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Diaries of Ten ā€˜Bachelorā€™ Contestants Contain ā€œEerily Identical Narrativesā€

AGOURA HILLS, CA — In an amazing feat of dramatic explosion after being rejected by the ā€œone true love of [her] life,ā€ a bachelor contestant managed to tear up the entire multi-million dollar hosting mansion, leaving in her wake a mess of cosmetics, champagne flutes, and anti-depressants. Among the debris lay a pile of notebooks, each cover plastered with Lisa Frank stickers, kissy lip prints, and ā€œLive, Laugh, Loveā€ mottos: the diaries of the contestants chronicling their Bachelor experience. The

MTV Hopes to Smarten up with New Show, “16 and Pregnant with Caveman”

NEW YORK — When George Church, a geneticist at Harvard Medical Schoolā€”a small medical training facility in Massachusettsā€”first announced that he was looking for volunteers to be impregnated by a Neanderthal embryo constructed from DNA ripped from bone fragments, he was cautiously optimistic that someone would step up. But it soon became clear there were no takers, and Church was about to call the whole thing off. Enter MTV, formerly known as Music Television. An MTV representative contacted Church last