Dronpack your thigh-high pleather boots and break out the fishnets: The hooker is back in fashion. After a celluloid resurgence in the ’90s, when Oscar honored both Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite) and Kim Basinger (L.A. Confidential) for plying the world’s oldest profession, the whore is back on her back, only [...]
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Teens having group sex, doing drugs, getting into fights, spreading infectious diseases, and shooting one another. It’s a compelling set of issues, and just about any journalism outfit would slobber at a chance to cover the story, especially when it all comes wrapped up in the tidy package of a single [...]
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The boxes have come by the dozens, filling the federal courthouse basement with a million pages detailing the government’s actions in the 1993 Branch Davidian siege.
Three floors up sits the judge who forced every agency of the U.S. government to surrender what he terms a “mountain of sealed documents:” U.S. District Judge [...]
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That haze you see coming from the range on the Australian outback might not be a fire burning out of control. It’s probably pot smoke.
For years, Australia has been synonymous with heavy beer drinking. But the image of the typical Australian as some sort of Crocodile Dundee character — swilling down [...]
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Anyone who’s worked at a start-up knows that the stock market’s fluctuations are nothing compared to the roller coaster of dot-com daily life: changes in direction, leadership turnovers, budget woes and IPOs make for a tumultuous ride.
So where do you go when your venture capital runs out and the refrigerator that [...]
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Dropchen the Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon hits theaters in December, there’s going to be a new name on moviegoers’ lips: Tony Clifton. Sure, the pre-release hype is focused on Jim Carrey, but it’s the promise of “Tony Clifton as himself” that should be getting the buzz.
Back in the [...]
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In one of the best lines in last summer’s hit film The Blair Witch Project, a lost film student tries to cheer her colleagues, reminding them that the forest they are passing through will inevitably give way to a highway or subdivision. “After all, ” she says, “this is America — [...]
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Tony Gwynn plays right field for baseball’s San Diego Padres.
Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Tony Gwynn worked with the FBI to help catch forgers who were selling faked items in the sports memorabilia market, according to a broadcast report.
The athletes helped the FBI spot fake signatures during a two-year undercover FBI [...]
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Although Precious Bedell has won her freedom from prison on a technicality, there are plenty of people — the current district attorney among them — who say she is just as deserving of her release as if she had served her full sentence.
“Precious Bedell has done not extraordinary, but ultra-extraordinary in [...]
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Researchers took a significant step toward understanding the mysteries of miscarriage after discovering a crucial protein that prevents miscarriages in mice.
The findings could lead to study of whether similar proteins exist in women, and could lead to a possible treatment for women who suffer multiple miscarriages.
Scientists from Washington University School of [...]
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