Thursday News: ABA and Barnes&Noble receive permission to file amicus brief; Harlequin earnings up but sales down

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The Straight Dope: Who decided women should shave their legs and underarms? – “The gist of the article is that U.S. women were browbeaten into shaving underarm hair by a sustained marketing assault that began in 1915. (Leg hair came later.) The aim of what Hope calls the Great Underarm Campaign was to inform American womanhood of a problem that till then it didn’t know it had, namely unsightly underarm hair.”Straight Dope

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