Bond Singers Aim for Oscar Gold

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Bassey's First Academy Awards Dame Shirley Bassey has joined the all-star lineup of this year's Oscar performances, which already includes Barbra Streisand and Adele. Bassey will sing "Goldfinger" as part of a golden anniversary tribute to James Bond. It will be her first appearance at the Oscars.

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Blackout Mystery Solved The mystery behind the temporary power outage at the Super Bowl has been solved. Today we learned that the 34-minute blackout was caused by a relay installed to guard against cable failure.

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