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Studies show that up to 40% of women experience hair loss or hair thinning during menopause or in the four to five year period before menopause (perimenopause). Although there are no overnight solutions to menopausal hair loss, there are a number of steps you can take to remedy the situation.

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The Cleveland Clinic Guide to Menopause (Cleveland Clinic Guides)From the nation?s top-ranked clinic for gynecology and endocrinology, the most important health information and advice on what to do before and during menopause

Regain Control and Enjoy A Vibrant, Healthy Midlife!

If you are one of the millions of women who want answers about menopause, help has arrived: Discover leading-edge menopause treatments that offer effective relief from symptoms, and gain optimism and peace of mind about your health!

In The Cleveland Clinic Guide to Menopause, Dr. Holly Thacker, a trailblazer in women?s health, cuts through the myths and misinformation and provides solid information to help you handle menopause more effectively. She also offers advice that helps you improve your vitality, longevity, and quality of life. Inside you?ll find guidance to help you:

• Control menopause symptoms through safe, effective treatments that balance short-term results with your long-term health.
• Understand the myths and facts about hormone therapy and sort through the inaccurate, misleading and conflicting information that?s so prevalent today.
• Sleep better, boost your energy, and recharge your sex life?so you can regain short term results you want!
• Get the facts about vitamins, supplements, and antidepressants.
• Protect your long-term health by strengthening your bones, helping your heart, and taking smart steps to help prevent cancer and other diseases.

Cleveland Clinic is ranked consistently among the top hospitals in America by U.S. News & World Report. Its team of Women?s Health professionals offers coordinated, supportive care for the problems that affect women's lives, from breast cancer and infertility, to incontinence, pelvic floor disorders, and more.

No More HRT: Menopause - Treat the CauseContrary to popular opinion menopause is not a disease but a normal process in woman?s life - a time when the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual-self need nurturing. Hot flashes, night sweats, memory problems, fatigue, weight gain, loss of libido or headaches are blamed on the decreased production of hormones when the true cause is imbalanced adrenal glands, liver, thyroid and digestive function.

Along with equality, women have gained too much daily stress with increased work loads, lack of physical and spiritual exercise, insufficient rest, poor diet, environmental toxins including the exposure to toxic estrogens in the environment, all contributors to a difficult menopause.

No More HRT: Menopause Treat the Cause provides you with the key to a symptom-free menopause. Dr. Karen Jensen and Lorna Vanderhaeghe recommend treating the cause of women?s health problems by supporting the body with a healthy diet and lifestyle at an early age, to prevent PMS, fibroids, endometriosis, infertility, heavy periods, hot flashes, night sweats, breast and ovarian cysts, menopause and more. With love, they have put together a simple program to ensure vibrant health.

Life is a continuous adventure that requires mental, emotional, physical and spiritual stamina during the hormonal transitional years and always. This book offers many tips and insights that can help women accomplish this.

From this book you will learn:

• Why weak adrenals and low thyroid worsen menopausal symptoms
• New ways to improve energy
• How to enhance your flagging libido
• Calming remedies for peaceful sleep
• How to protect your bones, heart and memory
• Treatment strategies for uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts, heavy menstruation and more
• Discover nutrients to slow aging
• Why hormone imbalance makes you fat
• How to improve thyroid function

. . . and much, much more. The Truth About Hormone Replacement Therapy: How to Break Free from the Medical Myths of MenopauseJust Say No to America's Number-One Drug
Menopause is not a disease. So why are millions of American women taking a drug for this natural body process?
The widespread popularity of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is a triumph of marketing and advertising over science. Although HRT and estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) can help some women with certain menopause-related problems, the benefits have been oversold to women and their health care providers. There is no scientifically valid evidence that estrogen prevents heart disease, colon cancer, or Alzheimer's. Nor is there any evidence that it keeps you looking younger, preserves your sex drive, or enhances your memory.
However, HRT does carry the risk of serious side effects, including certain cancers. Should you be taking such risky drugs to help you get through menopause? The Truth About Hormone Replacement Therapy, written by the National Women's Health Network, will help you decide. Inside, you'll discover:
?The risks of hormone replacement therapy
?How to talk to your doctor about HRT
?The truth about hormone therapy and osteoporosis
?Natural alternatives to relieve perimenopausal and menopausal symptoms
?And much more
This sensible health guide gives you the tools you need to make an informed decision that's best for you and your body.
"A balanced review of the hazards and potential benefits of hormone therapy after menopause."
?Graham A. Colditz, M.D., professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School The Natural Menopause Solution: Expert Advice for Melting Stubborn Midlife Pounds, Reducing Hot Flashes, and Getting Relief from Menopause Symptoms

