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News Bits: The Air is a Warm, Wet Washcloth
- Al Gore unveiled the beginning of a $300 million ad campaign against global warming last night.
- Out of 50 largest cities in the US, seventeen of them graduate less than 50 percent of their high school students every year.
- Special secret divisions of the armed forces have funny Boy Scout-y arm patches.
- Olympic athletes weigh whether to let sponsorship money shut them up about Darfur in China. Most choose to keep mum.
- Yahoo spawns a lady Yahoo.
- Woody Allen sues American Apparel after they put him up on billboards without telling him. Fine, so long as the price of our girl-cut Ts doesn't skyrocket.
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