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Reading While Eating for May 25: You’re Still Here?

Today’s lunchtime must-reads for Memorial Day Friday: Alien child stars and smoking pot with Barack Obama.

The Thunderbirds perform a fly by as graduates celebrate at the Air Force Academy commencement ceremony in Colorado Springs

Reading While Eating for May 24: Maybe, Baby

In today’s lunchtime links: More Carly Rae Jepsen than you can shake a phonecam at.

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Reading While Eating for May 23: A Bed of Roses

In today’s lunchtime links: the worst rich people on TV, the best football tricks you’ll see today and one dumb criminal.

A young athlete from the provincial diving team rests on sponges during a training session at a training centre in Taiyuan

Reading While Eating for May 17: Dive Right In

In today’s lunchtime links: Cory Booker’s guide to twitter, the best movies of the millennium and a puppy that fell from the sky.

Madame Tussauds employee Lisa Burton poses with a paintbrush on a new figure of Britan's Queen Elizabeth, produced in honour of her Diamond Jubilee in London

Reading While Eating for May 15: Don’t Be Evil

In today’s lunch links: Gmail explained, George Lucas’ revenge and nine superweapons that didn’t work.

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Reading While Eating for May 10: Set Them Free

Today’s lunchtime links: A heartwarming home game, a skateboarding prodigy and a little bit of Hitler.

A 26-foot tall statue of Marilyn Monroe is separated for disassembly in Chicago

Reading While Eating for May 9: Big Things

In today’s lunchtime links: a Marilyn statue comes down, a kid meets a dinosaur and a superhero gets called out (again).

An exercise rider works out a race horse during the early morning hours at Churchill Downs Friday, May 4, 2012, in Louisville, Ky.

Reading While Eating for May 4: And They’re Off

In today’s lunch reads: The Kentucky Derby, orangutans and one tough paratrooper.

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Reading While Eating for May 3: Further Reading

In today’s lunchtime reading: libraries, more libraries and the worst people on the Internet. (Not you.)

Occupy Wall Street activists, one wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, rest on a sidewalk during a May Day demonstration in New York May 1, 2012.

Reading While Eating for May 2: Working for a Living

In today’s lunchtime links: An inspirational football player gets a job, a Texan with a thing for electric fences campaigns for a new one and TIME investigates the end of the unpaid internship.