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LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
February 5, 2012 - 2:01 am
 

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

■ Doctors find a 1½-pound, 9-inch-long parasitic twin in the stomach of a Peruvian boy. Thanks, medical science, for once again making our creepiest nightmares real.

■ A miniskirted Celine Dion reportedly shows her audience more than she had intended during a performance at a Jamaican music festival. Demand for front-row seats at her Las Vegas shows immediately triples.

■ A Western Nevada College student alleges that students in a sex ed course were told to increase their masturbation routines as part of an assignment. Easy A.

■ Comedian Stephen Colbert's "super PAC" raises more than $1 million. Forget politics. Humor is where the big money is.

JOHN PRZYBYS (jprzybys@reviewjournal.com)

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