For far too long, doctors thought hormone replacement therapy was the answer to menopausal symptoms from hot flashes to sleepless nights to stubborn belly fat. But while it does help, HRT can be risky?and may raise women?s chances for breast cancer, heart attack, and stroke. Luckily, there?s a growing stack of research that natural remedies can be just as effective.

In The Natural Menopause Solution, the editors of Prevention and integrative medicine specialist Melinda Ring, MD, distill that research into the easy-to-follow 30-Day Slim-Down, Cool-Down Diet, which can help women lose 21 percent more body weight. Plus it?s proven to help reduce the number and intensity of hot flashes by 50 percent. In addition to this easy eating and exercise program, there are hundreds of drug-free solutions for sleep problems, memory lapses, mood swings, lack of energy, low libido, and more?and strategies to protect against heart disease, diabetes, stroke, osteoporosis, and cancer.

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BracketRacket: 'There's a pattern. I memorized it'

Saint Louis' Cody Ellis, left, celebrates with Cory Remekun after the NCAA college basketball game against the Virginia Commonwealth in the championships of the Atlantic 10 Conference tournament, Sunday March 17, 2013, in New York. Saint Louis beat Virginia Commonwealth 62-56. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Saint Louis' Cody Ellis, left, celebrates with Cory Remekun after the NCAA college basketball game against the Virginia Commonwealth in the championships of the Atlantic 10 Conference tournament, Sunday March 17, 2013, in New York. Saint Louis beat Virginia Commonwealth 62-56. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Western Kentucky guard Jamal Crook goes in for a shot during the first half of a second-round game against Kansas in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament Friday, March 22, 2013, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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Miami's Reggie Johnson fouls Pacific's Tony Gill (33) during the second half of a second-round game of the NCAA college basketball tournament Friday, March 22, 2013, in Austin, Texas. Miami beat Pacific 78-49. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Albany's Mike Black, left, and Duke's Mason Plumlee chase after a loose ball during the first half of a second-round game of the NCAA college basketball tournament, Friday, March 22, 2013, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Michael Perez)

Welcome back to BracketRacket, the one-stop shopping place for all your NCAA tournament needs.

Today, we throw down, challenge follicles, solve a Rubik's Cube and kiss the rim, all without breaking a sweat, even after batting the ball around with tennis star and Harvard dropout James Blake. We also refer you to a chilling list of celebrity alumni evil twins.

But before any of it, we defy long odds.

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WHY ARE WE HERE?

Wow. That didn't take long.

By now, you're probably wishing you'd dropped that $5, or $10, or whatever, on lottery tickets instead of throwing it into the office pool.

Because when someone wins the lottery, they just call themselves lucky. Whoever wins your pool is going to call themself a genius. And you will be hearing about it for the rest of your life.

As the higher-ranked seeds began tumbling down Friday like ... well, like real seeds, we were debating bracket-theology ((at) copyright) with John Affleck, the deputy sports editor of The Associated Press.

It was about perfection being the enemy of good. As it became increasingly clear there wouldn't be a perfect bracket left by the end of the night ? merely good ones ? we traded messages about what that meant. After Georgetown fell to Florida Gulf Coast, he sent this: "The Gtown result means the last perfect ESPN bracket is gone."

So that's 8.15 million brackets ? give or take a few ? down the drain. A check of Yahoo! Sports at late afternoon showed 174 perfect brackets at the end of round 1, out of 3.3 million entered, or 0.012 percent. Chances are good they're marred now, too. No word yet on the other big sites, but don't expect much encouraging news.

