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Gay Anti-Asian Prejudice Thrives On the Internet

Sep 6
On the Internet, Asian men can organize and meet sex or romantic partners. But its anonymity also provides the last frontier of open prejudice. The last part of our 3-part series examines the Net effect on gay anti-Asian prejudice--and suggests solutions.

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Keidi Obi Awadu

AIDS Denialists Disputed At ITT Forum

By Gary Barlow | Sep 5
Almost 26 years after the HIV virus was established as the cause of AIDS some people still propagate the belief that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS and that the drugs used to treat it should be avoided.

Bulgarian Prelate Awards Viciously Anti-Gay City Officials as ’Defenders of Christianity’

Sep 6
A Bulgarian Orthodox bishop has awarded two anti-gay officials of the city of Pazarzhik with church honors for their legal attacks against gays.

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Entertainment

Author Hawking says God not needed for creation

By Jennifer Quinn | Sep 3
Did creation need a creator? British physicist and mathematician Stephen Hawking says no, arguing in his new book that there need not be a God behind the creation of the universe.

Shut Up & Kiss Me

Sep 6
This no-budget vanity project delves into the fertile minefield of pre-middle-aged single gay men trying to navigate romance and dating, but an ultimately flaccid script, dead line readings & clichéd set-ups ultimately do it in.

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Style

In this Sept. 1, 2010 picture, construction continues at the World Trade Center site in New York.

9 years gone, everyone’s a ground zero stakeholder

By Samantha Gross | Sep 6
It is a place of sacrifice. A place of mourning. A place people pass by on their way to grab lunch. It’s a place where tourists crane their necks to snatch a glimpse around barriers walling off an enormous construction site - which is also what it is.

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Nightlife

In this Sept. 10, 1960 file photo, runners in the Olympic marathon pass under the Arch of Constantine shortly after the start of the event in Rome. They were the Summer Games that ushered in the Olympics as we know them today. Starting 50 years ago on Wed

Katy Perry wows them at NYC’s Splash

By JC Alvarez | Aug 31
Katie Perry started last Friday on the Today Show and ended it at Splash. Here’s our report on her last stop of the day.

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Business/Finance

Future hiring will mainly benefit the high-skilled

By Christopher S. Rugaber and Michael Liedtke | Sep 6
Whenever companies start hiring freely again, job-seekers with specialized skills and education will have plenty of good opportunities. Others will face a choice: Take a job with low pay - or none at all.

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Technology

In this July 27, 2010 file photo, Peter Chou, chief executive officer of Taiwan’s High Tech Computer Corp., or HTC Corp., talks about the introduction of the brand into China’s market during a press conference held in Beijing, China

Taiwan’s HTC: iPhone’s `quiet’ challenger

By Joe McDonald | Sep 6
East Asia is the world’s electronics factory, yet unless they are Japanese, producers are largely anonymous. Now HTC Corp., a Taiwanese maker of smart phones, is moving out of the shadows and trying to establish its own brand name as it competes with Apple’s iPhone.

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Travel

An existing single family home’s for sale sign includes a bilingual price reduction note, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010, in Los Angeles. Home sales in Southern California plummeted 21.4 percent last month from July 2009, the largest year-over-year drop in

Manchester Pride Celebrates Twenty Years of Madchester Magnanimity

By Mark Thompson and Robert Doyle | Sep 6
Second cities like middle children often find themselves in the shadows of their bigger, older siblings. Some, like Chicago, embrace the Second City moniker, while others like Manchester, England, work to define themselves apart from their larger sister.

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Health/Fitness

Robert Webster, chairman of the Department of Virology and Molecular Biology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.

Expert warns of complacency after swine flu fizzle

By Min Lee | Sep 6
A leading virus expert urged health authorities around the world Sunday to stay vigilant even though the recent swine flu pandemic was less deadly than expected, warning that bird flu could spark the next global outbreak.

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