News, Etc.

New census figures show a drastic population decline in Detroit.

Ten years from now, the census will show a similar decline in places like Reno and Las Vegas.
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If you are going to attend a degree mill like Kaplan "University," don't become a dietician.
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The next "reform" on the Wisconsin Republican agenda is battling "election fraud." Translated this means doing everything in the party's power to turn the state into a one-party state.
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Elizabeth Taylor was married eight times to seven different men, but only one of them had his grave robbed.

According to Find A Grave, although Mike Todd's headstone is still at the cemetery where his remains were initially buried, the remains are elsewhere thanks to the elsewhere.
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Debbie Reynolds had nothing but kind words about her friend and one-time rival Elizabeth Taylor:

"I said, 'Getting old is really sh––,' " Reynolds tells Access Hollywood of her final conversation with Taylor. "And she said, 'It certainly is. It certainly is, Debbie. This is really tough.' "

"I said, 'Well, you just hang in there now, Elizabeth,' " Reynolds recalls. "And she said, 'I'm really trying."

"God bless her, she's on to a better place," Reynolds says. "I'm happy that she's out of her pain, because she was in a lot of pain."
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I would be very surprised if Richard Burton's widow, Sally Hay Burton, would ever allow this to happen.

Color me skeptical.
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This is a nice write-up about Taylor's life and career.
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Speaking of Mike Todd, here is a link to a Person-to-Person interview from 1957 with Edward R. Murrow:

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One could tell Todd was quite the character and made Taylor laugh. It's entirely possible they would have remained together if he hadn't died so suddenly.
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