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href="http://londonist.com/2008/01/6_years_on_amne.php">Amnesty International bringing Guantanamo Bay to the American embassy to raise the profile of the continuing campaign to close the detention center.

  • Seattlest reviewed J.J. Abrams' new camcorder monster movie.
  • DCist was relieved to hear that Stephen Colbert's portrait is finally hanging up in the National Portrait Gallery.
  • Austin was in shock after hearing about an Arlington stepfather who sodomized his stepson who sodomized his daughter.
  • Chicagoist healthily reported on week three of the smoking ban.
  • Houstonist saw a recent Rice University scientific creation, touted as "the darkest substance known to man."
  • Work has been stopped at the Trump Soho construction site, the day after an accident caused one worker to fall 42 stories to his death. The FDNY says the workers had been filling wooden forms (one was a 20-foot-square section) with wet concrete when molds broke. Assistant Chief Thomas Galvin explained that the molds collapsed from the 42nd floor to the 40th, leaving a hold in the corner of the building. Per the Daily News, Galvin said, "They were pouring it on the floor .. tamping out the air bubbles, and for some reasons the forms collapsed." Concrete and other debris fell from the area.

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