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'Play Dead' draws on seances, old-time spook shows - Yahoo! News

NEW YORK – Teller, the silent partner in the magic-comedy duo Penn & Teller, stabs his knife into the gravy-spattered meat loaf before him and puzzles over how to make the off-Broadway show he has co-written and directed scarier.

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"Saw 3D" more in-your-face than predecessors - Yahoo! News

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – Billing itself as the climactic chapter in the hugely successful horror franchise (yeah, right), "Saw 3D" offers the usual elaborate torture porn set pieces that its fans have grown to know and love.

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China trials yuan investment settlement in Xinjiang - Yahoo! News

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China will let some cross-border investment flows in the far western region of Xinjiang be settled in yuan, the country's first such trial after a scheme for yuan trade settlement was expanded this year, the Xinhua news agency said.

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Obama embraces Perriello as campaign example - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON – A freshman Democrat in a Republican district, Rep. Tom Perriello hit a dubious trifecta: He voted for President Barack Obama's stimulus bill, cap-and-trade climate legislation and the health care law.

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Juror is dismissed in deadly Conn. home invasion - Yahoo! News

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The judge in the trial of a Connecticut man convicted in a deadly home invasion has dismissed a juror who was overheard making a derogatory comment to another juror.

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Planes drop food as Indonesia struggles with aid - Yahoo! News

MENTAWAI ISLANDS, Indonesia – Relief planes dropped boxes of dried noodles onto tsunami-ravaged Indonesian islands Friday because storms and a shortage of vessels made helicopter and boat deliveries almost impossible days after the wave killed more than 400 people.

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UK spy boss: Nukes a wider threat than terrorism - Yahoo! News

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain's top spy, in the first public speech by a serving UK espionage chief, said Thursday terrorists might hit the West again "at huge human cost" but nuclear proliferation by states was a more far-reaching danger.

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Republicans, heading for big gains, ready agenda - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON – Republican leaders, ever more confident of their chances of winning control of the House and possibly even the Senate, have begun plotting a 2011 agenda topped by a push for more than $100 billion in spending cuts, tax reductions and attempts to undo key parts of President Barack Obama's health care and financial regulation laws.

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George Clooney finds funding for political drama - Yahoo! News

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – George Clooney has lined up independent funding for "The Ides of March," a political drama which he will direct and co-star in with Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood.

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