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  • Girls on Film: The Femmes Who Defy Convention

    11/16/09 "Her specialist areas are developmental neurotoxicology and cancer epidemiology. She has a PhD in informatics, epidemiology and forensic science and is now working at the Bristol Initiative for Research of Child Health. She is part of a team researching the effects of exposure to the pesticide chlorpyrifos on foetuses and infants."  |  Cinematical.com
  • Jay-Z, Smiths feel 'Fela!'

    11/16/09 The endorsement of those celebs, long said to have been fans of the musical, looks poised to tap the nontraditional Broadway demos to which the show -- based on the life and songs of Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the Nigerian Afrobeat musician and political activist -- seems most likely to appeal: younger auds, African-Americans and music aficionados.  |  Variety
  • Hope amid the horror

    11/05/09 She's 16, morbidly obese and illiterate.  |  New York Post - New York NY
  • Today's featured reader: sarahe1458

    08/14/09 Today's featured reader lives in L.A. and snapped this pic in Israel.  |  Pop Candy