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Women's surfing also rides a surging tide of fashion. Surf brands such as Quiksilver, Rip Curl and Billabong--originally created for males--have rapidly expanded their female lines over the past few years. The clothes' increasing popularity has in turn drawn younger girls from the malls to the beach. Once they get there, a boom in surf schools makes learning to surf as common as enrolling in a yoga class. No longer content to sit on the sand and watch the guys feel the ocean beneath their feet, an estimated half a million women in the U.S. are taking...
...success of Fox's Temptation Island and ABC's one-man-and-a-harem hit The Bachelor. In the innocent days of 2000, NBC decided the dating show Chains of Love was too declasse for a major network. Now it's airing Meet My Folks, a reality rip-off of the movie Meet the Parents in which Mom and Dad grill their children's suitors using a lie detector--and the suitors quiz Mom and Dad about their sex lives. "We just want people to have a good time and develop some insights into the parent-child relationship," says Jeff...
...rip up your tuition checks, throw down your books and throw yourself onto the couch! I have seen the future of American education, my friends, and it’s cable television...
...could end that age-old bandage conundrum: Do you peel it slowly from your skin or rip it off all at once? Wound-care companies now offer a new generation of pain-free personal first-aid gear, replacing hair-pulling plastic strips with liquid bandages; breathable, waterproof gel sheaths; and gauze pads that stem blood loss quickly...
...formula is a hit for Law & Order: rip a legal case from the headlines and make it into drama. Now two reality series, NBC's Crime & Punishment and ABC's State V., are cutting out the middleman and giving us the headlines straight from the courtroom...