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The Moscow Times, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 5:21 PM PDT
Sharapova Excited About Defense http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/06/17/091.html
LONDON -- When Maria Sharapova shook up the world of tennis a year ago by beating Serena Williams to win Wimbledon, she did not even have a decent mobile phone with which to relay the news.

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Canadian Press via Yahoo! News, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 4:43 PM PDT
Invites to MuchMusic Awards hard to come by as annual bash is celeb magnet http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cpress/20050616/ca_pr_on_en/music_muchmusic_awards_1
TORONTO (CP) - A room crammed to the brim with extravagant freebies for celebrity guests is the latest sign that the MuchMusic Video Awards has joined the ranks of A-list events like the Grammys and the MTV Movie Awards.

Santa Barbara Independent, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 3:41 PM PDT
Art http://www.independent.com/a&e/art969.htm
Contemporary Arts Forum - Inchmeal, featuring works by Mark Fox. Through June 5. Hypobotany: Visions of a Field Naturalist, featuring works by Eric Beltz. Through June 5. What Meets the Eye, featuring works by Hilary Baker.

Times Education Supplement, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 4:05 PM PDT
Staffroom http://www.tes.co.uk/2108040
Professor Roderick Castle FLOUD President, London Metropolitan University. Professor Richard Lavenham GARDNER Royal Society Professor of Zoology, University of Oxford.

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Thursday, June 16, 2005 2:08 PM PDT
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hour, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 0:15 AM PDT
Erotic Tales http://www.hour.ca/film/film.aspx?iIDArticle=6365
I was asked what the difference was between erotica and pornography. "Porn is about fucking," I replied, "and erotica is something else." It struck me then that I could not come up with a more concrete definition, possibly only because erotica is different things to different people.

CBS Market Watch, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 7:53 AM PDT
Analyst: market wants more erotic podcasts http://www.marketwatch.com/enf/rss.asp?guid=%7B0527744C-6812-4765-AB21-8D9B78676A41%7D&dist=rss&siteid=mktw
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- A business consultant says the market for "podcasting" is underserved.

Juneau Empire, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 7:44 AM PDT
what's happening http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/061605/thi_20050616001.shtml
Organ concert, featuring the musical stylings of J. Allan MacKinnon on the Kimball Theatre Organ, noon Friday, June 17, at the State Office Building.

hour, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 0:19 AM PDT
Fringe-off! http://www.hour.ca/redirect.aspx?iIDArticle=6363&iIDReaction=0&iIDGroupe=0&iIDCritique=0&iIDSectionCalendrier=0&iIDSpectacleFilm=0&iIDRepresentation=0
Directed by Robin Friedman. Written by Robin Friedman and Faraz Abdullah. With Robin Friedman, Alex da Silva and Kyle Marshall Nares.

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CNN Money, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:03 AM PDT
The hottest celebrity ... viruses? http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2005/06/16/technology/celebrity_viruses/index.htm?section=money_latest
While Britney Spears' pregnancy may be popular with celebrity news junkies, her time in the public eye is also making it a whole lot easier to spread computer viruses.

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Thursday, June 16, 2005 10:46 AM PDT
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CBS Market Watch, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 7:53 AM PDT
Analyst: market wants more erotic podcasts http://www.marketwatch.com/enf/rss.asp?guid=%7B0527744C-6812-4765-AB21-8D9B78676A41%7D&dist=rss&siteid=mktw
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- A business consultant says the market for "podcasting" is underserved.

BBC News, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 6:37 AM PDT
Light shed on 'playboy Lama' http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/asia-pacific/4073630.stm
A new translation of the erotic poetry of the sixth Dalai Lama gives new insight into the controversial leader.

hour, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 0:15 AM PDT
Erotic Tales http://www.hour.ca/film/film.aspx?iIDArticle=6365
I was asked what the difference was between erotica and pornography. "Porn is about fucking," I replied, "and erotica is something else." It struck me then that I could not come up with a more concrete definition, possibly only because erotica is different things to different people.

News Channel 5 Nashville, Wed, 15 Jun 2005 9:19 PM PDT
Hustler Hollywood Opening in Nashville http://www.newschannel5.com/content/news/12123.asp
Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler Magazine and immortalized in a 1997 movie starring Woody Harrelson, is opening a superstore in Nashville. "I'd call it an erotic boutique," said Jimmy Flynt, Larry's brother and manager of the retail chain. "It's very classy."

AFP via Yahoo! News, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 8:19 AM PDT
Breastfeeding mothers seek legal succour http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050616/lf_afp/afplifestyleusbreastfeeding_050616151919
In an era when surgical bust enhancement and cleavage-led advertising are accepted norms, it might seem odd that legislation is deemed necessary to protect the most natural function of the female breast.

Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance, Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:54 AM PDT
In TV Guide Magazine's June 19 Issue -on Newsstands June 16-: 50 of Hollywood's Sexiest Stars Share Their Diet and http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050615/155872.html?.v=1
From personal trainers to private chefs, from yoga to golf, from erotic dancing to boxing, Hollywood stars will stop at nothing to keep their bodies in camera-ready shape. In this week's issue of TV Guide , 50 of the sexiest celebrities share the diet and fitness tips that keep them looking and feeling great.

Press Release Source: TV Guide Magazine

In TV Guide Magazine's June 19 Issue -on Newsstands June 16-: 50 of Hollywood's Sexiest Stars Share Their Diet and Fitness Tips
Wednesday June 15, 2:54 pm ET

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 15, 2005--From personal trainers to private chefs, from yoga to golf, from erotic dancing to boxing, Hollywood stars will stop at nothing to keep their bodies in camera-ready shape. In this week's issue of TV Guide (on newsstands June 16), 50 of the sexiest celebrities share the diet and fitness tips that keep them looking and feeling great. Following, ten celebrities reveal their secret weapons in the battle of the bulge.
OPRAH WINFREY got serious--and gradually dropped a reported 75 pounds--before turning 50 last year. What works for her: no alcohol and no "white food" (i.e., flour and sugar).

COURTENEY COX ARQUETTE: Hollywood has never lacked for fitness fads, and the oddly named Budokon is the latest. A heart-pumping mix of martial arts, yoga and meditation dreamed up by former bodyguard and fight-scene choreographer Cameron Shayne, Budokon has already gained several celeb followers, including Courteney Cox Arquette and hubby David Arquette. "I was training David while Courteney was doing Pilates, and she got bored and started working out with us," says Shayne, a yoga instructor who also holds black belts in tae kwon do and karate. "The two arts naturally coincide," he says about his hybrid workout. "It's about cultivating something more spiritual than just 'Let's get in shape.'"

TERI HATCHER stays fit with erotic dance moves learned at L.A.'s S Factor studio. "It's great for your muscles and it's really empowering," Hatcher has said, "because it's not about turning a guy on."

JENNIFER ANISTON, who was once so curvy that her own father told her she had a rear "you could serve tea off of," dropped 20 pounds by following the Zone.

ADAM RODRIGUEZ planned to play pro baseball before injuries sidelined him. Now the CSI: Miami star keeps fit by running on sand.

MARISKA HARGITAY, who regularly hits the gym, recently took up golf as part of her fitness regime. Good genes--she's the daughter of Jayne Mansfield and former bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay--might have something to do with her fab body, too.

KRISTIN DAVIS is so smitten with yoga that the former Sex and the City star even opened her own yoga studio briefly. "It doesn't matter if actresses are doing it," says Davis, who insists it's no fad. "Yoga has been around 5,000 years."

NICOLE RICHIE, 23, works out on an Indo Board, a sort of landlocked surfboard that tones muscles and teaches balance.

JESSICA SIMPSON When she needed to get into butt-kicking shape for "The Dukes of Hazzard," Simpson turned to childhood pal Mike Alexander. "Jessica wanted a more muscular butt," says the 26-year-old Texan, who got his friend's assets looking good with 45 minutes of lunges and squats, five to six days a week. "Most women think they have to do tons of cardio, but that doesn't shape muscle," explains Alexander, a trainer at Beverly Hills' Sports Club/LA. "Jessica's goal wasn't to lose weight but to define her legs and glutes."

For a complete list of celebrity fitness and diet tips, pick up the June 19 issue of TV Guide (on newsstands June 16).

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Reuters via Yahoo! News, Wed, 15 Jun 2005 6:54 PM PDT
Rise in Japan teen sex ignites education debate http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050616/lf_nm/life_japan_teens_dc_2
Sixteen-year-old Monami Okubo sees nothing wrong with sex before marriage.

Vh1, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 7:30 AM PDT
1 Week, 10 Songs: Editor's Picks http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1504172/061505/article.jhtml
Every week VH1.com music writers choose 10 must-hear, must-have tracks. Keep coming back to find out which tunes we're hot about. There's no getting around the way that Gwen's dominated the radio landscape lately; we're all in "Hollaback" heaven.

Columbus Alive, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 8:07 AM PDT
Columbus Alive http://www.columbusalive.com/2005/20050615/classified.html
WANTED: MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS! Will Pay Cash For Old Fender, Gibson, Martin Guitars. Any Condition, Buy/Sell/Trade! Free Appraisals, Honest-Reliable. Largest studio in Midwest. Register now for new beginner classes starting Wed. June 22 @ 7 pm. Visitors welcome Mon/Thr. 6pm-10pm or Sat. 10:30am -12:30pm.

TurkishPress.com, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 8:22 AM PDT
Breastfeeding mothers seek legal succour http://www.turkishpress.com/nw.asp?s=u&i=050616151238.v3trp0ft&t=Breastfeeding%20mothers%20seek%20legal%20succour
Copyright 2005 Agence France Presse. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AFP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of Agence France Presse.

