Men have eagerly embodied their reputation as the sexually enthusiastic half of the population, and yet this study seems to suggest that women, deep down, are really thirsting for more. But, according to one of the study's coauthors, Northwestern psychology department chairman J. Michael Bailey, the study really just reinforces what we already know: Men are sexually simple, and women are not. "I think it really shows us how much we don't know about women more than it shows us what we do know," he says.

Interesting article about sexuality and the different means of arousal for the various gender roles.

What do women want?

Peer down at your house!

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] Tampa police have scrapped their controversial security
] camera system that scanned city streets for criminals,
] citing its failure over two years to recognize anyone
] wanted by authorities.
]
] The system was intended to recognize the facial
] characteristics of felons, sexual predators and runaway
] children by matching passers-by in Ybor City with a
] database of 30,000 mug shots.
]
] "It's just proven not to have any benefit to us," Capt.
] Bob Guidara, a department spokesman, said Tuesday. The
] cameras have led only to arrests for such crimes as drug
] deals.
]
] Tampa was the first city in the United States to install
] the permanent camera surveillance system along public
] streets and the technology was used during the 2001 Super
] Bowl.
]
] Critics welcomed the end of the program.
]
] "It's a relief," said Darlene Williams, chairwoman of the
] Greater Tampa Chapter of the ACLU. "Any time you have
] this sort of technology on public streets, you are
] subjecting people who come to Ybor to an electronic
] police lineup, without any kind of probable cause."

YAY!! Chalk up a win for civil liberties... at least for now. If in say 5 to 10 years the facial recogition biometrics have improved substantially, expect us to face this beast all over again.

LB

Tampa police eliminate controversial facial-recognition system

RENO, NV, August 13 - Reno police arrested a local man for possession of stolen property after a traffic stop involving a motorized bar stool.

Reno police pull over speeding bar stool

Dusk shot of the big apple with the lights off, from the New York Times Website.

Everyone in the world shares the same reference point to this moment in time.

Picture of New York City with no power

] RIVIERA BEACH, Florida (AP) -- Capt. Jeff Ardelean uses
] night-vision goggles to scan the shoreline. A grainy dark
] blob emerges from the bright whitecaps of the waves and
] crawls onto the gray sand.
]
] Shrouded in darkness, a loggerhead sea turtle drags her
] heavy body with her front flippers about 50 feet (15
] meters) up on shore. Her body strains each time she drops
] three or four pinkish-white eggs into the sandy hole. In
] all, she'll leave between 75 and 125 eggs, cover them
] with sand and lumber back into the sea.
]
] Ardelean's job is to make sure those eggs remain
] undisturbed until they hatch. He oversees 18 state
] wildlife investigators who patrol southeastern Florida
] shores for turtle egg poachers.
]
] "After you watch a turtle go through all that, that's
] when you get the satisfaction," Ardelean said.
]
] All five species of sea turtles in Florida are protected,
] and the loggerhead is a threatened species. The stretch
] of beach where the loggerhead laid her eggs is one of the
] most poached in Florida. The eggs, considered an
] aphrodisiac in some Caribbean cultures, are eaten raw or
] soft-boiled with salt and red pepper.
]
] Nearby are two active black markets for the eggs, one in
] Riviera Beach and another five miles (eight kilometers)
] south in West Palm Beach.

Patrolling for turtle egg poachers

] California (Reuters) -- Corpses littered the weekend box
] office in North America, but this time they weren't the
] remains of overhyped, costly flops.
]
] Instead, they belonged to hapless victims in the top
] three movies, led by teen horror "Freddy vs. Jason,"
] which shocked the industry with a surprisingly strong
] $36.4 million opening.

Damn! $36 million is unheard of for a horror flicks opening weekend. That kind of figure is more indicative of its ENTIRE box office run.

'Freddy vs. Jason' scares up weekend win

] An amusement park operator was killed Saturday when his
] hair got caught on a roller coaster car, pulling him up
] as high as 40 feet before he fell, back-first, onto a
] fence.

Ouch!

CNN.com - Man killed when hair catches on roller coaster car - Aug. 17, 2003

] A Senate panel will hold hearings on the recording
] industry's crackdown against online music swappers, the
] chairman said Thursday.
]
] Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) made the announcement in a
] letter to the Recording Industry Association of America.
] He had received information he had requested from the
] group about the campaign, which Coleman has called
] excessive.
]
] The Senate Governmental Affairs' Permanent Subcommittee
] on Investigations is reviewing the group's responses and
] declined to make them available Thursday, as did the
] industry group.
]
] The association announced plans in June to file several
] hundred lawsuits against people suspected of illegally
] sharing songs on the Internet. Copyright laws allow for
] damages of $750 to $150,000 for each song.
]
] In his letter, Coleman said he would look at not just the
] scope of that campaign but also the dangers that
] downloaders face by making their personal information
] available to others. Coleman said he would review
] legislation that would expand criminal penalties for
] downloading music.

Finally - a glimmer of hope the RIAA is going to be told to call off the dogs.

Senator to hold hearings on recording industry's piracy crackdown

] Armed with inexpensive, mass-produced gems, two startups
] are launching an assault on the De Beers cartel.
]
] Next up: the computing industry.
]
] By Joshua Davis
]
] Aron Weingarten brings the yellow diamond up to the
] stainless steel jeweler's loupe he holds against his eye.
] We are in Antwerp, Belgium, in Weingarten's marbled and
] gilded living room on the edge of the city's gem
] district, the center of the diamond universe. Nearly 80
] percent of the world's rough and polished diamonds move
] through the hands of Belgian gem traders like Weingarten,
] a dealer who wears the thick beard and black suit of the
] Hasidim.
]
] "This is very rare stone," he says, almost to himself, in
] thickly accented English. "Yellow diamonds of this color
] are very hard to find. It is probably worth 10, maybe 15
] thousand dollars."
]
] "I have two more exactly like it in my pocket," I tell
] him.
]
] He puts the diamond down and looks at me seriously for
] the first time. I place the other two stones on the
] table. They are all the same color and size. To find
] three nearly identical yellow diamonds is like flipping a
] coin 10,000 times and never seeing tails.
]
] "These are cubic zirconium?" Weingarten says without much
] hope.
]
] "No, they're real," I tell him. "But they were made by a machine
] in Florida for less than a hundred dollars."

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