Saturday/Sunday, August 28-29, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN Weekend Edition (Saturday/Sunday, August 28-29, 2010)
(1)- QUASIMODO LIVED – A new discovery appears to reveal the real-life inspiration behind the character from Hugo's seminal novel, which tells the story of the deaf bell-ringer of Notre Dame and his love for Esmeralda.

(2)- NEW BOOK -- Our intellects are not prisoners of our genders or our genes and those who claim otherwise are merely coating old-fashioned stereotypes with a veneer of scientific credibility.

(3)- CONTROVERSY -- A prenatal pill for congenital adrenal hyperplasia to prevent ambiguous genitalia may reduce the chance that a female with the disorder will be gay. Critics call it engineering for sexual orientation.

(4)- EXISTENTIALISM – A 1945 report says: There is much talk in Paris, in Greenwich Village, even in the center of Manhattan, about existence and existentialism. The existentialists assemble in the Cafe de Flore in Paris...

(5)- BYE, BYE SOAPS -- The mesmeric hold of the soap, the spell of its simmering close-ups and spiraling plotlines, has been broken. The deaths and births of these made-up communities no longer fill our hearts.

(6)- INTERNET VIEWS – The claim that the internet is not only shaping our lives but physically altering our brains has sparked a lively and ongoing debate, says John Naughton. Herein, a selection of writers and experts offer their opinion.

(7)- ABKHAZIA -- The small Black Sea republic, already free of Georgia’s control since the war of 1992-93, emerged more secure from the Georgia-Russia war of August 2008. But the young state is now living through “difficult” times.

(8)- TASTE AND TEXTURE -- The Pew Research Center says 65 percent of Americans require a chewy center bursting with flavor, while 88 percent strongly prefer a glazed and powdered top drizzled with double the delicious frosting.

(9)- THREE GORGES DAM -- With an official price tag of $25 billion — and some estimates claiming three times that much — the costliest hydropower project in history demonstrates China's sheer arrogance in trying to tame nature's whims.

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