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Thursday, June 16, 2005 9:20 AM PDT
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Geek.com, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 8:13 AM PDT
Britney Spears wants to infect your computer http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2005Jun/gee20050616030967.htm
In a twisted way of measuring popularity, it looks like Britney Spears tops the list. According to Panda Software and 7 years' worth of infected messages, Britney's name was used most in attempts to get users to open malicious e-mails.

BellaOnline, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 8:12 AM PDT
Project Eve http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art32694.asp
Hello, and welcome back! Things here are pretty hectic at the moment, with Little League play-offs this week, as well as an unexpected funeral, and the beginning of post-season tournaments...on top of all the normal stuff.

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Thursday, June 16, 2005 6:15 AM PDT
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PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 5:00 AM PDT
The Big Fashion Trend in Footwear This Summer Is in the Details http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050616/cgth007.html?.v=16
This summer the big fashion trend in footwear is details - the embellishments on sandals including jewels, stones, sequins, beads, studs, buckles, three-dimensional flowers appliques, knots, bows, and stitching are the important details bringing excitement to common silhouettes and uppers like the wedge sandal or the thong.

Press Release Source: Payless ShoeSource, Inc.

The Big Fashion Trend in Footwear This Summer Is in the Details
Thursday June 16, 8:00 am ET
Ultra Embellished Sandals with Lots of Ornamentation Perk Up Common Styles; Toe Loops, Thongs and Wedge Heels Are Also Key

NEW YORK, June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- This summer the big fashion trend in footwear is details - the embellishments on sandals including jewels, stones, sequins, beads, studs, buckles, three-dimensional flowers appliques, knots, bows, and stitching are the important details bringing excitement to common silhouettes and uppers like the wedge sandal or the thong.

"This year's hottest looks are ultra embellished sandals that feature many combinations like colorful stones with metal tooling, or stones, studs, sequins, beading and three-dimensional flowers all on the same style," said Jack Guze, senior vice president of women's footwear and accessory buying for Payless ShoeSource, the nation's leading specialty footwear retailer that carries all the latest accessory trends. "Details turn uppers into extraordinary styles that are perfect for pairing with everything from jeans and shorts, to skirts and dresses."

"And all the designers are doing it. You can get ultra embellished sandals from Payless at $13 or pay quite a bit more for similar looks available at other retailers," he said.

"Fast fashion at Payless is smart," Guze pointed out. "Payless allows women to sample new trend-right looks and not spend a lot of money doing it."

Guze also noted that fashion is cyclical. Styles and trends come back, and will be updated or have a fresh "twist."

"For example, the espadrille wedge is back this season in a big way," he said, noting that women like the natural, adaptable feel of the style, the height-comfort combination, and the ankle wraps that dress up the leg.

Guze said the movement toward the espadrille wedge sandal is part of the Bohemian or ethnic trend. Important silhouettes in summer sandals are flats, wedges and kitten heels, use of cork in the footbed and bottoms and uppers like the thong and the "toe-loop."

"The thong upper -- aka the flip flop -- has been hot for about three years now," Guze said. "The toe loop is a fresh trend now and incorporates a one or two-band upper."

The Payless Summer Collection started appearing in stores nationwide last week and boasts a wide rang of embellished sandals, espadrilles, and wedges, as well as classic summer styles, plus a large assortment of coordinating handbags. Prices are on average under $25.

Payless ShoeSource, Inc., the world's footwear authority, is the smart shopper's source for style-right, high-value footwear and accessories for the entire family. With more than 4,600 retail stores throughout North, Central and South America and its e-store Payless.com®, Payless puts more feet in the latest footwear fashions than any other specialty retailer.

Media: Mardi Larson, 612.928.0202 or mardilarson@aol.com
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PA via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 0:47 AM PDT
Speed dating snogs for BB's Makosi http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050616/344/flant.html
The uninhibited Big Brother housemates have thrown themselves enthusiastically into speed dating - with naughty nurse Makosi bagging two smooches in just one night.

MCOT, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 3:19 AM PDT
Thailand to host region's biggest franchise fair http://etna.mcot.net/query.php?nid=39379
BANGKOK, June 16 (TNA) - Thailand's Ministry of Commerce and the private sector are teaming up to host the biggest franchise fair in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) later this month, the Director-General of the Department of Business Development, Miss Orajit Singkalavanich, revealed today.

The Scotsman, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 4:01 AM PDT
Lazy Guide to Net Culture: Leeeeeeeeeeeroy! http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=663652005
A star is born. Or rather a new Star Wars kid is born. Or a new Numa Numa dance Or a new Tron costume guy.

Lazy Guide to Net Culture: Leeeeeeeeeeeroy!

