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...probably know that Internet mailing lists tend to be free discussion groups, focused on particular issues. There are more than 200,000 of them on the Net with some 15 million subscribers discussing everything from global warming to nose hair. Setting up a public mailing list used to be a hassle unless you had access to industrial-strength mailing programs used at universities that allow folks to do things such as automatically subscribe to and unsubscribe from lists. Since e-mail has grown so popular, though, a number of companies are helping people set up and manage mailing lists...
...black slang, being "bougie," derived from bourgeois, means being socially pretentious. It fits Lawrence Otis Graham to a tee. His book, Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class (HarperCollins; 418 pages; $25), is the literary equivalent of the nose job Graham obtained so that he could "further buy into the aesthetic biases [toward light complexions, straight hair and sharp features] that many among the black elite hold so dear." In other words, to brownnose the black blue bloods...
...Howie Mandel. Of all the germophobes I'd heard about, Mandel seemed the most grounded. He'd had a guesthouse built so he can live there when his kids get sick. He spent much of the 1980s putting surgical gloves over his head and blowing them up with his nose as part of his act--probably just so he could write off his huge purchases of surgical gloves. And perhaps strangest of all, he refused to kiss Carmen Electra when she was on his talk show. He says it was because she was recovering from a cold. But I think...
...Jones? Simple: So far as anybody can tell, Jones' story was garbage. Her legal fees were funded by a conservative, and, hence, more than likely anti-feminist institute. Her case was ultimately thrown out of court. She used the money earned by the scandal for cosmetic surgery on her nose. This sounds less and less like a woman victimized by the president and more and more a pawn in a political game. Given this, NOW would have no reason to get involved. To do so would do nothing for women's rights and would, instead, be playing directly into conservative...
Buck plans to follow the pathway of sensory information further into the brain. "We've looked so far at the nose and the bulb," she said. "We want to go into the cortex...