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...giggle, I suppose, but Allyson doesn't deserve one. With her last husband, Dr. David Ashrow, D.D.S., she established the June Allyson Foundation with the goal of "Supporting medical research of incontinence to better understand its causes and impact, improve education, and develop improved treatment options." She also, Wikipedia says, raised money for the Judy Garland and James Stewart museums...
...Subject read Wikipedia biography on comedian Milton Berle...
...then-president of the Royal Society Lord Kelvin, after whom the temperature scale is named, remarked back in 1897 that “the aeroplane is scientifically impossible”—but something invariably will. Since the Harvard class of 2006 arrived on campus four years ago, wikipedia has grown tenfold, the Facebook appeared out of nowhere, the number of blogs in the world has multiplied by what some estimate to be 100 times, and iPods have quadrupled in capacity (or, depending on how you look at it, halved in price...
...Questions that once took days or weeks to answer now take seconds or minutes, and that doesn’t just mean shorter waits, it means we can ask many more questions. Scholarly research, certainly, hasn’t been the same since computerized catalogues like HOLLIS, but wikipedia throws into the mix something completely different altogether: a collaboratively generated store which will someday contain a good portion of all human knowledge...
...Shared bathrooms, bacheloresque cooking mishaps - it's a fitting lifestyle for a group whose official perks include, according to Wikipedia, "low-cost haircuts" and a gym membership. Also, their signature is worth as much as a stamp. (Which, come to the think of it, was the hallmark of another penny-ante House scandal of the '90s.) And as for that Congressional pin that can get you around Hill metal detectors, well, that and $2,800 can buy you a really nice dinner. It's not even much of a chick magnet; in 2003, New Jersey Representative Mike Ferguson made...