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...shows for superfans of Survivor and Big Brother. In June NBC Universal debuted online channels for gay programming outzonetv.com and reruns of critics' favorite series (brilliant but cancelled.com) ESPN, Comedy Central, MTV, Discovery, HGTV and more have broadband channels. (On Animal Planet's, you can watch Web-exclusive series Pet Trends for the latest in canine fashion and high-end doggie snacks.) Canceled shows are getting second lives online (CBS's Love Monkey), while new shows pull double duty (NBC's 30 Rock, about a sketch-comedy show, will run webisodes with skits from the show-within-a-show...
...women's suffrage, champions of the little guy. They were less a movement than a catch basin for civic-minded men and women impatient with politics as usual but a bit frightened of Eugene V. Debs and his Socialist Party. While many Progressives could not see past their pet causes, T.R. managed to bring them together in a big tent held aloft by the idea that the government, which ought to serve the people, had been hijacked by special interests. "To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task...
...Ashley was 16 and worried about her upcoming exams. She had been having headaches for the last eight weeks and they were getting worse. Two months before, she had broken up with her boyfriend; her grades took a definite downturn; and her sister got a pet hamster for her birthday. Her headaches seemed to be the worst in the evening and the morning, and though Motrin helped a little, they occasionally were bad enough to awake her from sleeping. The pain was all over but seemed worse over her sinuses and "behind her eyes." She had had no trauma...
Unfortunately, it turns out that when Teflon is heated to over 600°, the coating can break down and release a chemical called perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA. The fumes can be fatal to pet birds. In humans, DuPont acknowledges, they can cause a reversible flulike condition called polymer-fume fever, first noted in the company's labs. In animals, though, PFOA can cause cancer, immune-system damage and death. And about 95% of all Americans have traces of PFOA in their blood...
...through which Greenhouse went to a stable in a suburb of Boston every Wednesday afternoon for three years. “I never got any good at it, and I never got over my fear of horses,†Greenhouse says.Greenhouse also once had a five-foot-long pet iguana named Madonna.“Linda is just a very nice, gentle person. It belies a very tough mind,†Jones says. “She’ll ask tough questions and cut to the core of things. In addition to speaking at Class...