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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...been exactly 15 years since the FDA first approved the "female condom," but it still hasn't found its niche, except perhaps in the sex trade. While engineers at Apple have already released the next iteration of the 18-month-old iPhone, a second-generation version of the lady-centric contraceptive still doesn't exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of Safe Sex | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...live in West Chelsea, and it's my favorite thing to walk the streets and go in and out of galleries, just walk around the neighborhood. New Yorkers are very neighborhood-centric, and that's what they like to do," says 34-year-old fashion designer Thakoon Panichgul. Born in Bangkok, Panichgul?who extends his collection this month with a secondary line available at Barneys New York, Dover Street Market, London, and Lane Crawford, Hong Kong?moved with his family to Omaha, Neb., at age 11, where early glimpses of fashion magazines and the Roman Polanski film Rosemary's Baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York City | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

...need to get nostalgic, though—Harvard’s Game-centric school-spirit gatherings have never been perfect, rain or shine. The rally in 1962, held on Widener steps, suffered from the same stifling police environment that inhibits its latter-day cousins; it was closed out with two arrests, one of which was for “standing on a ladder”. The 1980 rally seems like it might have been an oasis of fun bisecting two almost-twenty-year dry spells. At it, the then-associate dean of freshmen worried that “the damn...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: Pep Poise | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

...wave of movies challenging the conventional wisdom that the taste of young men is what drives the box office. This year female fans helped make monster hits of High School Musical 3 ($84 million), Mamma Mia! ($144 million) and Sex and the City ($152 million). "[Female-centric films] used to be counterprogramming to something extremely male in the marketplace," says Chuck Viane, Disney's president of distribution. "Now they've become the gorilla in the marketplace." (Read Richard Corliss's review of Twilight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twilight: The Fangirls Cometh, with Cash | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

...magazine. It was high quality and good content, and had features that I found of interest regarding Harvard alums.” Though, he admits, “It was not of such interest that I actually ever subscribed.”Another feature holding back the Harvard alumni-centric niche magazine is the other Harvard alumni-centric niche magazine—The Harvard Magazine. Bob Giles, curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism notes that, “One of the things that 02138 goes up against is that Harvard Magazine is such an extraordinary alumni publication...

Author: By Frances Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Uh-0-2138 | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

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