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...volumes on Halley's Comet's 1986 return, America's crazy attempt at a moon landing (1969) and the grand strategy of the USSR (which dissolved in 1989). The pair's personal favorite, though, is Dee Snyder's Teenage Survival Guide, a book by the lead singer of the '80s metal band Twisted Sister - a man whose qualifications to guide teenagers through their formative years are dubious...
...Alaskan Democrats from a moderate willing to reach out across the aisle to a bomb thrower who accused Barack Obama of "palling around with terrorists." As she became more partisan, she lost support in Alaska - her favorable poll numbers are now in the mid-50s, down from the 80s before she was tapped for VP. Without the Democrats, her agenda has gone nowhere, and she's now attacked from both the left and the right. "I saw her on the elevator in the beginning of session in January," Crawford says. "I said, 'Good afternoon.' She didn't even reply...
...past behavior on the big U.S. holiday. On July 4 2006, he test fired - unsuccessfully, it turned out - a long-range, multi-stage ballistic missile, in explicit defiance of a U.N. resolution. By comparison, today's exercise felt a bit like a teenager tossing a few M-80s into the water off a dock somewhere. (See pictures of North Koreans at the polls...
...raised more than $60 million for famine relief in Africa. He wowed 'em at the Super Bowl and with spectacular concert tours whose special effects never overwhelmed the slender dude with the gentle demeanor, dervish footwork and nonpareil showmanship. If you were a star in the '80s, you'd want to be Michael Jackson...
...another flashback to '80s politics, supporters of the ouster have denounced Zelaya as a communist who planned to turn the nation of sweatshops and banana plantations into a Soviet-style fortress. One of his worst crimes, allege the self-proclaimed patriots, was raising the minimum wage to $290 a month. "With this action, he declared war on business," says entrepreneur Jesus Sabat, 23, as he waves the nation's blue-and-white flag during the demonstration...