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Russian women have long been known for their beauty. Edvard Radzinsky at the Wall Street Journal talks about the new wave of pretties that are coming out of Rus. Interesting stuff. And it makes Eric look forward to seeing his parents' vacation pictures. As he types this, they are

It reads a little bit like one of those e-mails from Nigeria that offer reverse-investment opportunities ("Let my put $100,000,000 in your checking account, and you see get $1,000,000, for done nothing"), but it's a decent update on the RCC trials there:

We're beginning to think all this First Amendment stuff is really just a cover for greed. Could that possibly be? > U.S. porn king, Philip D. Harvey, is suing the Bush administration over its anti-prostitution policies saying that the restriction on U.S. AID funding is an

They're just potatoes, right? > Neighbors struggled Sunday to reconcile the gruesome discovery with their memories of the nice man who once lived on Evans Street. > Pathologists, meanwhile, examined fetal remains found inside a detached garage behind the modest, two-bedroom house that had been Robert B. Winston

An intelligent, female writer raises sound questions about the recent IQ findings: > So now we know. Women's IQ is, on average, five points less than men's. That is the conclusion of two researchers' summaries of 57 academic studies on gender and intelligence in the

The reliable James Kushiner at Mere Comments [http://merecomments.typepad.com/merecomments/2005/08/people_for_the_.html] recommends this site. Link [http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/headline/2871]. Excerpt: > People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has been widely criticized for its campaign comparing Nazi