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Viagra flops for brainy women |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
5:44 pm EST, Mar 1, 2004 |
] Mitra Boolel, who is in charge of the company's ] sex-research team, explained that his findings show ed ] that arousal and desire were experienced very differently ] by men and women. A woman's arousal is triggered by ] complex combinations of emotional, intellectual and ] relationship-based factors, while a man's is a simple ] physical response. The porn industry has intuitively known this for decades, right? Viagra flops for brainy women |
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USATODAY.com - Student group offers scholarship to whites only |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
11:34 pm EST, Feb 24, 2004 |
] BRISTOL, R.I. (AP) %u2014 A student group at Roger ] Williams University is offering a new scholarship for ] which only white students are eligible, a move they say ] is designed to protest affirmative action. ] ] The application for the $250 award requires an essay on ] "why you are proud of your white heritage" and a recent ] picture to "confirm whiteness." It scares me now that I even *considered* becoming a Republican. And I'm white. Scary shit. USATODAY.com - Student group offers scholarship to whites only |
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Fortune.com: Grim Pentagon Climate Change scenario |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
7:32 pm EST, Feb 22, 2004 |
] As the planet's carrying capacity shrinks, an ancient ] pattern reemerges: the eruption of desperate, all-out ] wars over food, water, and energy supplies. As Harvard ] archeologist Steven LeBlanc has noted, wars over ] resources were the norm until about three centuries ago. ] When such conflicts broke out, 25% of a population's ] adult males usually died. As abrupt climate change hits ] home, warfare may again come to define human life. Fortune.com: Grim Pentagon Climate Change scenario |
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CNN.com - Researcher isolated after possible Ebola exposure - Feb. 19, 2004 |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
12:17 am EST, Feb 22, 2004 |
] The researcher accidentally pricked herself with a needle ] that contained a weakened form of the Ebola virus last ] week while she was injecting mice with the virus as part ] of a research effort. [ Oh *man* that sucks! You can't even hyperbolize it, like, "That sucks like ...", because anything you put in there for ... is probably less bullshit than "accidentally giving yourself Ebola." Sure, she may be fine (god willing), but shit man, that's so, so not good. -k] CNN.com - Researcher isolated after possible Ebola exposure - Feb. 19, 2004 |
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