Word: alabamas
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POOPED OUT Boys who don't get enough sleep are more likely to suffer such accidents as a tumble or a bump on the head, according to researchers at the University of Alabama. Their study of 292 children seen at a hospital in Udine, Italy, found that boys ages 3 to 5 who slept fewer than 10 hours a night sustained 133% more injuries than those who got more rest. The injury risk was highest when the children had been up for at least eight hours...
...here goes, in no particular order: Nicole Kidman dancing to "Sweet Home Alabama" for an entranced Joaquim Phoenix (To Die For); Jack Black's band striking up "Let's Get It On" in High Fidelity; Wayne and Garth headbanging to "Bohemian Rhapsody;" Timothy Hutton et al singing "Sweet Caroline" in the bar (Beautiful Girls); the tearful recollection of "Rolling With the Homies" in Clueless; Jamie Bell dancing through the streets of Durham as "A Town Called Malice" plays; Dustin Hoffman whistling "Mrs. Robinson"(!) to himself in The Graduate; Winona Ryder and gang dancing to "My Sharona" in the gas-station...
...every scientist subscribes to this ominous philosophy. Greg Pence, professor of bioethics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, predicts that people will get more comfortable with the idea of cloning as time passes. "Science fiction movies have taught us that this technology must create mutants, but in fact, any problems we're facing are merely technical," Pence told TIME.com. "And fear of technical problems is just masking other problems people have with the idea of cloning...
...years ago, my son asked Dale for permission merely to touch the fabled black machine before the start of a race at Talladega in Alabama. Dale loved the idea for the good luck it might bring him and insisted only that I bring my son to Victory Lane if he won. Cut to Dale holding the kid aloft, my son holding the trophy aloft--the whole giddy, heady scene captured in the photos I'm now left with...
...banned the teaching of evolution or required the teaching of the Biblical story of creation, it dropped Darwin's theory from standardized tests taken by Kansas students. The ousting of three anti-evolution members cast the die for changing the standards. Kansas is one of several states, including Arizona, Alabama, Illinois, Texas and Nebraska, where school boards have attempted to play down evolutionary concepts...