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Green Is Good

Another mainstream magazine-this time, The New York Times Magazine-released its "Green" issue this weekend, but yet again, multitudes of the eco-conscious are up in arms about the fact that the product doles out "rhetorical green"-ideas for environmentally-conscious living and the presence of a hoard..

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George Lois Covers at MoMA

Next Friday, New York's Museum of Modern Art will open "George Lois: The Esquire Covers," a year-long exhibit honoring the storied magazine's...

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Planet's Most Published Author?

Philip M. Parker-the self-proclaimed "most published author in the history of the planet"-has officially "written" 200,000 books, and makes money selling most of them. Parker, who compiles and organizes information on a wide variety of subjects (often only found worthy of purchase by reference libraries),..

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Mad Scientists

Twenty percent of scientific-community respondents to a new Nature survey admitted to using neuroenhancers like Ritalin and Provigil. The poll comes on the heels of a pair of reports this winter that "brain steroids" run rampant among scientists.Whether this is true or not, it merely takes sauntering..

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Katie Couric and CBS to Split?

Doomed-from-the-start Evening News anchor Katie Couric and her record-low ratings may be parting ways with CBS well before the expiration of her $15-million-per-year contract. Inked to stay on board through 2011, the once-maven of morning television has had an extraordinarily rough go in evening news..

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Rank And File

The extraordinarily popular, but often criticized, U.S. News and World Report college rankings may be on the verge of a makeover. The higher-ed pecking order-under fire in the last year from a slew of less-than-conventional colleges who elected to remove themselves from the evaluation process-is most..

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Top Clinton Aide Steps Down

Hillary Clinton's chief political strategist, Mark Penn-whom many considered to be the Democratic candidate's Karl Rove (though no one except...

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Olympic Protest Update: Paris Demonstrations

After one BBC reporter jinxes the whole affair by predicting the chance of a protester getting near the Olympic torch to be "pretty infinitesimal," the overwhelming presence of Parisian demonstrators forces authorities to twice extinguish the torch and shuttle it, for some distance, on a bus.While immediate..