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...opinion shifted after New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg banned smoking in bars. At the time, I believed having a scotch in one hand and a butt in the other wasn't just essential to the pursuit of happiness but a necessary means for Jersey women to let people know that they weren't going home alone. I was outraged by Bloomberg's hubris. Was he also going to outlaw short skirts, hair spray and singing along to "Livin' on a Prayer"? (See what dictators do after they are deposed...
...just about as large as the U.S. and with a population of 190 million - Portuguese-speaking Brazil has always longed to project itself beyond the confines of Latin America. But, aside from soccer and Carnaval, the world has rarely taken Brazil as seriously. In fact, Brazil was long the butt of a joke that said it was the country of the future - and always would be. It was the only New World country to have a monarchy, which it abolished in 1889. That regal tradition spawned a quasi-feudal class system that made Brazil a stained paradise in the 20th...
...really needed another win to solidify,” Kutler said. “We had a rocky start to the beginning of the season and I’m just so excited to go into Yale with this win. I hope we can kick some butt this weekend...
...succeeding in this alien land - and they did. The Punjabis are among the richest communities in Delhi today, owning many of the city's largest and most successful businesses. In the process, they became accused of injecting a new ruthlessness into the city's DNA, and are the butt of xenophobic jokes still being tossed around today, such as "the national bird of Punjab is tandoori chicken" and "the only culture in Punjab is agriculture...
...might getting spanked on the butt actually affect the workings of the brain? Straus notes that being spanked or hit is associated with fright and stress; kids who experience that kind of trauma have a harder time focusing and learning. In another recent paper that he co-authored with Paschall, Straus writes that previous research has found that even after you control for parental education and occupation, children of parents who use corporal punishment are less likely than other kids to graduate from college...