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From what’s going on in the Capitol to what’s happening oversees, we have it all. 

Today we see that small traces of radiation was found in milk samples in Spokane, Wash, meanwhile the official cost of the Japan earthquake and tsunami will be $300 billion.

GlobalGrind’s Global Mind

Where: USA

What: Tests of milk samples taken last week in Spokane, Wash., indicate the presence of radioactive iodine from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan. These levels are far below those at which action would have to be taken, the Environmental Protection Agency said on Wednesday.

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Money On My Mind

Whose Wallet: Japanese

Weight: $300 Billion

How They Hustled: This month’s catastrophic quake and tsunami could cost Japan’s government in excess of 25 trillion yen ($300 billion), an official said Thursday.

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Now That’s Just Sad

Who: Unnamed Ohio Man

What Happened: Police say a morbidly obese Bellaire man had to be removed from his home on Sunday. Police said the man’s skin had become attached to the fabric of the chair after he sat in it for two years.

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Inside the Capitol

Where: Arizona

Who: Gov. Jan Brewer 

What: On Tuesday, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law a controversial bill that makes the state the first in the nation to outlaw abortions performed on the basis of the race or gender of the fetus.

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Shame On You

Who: Rasheen (Illuminati) Harrison

What Happened: Harrison, 24, of Stapleton, Staten Island, was so enraged by his baby momma, police say, that he smeared his own excrement on her apartment door in Clifton and lit it ablaze all while she, her two young children and two other people were trapped inside. 

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Hero Of The Day

Who: Eric LeGrand

What: Paralyzed Rutgers football player Eric LeGrand was released from the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation on Wednesday and will live with an aunt in southern New Jersey.

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Better Than Fiction

Character: Marilyn Leisz

Plot Line: Marilyn Leisz said she went to a Bergen County plastic surgeon to correct bumps on her eyelids from a cosmetic procedure performed by another doctor and now she can’t fully close her eyes even when she sleeps.

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Numbers Game

Number: 138

Where: Florida

What:  he baby dolphin lay on its side, one flipper pointed toward cloudy skies, rocking back and forth with the waves near Innarity Point, FL .

“I looked and saw a baby porpoise, a terrible sight to see,” local resident Chris McCune told WKRG-TV News out of nearby Mobile, AL.

This young dolphin was one of the most recent of at least 138 dolphins that have died in the Gulf this year, nearly half of them premature or newborn calves.

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This Day In History

Year: 1889

What: On March 31, 1889, the Eiffel Tower is dedicated in Paris in a ceremony presided over by Gustave Eiffel, the tower’s designer, and attended by French Prime Minister Pierre Tirard, a handful of other dignitaries and 200 construction workers.