BracketRacket doesn't know anyone who has all 32 teams still alive heading into the weekend. Neither do you.

The odds against it happening are one in 9.2 quintillion.

But it's out there.

Offline maybe, but somewhere.

Our best guess is a federal minimum-security prison like Danbury, where the kid who came up with the algorithm that bankrupted some investment firm talked a gaggle of his white-collar criminal pals into filling one out. Or locked away in a file drawer at the Beardstown Ladies investment club.

We have to hold on to something.

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OK, LET IT GO

Today's celebrity alum won his second-round match Friday at the Sony Open, but got to celebrate twice. Sort of.

"I'm still upset for not taking Harvard in my bracket," Blake told AP sports writer Steve Wine at a tournament in Key Biscayne, Fla. "I thought about being silly and loyal, but I was like, 'Be smart and be realistic' I should have gone with my heart."

Probably so. He couldn't have done any worse than those of us who used our heads.

"I was still happy," Blake added. "I'm happy to lose my brackets and have Harvard go a little farther."

The delayed celebration came about because Blake was asleep Thursday night, when the Crimson toppled New Mexico 68-62 two time zones away in Salt Lake City, the first real snowball in what has become an avalanche of upsets,

"But I knew pretty early," he said. "I woke up and got my phone and I had about 10 texts saying, 'Go Crimson.' I was pretty sure they had won."

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PROOF THAT SOME PEOPLE SHOULDN'T GO TO COLLEGE

The tournament has given rise to a little side competition coming up with the best list of celebrity alumni. Sports Illustrated's is pretty good here: http://bit.ly/WTYDo0,

And we've been circulating one of our own around the office.

But nobody is going to top this one from Buzzfeed here: http://bit.ly/15CVHut.

Nobody.

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DUNK YOU VERY MUCH

The argument for breakout star of the tournament is already heating up. The CBS duo of Jim Nantz and Clark Kellogg devoted a good portion of their assignment covering Ohio State-Iona touting Buckeyes sophomore Sam Thompson and he made a pretty compelling case with this: http://bit.ly/101xV8i.

But don't sleep on DJ Stephens of Memphis. His coach, Josh Pastner, likes to say, "If you're going to play for me, you've got to be quick, you've got to be fast, and you've got to play above the rim." And he's already guaranteed that Stephens, a senior, will win the NBA dunk contest next year because he routinely does this: http://bit.ly/Yv49vC and this: http://bit.ly/101zmUg.

We're only two rounds in, but we're giving him the early nod, mostly because of this: http://bit.ly/YLAvOQ.

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IT'S NOT ALL IN THE WRIST

Harvard may be on the other side of the bracket from Kansas, and on the other side of the world when it comes to basketball tradition. But on the theory that it's never too early to begin preparing for an opponent, Jayhawks guard Kevin Young sat in the corner of the locker room by himself Friday, fiddling with a Rubik's Cube. AP sports writer Dave Skretta looked on.

"It keeps my mind clear. It keeps me focused," Young explained ahead of Kansas' tip-off against Western Kentucky.

He picked up the habit while playing at Barstow Community College, relentlessly studying how one of his teammates there solved it consistently.

About all Young will reveal is, "There is a pattern and I memorized it."

He puts his best time at around two minutes, but his teammates are so mesmerized, they think he's even faster than that.

"He can do it in seconds," Travis Releford said.

Or at least what must seem like seconds to a guy like Releford, who told Skretta that he spends his free time bowling.

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ONE DAY YOU'RE IN AND THE NEXT DAY ...

Thirty years ago, the long hair and short shorts favored by ballers were deemed a grave threat to the future of our civilization. And ultimately it led to this: http://bit.ly/YcF37m.

In case you've forgotten, or just blocked it out, that's Dwayne Schintzius at Florida, circa 1990. Scary, no?

Then the "Fab Five" turned up as freshmen at Michigan in 1991 with shaved heads and long shorts, and those became the new sign of the apocalypse. What nobody should doubt is that it's been a hot mess ever since, at least stylistically speaking.

