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• Residents from Gray celebrate daughter's unique Navy re-enlistment (The Houma Courier)
  HOUMA — Chief Petty Officer Michell Jordan battled mud, freezing lakes, heights, claustrophobia-inducing conditions, barbed wire, fire and electroshocks just after re-enlisting in the U.S. Navy for a third time. But the brutal obstacle course was not part of any military duties.
• Photographer Donovan Wylie's best shot (Guardian Unlimited)
  This was taken in 2008 at the Maze prison in Belfast, at the last stage of its demolition. It was 5am: just me and the demolition crew. This was the key wall – the south wall, a mile long originally, and the last big bit to go.
• Of earth-shaking significance (Manila Standard Today)
  How exactly are people supposed to behave during an earthquake? I am not sure if there is now a standard drill being taught in schools on how to survive earthquakes.
• More revenue is needed to stave off too-steep school budget cuts (Seattle Times)
  With Seattle Public Schools cutting more out of its schools budgets, guest columnist Janet Pelz worries the district and others around the state are in a free fall to the bottom. She encourages lawmakers to increase taxes to save education funding.
• On The Nose (The New York Observer)
  William Kentridge's The Nose teems with text. The famed visual artist’s production of Shostakovich’s early masterpiece—about a government functionary who one day awakes to find his nose inexplicably vanished—marks the first time the work has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera. For the occasion, Mr. Kentridge has created a whole new curtain, proscenium and backdrop filled with a collage of ...
• Shakespeare & Company (North Bay Bohemian)
  The organizers of the Oregon Shakespeare festival, in Ashland, Ore., have always seen the annual event as a kind of theatrical kaleidoscope, a way to examine the world through multiple colored lenses.
• Finding happiness in a bottle — of perfume (Baltimore Sun)
  Citrusy scents are said to boost spirits, rose and heliotrope scents to promote calm. Can you really put on a 'happy' fragrance and feel better?
• Gemma: I insisted on being tied up (Belfast Telegraph)
  Gemma Arterton has revealed she insisted on being tied up when she was playing a kidnap victim - even when she didn't need to be. Related Stories Tarantino's pizza and cupcake party Liv Tyler filming new thriller Liam Hemsworth in Arabian Nights Anna Faris set for Number movie Bridges: Maggie was top of my list
• Wonderful World (Blu-ray) (DVD Talk)
  Recommended THE FILM Cynicism is a major component of "Wonderful World," detailing how it can hold a life back from the smaller pleasures of the universe, offering false comfort to those less openhearted. It's a mood exhaled into "Wonderful World" with overwhelming vigor at times, capturing the curdled nature of the lead character with unnerving accuracy. For this alone, the picture deserves a ...
• Matt Reed: Space tourism has ethics concerns (Florida Today)
  A state investigation of its director has stalled one of the more peculiar programs undertaken by Brevard-based Space Florida in its efforts to grow the space industry.

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