Oscar winner Robert Duvall could be up for that top film award again for his portrayal of a crusty recluse in a quirky drama set in the American south during the Great Economic Depression of the 1930s. Here's a look at Get Low. With his wildly overgr

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Jack looked up, the captain the professor and the crew memberwere all gazing out of the side silently down the water. Henry gavecaptain a salute. The captain saluted back. then everyone on boardclapped andshouted. Overhead the clouds disappeared, as

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As a young man in Wisconsin, Jim Krawczyk's favorite writer was J.D. Salinger. And in the late 1960s, Krawczyk decided to go on a roadtrip to meet his hero in Cornish, the small New Hampshire town that the celebrated recluse calls home. Time now for

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V. Lets Talk Anne: John! Youre playing computer games again? John: Hi, darling. Im just surfing the Net. Anne: Oh, my gosh! Youre becoming a Net-addict! John: Come on, Anne. I find the Internet very usefulI can find anything. Want me to search for th

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Doctors Call World's First Full Face Transplant A Resounding Success It's been little more than six years between this news conference in France and this one at the University of Maryland Medical Center. In 2005, French doctors stunned the world by a

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LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Chad Matheny dropped his pursuit of a master's degree in physics for a career as a musician. Under the name Emperor X, he's released eight albums, a bunch of cassettes. He had one of his songs used in a major motion picture. T

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By Katherine Cole Washington 17 September 2006 Bob Dylan is one of the world's most-acclaimed songwriters and performers. Over the past five decades, he's sold close to 100-million records, and has performed thousands of shows all around the world.

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France says it turned away nearly 3.5 thousand people from its borders since a state of the emergency with introduced after last month attacks in Paris. The French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said they were refused entry because they posed a

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