But we'll leave the current Zubaz plague on the side for the moment ? especially if those college athletic directors so desperate to be hip would do the same ? and go straight to the hair of matter.

What's up with this http://bit.ly/YrErZ0, this http://bit.ly/ZXTg2v and this http://bit.ly/14f7CT8?

If these guys ? in order, Gonzaga's Kelly Olynyk, Saint Louis' Cody Ellis and Wisconsin's Mike Brusewitz ? aren't careful, one day they're going to wind up looking like this http://bit.ly/11lGopi.

"Clearly, I work really hard at it," said the appropriately named Brusewitz, who's been growing his hair out since last May and will have even more time to devote to whatever that is now that the Badgers have been eliminated.

"It's not for everybody," he added. "There are people out there that do like it, and there are people that will have their own opinions, but it's my hair and I will do what I want to."

Your call, Mike. This isn't Russia.

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DON'T FORGET TO TIP THE ATTENDANTS

Marquette's Chris Otule gets to watch the show close up. He describes it this way: "Splits in the air, kicking his leg up like the dancers in Vegas."

The rest of us recognize that dynamo as coach Buzz Williams working the sideline.

Williams sweats like an iced tea left out on a porch in summer. And while his passion seems endless, his supply of suits is not.

"That's why I take my jacket off," Williams told AP National Writer Nancy Armour, "just so I can maybe have that suit again next year."

It used to be worse before Williams shed 37 pounds, mostly by running, though he concedes he's put a few back on with the hectic schedule of the last few weeks. He's also learned another trick. Williams deploys a brand new dri-fit shirt that Nike provides underneath his button-down. That way, only one of them requires wringing out after the game.

Otule spared Armour from having to watch that postgame ritual by confirming it's "so sweaty," it's "like he actually played in the game."

And you thought players cooperating with the media was a thing of the past.

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STAT OF THE DAY

STATS has the NCAA selection committee's back on the argument over whether too may mid-major programs got into the tournament at the expense of teams from the big-boy conferences.

Five Atlantic 10 teams got in and all five won at least one game. Before this year, the mighty ACC had matched that feat on five separate occasions, and the Big East and Big Ten were right behind with four. But the SEC and Big 12 have nothing on the A-10. Each turned the trick exactly.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

"This is a hump we can't get over yet, but we'll keep trying to figure it out." ? Notre Dame coach Mike Brey after the Fighting Irish were bounced out of the tournament in the first round for the third time in four years, this time by Iowa State.

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Jim Litke is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at jlitke(at)ap.org and follow him at Twitter.com/Jim Litke.

Associated Press

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Little Things Forever for iPhone and iPad review

Little Things Forever is an iPhone and iPad game where you must seek and find little items that are part of an artistic patchwork. As you find items, you collect puzzles pieces to solve the 9 different included puzzles.

Little Things Forever features thousands of little things that make up larger pieces of artwork. The biggest art piece is a star on the menu screen. When you start a game, you zoom into one of the items that makes up the star, which is also made up of hundreds of things.

The first thing you zoom into is a triceratops dinosaur and you are given a list of items you must find. You can zoom in and scroll if you wish and when you find an item, simply tap on it. It will start to sparkle to indicate that you found the right thing. If you're wrong, an X will flash on it.

Once you find all the things on the list, you will earn a puzzle piece then be given another list. Once you've earned all the puzzle pieces for the first puzzle, you get to solve it. You can move both the location and rotation of the pieces. And what are the puzzle pieces made of? You guessed it -- little things! This makes the puzzles a bit of a challenge to solve.

When you solve a puzzle, you unlock one of the things in the star and repeat the process.

One of the great features of Little Things Forever is multiple user support. This is rare to find in iOS games, so it's great to see the ability to have 4 different games saved at once.

