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Extra Extra: NBA Season In Jeopardy As Players Union Becomes Fractured
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Ben Yakas
Published Nov 4, 2011
Modified Nov 4, 2011
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- The NBA lockout continues on its ugly course: about 50 players are now considering dissolving their union if negotiations keep going badly—which would likely mean no NBA this year.
- The 520-day mock mission to Mars is now complete!
- Jet Blue begins issuing refunds to people stranded at Bradley Airport for seven hours.
- Sitting still will give you cancer now, or something.
- The Daily News lays off numerous reporters; the NY Post offers its bitchy take.
- The One Laptop Per Child project plan to literally drop touchscreen computers into remote villages via helicopter.
- The woman accusing Justin Beiber of being her baby daddy already told another dude he was the baby daddy.
- A pretty timelapse video of a year in New York.
- A teacher was accused of assaulting a cop at OWS.
- And finally, this sassy guy in an Elmo shirt really thinks the cameraman needs to go on a diet.
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