My News Roundups
Short summaries of the top global news. Lilia Fetini has contributed 12, including:
Mad Men makes for Happy Smokers
An experiment carried out by Dartmouth University scanned 17 non smokers’ and 17 smokers’ brains while they were watching the show” Mad Men”, in which smoking is heavily featured, and found that the areas of the brain that focus on coordinating and planni
Florida lives up to it’s “Sunshine State” status
Snowfall has touched every state in the continental U.S with the exception of Florida.
“Birthers” Aborted
The “Birthers,” a movement that has been trying to prove that Obama was not in the born in the United States and is therefore not eligible to be president, has had their suit in the Supreme Court rejected.
'ObamaCare' deemed unconstitutional by Virginia judge
ObamaCare (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act), which mandates that everyone have health insurance, has been ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge in Virginia.
Harry Potter does magically well in the box office
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 1) premiered November 19, and in the past three days grossed around 125.1 million dollars, making it the sixth best movie debut ever in North America.
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