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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Tuesday, February 9

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Eight Items or Less: Cavemen Beach Parties, Dangerous Marching Bands and Angry Fortune Tellers

By Gary Pini

Beach Party1. Cavemen had beach parties.

2. Four female singers sold more albums this week than J. Lo's latest, Brave: Reba McEntire, Sara Evans, Leann Rimes and Keyshia Cole.

3. According to Children's Hospital in Boston, high school and college marching bands can cause irreparable hearing damage to participants. A spokesperson for the Texas Center for Music and Medicine tells USA Today: "marching band is at-risk instructional activity, just like chemistry lab."

4. "A fortune teller in Brooklyn bashed a teenager in the head with a crystal ball wrapped in a sock after the victim ripped up the seer's business card," the NY Post reports.

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