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...sumo wrestlers cheat, why drug dealers are poor, the socioeconomic patterns of naming children - the book Freakonomics brought economic analysis to bear on unexpected and quirky issues and came up with unexpected and quirky answers. It's little surprise, then, that the 2005 book - by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen Dubner - sold more than 3 million copies worldwide...
...sequitur gag (a pop-culture parody, a celebrity spoof, a Star Wars reference). The Simpsons is a satire, but it's rooted in its family. Family Guy is less a half-hour narrative about characters than a delivery system for unconnected jokes the writers can't bear to part with. (See the top 10 TV dads...
MacFarlane's best show, American Dad, is also his lowest rated - maybe because it isn't simply a remake of Family Guy. Yes, its protagonist, CIA agent Stan Smith, is a nuclear-family patriarch. And where Family Guy has a talking dog and Cleveland a talking bear, Dad has both a talking alien (a show-tune-obsessed card with a voice like Paul Lynde's) and a talking goldfish. (See the worst TV spin-offs of all time...
...academic medical centers. That may be true, but you can bet that Massachusetts' remaining one of the priciest health-care providers in the U.S. was not among the selling points when advocates of universal coverage were stumping for the plan. Similarly, global care may correct the problem - or harbor bear traps...
...minute mark. Every song on “Declaration,” on the other hand, pleases in almost exactly the same register from beginning to end. Kings of Convenience has never aspired to the shimmering textural distortions or swirling build-up of similarly laid-back bands like Grizzly Bear; but here, the crystalline simplicity of their music is symmetric to a fault...