Well, you and the Kama Sutra know that there are more than a few ways to get crazy while conceiving, but did you know that there are more than 18 ways to biologically create an embryo? Including the clearly next-to-nature "Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection" and "Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis"
Both teams lost two games in the conference. The '93 team lost their two games at Wake Forest and at Duke. This year's team lost...at Wake Forest and at Duke. Both teams suffered an early nonconference loss, with the '93 squad falling to Michigan and this year's team dropping the opener to Santa Clara. Both teams won the ACC regular season title with a 14-2 record and exited the ACC Tournament at the hands of Georgia Tech--77-75 in 1993 and 78-75 this year. The 1993 team was perfect at home, lost two games on the road, and lost two games on neutral courts. This year's team is perfect at home, lost two games on the road, and lost two games on neutral courts.
A player with the last name of Williams wore jersey number 21 on both teams (Donald in 1993, Jawad in 2005) and backup point guards on both teams wore number 11 (Scott Cherry in 1993, Quentin Thomas in 2005). The lowest scorer among the regular 1993 starters? Henrik Rodl, number 5 (he started 26 games, Donald Williams started only 14). The lowest scorer among the 2005 starters? Jackie Manuel, number 5. We won it all in 1993 --looks like we're going to win it all again this year.
If you pronounce this word "for-tay" then perhaps the English language is less of your forte than you would like to admit.
The word forte, coming from French fort, should properly be pronounced with one syllable, like the English word fort. But you're certainly not alone in your error; common usage prefers the two-syllable pronunciation, (fôr' te). In a recent survey a strong majority of the Usage Panel, 74 percent, preferred the two-syllable pronunciation. The result is a delicate situation; speakers who are aware of the origin of the word may wish to continue to pronounce it as one syllable but risk sounding incorrect to the less articulate.
Nineteen-year-old Louisa Almedovar and her 22-year-old boyfriend Rich Langley, both of Vineland, New Jersey, USA, kissed non-stop for a record 30 hours, 59 minutes and 27 seconds on December 5, 2001.
When all was said and done, Louisa and Rich were still willing to give each other a congratulatory kiss on a job well done.
Tyler Hinman, 20, became the youngest champion in the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament's 28-year-history Sunday after beating 450 competitors.
A couple of weeks ago, he finished the New York Times' Sunday puzzle in 5 minutes. Of course, that was online, he said; it would have taken more time by hand. The puzzles in the New York Times increase in difficulty from Monday to Sunday.
People have been reading newspapers for 400 years!
According to the World Association of Newspapers, documentation has arisen that shows a newspaper entitled "Relation" began printing in 1605 in Strasbourg, France.
Today more than a billion people read a daily newspaper in print.
The first lollipop was invented just prior to the Civil War when someone thought it would be a good idea to stick some candy on then end of pencils for children to nibble on.
The world's largest lollipop was made by Jolly Rancher in 2002 and weighed in at over two tons and a billion calories. Meaning that it would take a 150 lb person a straight year of running a 9 minute mile to burn off all the fat-free calories.
The CDC estimates that almost 1,000,000 people in America are living with HIV infection - and 25% of them are unaware of their infection.
As if things weren't bad enough, doctors in New York City report that a new strain of HIVhas been found that appears to resist all current drug cocktails.
But the estimated annual number of AIDS-related deaths in the US fell 14% from 1998-2002 to 16,371 in 2002.
Viacom Inc. owns CBS, UPN, MTV Networks (MTV, Spike, CMT, TV Land), VH1, Nickelodeon, Showtime, The Movie Channel, and Flix.
They also own Paramount Television which produces the CSI shows on CBS, Entertainment Tonight, and Judge Judy.
Then, within CBS Enterprises, Viacom owns King World Media which distributes Oprah, Dr.Phil, Wheel of Fortune, and Jeopardy, among others...
On top of that, Viacom Outdoor is the largest outdoor advertising company in North America, with all those billboards along streets and highways. Not to mention Paramount Pictures, which has 2,500 titles including Titanic, Forrest Gump, Napoleon Dynamite, etc.
Yikes. In 2000, barely 25% of high school seniors found school work to be meaningful and only just over 30% of seniors thought that things they learned in school would be important later in life.
The global beauty business brings in $140 billion/year.
Of that, the male grooming side makes up only $16 billion. Maybe this means that women spend almost 8 times as much on their looks as men.
This is all according to Procter & Gamble's CEO A.G. Lafley, who also mentions that P&G has 16 "billion-dollar" brands, that each bring in more than $1 billion in revenue, including Tide, Olay, Crest, Charmin, Pampers, etc.
Arizona businessman Reggie Fowler agreed to buy the Minnesota Vikings in a deal that would make him the NFL's first black owner.
Fowler declined to say how much he would pay for the team. Published reports and a rival bidder, Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor, put the price at about $625 million.
Is this a good use of money, or could it be better used?
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