Kristian Laliberte and Fabian Basabe in Epic Facebook Battle!

We’ve just come across the two most spectacular Facebook groups ever created. Like the Montagues and Capulets—only digital and not in iambic pentameter—the groups stand in such apparent opposition that they beg to be compared. On one side: “Fabian Basabe Is Fabulous.” On the other: “Kristian Laliberte is on my A-List.”

Obsessed Scientist Finally Throttles ’Em! Non-Paternity Potion

Dr. Chuen-yan Cheng, senior scientist at the New York headquarters of the Population Council, and inventor of a drug that could spark the next, long-awaited phase of the sexual revolution—or, conversely, an age of mass male panic attacks—sat in his tiny lab overlooking the East River, beaming like a new dad.

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Obsessed Scientist Finally Throttles 'Em! Non-Paternity Potion

Dr. Chuen-yan Cheng, senior scientist at the New York headquarters of the Population Council, and inventor of a drug that could spark the next, long-awaited phase of the sexual revolution—or, conversely, an age of mass male panic attacks—sat in his tiny lab overlooking the East River, beaming like a new dad.

“You can say I’m Read More

As Goes De Niro … It’s Nobu North

Robert De Niro, his hair gray and long, lurked in the moody dark of his own restaurant. Around him, flutes of Veuve Clicquot twinkled in the air. Mr. De Niro leaned against a delicate netting of palm fronds, designs that had been woven by Malaysian craftsmen but conceived on a computer.

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‘It Kid’ Takes New York

“I think a lot of people are obsessed with this word ‘socialite,’” said 25-year-old Fabian Basabe at the Upper East Side restaurant Mediterraneo in late December. “What does it mean? One who is social? I don’t understand it.

“I like this whole ‘It Kids’ concept better than I do ‘socialite,’” he said.

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