Tiny Vegas home sits at center of housing craze - Real Estate - MSNBC.com

Tiny Vegas home sits at center of housing craze - Real Estate - MSNBC.com: "Few would have said that about Corchuelo�s block just a few years ago. In the 1950s, the neighborhood was home to card dealers and strippers who used to sunbathe in the buff to avoid tan lines, giving the place its nickname, Naked City. By the 1980s it had become a pocket of prostitution and crime."

The Best Little Whorehouse on Harvard Square

The Best Little Whorehouse on Harvard Square: "Harvard has learned some new lessons this semester, after police busted the About Hair salon two blocks from Harvard Yard, for offering prostitution as well as haircuts. The store owner denied knowing what was going on in the back room, where two undercover officers reported receiving manual stimulation (one not being evidence enough, apparently). Government professor, conservative intellectual, and author of Manliness, Harvey C. Mansfield (�53) sees the alleged side business as consistent with the liberal campus�s ethos. �Prostitution is perfectly in accord with Harvard�s principle, which says that sex is okay when it is in private between consenting adults.� Novelist Patricia Marx (�75), visiting last weekend, asked, �What�s a little prostitution if they give a good shampoo and cut?� "

An Apple a Day for Health? Mars Recommends Two Bars of Chocolate - New York Times

An Apple a Day for Health? Mars Recommends Two Bars of Chocolate - New York Times: "But it is the glob of granola, rice and flavanol-filled cocoa powder at the heart of the bar made here - injected with a burst of liquid-canola plant sterols - that distinguishes CocoaVia from the company's M&M's, Snickers and Dove bars. Flavanols are naturally occurring chemicals in cocoa that have antioxidant qualities; sterols are plant-based chemicals found in a variety of foods.
Flavanols are what set Mars on a scientific search: if it could show that they helped improve blood flow and lower blood pressure, then foods with them could potentially help prevent heart disease.
In developing CocoaVia, Mars decided to add another major additive, plant sterols, which ultimately allowed it to make the claim that CocoaVia is good for hearts and arteries. And that is one reason Mars is placing them in the health food aisles - near nutrition bars rather than candy - of retailers like Wal-Mart and Target. "

WSJ.com - Scrambling to Pile On Perks

WSJ.com - Scrambling to Pile On Perks: "The two rivals kept up their pampering war even through the slump that began in 2001. In 2003, Virgin unveiled a seat that's more private than BA's and turns into a bed that's longer and wider. It also offers a bigger table for eating or working, and a bigger TV screen. Virgin's 'suite' is even certified for passengers to sit reclined during takeoff and landing.
'We admire what they've done,' says BA's Mr. Crump, adding that BA will introduce a new Club World seat next year that's 'radically different from the current model.'"

To See and Be Scene - Los Angeles Times

To See and Be Scene - Los Angeles Times: "'That's what so exciting about the time we're in right now. There's so much space for creativity. Our parents' generation had to deal with wars and Vietnam and all that. Ever since the '80s and '90s, it's been a real good time.'

But what about the war in Iraq?

'Are we actually dealing with any of it? I'm not getting recruited for war. I'm in my happy little bubble over here in sunny Los Angeles, California.'"

The L-Ification of Brooklyn - A Quest to Find the Edge of Gentrification

The L-Ification of Brooklyn - A Quest to Find the Edge of Gentrification: "Simon starts to laugh. �Millionaire or a bum! You ain�t one of those, you got no business living in Manhattan anymore. Word.� "

Madonna's frantic sex call to Rodman | This is London

Hilarious
Madonna's frantic sex call to Rodman | This is London: " I picked up the phone and Madonna was like, 'I'm ovulating, I'm ovulating. Get your ass up here'.
'So I left my chips on the table, flew five hours to New York and did my thing. 'We got done and she was standing on her head in an attempt to promote conception - just like any girl trying to get pregnant. I flew back to Las Vegas and picked up my game where I left off.' "

CNN.com - Europe, Asia in bird flu clampdown - Oct 21, 2005

CNN.com - Europe, Asia in bird flu clampdown - Oct 21, 2005: "'If it is proven to be human-to-human transmission, then we have to be very careful and we might have to close the border' with the mainland, Hong Kong Secretary for Health York Chow was reported as saying.
Hong Kong has been a hotbed of health alerts in recent years, including the outbreak of the SARS disease in 2003, which killed almost 300 people there.
The H5N1 bird flu strain also infected 18 people in Hong in 1997, six of whom died.
Consequently, Hong Kong's entire poultry population, estimated at around 1.5 million birds, was destroyed within three days. This is thought "

ABC News: Lil' Kim Acknowledges Beef With 50 Cent

Which is smart because she is behind bars which is always so safe.

ABC News: Lil' Kim Acknowledges Beef With 50 Cent: "NEW YORK Oct 7, 2005 � The bad blood continues between Lil' Kim and 50 Cent.
Though the rappers paired up for the 2003 smash 'Magic Stick,' the relationship between the two quickly disintegrated, and 50 Cent dissed Lil' Kim in performances.
In a recent interview with The Associated Press before she entered federal detention center to serve a year-and-a-day sentence for perjury Lil' Kim made it clear there would be no duets in the future between the two."