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1. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are both using movies to symbolize their campaigns in Indiana. Clinton, for example, is showing “Hoosiers”, about an Indiana small town basketball team that wins the state championship. Obama, on the other hand, is showing “Children of the Corn”, which is about a cult of teenagers running amok through farmlands.

2. The trains in Chicago have taken down ads for the violent video game “Grand Theft Auto IV”. Now, you’d think they would want people to buy a video game that makes driving look so dangerous. But it’s having the opposite effect on teens. So instead, the trains are trying to promote “Subway Car Mugger III”.

3. At a cave used by British soldiers during World War I, there is supposedly a mysterious carving of a woman’s face on the wall, but can we get a picture of that? [Show BBC picture of carving, which is of a nude woman.] I don’t think that’s a face, though there are a couple cheeks and two lips.

4. Some tour groups in Brazil are now offering the chance to meet armed drug dealers. In the United States these days, we just call that “going to Idaho”.

5. A new study says that having short arms and legs may make people more likely to lose their memory when they get older. That’s why you can’t trust an Ewok after 40.