Time_Asia-November_06_2017

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Japanese instant-ramen company

Nissin isreleasing a $130 noise-

canceling fork that is meant to mask the

sound of noodle slurping.

People areusing

the hashtag

#JusticeForJanet to

protest the NFL’s

invitation to Justin

Timberlake to headline

the 2018 Super Bowl

halftime show; his 2004

performance ended

with him exposing Janet

Jackson’s nipple in an

infamous “wardrobe

malfunction.”

AnItalian runner won the

Venice marathon for the

first time in 22 years after

the race’s front runners were

n the wrong direction for

eral hundred meters by a

motorcycle guide.

A Canadian man was given a $118

ticket by police, who said he was

screaming in public—a violation

in Montreal—whilesinging

C+C Music Factory’s “Gonna

Make You Sweat (Everybody

Dance Now)” in his car.

“A calm and modest life brings more happiness

than the pursuit of success combined with

constant restlessness.”A handwritten note

on happiness that Albert Einstein gave to a

bellboy in Japan in 1922 sold for $1.56 million

at an auction in Jerusalem.

‘I cried at

the end.’

KIT HARINGTON,

actor, revealing that he

shed tears during the

script read-through for

the final season ofGame

of Thrones

Julia Louis Dreyfus

announced that

she finished her

second round of

chemotherapy for

breast cancer with

the help of some

lyrics from Katy

Perry’s inspirational

song “Roar.”

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DJ Khaledcelebrated his son Asahd’s

first birthday with aLion King–inspired

partyfeaturing a real tiger cub.

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