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From the Gothamist Newsmap: A fall at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a home invasion robbery on Confederation Pl on Staten Island and a barricaded EDP on Riverside Drive in Manhattan.
A NJ jury found five Muslim immigrants guilty of conspiracy to kill Fort Dix soldiers.
Joe Biden feels sorry for President Bush, especially after the shoe-throwing incident.
St. John's University is suing a former professor and student for $30 million, claiming the pair didn't give them the school's cut for inventions created while they were there.
The NY State pension system is so messy expensive because, as one expert remembers, “if two teachers were teaching next door to each other and one was covered by a superior pension plan and one by this inferior plan, that created jealousies. It didn’t work.”
A woman who was drunk driving when she fatally hit a man in a wheelchair is now charged with first-degree manslaughter.
Michael Jackson may need a lung transplant. He also has emphysema, chronic gastrointestinal bleeding, he can barely speak, and the vision in his left eye is 95 percent gone.
Curbed calls the new The Standard Hotel built on the High Line a "Meatpacking District game-changer."
And even though he practically has a six-pack, President-elect Obama still eats junk food like spam sushi.

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on December 22, 2008 6:42 PM

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ed_Extinct

eating junk food sometimes, has nothing to do with how you carry your body... if you work out and eat mostly good food high in protein, simple csrbs, vitamins etc, you're gonna have that six pack, if you eat shitty foods all the time and never work out, you will be a fat f*ck.

Rob T Firefly

That NJ jury also found the Muslim immigrants guilty of 9/11, the death of JonBenet, the Kennedy assassination, the Lindbergh kidnapping, and the Attack of the Cybermen.

Mr Mel

"Lung transplant? Jacko would be better off consulting those doctors in Cleveland who just performed a face transplant"

He's already had several face transplants.

NannyState

Maybe he moved to Dubai so the dry air would help his lungs? This really sounds like curtains for Jacko.

Spirit of 76

Ah, the usual suspects indulging in their pleasure that someone else is in dire health. How predictable.

Peter

Lung transplant? Jacko would be better off consulting those doctors in Cleveland who just performed a face transplant.

Kojak

Not to worry. He has plenty of fans willing to give him BOTH of their lungs if he needed them. No matter how many boys he fondles, he will always have his following.