Stewart Kirkpatrick
skirkpatrick at scotsman dot com

If you want to appear like you’re at the cutting edge of net culture but can’t be bothered to spend hours online, then never fear. Scotsman.com’s pathetic team of geeks, freaks and gimps will do the hard work for you. While you sip wine, read a book or engage in normal social interaction, they will burn out their retinas staring at badly designed web pages and dodge creeps in chatrooms to prepare for you: Scotsman.com’s lazy guide to net culture.

A star is born. Or rather a new Star Wars kid is born. Or a new Numa Numa dance. Or a new Tron costume guy.

If somehow you have been blessed with ignorance about these individuals, allow me to shatter your peace of mind. They have all been lauded online as entertaining idiots because they have been captured on video losing themselves and their inhibitions in an activity (pretending to use a lightsabre, dancing and making a fancy dress outfit respectively).

And now we have Leeroy Jenkins. Now, Leeroy is different. For a start, Leeroy is not human. Leeroy is a character in the massive multiplayer roleplaying game World of Warcraft. (Not to be confused, by the way, with the evangelist Leroy Jenkins.)

The background is unimportant. Basically the video shows a large group of WoW players about to do virtual battle with a host of computer-generated beasties. The leader of the group painstakingly lays out a careful "softly, softly, catchy monkey" strategy. Everyone agrees to it. Then our hero dashes into the room screaming his own name. He attracts every enemy for miles around. Everyone gets wiped out.

The highlights of the dialogue are as follows:

Leeroy: "Alright chums lets do this! LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEROOOOOOOY JINNNKINS!!!"

Other player: "Oh my God. He just ran in. "

[Everybody gets killed]

Some player: "Leeroy, you are just as stupid as hell. "

Leeroy: "At least I have chicken."

This is now a great source of e-hilarity – as demonstrated by the ribald references at leeroyjenkins.net, a depressingly comprehensive resource for all matters Jenkins.

The Urban Dictionary demonstrates how "Leeroy Jenkins" has entered the idiolects of WoW players and other net users:

Leeroy
n.
1: One who does not grasp the concept of caution.
2: One whose success is based purely off relentless aggression and pure luck.
3: One who likes chicken.
4: One whose battle cry consists of their own name.

v.
1: To destroy all hopes of success.
2: To rush headlong into danger without regard to consequences.
3: To satisfy one's own desires at the expense of all around oneself.

You can even buy merchandise featuring the name of Leeroy's adventuring group ("Pals for life"), including – merciful God save us – a thong. (Is it me or is there something fundamentally distasteful about merchandise that links fast food fowls and thongs?)

Perhaps you may detect a tone of malaise in my remarks. Firstly, I don’t like people being crucified for making mistakes. Mistakes are a by-product of innovation. If nobody ever tried anything new, we'd still be huddled in branches laughing at the "n00b" in the next trees trying to walk on her hind legs.

The second reason for my jaded view of Leeroy Jenkins is to be found at Played.ToDeath.com. Two of its staff tracked down the man who created the Leeroy character (or a man who claims to have created the Leeroy character). Apparently, he's an unemployed 24-year-old called Ben S from Laffayete, Colorado. Here's a snippet:

PLAYED: You know the video has spread all over the Internet by now. We had even seen references to the video at E3 this year. Now that everyone has seen it, some people want to know if the video was staged. Was it?
BEN S: (laughs)We want people to make that decision themselves. It seems more fun that way.

Right. Call me a cynic but if someone asks you: "Did you stage this?" and your answer is evasive or even anything except "no" then we can assume you staged it. And lots of people think this particular video is a set-up.

So why would this guy want to make himself look like a choob?

PLAYED: ... How do you plan on using your new-found fame?
BEN S: It's been nice, now that more people know who I am. I'm starting to look around the gaming industry for possible employment opportunities.
PLAYED: Right on. We know that Blizzard [the company that made WoW] was handing out flyers looking for GM positions. Maybe you should drop them a line.
BEN S: Yeah, I'm currently trying to get in contact with Blizzard.

Ahh, now everything becomes clear. Here we have the ultimate expression of celebrity culture. Star Wars kid, the Numa Numa dancer and Tron costume guy did not seek or want their moment in the spotlight. But now people are actively seeking out the honour of being global idiot of the moment. As well as the fleeting honour of being recognised, there is the possibility of squeezing some material gain out of their 15 minutes of infamy.

I hope it's worth it, Leeroy.

St. Petersburg Times, Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:14 PM PDT
The ripper http://www.sptimes.com/2005/06/16/Floridian/The_ripper.shtml
TAMPA - Tina, the receptionist, used to work in pest control. Fumigation, testosterone, that sort of thing. "So this," she says, searching for a delicate adjective, "is really girly for me."

The ripper
By KELLEY BENHAM, Times Staff Writer
Published June 16, 2005

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TAMPA - Tina, the receptionist, used to work in pest control. Fumigation, testosterone, that sort of thing.

