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15:16 UK time, Friday, 11 March 2011

A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.

The Wire fans are clicking on a story in the Guardian about the . Felicia Pearson is among 60 people arrested after a raid following a seven-month investigation into the drugs trade. The Wire was a television series filmed in Baltimore and cast a spotlight on the city's struggle with poverty and drug violence. The Guardian adds that this is not Ms Pearson's first brush with the law. She was convicted of second-degree murder committed when she was 14, served five years of an eight-year sentence, and was released in 2000.

Telegraph readers are looking at . Rare photographs from the private collection of Eva Braun show the pair "happy and at play" as the WWII reached its climax. One photo shows her with black face paint on dressed up as American actor Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer.

One of the New Yorker's most popular stories recounts the lessons :

(1) Producing is about discouraging creativity. Sometimes actors have what they call 'ideas.'
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(2) Figure out if there is something you're asking the actor to do that's making him or her uncomfortable.
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(3) The show doesn't go on because it's ready; it goes on because it's eleven-thirty.

A popular Economist article reports on an ongoing heated and suggests there is a class element. It highlights online comment that "high-speed rail is an upper-middle class toy" as "trains are more expensive than planes, and nobody will ride them as long as planes exist because they are slower and more expensive".

A , explains the New Scientist's most read article. GPS satellite signals are very weak, making it very easy to jam them. Though illegal to use in the US, UK and many other countries, low-tech jamming devices can be bought on the internet for as little as $30.

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