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Wednesday, May 23, 2001
stress test
"ITHACA, N.Y. -- Even the low-level but chronic noise of everyday local traffic can cause stress in children and raise blood pressure, heart rates and levels of stress hormones, reports a new study by a Cornell University environmental psychologist and his European co-authors."
greenhorn
think bill walton sucks? then be your own sports announcer over the web.
green mountains
vermont senator to leave republican party. balance of power expected to shift to democrats. daschle expected to be named senate majority leader. does that mean they can squash the tax cut?
road show
"The scroll on which Jack Kerouac composed "On the Road" 50 years ago was auctioned yesterday at Christie's in Manhattan for $2.4 million, setting the world auction record for a literary manuscript and significantly eclipsing its presale estimate of $1 million to $1.5 million.
The winning bidder, James Irsay, the owner and chief executive of the Indianapolis Colts, walked away to rousing applause with one of the foremost literary relics of the 20th century."
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Tuesday, May 22, 2001
ivanna piazza
who is the best catcher in baseball?
mangan overbored
"FREMONT, Calif. -- Once upon a time, before Steven Brill knew Jim Romenesko's e-mail address, before The New Yorker discovered Weblogs, the best source for information about what journalists were doing on the Web sites was Tom Mangan, a full-time copy editor for the Peoria Journal Star."
maybe the un was right
bush sends money to taliban
Sunday, May 20, 2001
porntown usa
"Naked Capitalists: There's No Business Like Porn Business"
Saturday, May 19, 2001
wax on
"IT seems likely masturbation has always been the most common and universal of human sexual experiences — but only in recent decades have attitudes toward sexuality in general, and masturbation in particular, begun to improve. There never has been a "golden age" of sexual freedom and tolerance, though specific taboos have always varied widely. The frequent condemnation of masturbation apparently stems from a suprisingly simple mandate: there's safety in numbers. For centuries, all forms of sexual pleasure unlikely to result in population increase have routinely been denounced as wrong."