CONTAINING LINKS TO 1280 STORIES FROM THE NETWORKS' NIGHTLY NEWSCASTS
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All three newscasts closed with a fun feature as an antidote to fearful financial times. ABC's Nick Watt (embargoed link) visited The Pigs, a pub in the English countryside, where cash-strapped drinkers buy their beer by barter, providing fresh food for the kitchen in exchange…Daniel Sieberg kicked off CBS' Games Our Children Play series with the comforting news that most videogames played by teenagers do not have violent content and are enjoyed in social settings, often accomplishing educationally-approved goals such as solving problems and overcoming obstacles…for NBC's Planes, Trains & Automobiles series, Ron Mott introduced us to the mini-motel, a $50 single person indoor tent that folds into a five-pound carry-on bag. Mott posed as an airline passenger needing a nap while changing planes at Atlanta's Hartsfield Jackson or sitting through a delay. He pitched the red mini-motel on the floor in the terminal, zipped himself in and caught some z's.

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