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Monica Crowley's alleged stalker entered the broadcasting beauty's name into his laptop 9,000 times, it was revealed yesterday as the jury got the case. Two alternate jurors dismissed yesterday predicted homeless artist Ronald Martin would beat the charges - despite e-mails and other evidence suggesting he was obsessed with Crowley and she was frightened of him. "I don't think he intended to harm her. There was no evidence of that," one of the alternates told the Daily News. Jurors began deliberations after a prosecutor told them Martin "intended to harass, annoy and alarm" Crowley, while a defense attorney countered that...

Why Men Prefer Pretty Faces So you think beauty is in the eye of the beholder? Think again. According to new research from the University of Exeter in Great Britain, the preference for pretty faces over ugly ones is embedded in our brains from the moment of birth and possibly prior to birth. Newborn babies come fully equipped with built-in preferences, including a preference for an attractive face, that help them make sense of their new environment, report the BBC News Online and Newsweek magazine. The Exeter researchers showed more than 100 infants two images that were placed side by...

Her name is Shandi and she says she'll use her position as the new Miss USA to explain US involvement in Iraq. After accepting the title at the 52nd annual pageant, the 25-year-old graduate student from Missouri, said: "What needed to be done had to be done." Shandi Finnessey, a Republican and 1.8 metre blonde from St Louis, is an author and wrote a book called The Furrtails, as part of her aim to integrate mentally retarded children into regular classrooms. She has a master's degree in counselling and also plays piano and violin. At a party following the event,...