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Even Mila Kunis can't make 'Jupiter Ascending' ascend, our movie critics say.

Jupiter Ascending? Um, not very far, say weekend movie critics

Intergalactic insanity, sea floor shenanigans, and high fantasy hijinks open in the nation’s box office, but our movie critics say this might be a better weekend for Netflix.

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Amid War and Chaos SpongeBob Squarepants Takes Over the Nile

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What ‘SpongeBob’ does to kids’ attention spans

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Earworms … Eeeewwww!!!

Study Says SpongeBob Ruins Attention Spans

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A Catalonian Christmas tradition

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The World’s Gerry Hadden reports a Christmas tradition in the Catalonian region of Spain. It will strike you as unusual and might strike you as offensive. It is a figure in the Catalonian nativity scene called the �pooper.�

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Zimbabwe’s collapsing reality

Correspondent Laura Lynch went undercover into Zimbabwe to find out why so many people in that African nation are so desperate; Zimbabwe suffers from an economy on the brink of collapse and from repression under President Robert Mugabe.

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