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May 20, 2012

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Mark Zuckerberg Added a Life Event to May 19, 2012 on His Timeline [Mark Zuckerberg]
Like so many of the people we went to high school with, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg let us know about his marriage to Priscilla Chan with a Facebook update. In a photo posted to Facebook, Zuckerberg and Chan pose as a married couple — with Zuck wearing a suit instead of his trademark hoodie, as all news reports have been keen to point out.

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Watch Kristin Wiig Bid An Emotional Adieu to Saturday Night Live [Video]
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Why Michael Ginsberg Is the New Hero of Mad Men [Mad Men]
Don Draper is no longer Mad Men's hero. That honor now belongs to Michael Ginsberg, the young Jewish copywriter whose work has already upstaged Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce's longtime brilliant creative director.

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Nick Stahl Is Alive and Going to Rehab [Nick Stahl]
The good news is, Nick Stahl is no longer missing. The bad news is, he's going to rehab.

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American Apparel's Hottest New Accessory: Farmers [American Apparel]
Comedian Fahim Anwar — member of the comedy team that brought us this response to Ashton Kutcher's racist PopChips ad — noticed a new model on the Americal Apparel website.

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Check Out the 'Ring of Fire' Eclipse [Ring Of Fire]
Today's annular eclipse — affectionally dubbed a "ring of fire" — will be the first of its kind visible from the mainland U.S. since 1994. And we won't get another until 2023.

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Miami Masseur Joins Lawsuit Against Travolta: 'He Actually Pulled My Hand ... Up to His Scrotum' [John Travolta]
More "fiction" says John Travolta's legal team: yet another masseur has come forward with allegations against the actor. This, of course, begs the question, how often does John Travolta get a massage?

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Boy Spends Eight Hours Trapped Between Two Waterfalls [Rescues]
Wallace Falls is a beautiful Washington State attraction, but that doesn't make it any less perilous. A 13-year-old boy found himself trapped when he fell down one waterfall and narrowly avoided falling down another — a much more serious 270-foot drop.

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The Avengers Sunk Your Battleship [Box Office]
Still in the number one spot this week, The Avengers earned another $55.1 million, well outperforming Battleship, which took in a measly $25.3 million. That might not sound too bad, but given Battleship's budget, it's pretty embarrassing. In fact, this is the worst domestic opening ever for a film with a budget of at least $200 million.

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A Night At the 2012 Clio Awards On Mushrooms [Field Trips]
At about 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday night, while standing in the Roosevelt Rotunda at the American Museum of Natural History on 81st Street and Central Park West, my friend Sam and I stuff an eighth of psychedelic mushrooms into egg rolls and eat them. It is time for the 2012 Clio Awards, the advertising world's version of the Oscars.

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Pakistan Blocks Access to Twitter, Then Thinks Better of It [Twitter]
Pakistan blocked and then restored access to Twitter today, following the promotion of a "blasphemous and inflammatory" Facebook contest to draw the Muslim prophet Mohammed.

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