Word: schoolgirlisms
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...Unfortunately, some of the treatments for head lice are more dangerous than the bugs. Earlier this month, a Colorado schoolgirl suffered severe burns after she was treated with gasoline. Other remedies are highly toxic; lindane, used in some prescription remedies, has just been banned in California...
...crushing disappointment of the 1996 U.S. trials was a watershed. "I decided this hyper-intense, narrowly focused life wouldn't work with my much more relaxed personality," she says. From an athlete who started swimming as a schoolgirl, this was a revelation. Thompson realized she didn't need to swim anymore, but she wanted to--as a means to an end. "I began to see swimming for what it gave me: friends, the opportunity to travel the world, and the chance to earn a living doing something I love...
Jacqueline Scott described going to her father when she was a schoolgirl in their small South Dakota hometown and trying to interview him about the war for a school project. She wanted to know what war sounded like. He lowered his newspaper and said, "It sounded like hell." Scott said that was the end of the interview, but many years later she was deeply moved when her father, the town mechanic, died and a thousand people showed up for his funeral. His friends at the local American Legion Post performed the military rites. Their uniforms, she said, were mismatched suits...
Clooney, known now to a new generation as the aunt of actor George Clooney, tells a good yarn. Still the likable girl-next-door, despite life's vicissitudes, she describes how she went from being a schoolgirl in kneesocks in Maysville, Ky., to a Big Band singer, performing with the likes of Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. There were bumps along the way: a failed marriage to the unfaithful Jose Ferrer, addiction to prescription drugs, even a stay in a psychiatric ward. Life got so blurry, she flushed a 7 1/2-carat diamond down the toilet. But Clooney is back...
...arena to launch music (the American Bandstand of the '90s). If you crack the countdown, chances are you'll show up on the Billboard Hot 100 the next Thursday. Want proof? Remember, TRL was the show that first flaunted Britney Spears' assets (all two of them) with the schoolgirl-themed Baby One More Time last December. But TRL once known for having Backstreet Boys at #1, 'NSync at #2, 98 Degrees at #3 every single day isn't just bubblegum pop anymore. On Friday's show, Backstreet held #1, but Korn was close behind at #2, and several...