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		<title>Back to Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like the Soul to Soul lyrics: &#8220;Back to life, back to reality Back to the here and now yeah!&#8221;
Wheew, I&#8217;ve been gone for some time but you haven&#8217;t been forgotten. Spring is in the air, a new beginning.
It&#8217;s been a few tough months. Lots of folks are struggling. Many friends have lost their jobs. Others [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Back to Life", url: "http://thestarlette.net/2010/03/02/back-to-life/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Rapper&#8217;s Revenge</title>
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Twenty-five years after the first queen of hip-hop was stiffed on her royalty checks, Dr. Roxanne Shante boasts an Ivy League Ph.D. &#8211; financed by a forgotten clause in her first record deal. &#8220;This is a story that needs to be told,&#8221; Shante said. &#8220;I&#8217;m an example that you can be a teenage mom, come [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Rapper&#8217;s Revenge", url: "http://thestarlette.net/2009/08/25/rappers-revenge/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Track Champion and Gender Controversy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New world 800m champion Caster Semenya has shrugged off the gender controversy shrouding her victory at the World Championships in Berlin. The 18-year-old South African has been asked to take a gender test by athletics&#8217; governing body the IAAF.
When a reporter asked Semenya about the rumours surrounding her gender following her victory on Wednesday, she [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Track Champion and Gender Controversy", url: "http://thestarlette.net/2009/08/25/track-champion-and-gender-controversy/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Straight Men and Their Lesbian Best Friends</title>
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It&#8217;s time to reconsider what we mean by friends with benefits. Hours after getting married, Evan Seplow, a 29-year-old mortgage broker from Long Island, hit a strip club with a close buddy. Seplow paid for several drinks and lap dances, and then the two retreated to the VIP room so his friend could get a [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Straight Men and Their Lesbian Best Friends", url: "http://thestarlette.net/2009/08/19/straight-men-and-their-lesbian-best-friends/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>How To Avoid The Swine Flu</title>
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What is swine flu?
Swine flu is a type of influenza virus which normally affects pigs. But it has &#8216;crossed over&#8217; to infect humans before, and the current strain of the virus has now affected many people in Mexico. The concern is that it seems to be spreading between people and might cause a wave of [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How To Avoid The Swine Flu", url: "http://thestarlette.net/2009/04/27/how-to-avoid-the-swine-flu/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m Selling My Virginity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By  		Natalie Dylan, 		seen on The Daily Beast
When I put my virginity up for auction in September, it was in part a sociological experiment &#8212; I wanted to study the public&#8217;s response. Now it seems that the tables have turned, and the public is studying me.
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		<title>The New L Word Spin Off</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ According to Velvet Park Magazine and Broadcastingcable.com:
The L Word spin-off: It will star The L Word’s Leisha Hailey and will be a “very different, substantially different show” from The L Word, he says.
Hailey’s character Alice Pieszecki goes to jail, where the new show would be set. While The L Word, which will conclude as [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The New L Word Spin Off", url: "http://thestarlette.net/2009/01/30/the-new-l-word-spin-off/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Iceland to Install First Lesbian Head of State</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Iceland seems set to make political history again after the recent collapse of its ruling coalition since the top candidate as interim prime minister is openly lesbian.
Openly lesbian , a 65-year-old whose Jan. 31 elevation to the post of Prime Minister would have seemed the longest of long shots thirty years ago, at the start [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Iceland to Install First Lesbian Head of State", url: "http://thestarlette.net/2009/01/30/iceland-to-install-first-lesbian-head-of-state/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Eartha Kitt dies at 81</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eartha Kitt, who purred and pounced her way across Broadway stages, recording studios and movie and television screens in a show-business career that lasted more than six decades, died on Thursday. She was 81 and lived in Connecticut.
The cause was colon cancer, said her longtime publicist, Andrew E. Freedman. Full article

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		<title>Crescent Moon, Venus and Jupiter</title>
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Last night&#8217;s rare sky formation called a &#8220;bridge triangle&#8221;. Taken in Rincon, Puerto Rico.
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