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Early Addition: Axe Body Spray Causes Evacuation At Church
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Ben Yakas
Published Mar 22, 2016
Modified Mar 22, 2016
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- Modern Hasidic woman are embracing stylish-if-modest fashion.
- A Seattle church and daycare center were evacuated due to a malfunctioning can of Axe body spray.
- Rolling Stone revisits Bringing It All Back Home for its 51st anniversary.
- Rob Ford, Toronto's former crack-smoking mayor, has died at age 46.
- Learn how to make dumplings at home.
- Samantha Bee sent an atheist into a sand pit filled with religious Republicans.
- Some lucky high schoolers will get to enjoy XKCD in their science textbooks.
- A group of bike-riding teens allegedly attacked a driver in Midtown in a random attack.
- MTA board member hates free newspapers at subways.
- Harrison Ford is happy to talk about playing Indiana Jones again, but he's happier that he'll never have to play Han Solo again.
- The NY Post's curmudgeon-in-residence is sick and tired of freeloading Millennials with their stupid juice boxes and their stupid happily-married parents.
- And finally, sometimes it's very hard to decide where to put your favorite blanket:
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