This past summer, I worked on a campaign for Scotsman that included a mobile application designed to help users find nearby restaurants offering their favorite kind of chewable ice: nugget ice.

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Her closeness to Mr. Murdoch, who is said to regard her as a kind of favorite daughter (although he has four actual daughters), has protected her during the recent scandal engulfing the company, even as legislators called on her to resign.

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My own favorite current example of this kind is a group called Glamour Gals which started on Long Island but which now has some 68 chapters in 14 states.

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As a public service, NPR asked some of their favorite chefs to teach you how to cook the kind of food that graces the candidates' plates when they eat out.

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In New York, the Inhabitat team dropped by the 3D Printing Conference and Expo -- the first trade show of its kind -- and we rounded up some of our favorite 3D-printing innovations on display.

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Valentine navigated his Boston premiere with precision, deferring to new Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington at times and resisting the kind of digs and pokes that made him not everyone's favorite as a manager but irresistible as an ESPN analyst.

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Here he joins the largest chocolate fountain in the world, a first of its kind freestanding series of melted chocolate cascades enclosed in glass, and will remain sitting in his favorite chair watching the magic throughout the holiday season.

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