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...although I'd expressly planned not to take her to see the new Disney movie, I've switched course. My daughter is curious about the curl factor: How much is there? And is it more on the wavy side or full-blown curly? The trailer offers little insight. Perhaps that's intentional. What I'm more interested in is that the film's website describes Tiana as a "smart, tough and determined" waitress from New Orleans who "can hold down three jobs and still have time to dream." That sounds like a princess I could curl up with...
Even veterans of the post-college singing subculture - which includes Microsoft's Baudboys, named after a modem speed, and NASA's Chromatics - say they notice a Glee factor. The show, they claim, is helping quash a cappella's rap as the province of dorks. For instance, when Vinyl Street, an a cappella group in Somerville, Mass., went out for karaoke on a recent weekend, members told a woman at the next table that they were there as a group - and found themselves a fangirl. "She was all excited," says co-founder Phil Dardeno, 29, a Boston University financial-aid planner...
...addition to Harvard’s location and name recognition, Moore cited the chance to “win the Ivy League for the first time in Harvard’s history, to do something that had never been done before,” as a major factor in his choice...
School of Public Health professor M. Maria Glymour and her team analyzed stroke deaths from 1980, 1990 and 2000 using census data and mortality records across the United States and concluded that geography, not genetics, is likely the driving factor for higher stroke mortality...
...best thinking currently is that it is not genetic, and it is probably a risk factor that influences the whole broad population: rich and poor, black and white,” Glymour said in an e-mailed statement...