MEDIA: NJ Turnpike Authority Investigating Web Leak Of Deadly Egg Harbor Toll Crash Footage

TRENTON, N.J. – A United Kingdom-based video Web site on Saturday defended its use of graphic Garden State Parkway crash footage, even as it said it would investigate any possible ownership issues that might be raised. The New Jersey Turnpike Authority, which operates the Parkway, has been investigating how surveillance footage of the fatal May 10 crash was released, and has requested that Web sites including Youtube.com and LiveLeak.com remove the video. Hayden Hewitt, a co-founder of Manchester, England-based LiveLeak.com, said Saturday that the Web site would continue allowing the video, which depicts a car slamming into the Parkway’s Great Egg […]

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JUNK SCIENCE: Is That An Overworked Pancreas In Your Pocket Or Are You Just Hypoglycemia?

BY ELIZABETH FIEND LIVING EDITOR The Glycemic Index could save your life — literally. It could make living with diabetes easier. Or prevent diabetes in the first place. It can reduce your risk of heart disease. It will lower your cholesterol. It will make you thinner. It might even get you laid. The Glycemic Index is a scientific measurement of how rapidly foods release their sugars into your blood. It’s an invaluable, easy-to-use tool for maintaining or getting to a proper weight. Forget diets. Get jiggy wit’ the GI instead. Research on the Glycemic Index originally began as a way […]

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CINEMA: Silencer Of The Lambs

KILLER OF SHEEP (1977, directed by Charles Burnett, 83 minutes, U.S.) BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITC We take it for granted that most films that play theatrically will follow an orderly path to DVD but my troubled subconscious does contain a list of films that I worry may never again be seen. Will we ever again got the chance to ogle Jenny Agutter in Monte Hellman’s 1978 sex-driven western China 9 Liberty 37? Will the world ever get a chance to gasp at Joel DeMott’s documentary Seventeen, an unspeakably perverse journey into the world of good-for-nothing dope smoking teens in […]

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HIZZONER ’07: New Mrs. Mayor Talks About ‘My Boo’

BY ANNETTE JOHN-HALL INQUIRER COLUMNIST She is girlfriend-warm, with welcoming eyes and features that resemble the Mona Lisa. And she can switch seamlessly between Mix Master Mike and Policy Maker Mike. She loves both the same. Most of all, she admires that he stands strong in what he believes, no matter how much heat comes his way. Even with his controversial “stop-and-frisk” proposal, which would allow police to stop and search those suspected of carrying illegal weapons in high-crime neighborhoods, “he didn’t back down,” she said. “He didn’t tell white people one thing and black people something else. . . . […]

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ARCHAEOLOGY: Diggers Find Awesome Skull Bong Beneath George Washington Presidential Mansion*

Archaeologists excavating the site of the nation’s first presidential mansion have found a trove of 19th-century clay pipe fragments, including one bowl depicting a stereotyped African head [NOT pictured]. The pipe fragments, uncovered earlier this week, probably date from the mid-19th century and are therefore not connected directly with the President’s House, located at Sixth and Market Streets, the archaeologists said. But the find is of particular interest, they said, because the focus of the excavation is on the house occupied by George Washington, his family and at least nine slaves during the 1790s. John Adams, Washington’s successor, also lived […]

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FUNNY PAPERS: CP Announces Comics Issue

Hats off to CP for the funniest post-election cover since the Chicago Daily Tribune‘s DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN! Except CP’s was supposed to be funny — at least we hope so. More to the point of the headline, though, CP Editor Swierczy announces the forthcoming CP Comics Issue and we think this is a fucking capital idea. Here, here.

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KILLADELPHIA: Top Cop Gives ‘Stop N’ Frisk’ The Thumbs Down, PW Gives It The Usual White Liberal Hand-Wringing, Meanwhile Death Goes On…

  KYW REPORTER STEVE TAWA: “Commissioner, do you have a point of view on ‘Stop and Frisk,’ during the campaign. The councilman was talked about using it, while declaring a crime emergency.” PHILADELPHIA POLICE COMMISSIONER SYLVESTER JOHNSON: “I’m against that, but that’s his decision to make.” [via KYW] *** THE NATION: As a political matter, Nutter would be wise to maintain his professed flexibility. Though he won the primary with 37 percent of the vote, even some of his most vocal supporters have questioned the wisdom of his stop-and-frisk plan. “We have a ways to go before being sold on […]

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BREAKING: The Walt Whitman Turns 50

INQUIRER: The idea for another bridge to cross the Delaware River came to light almost as soon as the Ben Franklin Bridge was completed in 1926. (It was called the Delaware River Bridge then.) Initially, there were plans to dig a tunnel under the river to connect South Philadelphia and Gloucester City. Over time, a bridge became a more viable option. Construction began in 1953. Four years later, 10,000 tons of steel and 4,000 feet of cable had come together to create what would be named the “Most Beautiful Structure of Steel of 1957” by the American Institute of Steel […]

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