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Project Runway: What A Girl Wants
Reality CheckGreetings and salutations, Project Runway junkies. I'm Kevin Van Valkenburg, sports writer when sober, fashion blogger/recapper when not. First, a brief apology for my absence last week. I'd like to tell you I was so overcome with all the emotion......Tags: Ian McShane, Payne Stewart, Religious Festivals, Cher, Peyton Manning
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Bobek not skating on thin ice anymore
I was channel surfing in commercial breaks from an NFL playoff game last Sunday when a figure skating show, Improv-Ice, arrested my attention.
There was Nicole Bobek, back on national television as a performer (for the second time in 15 days), looking...Tags: Health, Breast Cancer, Ice Skating, Ebenezer Scrooge (fictional character), Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Sunday: Building alternative worlds, William Gibson and 'The Lady in Gold'
Jacket CopyMatt Ruff builds an unexpected, alternative version of the 9/11 attacks in his novel "The Mirage"; cyberpunk patron saint William Gibson showcases his nonfiction work; "Bell Curve" co-author Charles Murray makes a dire assessment of America in "Coming... -
UCLA researcher: I won't be bullied by threats from animal rights activists
L.A. NOWWhen UCLA neuroscientist David Jentsch was a grad student, he never expected his life as an academic would require around-the-clock armed guards, or a closed-circuit TV inside his bedroom so he could keep constant watch over his home. But the...... -
Cocaine vaccine shows promise
Booster ShotsA vaccine to treat cocaine dependence yielded good results in a phase-2 clinical trial and will be tested next year in a larger study, researchers reported today. The cocaine vaccine is not intended to prevent addiction but instead is designed...... -
Brand X Files: Alicia Keys marries. Have elites abandoned us? Lindsay Lohan in rehab for meth addiction?
Brand XAlicia Keys marries producer Swizz Beatz: Wedding in Corsica officiated by Dr. Deepak Chopra. Guests reportedly include Bono and Queen Latifah. (N.Y. Post) The new normal: Growth is slowing, and the odds are that unemployment will rise, not fall, in the... -
Lambda South celebrates 30 years of helping South Florida's gay community
Tucked between a hair salon and a gift shop on bustling Las Olas Boulevard is a mysterious gated door with simple instructions: "Enter thru alley." Once you loop around the block and walks past the trash canisters that fill this back street, a rainbow...
Tags: Substance Abuse, Social Issues, Fort Lauderdale, Wilton Manors, Drugs and Medicines
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'Straw' buyer of arms linked to border agent's death is sentenced
PHOENIX — A federal judge sentenced a Phoenix man Wednesday to nearly five years in prison for purchasing firearms for a Mexican drug cartel, triggering a chain of events that included the death of an elite Border Patrol agent and the unraveling...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Punishment, Justice System, Weaponry, Judges
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Brittany Rector Talks About Life As A Fugitive
FOX 17 ReporterWhen Brittany decided to go on the run, police say she went willingly. Although she couldn't talk about the case, she sat down to talk to FOX 17, giving us some insight into what happened in Colorado and what was happening in her mind that would cause her...Tags: Human Interest, Methamphetamine (drug)
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Rising prison population bedevils South Dakota officials
swaltman@aberdeennews.comSouth Dakota's high prison population has garnered considerable discussion lately, but the problem's not new, said David Gilbertson, chief justice of the state Supreme Court. Since the 1930s, South Dakota's prison numbers have been about double those...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Punishment, Justice System, Judges, United States Census Bureau
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TOO MANY COOKS: Rise in meth making hits hard in Casey County
tkleffman@amnews.comLIBERTY — Brian Wright has a meth problem. As Commonwealth’s Attorney serving Casey and Adair counties, Wright rarely saw a methamphetamine case come across his desk before 2010. Since then, however, the manufacturing of meth has exploded...Tags: Substance Abuse, Crime, Law and Justice, Allergies, Justice System, Methamphetamine (drug)
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Other Voices
Scientific breakthroughs, when optimally timed, arrive at the precise moment in history when they can do the most good in the world. It's too bad the newest strategy to curb production of methamphetamine arrives now, after meth addiction already has...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Health, Allergies, Methamphetamine (drug), Chuck Grassley
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