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SYSTEM UPDATE: Exclusive sneek peak at next month’s ‘Twisted Metal’ 

BY EBENEZER SAMUEL

The last time we saw Twisted Metal on a home console was practically a lifetime ago. It was 2001 on the PlayStation 2, online play was in its mere infancy, and pixelated visuals were the norm.

And now, the celebrated car combat franchise is back.

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Romney proposal makes Medicare voucher-like system (AP)

Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney shakes hands after a town hall meeting at the Exeter Town Hall , Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011 in Exeter, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)AP – Mitt Romney on Friday unveiled a plan to fundamentally re-shape Medicare, tackling one of the 2012 presidential contest’s most delicate issues before a skeptical crowd of tea party activists.


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Immune system discoveries earn Nobel in medicine (AP)

FILE - In this April 24, 2009 photo, Dr. Ralph Steinman of Rockefeller University speaks during a news conference in Albany, N.Y., Friday, April 24, 2009.  The Nobel committee says American Bruce Beutler and Luxembourg-born scientist Jules Hoffmann have shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in medicine with Canadian-born Ralph Steinman on Monday, Oct. 3, 2011.  Beutler and Hoffman were cited 'for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity.'  Steinman was honored for 'his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity.'  (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP – Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries about the immune system that opened new avenues for the treatment and prevention of infectious illnesses and cancer.


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Nation’s biggest subway system to stop for Irene (AP)

People at Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York experience sunny weather while Hurricane Irene bears down on the eastern seaboard further south, Friday, Aug. 26, 2011. The low number of visitors at the typically crowded beach reflects the wind, rain, and flooding dangers the storm poses to the already saturated New York state. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)AP – The nation’s largest subway system and arriving flights at the five main New York City-area airports were preparing to shut down Saturday as Hurricane Irene spun its way up the Eastern Seaboard, forcing more than 300,000 evacuations and dimming lights at Citi Field and on Broadway.


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NYC planning to shut down transportation system

The city is planning to shut down the entire transportation system on Saturday in anticipation of Hurricane Irene’s arrival, officials revealed Thursday. A mandatory evacuation of all nursing homes in flood-prone areas of the city was also ordered Thursday.

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NYC to shut down transportation system

The city is planning to shut down the entire transportation system on Saturday in anticipation of Hurricane Irene’s arrival, officials revealed Thursday. A mandatory evacuation of all nursing homes in flood-prone areas of the city was also ordered Thursday.

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Disability system leaves troops in ‘vast unknown’ (AP)

Army Staff Sgt. Nicholas Lanier poses with his daughters, left to right, Sophia, Evy, Juliette and Hannah at his home Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011 in Hinesville, Ga. A combat veteran and father to four daughters, he can't remain in the military because of a serious back injury earned in Iraq. But he can't yet accept a civilian job because he doesn't know when the military will discharge him. He has no clue how much the government will pay him in disability compensation related to his injury, so he can’t make a future budget.  (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)AP – Staff Sgt. Nicholas Lanier has entered what he calls the “vast unknown.” A combat veteran and father to four daughters, he can’t remain in the military because of a serious back injury earned in Iraq.


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