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Saturday, November 7, 2009

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France’s “children of the Huns,” now in their 60s, try to find their German fathers.

Monkeys on restricted diets live longer; some scientists say more monkeys need to die before gleaning any lessons.

Fear of the opposite sex is also believed to be the cause of Lesbianism. Time’s 1966 piece, “The Homosexual in America.”

An illustrated history of sex in advertising.

Everyone is fleeing MySpace, and whites and Asians are fleeing in larger numbers. Facebook vs. MySpace isn’t exactly white flight.

Liberal Arts colleges are in danger of becoming recession collateral.

Two years after his forced retirement, beleaguered ex-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales finds a teaching gig in Texas.

Princeton professor says Sotomayor’s time on campus made her “equal to the best of her generation.”

The passions of Sonia Sotomayor: Nobu, white Saabs, Greenwich Village specialty shops.

Gallery of harlequin NASCAR romance novels.

Open letter to Dwell magazine suggest rewrites for the table of contents.

Architecture’s new wave lacks walls.

Pentagon health experts want to ban tobacco use by U.S. troops.

California’s illegal pot farms resemble terrorist cells—they’re guarded by Uzi-wielding militants, and no one knows who runs them.

Please suspend any chemo-phobia you may have while reading this. The science behind decaf coffee.

Op: Swearing, an American tradition.

Books not only furnish a room…but also accessorize our outfits. They help brand our identities. Wolcott looks at a world without books.

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