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(CBS) Last week we plowed through most of the new shows hitting television. This week there are three, starting with the two-hour “Terra Nova” premiere on Fox. If you haven’t seen the gargantuan trailers floating around the Interwebs, the show stars “Avatar” bad guy Stephen Lang and Jim O’Mara. One of the many executive producers is Steven Spielberg, which makes sense because this is a dinosaur-heavy tale. Short version: In 2149, Earth is less and less inhabitable. Via time travel, humans are being transported back 85 million years to an unspoiled planet. Expect special effects and…dinosaurs. Other shows debuting this week are “Hart of Dixie” on Monday, starring Rachel Bilson as a yankee doctor who takes a job south of the Mason-Dixon; “Suburgatory,” a single-camera comedy starring Jeremy Sisto and airing on Wednesday; and “How to be a Gentleman,” starring David Hornsby and the erstwhile Johnny Drama, Kevin Dillon. Pictures: The CBS seasonPictures: The NBC seasonPictures: The ABC season On the big screen, the heavily-promoted and thus far well received “50/50,” starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a young man with cancer, Seth Rogen as his best friend and Anna Kendrick as an illness counselor, opens Friday. Also opening is “Margaret,” starring Anna Paquin as a high school student who witnesses a fatal traffic accident and feels responsible for causing it. And for the one Josh Hartnett fan still out there,...

(AP) MISRATA, Libya – One of the young Libyan rebels credited with capturing Muammar Qaddafi in a drainage ditch nearly a year ago died Tuesday of injuries after being kidnapped, beaten and slashed by the late dictator’s supporters – the latest victim of persistent violence and instability in the North African country. The death of Omran Shaaban, 홀덤천국 who had been hospitalized in France, raised the prospect of even more violence and score-settling, with the newly elected National Congress authorizing police and the army to use force if necessary to apprehend those who abducted the 22-year-old and three companions in July near the town of Bani Walid. Libya is battling lingering pockets of support for the old regime, and its government has been unable to rein in armed militias in a country rife with weapons. Earlier this month, a demonstration at the U.S. Consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi turned violent, killing four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador. Shaaban was praised as a “dutiful martyr” by the National Congress, although his family says he never received a promised reward of 1 million Libyan dinars ($800,000) for capturing Qaddafi on Oct. 20, 2011, in the former leader’s hometown of Sirte. The eccentric dictator was killed later that day by revolutionary fighters. The Libyan government said it would honor Shaaban with a funeral befitting a hero. His body was greeted...

On Saturday, it will be 20 years since a relatively unknown band from Washington State released an album that changed the course of rock ‘n’ roll. Nirvana’s landmark recording “Nevermind” challenged the conventions of mainstream music, selling more than 30 million copies in the process. It also propelled the Seattle sound, a raw and honest style of music called grunge, onto the world stage, and provided a confused generation with an unlikely anthem. Pictures: Kurt Cobain Elizabeth Keenan, ethnomusicology professor at Columbia University, said of the time when Nevermind was released, “It was one of those really interesting political times. There were the years of Reagan growth, but then in ‘87 there’s the stock market crash, and then in 1990, there’s Operation Desert Storm. There’s this mood of real anxiety — especially for young people. In places like Seattle, this was really characteristic of the mood of the music scene.” Charles Peterson, a grunge photographer said, “Everybody was working really crappy day jobs and driving crappy cars and renting, you know, group houses. Really, no future in sight.” Susan Silver, former manager of Soundgarden and manager of Alice in Chains, said the groups “had to play music.” She said, “It wasn’t to get a record deal, it wasn’t to go on tour, it was — was what they did, what they were driven to do.” Sean Kinney, drummer for...