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    Early Addition: Has Back To The Future Day Gotten Too Commercial?

    by Ben Yakas
    Published October 21, 2015
    Modified October 21, 2015
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    • Bill Murray might be dating Jenny Lewis.
    • Lyft will pick you up in a Delorean for "Back To The Future Day" or something.
    • Australian cops also created their own Hoverboard Unit in honor of the occasion which, you know, isn't a real thing.
    • The NY Times has a profile of master interviewer Terry Gross.
    • Uber wants to expand upstate.
    • An asteroid might hit the Earth on Halloween, which certainly sounds spooky.
    • No, the Dalai Lama probably didn't go on a date, despite what your mom says.
    • A new study finds that green public housing may help with child asthma.
    • If you haven't been keeping up with the Theranos blood-testing controversy, here's a good summation of what's been happening.
    • The New Yorker goes long on how the Internet has changed bullying.
    • And finally, this bulldog puppy doesn't understand this liquid substance falling from the sky:

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