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From: khare@alumni.caltech.edu
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To: fork@spamassassin.taint.org
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Subject: NYTimes.com Article: Stop Those Presses! Blonds, It Seems, Will
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Survive After All
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Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 18:51:11 -0400 (EDT)
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This article from NYTimes.com
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has been sent to you by khare@alumni.caltech.edu.
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Excellent evidence of the herd. Just imagine if the anonymous noise injected into our world newsphere (noosphere?) was, say, a fraudulent story that a stock accounting scandal had been accused and the evildoers were shorting.
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Oh, wait, that happened. An unemployed Orange County student took down Emulex...
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Enjoy!
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Rohit
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khare@alumni.caltech.edu
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Stop Those Presses! Blonds, It Seems, Will Survive After All
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October 2, 2002
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By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
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Apparently it fell into the category "too good to check."
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Last Friday, several British newspapers reported that the
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World Health Organization had found in a study that blonds
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would become extinct within 200 years, because blondness
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was caused by a recessive gene that was dying out. The
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reports were repeated on Friday by anchors for the ABC News
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program "Good Morning America," and on Saturday by CNN.
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There was only one problem, the health organization said in
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a statement yesterday that it never reported that blonds
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would become extinct, and it had never done a study on the
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subject.
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"W.H.O. has no knowledge of how these news reports
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originated," said the organization, an agency of the United
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Nations based in Geneva, "but would like to stress that we
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have no opinion of the future existence of blonds."
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All the news reports, in Britain and the United States,
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cited a study from the World Health Organization - "a
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blonde-shell study," as The Daily Star of London put it.
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But none reported any scientific details from the study or
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the names of the scientists who conducted it.
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On "Good Morning America," Charles Gibson began a
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conversation with his co-anchor, Diane Sawyer, by saying:
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"There's a study from the World Health Organization, this
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is for real, that blonds are an endangered species. Women
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and men with blond hair, eyebrows and blue eyes, natural
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blonds, they say will vanish from the face of the earth
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within 200 years, because it is not as strong a gene as
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brunets."
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Ms. Sawyer said she was "somewhat of a natural blonde."
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Jeffrey Schneider, a spokesman for ABC News, said the
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anchors got the information from an ABC producer in London
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who said he had read it in a British newspaper.
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In London, The Sun and The Express both reported that
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unnamed scientists said blonds would survive longest in
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Scandinavia, where they are most concentrated, and expected
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the last true blond to hail from Finland.
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The British accounts were replete with the views of
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bleached blonds who said hairdressers would never allow
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blondness to become extinct, and doctors who said that rare
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genes would pop up to keep natural blonds from becoming an
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endangered species.
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Journalists in London said last night that the source of
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the reports was probably one of several European news
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agencies that are used by the British press, but it
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remained unclear which one.
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Tim Hall, a night news editor at The Daily Mail, said the
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report was probably distributed by The Press Association,
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Britain's domestic news agency. "Several papers picked it
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up," he said.
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But Charlotte Gapper, night editor at The Press
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Association, said that although it had considered running
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the report on Sept. 27, it had decided not to after talking
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to the World Health Organization.
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"We didn't do that story because we made an inquiry to the
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World Health Organization first," she said. "They told us
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that report was two years old, and had been covered at the
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time. They said it had been picked up again that day by a
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German news agency."
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She added that she did not know which agency the
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organization was referring to.
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Dr. Ray White, a geneticist at the University of California
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at San Francisco, said that the disappearance of a gene for
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blond hair "sounds patently incorrect."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/02/health/02BLON.html?ex=1034599071&ei=1&en=3a0e4f0b2b251593
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