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Swimmers Swoon Simultaneously; Brady Bunches Are Bad For Offspring

PR firm survey finds that people trust average-looking, well-mannered men the most. • Dorky shoes grow with kids' feet. • Three synchronized swimmers faint simultaneously while in pool practicing. • Testosterone for women will not increase sex drive. • Stereotypes can lead to success! Or, uh, failure. • Everyone can blame middle-school bullies for their adult social awkwardness. • Blended families with step- and half-siblings can cause bad behavior among the kiddies. • Black women have less trouble holding it in than white women. • Drunk Boston TV manager pulls a Naomi Campbell-slash-Alycia Lane at Logan Airport.

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How Many Kids Have To Die Before Bullying Is Taken Seriously?

From the Megan Meier case to the cheerleader beatdown, it seems like bullying has gotten out of control. A new report out of Japan reveals that there are over 38,000 unofficial middle and high school web sites not overseen by the schools and half contain hateful messages. 40% have sexual slang and 25% display violent words like "drop dead" and "i'll kill you." It's just talk, right? They're just kids! You said — and heard worse things when you were their age. But consider the 18-year-old boy whose classmates posted a nude photo of him on one of these unofficial school sites. To add insult to injury, they sent him e-mails demanding money — blackmailing him. The teen dealt with the problem by leaping to his death at school. More »

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Bullies Are As Common In The Cubicle As The Classroom

Much has been made of kids who get bullied recently — Billy Wolfe, in fact, was on the Today show this morning — but the truth is, many of us face bullies as adults: At work. On a BusinessWeek blog, Cathy Arnst writes about an editor she once had: "Whenever I made a mistake—and in the beginning I made many, many mistakes—he would stand over me in the open newsroom and scream at me, impugning my intelligence and professional skills in language I've rarely heard since. I had nightmares about those tirades for years afterwards. Needless to say, I never made the same mistake twice." According to a New York Times piece by Tara Parker-Pope yesterday, 37% of American workers have experienced bullying on the job. More »

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Hating Gwyneth Paltrow

Starpulse is reporting that Gwyneth Paltrow's almost-equally-as-annoying husband, Chris Martin, ran into a former schoolmate recently and "couldn't resist the opportunity to show how successful he had become." More »