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...girl" with "woman," and you have the question to which Oxygen chairwoman and CEO and former Nickelodeon president Geraldine Laybourne is unveiling the answer. During 15 years at Nick, Laybourne made a tiny kids' channel into an omnipresent part of youths' lives; in 1998, after an unsatisfying two-year stint at Disney/ABC, she was ready to strike out on her own. So what's an accomplished TV exec to do? She doesn't just start a high-profile cable channel from scratch--with almost all original programming--when it's been years since a new basic-cable channel has become...
...majority of Primal Scream runners, however, tend to keep their clothes on when in the presence of others. Their brief stint with nudity is motivated by a stress-induced need to break the rules. As students we inhabit a space that is clearly defined by administrators, parents and professors. We compete for grades--arbitrary symbols of our intellectual achievement. And the fact that we were admitted implies that we are fairly adept at playing by the rules. But even (or especially?) the most strait-laced member of the debate club can benefit from stripping off (quite literally) their inhibitions...
Princeton will take a short respite, while Yale will take on Boston College in a non-conference stint, giving Harvard a little breathing room...
...often, taking a toll both on patients and exhausted doctors. According to CNN, a spokesman from California's Health and Human Services Department has tried to ease the pressure on beleaguered hospital staff by asking the public not to descend on the state's emergency rooms. After a stint in the Southwest, the flu is bearing down with particular force on the Northeastern states: Public health facilities across New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia are dealing with a massive influx of patients suffering from a Sydney strain of influenza, this year's main culprit; a crop of other...
...Sancti Spiritus. Carlos, about 30, and Armena, 25, get in just outside Trinidad, where three dozen others are waiting with them. Carlos works in construction now, after a five-year stint as a policeman in Havana. Armena has been in Trinidad looking for work...