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• World's Greatest Podcast -- Sexy acccents, the feel-good bakery & Stroller Girl

  I called in sick today yet, somehow Mary Schmich and John Williams carried on without me. They did not mention my name for fear, I suspect, that it would cause them to burst into tears:

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:19pm EST
  by Eric Zorn

• Doubts about the `Stroller Girl' story

  OK, I believed this story at first but the more I hear it the stranger it gets...A commenter on the story "CTA and baby stroller: Questions arise after mother says girl thrown from stroller at Morse "L" platform -- Stroller had gotten caught in doors of departing train," [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:03pm EST
  by Eric Zorn

• Saturday will be another, far worse date to hate for phone users

  It was a more innocent time nearly 20 years ago when I wrote a column that began "We hate 708."

  The metropolitan region was about to split into two area codes -- the classic, familiar, time-honored 312 for thr city and the new, dreaded, strange 708 for the burbs.

  "708 [...]

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:39pm EST
  by Eric Zorn