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June Thomas is out of the office today, so Torie Bosch is filling in for this week's Project Runway recap.
Is it almost time for Bryant Park yet? Everyone seems to be running low on fresh material this week. The bad-tempered designers are accusing one another of swiping ideas, and the challenge itself is to ''create a new look based on your best ...
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For Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the two journalists held in North Korea
since March, the nightmare is apparently over: The Hermit Kingdom’s
state-run news agency has announced that the two have been pardoned and will be released.
Now that they’re free, I hope that Ling and Lee will talk frankly
about their experiences in North Korea. To save face ...
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16 and Pregnant has been appointment television for me since I reviewed it for Double X's “Xxtra Small” and was thrilled to learn it’s been picked up for a second season. But like Jess, I find myself wondering whether the show will keep any teens from becoming moms. I suppose the National Campaign To Reduce Teen and Unwanted Pregnancy, which ...
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Emily, I suspect S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford’s wife, Jenny, was hinting at her husband’s infidelity during her interactions with the press while her husband was AWOL... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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I, too, applaud the move to make Plan B available over the counter for 17-year-olds, but, Kerry, I have to raise one problem that could accompany making hormonal birth control OTC: insurance. Many insurance plans don't cover OTC medication, unless it's a special program intended to keep costs down, like providing an incentive for people to use a ...
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Dahlia's recent article on ''sexting'' asked whether it makes sense to charge teens who exchanged naked photos with producing or possessing child pornography. Apparently, that's not the only cell phone behavior that can leave a kid in cuffs. According to this report from the Smoking Gun, a 14-year-old high-school student in Wisconsin was arrested ...
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Jessica, I don't think we're quite ''piling on'' Bristol Palin for either her interview or her teen pregnancy, but I do see quite a difference between Bristol and Rachael's examples of Lauren B. and Amy Richards. Lauren B. is a writer and Richards is an abortion rights advocate, and they both decided to make their stories public. Bristol, on the ...
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Eve, I wish Portfolio had been a little more specific in their recession belt-tightening survey. ''Stop coloring hair'' is a pretty limiting response that doesn't factor in some other options to save money on maintaining that hair hue. Women (and men) who want to save money might come to terms with their roots and go longer between touch-ups. They ...
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The news that the Sasha and Malia dolls are no more depresses me for one reason: Why didn't I realize that the Ty Co. would ''retire'' them, as it did with Beanie Babies back in the day, and buy up as many as I could find to sell on eBay? Mariah and Sydney—as the dolls, unchanged in appearance, have been renamed—just won't appreciate in ...
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Jessica, you're right—TLC must be salivating at the thought of signing a reality TV show deal with the mother of the octuplets. (Incidentally, the word octuplets appears in neither my Word spell checker nor in the dictionary Slate uses, though the dictionary does include octuple as an adjective, noun, and verb.) I'd imagine that the mother herself ...