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Lately, a new kind of sisterly love seems to be in the air. In the past few years, Sex and the City’s Cynthia Nixon left a boyfriend after a decade and a half and started dating a woman (and talked openly about it).
On the list of things we’re supposed to do but generally don’t, nothing ranks higher than eating well. And no wonder, considering that they keep changing the rules on us.
It’s Sunday night during TNT’s coverage of the NBA playoffs, and announcer Kenny Smith, aka "The Jet," is doing push-ups.
Like drowning men grasping the only piece of buoyant driftwood in sight, top executives from the world’s beleaguered auto industry arrived in Shanghai this week for the city’s 2009 auto show, unveiling their newest brands in the only car market in the world that continues to grow. Some of the show’s stars are predictable, drawing crowds of reporters and photographers on Monday, media day: a stunning new Lexus convertible, the reborn Chevy Camaro from General Motors and the worldwide debut of Porsche’s new luxury sedan, the Panamera.
YourTango.com, a self-described “community for love, sex, dating and relationship advice” has created an instructional video called “Facebook Manners and You.” Styled after one of those frighteningly cheery ’50’s educational films, the video’s instructions for proper behavior on the “electric friendship generator” is funny in that hits-too-close-to-home sort of way. The etiquette video covers everything from how to dump someone to the best practices for making hate groups . Still, there are a number of Facebook etiquette rules that the video does not cover.
Somali pirates released a Philippine tanker and its 23 crew Tuesday — five months after the ship was seized in the Gulf of Aden. Philip Markoff, a pre-med student at Boston University with no criminal record, also was charged with the armed robbery and kidnapping of another victim, Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis announced Monday evening
A college student will be arraigned on a murder charge in Boston Municipal Court on Tuesday in connection with the death of a woman who may have been contacted through a Craigslist ad, police said. Philip Markoff, a pre-med student at Boston University with no criminal record, also was charged with the armed robbery and kidnapping of another victim, Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis announced Monday evening
Women in Somalia’s third-largest city, Baidoa, have been ordered to wear Islamic dress starting this week or face jail time, according to a resident and Somali media reports. The order — issued last week by Al-Shabaab, the radical Islamist militia that controls the city — also warns business owners to close their shops during daily prayers, or they will be temporarily shut down, a local journalist said.
During China’s boom years, the lure of Beijing was irresistible for tens of thousands of South Koreans. With trade and investment between China and South Korea soaring, businessmen flocked to the Chinese capital seeking their fortunes; students, eager to learn Chinese, flooded into local universities. They collected in areas like Wangjing, an upscale neighborhood in the city’s northeast, where some 80,000 Koreans settled
A struggling German soccer team is offering a refund to its fans who traveled to another city to watch it suffer a 4-0 loss.