Bonehead Biz: $1.1 million for the letter 'S'

And you thought the dot-com bubble burst years ago: A British travel company has paid $1.1 million for the Internet domain name cruises.co.uk, a price that is effectively a million bucks just for the letter "S" since it already owns the address cruise.co.uk.

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The Lakewood Public Library Foundation and First Federal of Lakewood are pleased to announce "An Evening with Michael Symon," on Thursday, November 19, at 6:30 p.m. at the Lakewood Public Library, 15425 Detroit Ave.

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Excerpt: THE inevitable has finally happened: Amy Fisher is hitting the pole. The Long Island Lolita - who went to prison for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco in the head and recently started a porn Web site featuring herself - plans to tour the country as a high-paid stripper.

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"She's an all-too-familiar figure in today's media landscape: the baby-faced nymphet with the preternaturally voluptuous curves, the one whose scantily clad body gyrates in music videos, poses provocatively on teen magazine covers, and populates cinema and television screens  …

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Professor M. Gigi Durham discusses the corporate media's sexual objectification of girls and how to help young women fight regressive media messages.

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An examination of the cognitive rewards of literature from children's stories to Nabokov's Lolita: It's all about playful pattern recognition.

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Simon Michael Bessie, who in 1959 left a top editorial position at what was then called Harper & Brothers to help found Atheneum Publishers, perhaps the last major literary house to be started from scratch in the 20th century, died on Monday at his home in Lyme, Conn. He was 92.

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A 34-year-old Italian man who had sex with a 13-year-old girl has had his sentence cut by a two-thirds because a court decided there was "real love" between the pair.

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Woolworths stores in Britain have stopped selling "Lolita" beds for young girls after a parents' organization complained because of the name's association with the famous novel about a pedophile.

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A chain of retail stores in Britain has withdrawn the sale of beds named Lolita and designed for six-year-old girls after furious parents pointed out that the name was synonymous with sexually active pre-teens.

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Bedroom furniture for young girls with the brand name Lolita has been withdrawn by Woolworths following complaints from parents. A parenting website said it was in "unbelievably bad taste" to give the bed the same name as a novel about a sexually precocious young girl.

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Woolworths has withdrawn bedroom furniture for young girls bearing the sexually charged name Lolita after a campaign waged by a mothers' online chat room.

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A Cal Tech grad student put together a list of the most popular books across college campuses and then correlated those book choices with S.A.T. scores at those schools. His results reveal that the five books with the highest average S.A.T.

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Would 'Catch-22' still be a masterpiece if it was called 'Catch-18'? Just how did that book end up with a title like "A Clockwork Orange"? Was there other sources behind the great work of Hamlet? And was Lolita a case of plagiarism?

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New Facts Surface About the Controversial Alleged Rape of an African-American Stripper by Duke University Lacrosse Team Members

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The Buttafuocos and Amy Fisher Plan TV Reunion

More than a decade after 16-year-old Amy Fisher had a sexual relationship with a much-older car mechanic and then shot his wife in the face, the one-time "Long Island Lolita" and Joey and Mary Jo Buttafuoco have agreed to appear together in a televised reunion performing such hits

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