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...after all the hype, Fox delivered a sluggishly paced show padded with filler (including two previews of coming episodes) and lacking salacious details, human interest and much of anything else. Not only did no one cheat on anyone last night, the "scandalous" previews of future weeks seemed mostly to consist of cheesy, mildly sexy cruise-ship-mixer games - licking booze off someone's stomach and so on - that were about as outré as a wedding-reception garter toss...
...Palestinian side has insisted that their state should consist of all the Palestinian territory conquered by Israel in the war of 1967, i.e. the entire Gaza Strip and West Bank, including East Jerusalem. The Israelis hope to persuade the Palestinians to settle for less, claiming that Israel's security needs require a presence in strategic parts of the West Bank and that some of the Jewish settlements built during the years of occupation should be incorporated into Israel...
Lily Bart (Anderson) has a knack for audacity. "My genius," she says, "seems to consist in doing the wrong thing at the right time." Men want to leave their fortunes to her, or their wives for her. But in old, moneyed Manhattan, sensation was more narrowly defined, more severely censured. Lily's charm is punishable by exile...
...report is far from perfect. Even though the tests were standardized, they consist basically of what investigators call "self-reports," which are more susceptible to social pressure than, say, viral-antibody counts. It's also easier to talk about being "stressed out" in today's pop-psychology culture than it was when Dwight Eisenhower was President. Yet Twenge's conclusions echo the concerns of many parents, teachers and pediatricians. "I think children are more anxious," says Dr. Thomas McInerny, professor of pediatrics at the University of Rochester. "Clinicians, pediatricians, psychologists--we're all seeing more...
...different pedal setups even more fun than building Estes rockets, and I find myself wondering if my lifelong disaffinity with even the simplest math separates me from my fellow travelers. Like all cults, pedal steel has its own subgenus, and in the field this particular cladistic branch appears to consist mostly of middle-aged working-class white men in warmup jackets and Nikes. A few conventiongoers are accompanied by wives or girlfriends, but there are no virtually no females participating in the event, and I hear of only one woman in attendance who actually plays the instrument...