Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Page 1 Consider (03/10)

  • Fit to a T: Could Eric Dane be any more handsome? It's really starting to hurt. (T Magazine)

  • Lei-Away Plan: The drive to make Hawaii the fifth state in the country to allow same-sex civil unions is on the verge of failing, despite support from most state lawmakers. (AP)

  • To Tell the Truth: The NYU School of Medicine is looking for volunteers to participate in Project Rewind, a 15-minute anonymous online research survey. The purpose of the study is to help researchers better understand the relationship between pornography, drug and alcohol use, and the sexual practices of men who have sex with men. (At the end of the survey, respondents will have a chance to enter a raffle for a $200 iTunes gift card.) For details, click HERE.

  • Paper Cuts: Douglas A. McIntyre outlines the Top 10 Most Endangered Newspapers in America. Sure, many of them are the second-tier paper in the area's market (The Detroit News, Chicago Sun-Times, Philadelphia Daily News), most of them are THE cities' paper of record (Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Miami Herald, Minneapolis Star-Tribune). While I have never confused the newspaper as we know it (which is dying) with news gathering (which will always exist), the former seems to be happening all too quickly and no one seems to have any reasonable solutions for what comes next. Online-only versions of several of these papers seems like (a la the Seattle Post-Intelligencer), but what that means for career journalists is grim at best. (Time)

  • Barbie's Birthday: Belinda Carlisle isn't the only doll who hit the big 5-0 in the past year. (KVAL)

  • Tolerance Required: Officials say parents who removed their kids from a London elementary school over lessons marking LGBT history month could face prosecution. (Towleroad)

  • All's Well That Ends Well? Something about this 300-year-old Shakespeare portrait just doesn't sound right. (The Lede)

  • Some Children Left Behind: A judge has ruled that that a lawsuit challenging an Arkansas law banning unmarried couples from becoming foster or adoptive parents can proceed and that the conservative group behind the measure can present arguments in the case. (365Gay)

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