PAULA NEAL MOONEY

UPDATE: WATCH JASMINE LAWRENCE ON THE TODAY SHOW VIDEO... by Paula Neal Mooney On Oprah's show about young smart kids, there was a young black girl named Jasmine who is the CEO of a company named EDEN BodyWorks. At only 15, Jasmine developed her own formula of EDEN Body Works products that help prevent hair breakage. (Interesting, because Jasmine appeared to be wearing pretty extension braids herself, but her own EDEN Body Works must've helped restore the bald patches she once had.) Of course, Oprah related her story of when her fell out as the result of a bad relaxer. The EDEN Body Works leader also had the same experience at a younger age. With products like an All-Natural Hair Oil with JOJOBA and Peppermint & Tea Tree Shampoo and Conditioner, EDEN Body Works will no doubt receive plenty of hits in coming day. You can even sign up on the EDEN Body Works site to receive free samples. March 30, 2007 update: No more free samples! Just got this email from Jasmine: Paula, ...

...if not for Cory Booker having been a Rhodes Scholar, nor for his having garnered degrees from Stanford, Oxford and Yale Law School... ...if not for shirking the fabulous penthouse life Cory Booker could be living right now (with a high-blinging corporate job) to instead run for mayor of Newark, New Jersey— losing his first attempt then sticking with to win the next election... ...if not for Cory Booker putting up with NO HOT WATER for the past eight years along with other elderly residents living in the Brick Towers Housing Project in a rough section of Newark... ...but if only for these lines that Cory Booker spoke on Oprah yesterday when describing how he took a 15- and 16-year-old who both threatened his life under his wing, telling them: "The first thing I said is, 'You've got to dress properly. You've got to cut your hair… People judge you on how you present yourself,'" Cory Booker said. (I know he might catch hell for that "nappy hair...