"So this," she says, searching for a delicate adjective, "is really girly for me."

From her desk in the snug, citrus-colored South Tampa salon, Tina controls access to Pia Trujillo and her apprentices. Judging from the messages on her answering machine, Tina holds tremendous power.

"Please, please, please," the callers will say, especially in summer, right about now. "Please before Saturday." Please I'm going to the beach. Please I'm getting married. Please.

If you call Tina this morning, you can see Pia sometime in July. If you call Tina this afternoon, after the publicity and whatnot, well. Some of Pia's regular clients are already peeved about the potential backlog.

All this for a service Tina Sanchez, 19, does not fully understand. Pia is master of the Brazilian bikini wax.

The salon, Pia Esthetics, offers other services. But just about everyone who will walk through the door today seeks something that Tina must use great anatomical detail to describe. It is, in terms vague enough for a family newspaper, a procedure far more invasive than a standard bikini wax in which Pia and her implements venture into intimate crevices and clients assume positions associated with bedroom activity and yoga class. It is something Tina desperately hopes never to experience.

"Pia keeps telling me she's going to drag me in there and wax me. She's like, "I'm gonna tie you down.' I'm like, "Noooooooooooo.' "She did my eyebrows. I said, "No, you're not rippin' anything else, unh uh.' "

Pia hasn't arrived yet, so she cannot roll her eyes at Tina. Tina goes on.

"I've heard people in there screaming 'cause, you have to understand, everything echoes in here. I hear rriiiipppp and then I hear, "Oh, crap!' "

A client listens from the waiting room. She has an appointment with Pia's apprentice, Nayla Desalvo. Nayla endured the procedure as part of her training. She yelped and flailed so much that Pia climbed halfway onto the table and pinned her down with her leg.

Nevertheless, Nayla offers this advice to Tina now: "You'd better do it if you want to get married," she says. "To get the guy to marry you."

Nayla turns to her customer. "You ready for some torture?"

"Sure," she says. "I took some Advil."

***

Pia is 28, smiley and petite, like most of her clients. She wears a white coat. She doesn't look like she would inflict pain. In a room accented with candles and plastic daisies, she puts on a pair of reading glasses and peers at the panty line of a 32-year-old woman named Laurie.

Laurie explains that she'd thought her appointment was yesterday, so she had driven frantically to get here in time - if you're lucky enough to get an appointment with Pia, you don't want to miss it - only to return home devastated and stubbly.

"I was sitting at the pool yesterday, and it was just terrible," she says. "I was like this, plucking, and my ex-boyfriend is like, "What are you doing?' And I said, "I thought I was going to see Pia today.' "

The ex-boyfriend, like so many boyfriends and ex-boyfriends, knows who Pia is, although they have never met. Sometimes Pia calls to confirm an appointment and a male voice greets her like an old friend. Sometimes she meets a client's husband in the mall, and he says, "Thank you, Pia, thank you."

Few males venture into the salon, which is about as deep into the girl inner sanctum as you can get. It's as friendly as a hairdresser and as intimate as a gynecologist, which makes sense, since Pia is basically a gynecological hairdresser. Women strip down to a thong, put their feet up in the air and discuss the sacred and the mundane, in 30-minute, $40 increments.

Laurie leans back on a pale yellow pillow and talks about her trips to Chicago. She is dusted with baby powder and smeared with warm melted wax. When Pia rubs cloth into the hot wax and yanks it off, Laurie barely flinches. She says, "Ouch."

Some women get so used to the waxing they doze off, Pia says. Some tremble and sweat. Almost all return faithfully every three to four weeks.

"You love your Pia once you get her," Laurie says.

***

Pia got the first request five years ago working in another salon. She didn't know what a Brazilian wax was, but her business sense told her to oblige. She began waxing places concealed by even the tiniest bikinis.

"I was never afraid," she said.

Word got around. She opened the tiny salon on Bay-to-Bay Boulevard a year ago, and almost immediately the answering machine filled up and the wait list overflowed.

She brought in Nayla Desalvo and trained her: Pia waxed Nayla, then Nayla waxed Pia until Pia was satisfied that she had a "good rip."

Now Nayla is just as busy as Pia, and Pia is training a second apprentice and looking for a larger building.

"It was a need in Tampa," she said. Women bring pages torn from Playboy, requesting topiarylike shapes: teardrop, heart, butterfly. Sometimes the heart ends up looking like Mickey Mouse and they laugh and rip it off. There are five classic patterns: from the basic bikini wax that removes whatever sticks out of a bathing suit bottom, to the Brazilian, which leaves a narrow "landing strip," to the "Sphynx," which gets its name from the mythical Egyptian hairless cat.

About half the girls go for the Sphynx, said Pia, who Sphynxes herself because she feels guilty asking Nayla to do it. Some think the look is too porn star, or too preadolescent. Some save it for special occasions.

