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...This blue substance is: A super-absorbent polymer 13% An ant farm 77% An anti-termite gel 10% An underwater tic-tac-toe game...
...where she says her accent, ethnicity and gender-even her complexion-proved major roadblocks. "Customers would say, 'I don't understand your English-let me talk to Eric,'" she says. "None of my competence counted because of who I was. If I were a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Hispanic, though, I wonder how things would have been different...
...network as blue-state-oriented as HBO (each of its current sitcoms, for instance, is about show business), Big Love is a surprising detour to the reddest of the red states. In the drama, which debuts in summer 2006, characters declare their faith as easily as those on Deadwood swear. Co-creators Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer, neither of whom is Mormon, say they were interested in the conflict within Bill, who came from a polygamist compound but now lives in the mainstream suburbs of Salt Lake City. The fundamentalists, says Olsen, see the LDS Church "as sellouts...
...making polygamy the subject of entertainment." But Scheffer says, "This show is not really about polygamy, in the same way that The Sopranos is not really about the Mob." Except that Tony Soprano only has one family at home--to handle three, that takes real guts. And a little blue pill...
...Ward Eight, Precinct Three, polling station, set up in the lobby of Quincy House, saw a lot of student traffic yesterday—but only from a distance. Few of the students passing through on election day stopped to cast ballots. The eight red-and-blue voting booths remained empty throughout most of the day, leaving the five election officials and one Cambridge police officer there with little to do. The election supervisor there would not provide comment. But, at 11:30 a.m., three-and-a-half hours after the polls had opened, only 27 people had cast ballots...