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Reuters - Advertising revenue at The New York Times Co. fell 6 percent in February on weaker performance in every category of newspaper ads, the company said on Tuesday. More Info...  

AP - The printing for the final Harry Potter book will not only be the biggest, but also the greenest.

AP - Human bones on the catwalk. Models in dagger-emblazoned silk dresses strutting while talking on cell phones. Bauhaus blaring overhead.

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AP - The Miss USA pageant gears up to name a new queen this week in a live televised competition that organizers say will spotlight how reigning titleholder Tara Conner nearly lost her crown and ended up in rehab.

AP - The Miss USA pageant gears up to name a new queen this week in a live televised competition that organizers say will spotlight how reigning titleholder Tara Conner nearly lost her crown and ended up in rehab.

AP - Actress Uma Thurman and hotelier Andre Balazs have split up. Thurman's New York-based publicist Robert Garlock confirmed the couple, together on and off for three years, are no longer an item.

Playbill - This is a fine romance: Sight unseen, an audience has taken a new show to its heart. More Info...  

AP - Jury selection began Monday in the murder trial of legendary music producer Phil Spector, four years after an actress who starred in a cult movie was shot to death in the foyer of his castle-like home.

AFP - An Indian-born fashion designer accused of rape was on Monday hit with a further 13 criminal charges for a range of sex offenses involving four more women, authorities in Los Angeles said.

AP - Cheryl Burke, two-time champion on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars," says she doesn't feel any pressure to bring home another disco-ball trophy as the fourth season premiered Monday. Burke, who won with celebrity partners Drew Lachey and Emmitt Smith, tells People magazine's Web site: "I don't think it's pressure. Even after coming in last season after winning with Drew in the second season, it wasn't about, `Oh, I have to win again.'"

AP - Angelina Jolie arrived in Hanoi on Monday to complete the procedures necessary to take her adopted son Pax Thien Jolie to his new home in the United States. The 31-year-old actress dodged reporters on her way from the airport after flying from Ho Chi Minh City, where she adopted the newest member of her family at an orphanage on the outskirts of the city last week.

AdWeek.com - Mark Wahlberg, dressed in military fatigues and toting a sniper weapon, is running across a phone screen. After several quick cuts, he's at a table and looking pensively at a computer. Another cut, and he loads a large bullet into a gun and a politician is shot. More Info...  

Reuters - Television and film director Stuart Rosenberg, whose best-known movies include the prison drama "Cool Hand Luke" and hit chiller "The Amityville Horror," has died of a heart attack at age 79, his family said on Monday.

AP - About one-third of the people living in the national's capital are functionally illiterate, compared with about one-fifth nationally, according to a report on the District of Columbia. More Info...  

Reuters - It seems like yesterday that Joe was last on the R&B charts. Well, going on four years to be exact. That's when the singer/songwriter released his last album ("And Then ..." in late 2003) and scored a No. 22 R&B/hip-hop single with "Ride Wit U" featuring G-Unit. More Info...  

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AP - During his four years in Iraq, NBC News correspondent Richard Engel has escaped two attempted carjackings and a roadside bomb. Another bomb blew the door off his hotel room, sending shrapnel that burned holes through the sheets of the bed where he was sleeping.

AP - During his four years in Iraq, NBC News correspondent Richard Engel has escaped two attempted carjackings and a roadside bomb. Another bomb blew the door off his hotel room, sending shrapnel that burned holes through the sheets of the bed where he was sleeping.

AP - For decades, famed music producer Phil Spector was a recluse, hiding in his hilltop suburban castle. It took the gunshot death there of a glamorous actress who starred in a cult movie to force him out into the Hollywood spotlight.

AP - A mainstream pop album is an unlikely place to encounter an ancient tongue known to a total of 705 people in the Holy Land. But tucked between the smooth chords and Hebrew vocals on Israeli singer Sofi Tsedaka's debut CD, listeners can hear the lilting language of the Samaritans. More Info...  

AP - Sam Waterston is putting his star power to work in backing a movement aimed at promoting the political center rather than the left or right. More Info...