A Super Mario toy is given an anatomy

Super Mario

One side is a perfectly pleasant view of cuddly characters beloved by children worldwide.

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It isn’t easy now, and it’ll be harder later to separate the truth from the legend

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At age two, Jake Barnett was diagnosed with autism and his future was unclear. Now at age 13, Jake is a college sophomore and a math and science prodigy. Jake says his autism is key to his success. Morley Safer reports.

Jake Barnett is one in 10 million. The Indianapolis 13-year-old has been acing college math and science courses since he was eight years old. Now Jake is a college sophomore taking honors classes in math and physics, while also doing scientific research and tutoring fellow students. No one could have predicted that Jake would even make it to college. At age two, Jake began to regress – he stopped speaking and making eye contact. The diagnosis: autism. Jake is proud of his autism. “That, I believe, is the reason why I am in college and I am so successful,” he tells Morley Safer.

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Edward Muscare died Sunday at an inmate medical center in North Florida. He was 79.

Muscare was arrested in 2010 after posting videos of himself singing such songs as “Pretty Woman.”

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What a DICK!

A man who had pleaded guilty to DUI manslaughter stemming from a crash near Tampa, Fla., on Christmas Day 2007 now denies causing the crash that killed three of the four people in the vehicle he hit.

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City officials in Los Angeles are asking the LA Fire Department to explain themselves after it’s become clear that porno films were produced with departmental fire engines serving as a substantial prop in at least two skin flicks.

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While the White House went to great lengths to keep the details of last year’s raid on the Osama bin Laden compound from penetrating the public peripheral, investigators are questioning how much intel the Pentagon passed to hotshots in Hollywood.

Lawmakers say that the May 2011 event that nearly ended the War on Terror was among the most secretive in the history of the CIA, and the Obama administration has since shunned the public from any details pertaining to the plan even after the former al-Qaeda leader’s execution and burial at sea. As skeptics scorned President Obama for his lack of transparency in the process and demanded proof, the White House largely left details of the event and what occurred before and after locked up in Washington.

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