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His father, also named Bruce Palmore, an accountant who had been a member of Phi Beta Sigma in college, worried that his son was hanging out with the wrong crowd. He also worried that among African American teenagers, particularly males, there was not enough value placed on education. College attendance rates for black men lag behind rates for most other groups. Hoping to inspire him, the father took the teen to a fraternity event. The young man was intrigued by a step show, a synchronized, percussive dance traditionally performed by African American sororities and fraternities, and decided that he wanted to start a chapter of the group's program for kindergarten-through-12th-grade... 		Ferguson admits he is gambling on Rooney's fitness (12)
Ferguson agreed yesterday that he was taking a gamble on Wayne Rooney's continued fitness by not spending this winter. "Yes, that is a possibility," he said. "It's true that we don't have great options, if Rooney were to get injured, in the sense that we don't have top quality like [Cristiano] Ronaldo, who could play anywhere, of course."Rooney's 15 goals to date are more than double the next best United player (Michael Owen, on seven) and Ferguson's indication that he will involve his new Senegalese striker Mame Biram Diouf, 22, signed from the Norwegian club Molde, at Birmingham today will not provide much succour to those supporters who view the club's first third-round exit since... 		The Olsen Specimen. A profile and History (12)
It was the first 1913 Liberty Head nickel offered for sale in a public auction, and the only specimen that professional numismatist B. Max Mehl ever handled, despite his extensive advertising campaign that promoted the famously rare coin. It also holds the record as the first coin to break the $100,000 price barrier in 1972, while another 1913 nickel, the Eliasberg specimen, became the first coin to break the $1,000,000 price barrier some 24 years later. It is certainly possible that a 1913 Liberty nickel, perhaps the Olsen specimen, will someday become the first coin to break the $10,000,000 price barrier. Jeff Garrett and Ron Guth, authors of The 100 Greatest U.S. Coin...
On the Front Lines of the Unemployment Struggle (11)
I guess that there will be no victory lap today, and they can keep Joe Biden off television because the jobs report was something of a disappointment. Momentum was completely derailed (as it turns out November was revised to a net gain of 4,000 jobs, and I bet the Labor Secretary makes that a focal point as she makes the interview rounds), and we are reminded how hard it is to create jobs in an environment where money doesn't flow into the system.Massive deficit spending, debt monetization and 0% interest rates go a long way toward making businesses and banks whole but it hasn't done anything to generate demand. That's because all these moves have done nothing for Main Street. 		NBC and the Corner It's Painted Itself Into; John Oliver Tonight, 'Big Love' & 'Battlestar Galactica' Sunday (11)
This weekend is all about John Oliver's new show tonight at 11pm on Comedy Central, Charles Barkley and Alicia Keys on "SNL" tomorrow, and an impressive lineup of premieres for Sunday which put us into a tight spot resolved by watching the "Big Love" premiere on HBO at 9pm and then the "Battlestar Galactica" special 11pm repeat on Syfy. --- The TV Junkie Plan: Tonight - "What Not To Wear", Leno (Brian Williams), "John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show", Conan (Michael Cera, Aziz Ansari, OK Go), Ferguson (Jason Segal). Saturday - Graham Norton (Robert Downey Jr.), "SNL" (Charles Barkley, Alicia Keys). 		Florida cold snap threatens iguanas (11)
MARGATE, Fla., Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Southern Florida's unusually cold weather likely will reduce the number of invasive iguanas considered a pest by many, officials said. Temperatures dropped into the 40s this week, immobilizing the lizards and making them easy to catch, said Tiffany Snow, a biologist with the state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Temperatures are expected to drop even more within the next few days, which could kill many of iguanas, Snow said. Some animal control shelters will accept iguanas and homeowners are allowed to kill them if it is done humanely. "If somebody is looking to trap them, I guess right now would be a good time because they're no...
The New York Mets Beat the Yankees at Yankee Stadium (11)
Jimmy Piersall, who led off with a single. Casey Stengel put on the hit and run, and one of his all-time favorites, Hot Rod Kanehl, placed the ball perfectly through the vacated shortstop spot. Williams walked Duke Snider to fill the bases. The noise was deafening. Ed Kranepool, who was born in the Bronx, hit a slow ground ball to third base, where Pedro Gonzalez, whom the Yankees had just brought up from their Richmond farm team, booted it. Former Dodger Tim Harkness singled in two runs for a 4-1 Mets lead, and then Williams made another wild pitch. Billy Moran doubled home the fifth run of the inning. Casey Stengel was walking back and forth in th... 		Should I Say Something? The Patience Factor (4)
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Also looking glam on the Miami beach is Ice-T's wife Coco Marie, 31. The 51-year-old rap star, real name Tracy Marrow, left his attitude at home as he spent ... 		Literary Guide (1)
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'Aryamanju Sreemoola Kalpa', a tantric work written in `Newari Script' of Nepal that deals with Mahayana Buddhism declared as `Vijnana Nidhi' by the Union ... 		Friends, teachers, students adopt JM alum's Army platoon (1)
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National News (10)

(AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden has said it was his mother, Jean Biden, who taught him to believe in what he called "America's creed" -- that "everyone is your equal." The vice president's mother died today in Delaware at the age of 92. Biden, in a statement, says his mother's strength "will live on in all of us." He says his mother and father had taught him "the dignity of hard work and that you are defined by your sense of honor." In Biden's 2007 autobiography, he recalled that his mother initially had some reservations about whether he should run for the Senate -- and, as she saw it, ruin his reputation. But he says once she knew th...
KFC pulls Australian TV advertisement after complaints in US that it is racist (10)

"We have been made aware that a KFC commercial being shown on Australian television has apparently caused offence, particularly in the United States, after a copy of the commercial was reproduced online without KFC's permission," the Louisville, Kentucky-based company said."While we believe this lighthearted commercial has been well understood by Australian cricket fans, to avoid the possibility of any further offence being caused by the advertisement either here or online overseas, KFC will cease running the commercial immediately," it added.The controversy over the ad puzzled many Australians. On Friday, the Australian newspaper The Age posted a survey online asking if the ad...
Radio Ink Magazine (10)

January 6, 2010: Talk Radio Network Enterprises personality Jerry Doyle's first book, Have You Seen My Country Lately? has just been published by Simon and Schuster and is available in hardcover and as an audiobook. Conservative talker Doyle, who worked on Wall Street in the '80s, asks what can be done about the failing U.S. financial system and gives his take on the Obama administration, the future of capitalism, and much more."Have You Seen My Country Lately? is a brilliant, engaging, witty call to arms," best-selling Last Patriot author Brad Thor said. TRNE's Jerry Doyle Show is heard on more than 200 stations nationwide.
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Sir Isaac Newton's birthday* is being celebrated today by a "Google doodle" that shows an apple falling from a tree: an event that inspired him to formulate ...