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Apparently they can pay you enough. It seems some people will do anything, even be human guinea pigs, if the price is right. Consider the following clinical trials, all submitted to by consenting adults...
...also for shipping costs and whether the item is in stock. Whenushop, a newcomer last month, takes the hunt one step further. It unleashes a squad of up to four bots; lets shoppers know if, in addition to the low price, merchants are offering little-publicized discount coupons; and even pays the return postage if shoppers are dissatisfied with the product...
When the first U.S. women's colleges were founded in the mid- 1800s, their mission was clear: to teach females, who were largely excluded from higher education. And even as more institutions opened their doors to both genders, studies found that many women learned more in a female-only environment, where, among other benefits, there were no men to dominate classroom discussions. But what's to become of women's colleges now, as a new generation of female students has confidently outperformed males since elementary school and become the majority at most mainstream colleges and universities...
...plot is borrowed from the book of Genesis, but the musical might be controversial even by secular standards. A wealthy white woman, feeling undesirable after a breast-cancer operation, pays her black maid $15,000 to sleep with her husband. Only after much trouble and prayer does a righteous resolution ensue. Yet the co-author, composer and producer of Behind Closed Doors, which just opened in Chicago, is a man of the cloth: Bishop T.D. Jakes. Doesn't he fear failure? "My definition of success," says Jakes, 43, "is to be able to birth out every creative thought...
Jakes' emotive preaching flows out of the Pentecostal school, a minority tradition even in the world of the African-American church. His frankness--on stage or in the pulpit--about sex and sexual abuse (topics most pastors prefer to limit to private counseling) is also a breakthrough. "It wasn't just 'Read the Bible verse and talk about it,'" says J. Lee Grady, editor of Charisma magazine. "It was a married black man speaking from a shepherd's heart to wounded women, and they lined up by the thousands." At least 2 million bought Jakes' book Woman, Thou Art Loosed...