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| Gossip serves a purpose, says Benedict
Carey |
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— He did what? She has pictures? — that few people have time to cover
their ears, even if they wanted to. “I heard a lot in the hallway, on the
way to class,” said Mady Miraglia, 35, a high school history teacher in Los
Gatos, California, speaking about a previous job, where she got a running commentary
from fellow teachers on the sexual peccadilloes and classroom struggles of her
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cute factor |
| If the mere sight of Tai
Shan, the roly-poly, goofily gamboling masked bandit of a panda cub now on view
at the National Zoo, is not enough to make you melt, maybe the crush of human
onlookers, the furious flashing of cameras and the heated gasps of their mass
rapture will do the trick ... | Read.. |
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| A utopian experiment |
 Uneasily
sharing space on the top ledge of my computer browser are two buttons I click
almost daily for an information fix: Encyclopaedia Britannica, as old and steadfast
as the ligature in its name, and a mercurial upstart called Wikipedia, in which
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| QED: Box office formula?
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Bollywood producers can now make a beeline for corporate advice from Ramesh Sharda, an information scientist at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, US. Sharda, apparently, knows what makes a film a hit. An expertise that astrologers, Hindi film d
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| Recommended:
Parasites’lovely survival tricks
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The art of being
a parasite
Claude Combes,
University of Chicago Press; $25.00... | Read.. |
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Diet. Even the word makes me want to dive into a bath of chocolate and stud my
stomach with macadamia nuts. Dieting goes ag-ainst everything I’ve ever believed
in, a life of restriction, counting calories and a war on food. But last June,
with ... | 
