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  • "WHALE" finds a strange patch of common ground between primitivism and production-driven pop.
  • CBS News' Hotsheet blog reported that Speaker John Boehner also missed the debate co-sponsored by Fox News Channel and the South Carolina Republican Party.
  • Pundits said Tim Pawlenty succeeded. But how fine a night could it have been for him when the former Minnesota governor failed to directly say whether he equates creationism with evolution? Or when he had to make an abject apology for once supporting proposals to cap greenhouse gas emissions?
  • Getty Images photographer Chris Hondros was killed while documenting the uprising in eastern Libya on April 20, 2011. These are some of the last photographs he took that day.
  • In John le Carre's latest novel, a young British couple vacationing in Antigua become embroiled in deception and corruption as they try to help a charismatic Russian oligarch escape his mafia past. Our Kind of Traitor debuts at No. 10.
  • This Saturday, comic-book stores worldwide will be giving away comic books ... free. It's called Free Comic Book Day and it's helping comic book stores grow, despite the rise of e-readers.
  • The termite queen may be the mother who makes the ultimate sacrifice for her swarms of children. Isolated in an earthen capsule, she lays more than a quarter-billion eggs in her lifetime. On the eve of Mother's Day, NPR honors this species' story of struggle, rebirth and death below ground.
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  • She says Gibson was her first choice for the role. His humor is balanced by the fact that he "understands struggle from a very personal place and a very thoughtful place." And she says she will continue to support the controversial actor. "I'm not interested in running away from him," she says. "The Mel Gibson that I know, that I've experienced, and that I know intimately — and I think I can probably say you don't know — is an extraordinary man. And no one can take that away."
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