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  • Kathy Reichs, a forensic anthropologist, is the author of the books that inspired the Fox TV series Bones. Her latest novel kicks off with a gruesome discovery: a body stashed in a drum full of asphalt and tossed in a landfill at a North Carolina speedway.
  • Host Laura Sullivan speaks to ESPN Magazine writer Ryan McGee about the latest trend in NASCAR: tandem racing, a technique in which two cars are able to race as a team, much like bikers do in the Tour de France — but it's increasingly controversial among drivers and fans.
  • Comparisons can be drawn between the former Apple CEO and other great innovators like Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, both technological titans in American history.
  • The Irish rockabilly singer says that starting her career meant ignoring the dispiriting advice of the record companies she was hoping to impress.
  • Although the economy has been growing since mid-2009, the pace has been too slow to absorb the nearly 14 million people without jobs. Today, 46 million Americans receive the federal government's help when buying food, which is roughly 15 percent of the population.
  • New Jersey's Gov. Chris Christie on Friday announced mandatory evacuations for his state's coastal residents as Hurricane Irene approached. He said this weekend was not the time to get dinner in Atlantic City, but the Ducktown Tavern in Atlantic City is intent on staying open.
  • Director John Madden says he likes his audience to "do a little bit of work" when they watch his films. His latest, The Debt, chronicles a group of young Israeli Mossad agents in the 1960s whose mission is to track down and capture a Nazi war criminal.
  • By most accounts, New York City dodged a bullet. There were some dramatic and also some fun moments as Irene made landfall.
  • On Friday night, Kevin Boyer was at Ventnor City Beach near Atlantic City with some buddies. They'd just bought a bunch of beer — Yuengling and Miller Lite. But when it looked like Hurricane Irene was going to be pretty serious, he decided to ride the storm out at home, with his parents, who live a block from the beach. They drank his dad's scotch, instead.
  • Actress and activist Mia Farrow recently visited a refugee camp in Kenya that is sheltering almost a half a million Somalis — with more arriving every day — who have escaped war and the famine that is ravaging the Horn of Africa.
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