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...Lorelei Sharkey. Four years ago, they invented the Nerve com questionnaire, which replaced communicating your charms in hieroglyphic SWF-form with a Cosmo-style quiz. You got to name your most humbling moment, choose your favorite sex scene in a movie and come up with words for lines like "Blank is sexy; blank is sexier." Desperate contractions were replaced by insta-wit and faux self-deprecation. Taylor and Sharkey's questionnaire is now used by more than 150 newspapers and websites and has been filled out by 2 million registered users, a million of whom are trawling for dates right...
While couples cuddled up along the seawall for a romantic firework show, the plebes were lined up in dozens of columns along the roped-off field. They sat Indian-style, hands on knees, and stared straight ahead in “military gaze”—a blank stare reminiscent of a lobotomy patient...
...forcing them out of business. Who is being helped here? We should be ashamed of ourselves as a community of plaintiffs, medical-malpractice attorneys and, most of all, hypocrites who are chasing away the very people we have always turned to in times of need. BARBARA BLANK Chicago...
...Party (CCP), the world's largest political organization, ruling over 1.3 billion souls? Does it take a great visionary? A ruthless tyrant? A dogmatic ideologue? Or a tame puppet? Last November the enigmatic Hu Jintao became CCP Chairman and earlier this year, President. He came to power as a blank slate, and in the 100 days that he has held both posts, the nature of his leadership has become an increasingly heated topic of debate. Many see Hu's actions over the past three months as cause for hope that he's a reformer likely to initiate large-scale change...
...Skinner runs the EPA's Midwestern district, which includes six states from Ohio, west to Illinois and northwest to Minnesota. His relative anonymity, even among liberal beltway EPA watchers, could be a bonus; a blank political slate can trump a documented history. As head of an EPA regional office (and former Illinois EPA chief), Skinner sees to it that states and the companies within them comply with the agency's rules and standards - licensing and inspecting big polluters, and issuing clean-up orders...