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Saturday, February 14, 2004 |
QUOTE OF THE WEEKEND
"Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile."
- - Sean Connery
THIS WEEKEND IN HISTORY
Feb. 14th, 1978 -- First 'microcomputer on a chip' patented by Texas Instruments.
Feb. 15th, 1958 -- Jerry Lee Lewis performs "Great Balls of Fire" & "Breathless" on "American Bandstand." Later in the day, "The Dick Clark Show," a new Saturday night rock & roll television program, debuts.
TV TIP OF THE WEEKEND: Mark your calendars for upcoming Democratic presidential debates. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is hosting a debate in Wisconsin on Sunday, February 15th to be broadcast by MSNBC. The League of Women Voters of the United States will host a debate on Sunday, February 22nd in Los Angeles to be broadcast by LA's local NBC affiliate, MSNBC and Telemundo.
SCANDAL OF THE WEEKEND: Miss Piggy Bares It
Chocolate sweet for the heart, research shows
Confection may lower blood pressure, improve circulation
CNN, February 10, 2004
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Those chocolates that make your Valentine's heart go pitty-pat may also help keep that heart running longer and stronger. Chocolate, perhaps the world's favorite confection, contains chemicals like those in red wine and green tea that can help improve circulation, cut blood pressure and might produce other health benefits, according to researchers speaking Tuesday at the National Academy of Sciences. The daylong session focused on the history, cultural impact, medical benefits and just plain good taste of cocoa, the plant that produces the raw material for chocolate...
MORE: http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/diet.fitness/02/10/chocolate.gift.ap/
Women Needed To Test Orgasm Machine
Reuters, Wed Nov 26
LONDON - Wanted: women to test new orgasm machine. No, really. An American surgeon who has patented a device that triggers an orgasm has begun a clinical trial approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States and is looking for female volunteers. "I thought people would be beating my door down to become part of the trial," pain specialist Dr Stuart Meloy told New Scientist magazine on Wednesday. But so far only one woman has completed the first stage of the trial, with apparently breathtaking results.... The married woman who tested the machine, dubbed an orgasmatron, had not had an orgasm for four years. But during the nine days she used it, she had several...
MORE: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3606959/
Climax schools ban T-shirts with town's centennial slogan
Associated Press, February 13, 2004
CLIMAX, Minn. -- It may be the town's slogan, but it doesn't meet the approval of the superintendent who has placed a school ban on the centennial T-shirts that read: ``Climax -- More than just a feeling.'' About a dozen students wore the Climax T-shirts to school this week in protest, and one girl was sent home Wednesday for refusing to turn her shirt inside out.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/4375145.html
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Super Bowl FAQ
By Will Durst, AlterNet, February 6, 2004
Q. Do you seriously mean to tell me this country's entire radio, television and print media worlds went on a three day saturation bender of self-righteousness simply because we got to see Janet Jackson's boob for a split-second in a long shot during the Super Bowl halftime show?
A. Well, to be fair to the press, not much else was happening this week; just a couple or seven primaries in not so important states and an admission by the President's chief arms uncoverer that there are no arms to uncover - and the reasons we were forced to preemptively kill, I'm sorry, liberate , thousands of Iraqis never really existed. Oh yeah, and some suicide bombers. But we've gotten used to them by now.
Q. All this outrage was directed at the baring of one right breast, right?
A. Yeah. What's your point? Boobies are evil. Ask John Ashcroft. Imagine the outcry if her left breast had been exposed.
Q. What did happen to her left breast?
A. Reportedly, it signed a development deal with Fox.
Q. Well, the whole halftime show was kind of raunchy, wasn't it?
A. Compared to "Touched by an Angel," yeah. But actually, what America saw was an 8-minute truncated version of MTV, with indoor helicopter shots.
Q. What would you say to your kid after watching that?
A. I don't know. I'd probably be happy for the diversion so I didn't have to explain the side effect warning on the impotence drug commercial that advised anybody experiencing 4-hour erections to seek medical attention...
MORE: http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17781
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