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We join with The Week Magazine to take a look back at the best and the worst of last week. The past seven days were pretty good for real life super-heroes but bad for a restaurant in New York that serves still-twitching octopus.
We join with The Week Magazine to take a look back at the best and the worst of last week. The past seven days were pretty good for real life super-heroes, as a man dressed as Spider-Man stopped a theft in progress at a comic book store. Meanwhile, PETA accused two New York restaurants of serving live octopus.