Verbatim

Monday, Mar. 07, 2011

    • 'It doesn't look like Michelle Obama follows her own nutritionary, dietary advice.'

    1. RUSH LIMBAUGH, radio host, accusing the First Lady--who is behind a nationwide antiobesity campaign--of being a hypocrite after seeing a picture of her eating ribs while on a skiing holiday

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    'Harry Reid will have to pry the cathouse keys from my cold, dead hands.'

    2. DENNIS HOF, owner of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, a Nevada brothel, on the Senate majority leader's call to outlaw prostitution in his home state, where it is legal in some counties

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    'I feel younger now than when I was in my 30s and 40s and had all those problems.'

    3. IDA KEELING, a 95-year-old woman from the Bronx who set a world record after running 60 m in 29.86 sec.; she is the oldest woman to do so

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    'He didn't have the focus correct all the time, but that doesn't matter.'

    4. GARY MACK, curator of the Dallas-based Sixth Floor Museum, on the cameraman behind a recently acquired amateur video showing President John F. Kennedy at a Houston hotel the day before his 1963 assassination

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    'The official private race to the moon is on.'

    5. PETER DIAMANDIS, CEO of the X-Prize Foundation, announcing the teams that will compete to build a robot to travel to the moon; the first to send back video of the lunar surface will win $30 million

    5

    Years since Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas last asked a question during oral arguments; Thomas has served since 1991

    100,000

    Number of people who signed up within 24 hours to use Breakup Notifier, an app that e-mails you when someone you are interested in changes their relationship status on Facebook to "single"

    40 MILES

    Yearly distance that magnetic north, located at the top of Earth, is shifting toward Russia; the point's position is in constant movement

    310

    Number of consecutive conference games the Caltech men's basketball team had lost since 1985 before beating Occidental College on Feb. 22

    Sources: The Rush Limbaugh Show; Politico; ABC News; AP; BBC