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Ypulse Essentials: 'Gossip Girl' Tour, Humans Vs. Zombies, National Etiquette Week

Posted by meredith on 04-28-2009

gg-tour'Gossip Girl' Tour (OMG! Taking a cue from  "Sex and the City," a tour in NYC lets GG fans see the real haunts of the fictional Upper East Siders) (BuzzFeed) 

- Nickelodeon's "iCarly (star Carly Shay is yet another competitor for the tween queen throne Miley Cyrus will vacant in the not-too-distant future) (Los Angeles Times, reg. required)

- Higher education revisited (an op-ed piece in The New York Times proposes a radical restructuring of the current infrastructure. Plus, a look at the affordable alternative of satellite colleges. Plus, the pay gap between those who earned high school degrees and college widens) (Christian Science Monitor) (Phoenix Business Journal)

- MTV's 'The Stylist' (the channel enters the fashion competition ring pitting aspiring celebrity stylists against each other. Plus, does CW's Privileged have a hope for renewal?) (The Hollywood Reporter) (EW)

- Humans vs. Zombies (the "blob tag-like" game with a zombie twist spreads across campuses) (Boston Globe)

- Marrying young is old-fashioned (one columnist's take on how we arrived at this conclusion. Not sure I buy it. Plus, anger over the choice of princes in Disney's "The Frog and the Princess") (Washington Post) (EurWeb)

- Who will create a virtual world for the Youth Olympics (eight companies vie for the honor) (Virtual World News)

- National Etiquette Week (the tagline "catch the manners virus" is unfortunate given certain circumstances er.. swine flu, but the message of being courteous is a good one)  

- More on Piper Jaffray (and how teens are saving and spending on clothing) (MediaPost, reg. required)

- More stringent laws on teen drivers (passed in Pennsylvania) (Philly.com)

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One Response to “Ypulse Essentials: 'Gossip Girl' Tour, Humans Vs. Zombies, National Etiquette Week”

  1. Eric Jaffa Says:

    meredith -

    What did you disagree with in Mark Regnerus' op-ed in favor of people getting married at a young age?

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