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Here are a few things in news, entertainment and pop culture that we've been talking about lately.

■ Las Vegas assemblyman introduces a bill to ban smoking on Nevada's state college and university campuses. What? How dare he ... oh, tobacco? Never mind.

■ London ice cream parlor unveils "Baby Gaga," an ice cream flavor made out of 75 percent human breast milk. At $22.50 a serving, it should come with the actual breasts.

■ The R-J's Norm Clarke reports that Steve Wynn and Andrea Hissom are ready to tie the knot. What do you get the couple who has everything? Like, literally?

■ Hyde Park Middle School eighth-grader Dakota Jones u25B6 wins the Nevada State Spelling Bee for the second year in a row. Multitudinous felicitations, sir.

JOHN PRZYBYS (jprzybys@reviewjournal.com)

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