News Bits

- A new academic study suggests that the appeal of curvy women is based on more than the purely physical.
- Homophobic Surgeon General nominee to be recess appointed by Bush?
- The 2008 Austin Firefighters Calendar is on sale, and we're thinking about next summer's dry spell already.
- WTF: Jump-roping dogs.
- The Austin Independent School District just started an outreach program that’s meant to enroll more African American students into its gifted and talented programs.
- In The Netherlands, a social movement is born to protect the free use of the magenta colour in communication materials. The fight has begun recently, when mobile carrier T-Mobile has started a legal fight versus a series of Dutch brands such as Slam FM, Compello and 100% NL with magenta in their logo.
- Rap represented in mathematical charts and graphs.
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