When Laurie broke up with a boyfriend and started dating someone new, she reverted to a conservative pattern. Pia has learned to judge the status of some relationships by the amount of wax required.

***

They don't call it the Brazilian in Brazil. They do it there, mainly in the big cities, but they apparently don't have a name for it. Pia's nail tech is from Brazil. She had never heard of a Brazilian wax until she came to the United States.

Seven Brazilian sisters (Jocely, Jonice, Joyce, Janea, Juracy, Jussara and Judseia Padilha), introduced the idea to New York in 1994, and then Gwyneth Paltrow said it had changed her life, and then Carrie got one on Sex and the City, and . . .

Now there's a 55-year old woman named Kathy in Pia's waiting room.

"I'm from Miami," she says. "Everyone gets them down there. Even old ladies like me."

Her daughters talked her into it. She decided what the heck. Now she's hooked. No more bathing suit issues, she says. Okay, men like it too.

Kathy was talking to her sister not long ago, when her sister leaned in and whispered something shocking and scandalous about her 20-something daughter.

"Emily has a Brazilian bikini wax!" her sister said.

Kathy just grinned. "So do I."

***

In Room Two, Nayla tells herself this is just like waxing eyebrows. When Pia taught her, she gave this advice: Pay attention to your facial expression. Keep smiling. Be the boss. The clients are like babies, they will put their legs where you tell them. Most important is a good rip: Be quick, secure. Don't hesitate. Be brave.

When she finishes, she pretends her memory has been erased by one of those flashy things in Men in Black.

Stretched out on the table is Kelly, 23, here for the second time. Nayla promises it won't hurt as much this time. They talk about Latin night at a Tampa club. Rip! They talk about softball. Rip!

Nayla points to a small tattoo just inside Kelly's hip bone.

"What's that mean?"

"Oh, it's a nautical star. To me it symbolizes inner strength. My old boyfriend slept with someone else the entire time we were together. We stayed friends, and he never told me about it. You can't see it unless I show you. Or you're waxing me."

Nayla leans over Kelly with a pair of tweezers. Pluck. Pluck. Pluck. Pluck. "So, what did you do for Memorial Day?"

Here comes the part that makes the Brazilian the Brazilian:

"Now," Nayla says, "put your legs like you're having a baby. All the way up."

Kelly lifts her feet toward the ceiling. Crosses her ankles. Wiggles her toes.

"No babies," she says. "Oh my god, I saw Madagascar. I thought I was going to have a panic attack because there were so many children in there."

Riiip.

Kelly lets out a long breath. That one kind of hurt.

The Beacon News, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 1:29 AM PDT
Hopefuls line up for shot at reality http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/couriernews/city/e16survivor.htm
GURNEE Brian Hall had planned on being at work bright and early Wednesday. But something he caught on TV dark and late on Tuesday convinced him to alter his schedule.

Daily Mirror, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 0:29 AM PDT
THE SUMMER OF BRUV: ROB'S ARMY AGONY http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15636954&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=the-summer-of-bruv--rob-s-army-agony-name_page.html
FIERY housemate Roberto Conte turned down a high flying military career after an army friend died in a mysterious shooting accident. The Big Brother star was groomed for Italy's parachute regiment but walked out following the death of Enzo Zegarelli.

Bangkok Post, Wed, 15 Jun 2005 9:17 PM PDT
Luang Prabang on a shoestring http://www.bangkokpost.com/en/Horizons/16Jun2005_hori59.php
Luang Prabang's charms, its French colonial architecture and Buddhist heritage are legendary. Add a tropical setting, and the appeal can't be denied. It's an enchanting place for a weekend away, with plenty to see and do.

Bangkok Post, Wed, 15 Jun 2005 9:21 PM PDT
Graffiti art for the masses After years of searching for his creative voice in the Thai art world, one artist has found http://www.bangkokpost.com/en/Outlook/16Jun2005_out54.php
In much the same way that graffiti artists produce their spray-painted art on abandoned buildings, walls along the BTS Skytrain route and shops in Siam Square, two months ago 34-year-old artist Peerapong Limthamrong used the interior of the lobby in the funky Reflection Rooms hotel as his canvas.

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Express India, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 4:25 AM PDT
Sexiest women are on prowl: Mallika http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=48924
Someone once said, 'Bikini is the two piece of clothing that keeps the world together'. Mallika romping on the white beaches of Mauritius a la Baywatch & you realise; truer words were never said.

Lords of Pain, Wed, 15 Jun 2005 8:32 PM PDT
Dawn Marie Confirms Pregnancy, More From Francine http://www.lordsofpain.net/news/2005/articles/1118891973.php
On "WWE Byte This" earlier tonight, Dawn Marie confirmed that she was pregnant. Seeing how she's pregnant, she said she'd obviously have to miss taking part in the next divas bikini shoot this fall for 2006.

