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Emlyn Hughes, a Columbia University science professor, and his teaching methods are under review by the university after a lecture on quantum mechanics included Hughes stripping to his underwear and showing 9/11 video footage, as well as a participant destroying a stuffed animal with a sword.

Maurice Taylor, chairman of Titan International Inc., told French Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg in a letter that his company isn’t interested in buying a tire plant in the country because French workers earn high wages for little work, writing, “They get one hour for breaks and lunch, talk for three and work for three.”

Jin Zengmin, a Chinese businessman, has said he will pay the area’s environmental protection chief, Bao Zhenming, about $32,000to swim in Rui’an city’s garbage-filled river, which Zengmin contends is being polluted by a rubber-shoe factory.

Rob Morrison, a New York City television news anchor accused of choking and threatening his wife at their Connecticut home, has resigned from his job, effectively immediately, WCBSTV said in a statement.

Chief Joseph Dougherty

of the Gettysburg, Pa., Police Department said a Gettysburg College student’s report of a gunshot was actually the sound of a newspaper hitting the sidewalk.

Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the U.S. House, told CBS This Morning that President Barack Obama’s campaign was “eight, maybe 10 years, ahead” of the Republican Party last year in understanding the rapidly changing demographics of the American electorate.

Sen. Marco Rubio, RFla., told Israeli President Shimon Peres during a visit to Israel that Jerusalem, which is claimed by the Israelis and Palestinians, is “of course the capital of your country.”

Sen. Patrick Leahy, DVt., said he and other members of a congressional delegation visiting Cuba, met with Alan Gross, an American man who is serving a 15-year sentence for illegally taking communications equipment to the island.

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