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  • If John Kerry leaves the Senate to become secretary of state another Kennedy could fill his Senate seat — at least on an interim basis. And ousted Republican Scott Brown could have fighting chance of returning to the Capitol.
  • Laurie Paternoster and Michael Churchman, co-founders of Lynx Exhibits, preview the opening of the new El Paso Exploreum, a living laboratory museum for…
  • Our panelists tell three stories about people trying to ruin Christmas.
  • Actor John Hawkes could watch Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life a million times. "I was struck by the darkness of the film," he says.
  • Every answer is a word that can be formed from the letters of "Christmas." You'll be given two words as clues. The first one can precede the answer word, and the second one can follow it — in each case to complete a compound word or familiar two-word phrase.
  • With the rise of the do-it-yourself movement, more groups are springing up to encourage kids to link crafts and science. Modeled on more traditional Scouting groups, kids and their parents meet up in tool-filled "hacker spaces" to build electronics and get creative.
  • Founded last year in the midst of a massive winter storm, Choir! Choir! Choir! is a singing group that opens its doors to anyone, meets once a week and tackles just about any pop song.
  • In a life of wild ups and downs, Ernie K-Doe pierced the national consciousness in 1961 with the song "Mother-in-Law."
  • If you've been arrested in the last 10 years, there's a good chance your arrest photo ended up on any number of websites. You'll have to pay to make them take it down, but one lawyer aims to make the websites pay instead.
  • After theories circulated online that late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned with a radioactive element, Wired Magazine contributor and poison expert Deborah Blum decided to look into it herself. Her suspicion is far from that of the regular conspiracy theorist. She thinks the polonium found on his things indicate just one thing: He was a heavy smoker.
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