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...mother and brother, as they did last year. Rather than a late dinner, Laine suggests eating early so the baby can be put down close to the normal bedtime. "Think about activities that might be fun for babies, or at least accommodating," she suggests. "If it's an adult-centric activity, understand that one parent may have to stay behind with the baby...
...Even if Asia avoids the pitfalls of a further strengthening of the dollar, it still faces two big risks: a long overdue belt-tightening by the American consumer, the region's biggest customer, and protectionism. Either outcome would spell tough times ahead for China and a China-centric Asian economy...
...survivors was gonna die on this episode. I’d put money on Charlie, because I figure with Sean Astin coming to “24” in January, it’s dangerous to have two hobbits in primetime. The episode ended up being Shannon-centric. I like Shannon. She’s so pretty. Unlike Evangeline Lilly or Michelle Rodriguez, I don’t feel like she could beat the bloody pulp out of me. Shannon is on a mission to find Walt, because he keeps on appearing to her and speaking in some foreign...
...Just ask “Survivor” for their leftovers! Regardless, by the end of the episode Sun has found her ring, which she’d accidentally buried with the passenger messages. She cries for happiness. You know, I hope that next time we have a Sun-centric episode, the writers give her more to do than cry and whimper. Kate attempts to take the bottle and read the messages from the passengers, whining about how she “never got to say good-bye.” Looks like somebody has the hots for Sawyer...
...baseball? Actually, it's Moneyball, Michael Lewis' best-seller about how Oakland A's manager Billy Beane built a top team by picking players on the basis of their stats, not their reputations. Republican National Committee chairman and Baltimore Orioles fan Ken Mehlman is applying Moneyball's stats-centric strategy to his own game. "Politics, like baseball, for years was less effective than it could be because you didn't try to quantify things," he told TIME. Mehlman managed Bush-Cheney '04, which set "metrics" for making phone calls and knocking on doors, and tracked ads on spreadsheets. He obsesses...