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...problem with Libertarians is that they don’t politick. They lecture. Discourses on monetary policy attract audiences, but those audiences consist of other Libertarians. To recruit more troops, conservatives of all stripes must retool their rhetoric. They have a right to be angry—spending is out of control—but in politics you don’t get angry, you get even. You get elected. And to get elected you use humor, to show you’re even-keeled...
Remember the famous sweaty-T-shirt experiment? When asked to sniff men's shirts back in 1995, women who were not on the Pill preferred the scent of men who had certain genes that were more dissimilar to their own. Opposites, the data suggested, really do attract. The experiment inspired the launch last summer of GenePartner.com a Swiss company that uses genetics to predict whether two people will have butterflies-in-the-stomach chemistry. Already, partnerships are in the works with both traditional matchmakers and new online-dating sites, including Sense2Love.com which plans to add genetic matching...
...were wondering, the marriage of Boris and Melody is meant as a demonstration that opposites may attract, but they don't last. Taking a cue from Smiles of a Summer Night, one of Allen's favorite Ingmar Bergman films, Whatever Works liberates its characters from their conventional domestic alliances and finds new lovers: like with like, youth with youth, man with surprisingly congenial woman...
Once prohibitively expensive, places such as South Korea and Iceland have been transformed into bargain getaways. The weakening of South Korea's won helped the country attract 7% more tourists last year--a faster rise than that of any other Asian destination--and so far this year, 50% more Japanese tourists have visited. In Iceland, where the krona has fallen sharply, the nation is betting on increased arrivals: this summer Icelandair will open up new routes to nine cities in Europe and North America. And VisitBritain, the official U.K. tourism body, is running a $2.6 million ad campaign urging foreigners...
...Takarazuka actresses - there are about 400 in five troupes - have been leaving audiences speechless with these marvelous and at the same time overwhelming works for 95 years. Founded in the town of the same name - by Ichizo Kobayashi, a locally born railway magnate who thought that lively entertainment would attract more tourists and thus increase rail traffic - the theater group now averages about 10 major productions a year, each with a lead time of about eight months. Faced with shrinking audiences and increased competition from all forms of digital entertainment, its producers are trying to make the shows more dazzling...