Tanorexia | Paying for Piven | Your Grrrs Look Out, Scandalgate The new “disease” about to sweep the nation is Orexiaorexia. The birth of the term “tanorexia,” which describes people who can’t get enough skin coloring and spend way too much time either at tanning booths, in the sun or …
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NEW YORK – The word “geisha” may conjure up images of beautiful Japanese courtesans, but for American retailers it means only one thing: ka-ching! Sony, whose new movie “Memoirs of a Geisha” is based on Arthur Golden‘s best-selling novel of the same title, has managed to turn geisha chic into …
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Michael Jackson | Constantine Costa-Gavras | Correction Jacko: Defense Blockbuster In The Works Debbie Rowe, Hamid Moslehi, Cynthia Ann Bell, Janet Arvizo. Especially Janet Arvizo. They’re just a few of the witnesses who’ve backfired for the prosecution in their case against Michael Jackson. Rarely have so many state’s witnesses turned …
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BIDDEFORD, Maine – Two co-workers who discovered this summer that they are long-lost brothers and who reunited this week with their two half sisters have a new surprise — a half brother has surfaced. George Pomeroy of Biddeford, Maine, told WCSH-TV on Thursday that he shares a father with Randy …
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New Haven police say it may be hours until they receive DNA results from items seized from a Yale research technician, in relation to the murder of graduate student at the university. Chief James Lewis said at a press conference held early Wednesday evening that police were awaiting results from …
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TAIPEI, Taiwan – A Taiwan court imposed a life sentence on former President Chen Shui-bian after convicting him of corruption Friday, marking a watershed in the island’s turbulent political history. A strong advocate of Taiwanese independence, Chen was hated by China, which claims the island, and despised by the long-dominant …
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DOVER, Kan. – Authorities say the man who held a couple hostage in their Kansas home fell asleep and they escaped unharmed. Topeka Police Capt. Jerry Stanley said Saturday that authorities then stormed the house, where they confronted the man. The suspect was shot, but his injuries were not life-threatening. …
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SAN FRANCISCO – Google Inc. is counting on the crown jewel of its online advertising empire to burnish a diamond in the rough. Hoping to take an even bigger bite out of ad budgets, Google has melded the technology powering its lucrative search marketing network with a system that it …
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DETROIT – Authorities are trying to determine whether a woman who claims in an online video that she intentionally infected more than 500 people in suburban Detroit with HIV is real or a hoax. The unidentified woman says in a nearly 11-minute video posted on mediatakeout.com that since contracting HIV …
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MORELIA, Mexico – Police found the bodies of five men scattered around the Michoacan state capital of Morelia Sunday, each bearing a handwritten note suggesting they were killed by vigilantes. Four of the men were strangled or asphyxiated with packing tape. The fifth was apparently shot to death, according to …
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