BG News, Wed, 15 Jun 2005 4:34 PM PDT
Legislating own beliefs is wrong http://www.bgnews.com/vnews/display.v/ART/42b0ba5bee203
Pop quiz: You get word that a bikini bar is soon moving into your community. What do you do? If you're the group organizing the protest against the bar, you, as The Tampa Tribune recently reported, pray for a ban on such establishments. If ...

Fox News, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 2:02 AM PDT
Aruba Authorities Search Dutch Suspect's Home http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,159730,00.html
Authorities on Wednesday searched the home of Joran Van Der Sloot, the 17-year-old son of a Dutch official who was one of the last known people to see a missing Alabama girl alive.

Entertainment Weekly, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 4:27 AM PDT
Jackson witnesses portray family as rude, greedy http://www.ew.com/ew/article/reuters/0,24012,1062102_10_0_,00.html
SANTA MARIA, Calif. (Reuters) - Michael Jackson's accuser drank alcohol, his younger brother secreted a stash of porn magazines and his mother drove off for a body wax at the singer's expense at the time the family claims they were being held at Neverland, defense witnesses told jurors on Monday.

AP via Yahoo! News, Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:34 AM PDT
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St. Petersburg Times, Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:14 PM PDT
The ripper http://www.sptimes.com/2005/06/16/Floridian/The_ripper.shtml
TAMPA - Tina, the receptionist, used to work in pest control. Fumigation, testosterone, that sort of thing. "So this," she says, searching for a delicate adjective, "is really girly for me."

Myrtle Beach Online, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 3:00 AM PDT
Senior Week participants in search of post-grad glory http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/local/11908641.htm
The tassels have turned and the yearbooks are done for the Class of 2005. But the grads have one more chance to leave their mark on high school: Do the craziest thing during Senior Week at the beach.

Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 3:20 AM PDT
'Beauty Shop' needs style beyond 'Barbershop' http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2005/06/16/pulse/movies/be187aa30157472786256fd500577b39.txt
Just one degree of separation now exists between Queen Latifah and Kevin Bacon. After seeing "Beauty Shop," you'll wish they'd never met.

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 2:14 AM PDT
LPGA Tour's snazzier image scoring big with fans http://www.rochesterdandc.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050616/SPORTS/506160343/1007
(June 16, 2005) — Ty Votaw spent much of 1999, his first year on the job as LPGA commissioner, gearing up for the tour's 50th anniversary season in 2000.

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Rediff.com, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 3:08 AM PDT
Sharapova poised for title defence http://www.rediff.com/rss/redirect.php?url=http://www.rediff.com/sports/2005/jun/16wimb.htm
The 18-year-old with the looks of a model cat-walks back to the scene of her triumph having acquired the poise of a champion.

Sharapova poised for title defence

Bill Barclay | June 16, 2005 15:40 IST

When Maria Sharapova shook up the world of tennis a year ago by beating Serena Williams to win Wimbledon, she did not even have a decent mobile phone with which to relay the news.

The sight of the pretty, long-limbed teenager trying vainly to call her mother using her father's mobile on the Centre Court was one of the enduring images of an endearing triumph that transformed Sharapova's life permanently.

The art of communicating the Sharapova success story has since been honed to perfection.

A year later the 18-year-old with the looks of a model cat-walks back to the scene of her triumph having acquired the poise of a champion and a clear understanding of her financial potential both on and off the court.

"I've no butterflies yet, just a lot of excitement," Sharapova told a telephone conference call this week. "Being back here brings back all the great memories.

"This is where it happened, this is where I won my first Grand Slam. It's really exciting."

Born in Nyagan in Siberia, Sharapova journeyed from Russia to the United States as a nine-year-old with her father in search of a tennis career.

INTERNET SEARCH

Last year's victory marked the completion of her road from rags to riches and today she is the most marketable sportswoman in history.

Anyone poring over her WTA handbook profile will be rewarded with the revelation that, last October, she was the top search on the KaZaZZ internet search engine ahead of Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Pamela Anderson, among others.

Sharapova has long been able to walk the walk and now the teenager who used to read prepared statements at post-match news conferences talks the talk perfectly.

"A lot of things have changed on and off the court," said the world number two who revealed last week that she will be launching her own eponymous brand of perfume in September.

"I feel like I'm a more complete player than I was a year ago.

"Off the court I've got to meet amazing people in different industries, I've got be associated with great companies and I've also been able to give back charity-wise. That's also very important."

In fact Sharapova's progress on court has not quite matched her success off it.

After winning Wimbledon she reached the third round at the US Open and, this year, the semi-finals of the Australian Open and the quarter-finals of the French Open.

UNDER PRESSURE

She has won three tournaments in 2005 -- at Tokyo, Doha and last week at Edgbaston in England, where she repeated her 2004 win in the low-key Wimbledon warm-up event.

Given the relentless glare of publicity, those are creditable results achieved under considerable pressure.