The good

• Unique and beautiful
• Thousands of little things to find
• Incredible artwork and a beautiful soundtrack
• Randomly generated lists of things to find
• 101 puzzle pieces to collect and 9 puzzles to solve
• Will feature new puzzles delivered in future updates
• Retina display support
• Universal for iPhone and iPad

The bad

• Some users complain of crashes, though it's never crashed for me (iPhone 5)

The bottom line

Little Things Forever is a great little game. If you love puzzles and are good at finding things, then you'll love this one.

• Free - Download now

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Do I know you? Memory patterns help us recall the social webs we weave

Friday, March 22, 2013

With a dizzying number of ties in our social networks ? that your Aunt Alice is a neighbor of Muhammad who is married to Natasha who is your wife's boss ? it's a wonder we remember any of it. How do we keep track of the complexity? We cheat, says a Cornell University sociologist in Scientific Reports.

Humans keep track of social information not by rote memorization but with simplifying rules, as you might remember a number sequence that always increases by two, according to author Matthew Brashears, assistant professor of sociology. People recall social ties that both involve at least three people who know each other and kinship labels such as "aunt" twice as well as they remember ties that do not, even though triad kinship networks are far more complex, he said.

"Humans are able to manage big, sprawling, complicated social networks essentially because we don't remember big, sprawling, complicated social networks. We remember simplified, regular structures that bear a reasonable similarity to what those networks look like," Brashears said. In cases where the relationships don't fit the pattern, we remember the pattern and the few exceptions, instead of remembering all the ties simultaneously, he added.

About 300 study participants read paragraphs describing a group of people and how they relate to each other. Some paragraphs included kinship labels and some didn't. Other paragraphs included closed triads ? where three people each know each other ? while other paragraphs did not. The participants were then asked to recall as many of the ties as possible.

When the paragraphs contained both kinship labels and closed triads, the participants' recall improved by 50 percent compared with participants whose paragraphs included neither ? even though the kinship and triad paragraphs contained nearly twice as many relationships.

"That's a pretty substantial improvement," Brashears said. Moreover, participants did worse when trying to recall paragraphs that had kin relationships but no triads. "It's like trying to remember a random number sequence by using the 'increase by two' rule," he said.

The study helps explain how humans actively manage so many more social ties compared with other primates ? a key question in the field of sociology. The answer is that we evolved the capacity to spot and use social patterns.

"Our ability to remember and manage socials ties ? and build bigger groups of people ? had to do with coming up with new and interesting ways of compressing that information. It's about how we structure our groups and how that allows us to remember them, as opposed to just sheer cognitive horsepower," he said.

The research may help also explain some peculiarities of human networks, such as transitivity: If George is my friend and Susan is my friend, then Susan and George are likely to be friends. Brashears suspects that some social networks are easier to remember than others, and individuals who build groups that conform to those rules were more evolutionarily successful.

"Some of the reasons why human networks look the way they do is because they have to, in order for us to process them, to manage it cognitively," he says.

Medical researchers may benefit from the research as they seek to understand why some people don't grasp social intricacies as well as others. "We may have a better ability to understand social anxiety and autism spectrum if we understand how we're compressing and reconstructing social information using these mechanisms," Brashears said.

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Study: http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130321/srep01513/full/srep01513.html

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Apple hit by password-reset security hole

Devin Coldewey , NBC News ? ? ? 31 min.

Apple's password-resetting process has been taken down following the publication of a major security hole that allowed accounts to be accessed with just an email and date of birth. Apple is in the process of fixing the vulnerability.

The password-reset exploit, first reported by The Verge after they received an anonymous tip, involved pasting a certain URL into the browser while answering the date-of-birth security question. This would grant access to the iTunes and iCloud accounts associated with that email address, with which the attacker could do what they liked.

There is no indication of how long the hole has been available to be taken advantage of, or how accounts have been compromised.

Apple is working on a fix, but in the meantime has taken down the password-reset function. The company rolled out a two-step verification process on Thursday, allowing users to tie their account security to a device ? but it takes three days to take effect, so even early adopters were vulnerable to this exploit.

NBC News has reached out to Apple for comment and will update this post when we hear back.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. His personal website is coldewey.cc.

