Author Archives: Jacqueline Kelley

I built my own Downton Abbey set… in Lego

I built my own Downton Abbey set… in Lego

Fan Eric Stevens’ Lego Downton, complete with figures [CATERS] The Downton characters, pictured at Highclere Castle [ITV] Building on the success of the hit ITV drama, the stunning model was painstakingly crafted from thousands of the children’s plastic bricks by an American fan. The Earl and Countess of Grantham, Bates the valet, Branson the chauffeur, Matthew, Carson the butler, Lady ...

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AIDS researchers say they’re getting closer to cure

AIDS researchers say they’re getting closer to cure

Anna Rise/Getty Images/iStockphoto Scientists now believe surpressing the HIV/AIDS virus while bolstering the immune system is the best approach towards a potential cure. Scientists seeking a cure for AIDS say they have been inspired, not crushed, by a major setback in which two HIV positive patients believed to have been cured found the virus re-invading their bodies once more. True, ...

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Nursing student has a lewd tale of romance with Jets’ Geno Smith

Nursing student has a lewd tale of romance with Jets’ Geno Smith

Gang green’s rookie quarterback Geno Smith may have more in common with predecessor Brett Favre than just tossing balls and getting sacked. Atlanta nursing student Jackie Presley tells Confidenti@l that she enjoyed a fling with Smith that started out virtual, but soon turned into something more. Favre, of course, was the gridiron gunslinger accused of texting pics of his member ...

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Mmm, let’s eat at Dirt Candy!

Mmm, let’s eat at Dirt Candy!

Is there a restaurant anywhere with a worse name than Dirt Candy? Evoking filth or muck, the E. Ninth St. vegan eatery says its moniker is a tribute to what great veggies really are: treats from the dirt. “We were dead-set on not having a one-word name,” says Amanda Cohen, the chef and owner. So she and her husband chatted ...

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Kerry’s Mideast trip starts on sour note

Kerry’s Mideast trip starts on sour note

Brendan Smialowski/AP Secretary of State John Kerry has started off his visit to the Mideast on a sour note. Secretary of State Kerry’s Mideast visit started on a sour note Thursday when Israel’s leader accused his Palestinian counterpart of glorifying terrorists. Israel freed more than two dozen Arab prisoners this week . RELATED: AMERICAN HELD HOSTAGE BY AL QAEDA BEGS ...

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Nursing student has a lewd tale of romance with Jets’ Geno Smith

Nursing student has a lewd tale of romance with Jets’ Geno Smith

Gang green’s rookie quarterback Geno Smith may have more in common with predecessor Brett Favre than just tossing balls and getting sacked. Atlanta nursing student Jackie Presley tells Confidenti@l that she enjoyed a fling with Smith that started out virtual, but soon turned into something more. Favre, of course, was the gridiron gunslinger accused of texting pics of his member ...

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Back to the future: Scientists search the internet for evidence of time travelers

Back to the future: Scientists search the internet for evidence of time travelers

If you were to ask 100 people to pick the single greatest superhero power or sci-fi technology, time travel would almost certainly win. And believe it or not, time travel isn’t entirely outside the realm of reality — for some unified theories of the universe, such as general relativity, traveling in time is actually fairly easy. That’s why two American researchers ...

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What music to look forward to in 2014

What music to look forward to in 2014

James Keivom/New York Daily News Bono and the rest of U2 will return with a new album in 2014. New year, new sounds. While 2013 seemed to have blown music’s wad by crowding so many superstar releases into the Fall – shoving in Beyonce and Justin Bieber in just the last few weeks – that clears the deck for some ...

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Twins born in different years as clock strikes midnight

Twins born in different years as clock strikes midnight

www.today.com Yaleni Tohalino gave birth to a twin girl and boy minutes apart as the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve. That gave siblings Lorraine and Brandon two different birth years. These twins don’t share a birthday – or even a birth year. At least two sets of twins were born in different years Tuesday night as 2013 became ...

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