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Los Angeles, CA (WFN) -- You can call him Lance Bass-stronaut now. The 'N-Sync cutie is in talks to fly to the International Space Station in November. If Bass does goes "n-space" he'll be the youngest person and the first entertainer to do so.

NEW YORK -- 30 Ground Zero iron workers will be recreating history in New York today by eating their lunch on top of a sculpture that depicts a famous 1932 photo of skyscraper builders eating their lunch while suspended on a beam hundreds of feet above Manhattan.

BATON ROUGE, La. -- Master P got a last minute reprieve from having his $10 million Baton Rouge, Louisiana, recording studio auctioned off to pay contractors for its construction. A sheriff's department auction was scheduled for yesterday, but the rapper's lawyer worked out a deal to pay the contractors $137,000 of their $190,165 bill.

BERLIN -- Police in Germany are investigating a man who allegedly broke the law by dressing up like Hitler during a pre-Lent festival last week. Germany has laws against displaying Nazi paraphernalia and giving the Hitler salute.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Motorists in South Africa are being tempted to switch from motor oil to cooking oil. The minster of finance has just announced 30 percent tax cuts for drivers who use environmentally-friendly gasoline substitutes, reports the internet news service News24.com.

LOS ANGELES -- At 72, Dick Clark may be "America's Oldest Teenager" but his co-workers are telling him he could shave off a few years by going bald. Clark and his co-stars wear bald wigs on today's episode of "The Other Half" and co-host Danny Bonaduce claims Clark looks much younger bald than with hair.

NEW YORK -- Not all rockstars are drunken rabblerousers like Julian Casablancas from The Strokes. According to Undercover.com, Oprah Winfrey recently awarded Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard the Use Your Life Award for Gossard's work building housing on Indian reservations.

HOUSTON -- Now there's a website for those keeping tabs on dangerous-living celebs like Robert Downey Jr. and Whitney Houston. Whosaliveandwhosdead.com offers a frequently updated database of celebrities and their earthly status.

NEW YORK -- While she might not have been the luckiest girl lately, Mariah Carey has pulled herself up by the bootstraps and signed on to play a boxing manager in the upcoming film "The Sweet Science." According to Billboard.com, the film should open this summer.

HONOLULU -- Martha Stewart may have a lot of fans but it looks like one website is catering towards those who don't think too highly of the multi-media craftsmith. Nomarthastewart.com offers a full array of anti-Martha Stewart apparel, aprons and cooking hats with parodies of her slogans like "It's NOT a Good Thing."

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