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While in the U.S., people speculated about the outcome of the Rose Bowl and the size of Samsung’s new humongous plasma TV at Las Vegas’ Consumer Electronics Show, Europe had a very cold New Year. Flaunting global warming, already freezing temperatures in the Old Continent managed to get colder thanks to Russian President Vladimir Putin...
Apparently, VINCE YOUNG was sick of the number two. Quarterback of the No.2?ranked Texas Longhorns, Young came in second to University of Southern California tailback Reggie Bush in Heisman Trophy votes in December. But when Young upset Bush's top-ranked team in an electrifying Rose Bowl game last week, he became sport's No. 1 underdog hero. "I'm just a real blessed guy," says Young, who must decide by Jan. 15 whether to return senior year or enter the NFL If Young picks the pros, he'll face Bush again?for the No.1 draft pick...
...tend to result in the sensation of sudden insight. In one experiment, they were asked to look at words that came up one at a time on a computer screen and to think of the one word that was associated with all of them. After each word?red, nut, bowl, loom, cup, basket, jelly, fresh, cocktail, candy, pie, baking, salad, tree, fly, etc.?they had to give their best guess. Although many swore they had no idea until a sudden burst of insight at about the 12th word, their guesses got progressively closer to the solution: fruit. Even when...
...superingratiating Spamalot proves it: in a generation, any humor can go from naughty to nostalgic. This 16-discathon is a refresher course in the Brit sextet's cleansing silliness. All 45 of the original half-hour BBC shows are here, plus the 1982 Live at the Hollywood Bowl (a greatest-hits show, but ruder) and a 1998 reunion of the five surviving members, recollecting the canon: Silly Walks, Dead Parrot, Cheese Shop, Spanish Inquisition, etc. All together, Pythonites: Wink-wink nudge-nudge, say no more...
...another great American tragedy, the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s, people didn't wait for government help to rebuild in an untenable environment. Instead they moved to places better suited for habitation. How much would it cost to build a reliable levee around New Orleans-$25 billion? $50 billion? For $25 billion, we could build new $90,000 homes for 275,000 households displaced by Katrina. Simple economics says New Orleans should not be rebuilt. Charlie Smith Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...