"It's very difficult knowing that people are always expecting you to win," she said. "But it's impossible to win everything. People just have to realise that.

"Your fans obviously want you to win all the time but I think they respect the fact that you're just simply a human."

One of the biggest threats to her defence at the All England Club will be resurgent Belgian Justine Henin-Hardenne, who exposed the weaknesses in Sharapova's game in winning their last-eight clash at Roland Garros two weeks ago.

Stretched thinly over her 1.83m frame, Sharapova's high centre of gravity means that, against a wily opponent who makes her run, she can look more like a giraffe on stilettos than a future world number one.

On grass, however, her increasingly strong serve and clubbing groundstrokes down both flanks are usually more than enough to compensate.

"I'm not worried about playing her," Sharapova said. "I played Justine on her favourite surface [in Paris].

"She had a little bit of an advantage on that but obviously on grass everything is faster, points are shorter. If you're serving well and returning well, those are the keys on the grass."

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Bill Janovitz with Buffalo Tom, Kay Hanley , the Gentlemen, and Juliana Hatfield are among the acts that'll be gigging at Fenway Park as part of ''Hot Stove, Cool Music: The Fenway Sessions," a fund-raiser for Theo and Paul Epstein 's A Foundation to Be Named Later. (An extension of the Red Sox Foundation, the new entity will raise dough ...

St. Petersburg Times, Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:14 PM PDT
Celebrity love handles http://www.sptimes.com/2005/06/16/Floridian/Celebrity_love_handles.shtml
With the latest celebrity incarnation, "Brangelina" - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie - the melding of names for power couples is officially de rigueur. Reviews of Mr. and Mrs. Smith have identified the film's stars, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, as "Brangelina."

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A leg up on the competition
The life of a male supermodel is not what you'd call tough. Tomorrow, Marcus Schenkenberg's in Boston to judge women's legs for Gillette, then off to Greece to do a bathing-suit shoot. Next week, the coverboy's back in Miami to survey more shanks, and then to Morocco to make a movie. So what qualifies Schenkenberg to be a judge in Gillette's national ''Legs of a Goddess" contest? ''I've seen a lot of legs both onstage and offstage." (Did we mention the former ''Surreal Life" cast member dated Pamela Anderson?) What's a good leg look like? ''Something well-shaped and with nice tone," he said. ''A vibrant personality helps, too." Prospective goddesses should show up at the Pru at noon.

Celebrity love handles
With the latest celebrity incarnation, "Brangelina" - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie - the melding of names for power couples is officially de rigueur.
By JAY CRIDLIN, Times Staff Writer
Published June 16, 2005

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Reviews of Mr. and Mrs. Smith have identified the film's stars, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, as "Brangelina." Recently, the New York gossip column Gawker.com carried an item headlined, "The Brangelina has landed!" Jimmy Kimmel mentioned "Brangelina" on his late-night talk show.

Beg your pardon, but . . . "Brangelina"?

Never has the Frankensteinian melding of two separate words been more in vogue, whether it's of two names, one name (KenJen, a.k.a. Jeopardy!'s Ken Jennings) or two animals (liger, the exalted lion-tiger hybrid from Napoleon Dynamite).

The practice almost seems standard for omnipresent power couples. There's "TomKat" (Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes), "Romber" (ex-Survivors Rob Mariano and Amber Brkich), "RenKen" (Renee Zellweger and Kenny Chesney) and "BenJen" (Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner; obviously, the world has retired the hall of fame handle "Bennifer").

"It makes some degree of linguistic sense," said Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University. "Ben Affleck was one entity. Jennifer Lopez was another entity. "Bennifer' was something else entirely. . . . The two of them created a monster that was different than either one of them."

Celebrity couple gossip has been around for decades, but Thompson said he can find no record of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton being known as, say, "Richabeth."

Two years ago, not long after his breakup with Lopez, Affleck devoted a Saturday Night Live monologue to the Bennifer tag. "How hard is it to say two names, instead of one?" he said. "You're not saving that much time!" He then whipped out a Bennifer T-shirt, followed by a line of shirts he hoped might fit future loves: Benyonce, Boprah and Mary-Kate and Ashfleck. "I'm pricing them to move," he said. "For $20, I'll sign 'em "Bennifer.' "

CELEBRITIES WHO SHOULD HOOK UP

Pamela Anderson and Bam Margera: PamBam

Chris Rock and Star Jones: RockStar

Shaquille O'Neal and Nicollette Sheridan: Shaquolette

Topher Grace and Lucy Liu: Tofu

Anna Paquin and Marilyn Manson: Paq-Man

Eminem and Emma Thompson: EminEmma

Ving Rhames and Toni Collette: VingTone

Nas and Carmen Electra: NasCar

Robert Redford and Dana Delany: R2D2

Burt Reynolds and Kelly Ripa: Burpa

Richard Linklater and Parker Posey: Link 'n' Park