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MOVIE REVIEW: Haunted-house hooey (The Charlotte Observer) - They ought to teach "Fear Face" in acting school. Use a frame of Penelope Ann Miller's reaction to the unthinkable in "The Messengers" to show the students what they're going for.

Lecture review: Authors Chabon, Waldman discuss their marriage (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Framed by two potted plants on the Carnegie Music Hall stage last night, Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon offered an unusually intimate portrait of a marriage.

Wedding Bells For AGL, Origin? (Australasian Investment Review via Yahoo!7 Finance) - After a month of silence Origin Energy says it has started talks with rival AGL Energy on a merger to form a company that would supply power and gas to half of eastern Australia's households.

Why Braille on drive-up ATMs? Why do brides spend so much? Frank's latest book, 'The Economic Naturalist,' provides ... (Cornell News Service) - When college students are tested for knowledge of basic economics six months after taking a traditional Economics 101 class, they fail to perform significantly better than students who have never taken an economics course, according to a survey in the American Economic Review (2002).

iTunes TV Review - Degrassi: The Next Generation 6.11 - "The Bitterest Pill" (The Mac Observer) - Forgive my ignorance, as I'm not very understanding of funeral protocol, but the thing they do after a burial is called a wake, right? If I'm right, we open this episode at JT's wake, where pictures of his headshot litter various surfaces

Movie Review: 'Babel' Descends into Babble (The Epoch Times) - Babel is a thoughtful, heavy film that twists, pokes and prods ideas of multiculturalism and cultural clashes. It skips among four stories with interrelated characters across three continents, divi...

Movie review: 'The Messengers' (Metromix.com) - The Pang brothers, Danny and Oxide, arrive on American screens with high and horrific expectations, trailing a bloody body of Hong Kong ghost stories (like 2002's ''The Eye'') that the twins have written and directed. A New York Times magazine profile last summer bumped the hype up a notch.

Cozad’s Halligan gets OK for dress business (Kearney Hub) - COZAD — A Cozad woman received approval on a special-use permit to operate a business in a residential area.

Online retailers discover power of user-generated video clips (International Herald Tribune) - Whether the trend will help build customer traffic and sales over the long term remains a question.

Letters to the Editor (The MIT Tech) - I am writing to you to ask for your help with a very difficult problem that I have faced at MIT for more than 2 years now.