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  • Toyota was supposed to launch a new version of its Prius hybrid car Friday in Japan. But some buyers will have to wait until next year for delivery, because of shortages of a new battery. The shortage is the result of production delays caused by the March earthquake and tsunami.
  • A video on YouTube shows a man dressed as Batman putting up his dukes. Unfortunately for the caped crusader, a tourist throws multiple punches at him, and then picks up Batman and body-slams him before walking off.
  • Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has a well known problem in his bid for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination — the health care plan he passed as governor. But Jay Cost of The Weekly Standard argues that Romeny's problem isn't health care, it's a historical, geographic split in the Republican Party.
  • The U.S. goal should be stability and that might mean giving the Taliban control or influence in the southern part of the country, Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) says. President Obama is known to listen to the influential senator.
  • In 1944 Recy Taylor was abducted and assaulted by seven men in her rural Alabama town. It was part of a pattern of sexual violence toward black women at the time. This March the town passed a resolution formally apologizing to Taylor. Cynthia Gordy of The Root argues, it's about time.
  • Grey makes his first visit to Mountain Stage to perform a four-song, stripped-down acoustic set.
  • One big win for the GOP in November, apart from the House, were state governments. Now many states are passing conservative legislation such as tax decreases. The editors of The Nation argue that a backlash against these Republican-controlled state governments is spreading all over the country.
  • The conservative broadcaster thought it was funny to pretend he was vomiting as he watched her public service ad about skin cancer. Thanks for calling attention to the issue, McCain tells Beck, but fat jokes and vomit gags are just stupid.
  • Watch this bittersweet story song by the talented Amanda Shires set to "paper doll animation"
  • Strauss wasn't the only composer to take on the story of Salome--and Massenet's version was denounced as "incendiary" by the director of the Paris Opera.
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