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By
Charlie Meyerson, Daywatch columnist
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FAKED OUT. Those fantastic videos you've seen on the Web lately? A lot of them just didn't happen. Eric Benderoff reports:
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A trio of unbelievable clips:
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Gallery of infamous faked photos:
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JESSE JACKSON ALMOST AVOIDED MESS. His vulgar criticism of Barack Obama came close to going unreported:
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Editorial: Jackson's apology was "as tortured as you'd expect from someone who meant every word of what he regrets he said."
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Owner of Obama's Chocolate Nuts site on the Web feels like "luckiest person on Earth" (suntimes.com):
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McCain distancing self from adviser's complaint that U.S. has "nation of whiners":
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'THE INCONGRUITY DELIGHTED PEOPLE WHO HATE WHOLE FOODS.' Mary Schmich on the closing of a North Side grocery:
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New feature: Database lets you find out which restaurants have flunked Chicago inspections.
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BREAK A FLUORESCENT BULB? Cleanup's a big pain:
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Julie Deardorff: How about a MapQuest for bike routes?
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NEW iPHONE ARRIVES. RedEye's Scott Kleinberg is buying one today and blogging the experience live:
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Columnist Walt Mossberg: New iPhone carries hidden costs, has battery issues (allthingsd.com):
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Andy Ihnatko: Apple "couldn't stay dumb forever" (suntimes.com).
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Beware phone scheme in which prisoners pose as Chicago cops to make long-distance calls -- on your dime (wbbm780.com):
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YEAR'S HOTTEST? Latest weather forecast, continually updated radar pictures and Tom Skilling's seven-day outlook:
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Overnight storms rattle Chicago area, cut power:
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DOWN DAY. Cubs, Sox both lose:
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City gets Olympic preview at Oak Street Beach:
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Cheerleading coach accused of sexual contact with teen girls:
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UM, AMY --? Reviewing former TV reporter Amy Jacobson's assertion in her lawsuit against CBS and others that she "first thought about becoming a reporter in kindergarten, when she would watch Fahey Flynn on the ABC Channel 7 noon news," Phil Rosenthal notes that the station didn't have a noon newscast then and didn't launch a late-morning newscast "until 1992, nine years after Flynn's death":
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Cheesecake Factory suit cites male-on-male sexual harassment:
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'HELLBOY,' YES.
-- Michael Phillips says "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" merits 3 stars:
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-- Roger Ebert gives it 3 1/2 (rogerebert.com):
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"Journey to the Center of the Earth," other new films reviewed:
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KEY GAP IN HEMINGWAY KNOWLEDGE. Daywatch misses just one news quiz question this week -- No. 4. Can you beat 90 percent?
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Test your typographical knowledge of magazine logos too:
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Historical cage matches: Gandhi vs. Godzilla, Jolie vs. Jesus.
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CORRECTION. Yesterday's Daywatch gave the wrong age for a U. of C. student who has solved an evolution puzzle that stumped Darwin. He is 28, as reader Enakshi Singh-Gutkowski was first to note:
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Can you crack the code that has puzzled researchers around the world?
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