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The Girl Scout Research Institute has a new report out on the
beliefs of school-age children and teenagers, and according to the
press release, they've found that, ''American teenagers are apt to make
sound ethical and responsible decisions on a range of issues from
smoking and drinking to premarital sex than they were just a ...
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I was watching the Today Show (again!) this morning, and Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira were teasing a segment with Meredith Baxter Birney, the former matriarch of Family Ties.
''Meredith Baxter Birney has a SECRET,'' they kept saying ominously, and
I thought she either had a previously undisclosed meth addiction or was
dying of some rare ...
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Last year my former Jezebel colleague Moe Tkacik picked up on a new and
horrifying development in the way that tabloids discuss women's bodies:
Somewhere along the line,'' pregnant'' turned into merely ''fat.''
In an insane-o hybrid of baby and skinny fetishization, famous women
are encouraged to gestate, but God forbid they stop working out. ...
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KJ, the Internet may no longer care about the Salahis, but morning TV sure does. The White House gate-crashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi went on the Today Show this morning to proclaim their innocence. They say they had clearance to attend the state dinner last Tuesday,
and that their lives have been ruined by all the bad press and the
paparazzi ...
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Roman Polanski is currently trying to make $4.5 million in bail to get out of Swiss jail.
If he can rustle up that sum (and can he? How much coin does Roman
really have?), he would be put under house arrest at his posh chalet in
Gstaad with full access to phone, Internet, television and anyone who
wants to visit him. A Swiss Justice Department ...
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Star magazine's Web site was among many outlets to report on Chelsea Clinton's Thanksgiving engagement to longtime boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky. It's more evidence—on the tail of my piece this morning about the Salahis and their entitled ways—that the divisions among different sorts of fame are growing more and more murky ... (Read the rest of this ...
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Jennifer Senior has a nuanced article about the current state of the abortion debate in this week's New York magazine, in which she says that the current generation of twentysomethings is the most anti-choice since the generation born during the Great Depression. I found this very upsetting, not just because I am pro-choice, but because the reason ...
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This is potentially blasphemous to admit, but I have never been a huge Seinfeld fan. So I wasn’t particularly excited about the four Jewish Beatles getting back together on the season 7 finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm (which aired Sunday night). I was, however, delighted to see Larry David reunite with his estranged wife, Cheryl.
In prior seasons, ...
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Oprah Winfrey is going to announce today that she will be leaving her eponymous talk show in 2011. The New York Times believes Winfrey is resigning from network TV in order to focus on the cable network she's working on, called OWN, which will feature shows from all of her favorite cronies, like Dr. Oz, Rachael Ray, and Dr. Phil. While this might ...
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A post from DoubleX writer Lauren Bans:
Last week the Wall Street Journal interviewed basically every good living writer and asked them to share tips on sitting down and penning a book. The only clear lesson to emerge from the piece (titled ''How To Write A Great Book'') is that there is no set step-by-step instructional for writing a great book. ...