THE EARLY WORD: Let Them Eat Rock

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Philabundance is the region’s largest hunger relief organization and works to end hunger and malnutrition in the Delaware Valley by acquiring food and distributing it through organizations serving people in need.

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NEIL YOUNG: After The Gold Rush

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comcastic3s.gifBIZJOURNAL: Comcast Corp. said Thursday it launched a faster Internet service that will double the speed for most of its existing customers by early 2009. The Philadelphia-based telecommunications giant will roll out the so-called “wideband” service to residential and business customers in parts of Anne Arundel and Howard County. The remainder of the Baltimore market is expected to be completed by the first half of 2009. One of the wideband tiers will include Extreme 50 technology, with download speeds of up to 50 megabits per second at no additional cost. Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) customers will be able to download a 6-gigabyte high-definition movie in 16 minutes with the new speed. The service is already available in certain markets across the country, including Boston and Philadelphia. MORE

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BECAUSE 40 IS THE NEW BLACK: Jennifer Aniston Nekkid!

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ASSOCIATED PRESS: Joking about the relentless media coverage of herself, ex-husband Brad Pitt and Pitt’s partner Angelina Jolie, Aniston tells the magazine: “The funny thing is that people don’t realize we all go away to the Hamptons on the weekends.” Not exactly. Says Aniston: “But can you imagine? That’d be hysterical: I’ve got Zahara on my hip, and Knox …” MORE

PHAWKER: Sure this is ripped out of context, but the armchair shrink in us thinks that quote is far more revealing than she intended.

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