goodbye, lower east side; hello, LES

Max Fish and The Pink Pony and Mars Bar to close. At this rate, I'm more than half seriously expecting a Disney branch store to open (LESD?)

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Doctors who carried out a stem cell transplant on an HIV-infected man with leukemia in 2007 say they now believe the man to have been CURED OF HIV INFECTION as a result of the treatment, which introduced stem cells which happened to be resistant to HIV infection.

End-of-year holidays movie poll

When I think "End-of-year holiday movie" (since not all of my flist celebrate Christmas), the movie I think of is:

1) A Christmas Story

2) A Charlie Brown Christmas

3) It's a Wonderful Life

ETA: 4) Love, Actually

5 (other: write-in)

(no subject)

A worldwide map of Facebook connections; rather pretty, actually.