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    | 2012: Mario Manningham makes an amazing 38-yard tiptoeing catch & beats the Pats | 
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    | To fire from a job, or to attempt to kill Sarah Connor, onscreen | 
    terminate
 
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    | Kenneth Lerer helped found this website to provide a liberal counterpart to the Drudge Report | 
    The Huffington Post
 
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    Wolfe
 
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    (Michelle: Mm, nope.)
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    | Mocked by other docs, Ignaz Semmelweis used antisepsis to vastly reduce women's death rate during this event | 
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    | wordpress.com says, "Everyone has a point of view" & their site is "the world's greatest" tool to create these online journals | 
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    | Jackie, Suzanne, Wilkie | 
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    | 1986: William "The Refrigerator" Perry ices the win with a 1-yard TD rumble | 
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    | Legally, sending a this & this letter notifies someone of their misconduct & orders them to cut it out, pronto | 
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    | To give a more personalized listening experience, this website uses its music genome project | 
    Pandora
 
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