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Grandfather of African literature, Chinua Achebe, dies aged 82

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, widely seen as the grandfather of modern African literature, has died at the age of 82.

From the publication of his first novel, "Things Fall Apart", over 50 years ago, Achebe shaped an understanding of Africa from an African perspective more than any other author.

As a novelist, poet, broadcaster and lecturer, Achebe was a yardstick against which generations of African writers have been judged. For children across Africa, his books have for decades been an eye-opening introduction to the power of literature.

Describing Achebe as a "colossus of African writing", South African President Jacob Zuma expressed sadness at his death.

Nelson Mandela, who read Achebe's work in jail, has called him a writer "in whose company the prison walls fell down."

Achebe's "Things Fall Apart", published in 1958, told of his Igbo ethnic group's fatal brush with British colonisers in the 1800s - the first time the story of European colonialism had been told from an African viewpoint to an international audience. The book was translated into 50 languages and has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.

He later turned his sights on the devastation wrought to Nigeria and Africa by military coups and entrenched dictatorship.

?"Anthills of the Savannah," published in 1987, is set after a coup in a fictional African country, where power has corrupted and state brutality silenced all but the most courageous.

The pain at Achebe's death was felt across Nigeria, and particularly in the southeast homeland of the Igbos.

"Our whole household is crying out in grief," a cousin and traditional chief, Uba Onubon, told Reuters in Ikenga village.

WAR

Born at Ogidi in southeast Nigeria on November 16, 1930, Achebe was the son of a Christian evangelist. He went to mission schools and to University College, Ibadan, and taught briefly before joining the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, where he was director of external broadcasting from 1961 to 1966.

When his homeland broke away from Nigeria in a disastrous bid for independence, Achebe launched a publishing company in Enugu, capital of the self-declared republic of Biafra.

After the war, which cost a million lives along with Biafra's hopes of statehood, Achebe returned to Enugu to teach at the nearby Nsukka University.

In 1972 he moved to Massachusetts and since then spent much of his time in the United States, with occasional spells in Nigeria. His last post was at Brown University in Rhode Island.

Through tears, former government minister and friend Dora Akunyili said Achebe's death "leaves a void in Nigeria, Africa and globally."

Although Achebe never won the Nobel literature prize like fellow Nigerian Wole Soyinka, his works won praise for their vivid portrayal of African realities and their accessibility for all readers.

His contribution was recognised when he won The Man Booker International Prize in 2007.

CORRUPTION

He never hesitated to turn harsh words on his home country, publishing a pamphlet in 1983, "?The Trouble With Nigeria", excoriating its corruption and condemning it as "dirty, callous, noisy, ostentatious, dishonest and vulgar. In short it is among the most unpleasant places on earth."

"The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility," he wrote, words which chimed with the feelings of many Nigerians.

In 2004, he turned down the title 'Commander of the Federal Republic' offered to him by then President Olusegun Obasanjo, replying that he was appalled by the cliques who had turned Nigeria into "a bankrupt and lawless fiefdom".

Undaunted, President Goodluck Jonathan also tried to confer a national honour on him in 2011. He snubbed that one too.

A car accident put Achebe in a wheelchair in 1990 and he wrote no books for more than 20 years.

His last, "There Was a Country" was a deeply personal account, in prose and poetry, of the horrors of the 1967-70 Biafra war, lifting decades of silence on the loss of friends, family and countrymen that forever shaped his life.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/grandfather-african-literature-chinua-achebe-dies-aged-82-120902420.html

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Official: NY tax breaks would apply to 'Tonight'

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ? If New York isn't trying hard to lure "The Tonight Show" back to Manhattan, it's doing a pretty good impression.

A Cuomo administration official said Thursday that New York is trying to lure TV shows from California with a proposed tax credit program and the "Tonight" show would qualify if it decides to move back to Manhattan.

The show started in 1954 and moved to Burbank in 1972 with host Johnny Carson.

But there is no deal with NBC or the "Tonight" show, and the official wouldn't say if the state is trying to attract the show. The person wasn't authorized to comment on any potential deals and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.

A bill in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's pending budget would need legislative approval.

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