • Man Receives First Baboon-Face Transplant

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    • Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

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    • Apple Announces Plans To Release Steve Jobs 2 (Full coverage Tues 10/9c only on IFC)

      Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that in 2012 the company will release the Steve Jobs 2, an updated version of the revolutionary Apple founder featuring a richer, deeper voice and a sleek new white turtleneck.
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