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...Rice was rooting for fellow Birmingham native Taylor Hicks and will soon send him a congratulatory letter, says a State Department official. The Alabama connection helps explain why she has long been glued to the show: last year's runner-up Bo Bice is also a 'Bama boy, as was the winner of the second Idol competition, Ruben Studdard. But Condi is also part of nationwide Idolmania, as Tuesday night's competition drew some 32 million viewers - the biggest audience of the show's five seasons...
Cannes is also a Riviera resort, which means the town comes alive at night. Debonair folk in evening clothes stroll the Croisette until just before dawn. The discos (including the one directly under our hotel room) blast their pounding sounds nonstop to 3 or 4 a.m. (which may explain why the prose of this night owl is sometimes on the jagged side). Critics, who want to be part of both scenes, figure, hey, they'll sleep when they get back home - unless some film is kind enough to be terminally lulling...
...occurred 6.5 to 7.4 million years ago, a figure that was based on hominid fossils with distinctive human features dating from that period. “It suggests that there was gene flow after the development of human-like features, like upright walking,” Reich said. To explain the discrepancy between the appearance of human-like features and the later divergence date, the Broad researchers hypothesize that interbreeding and hybridization may have occurred. In short, early humans and chimps may have mated and produced offspring before the two species permanently split. These hybrid species may have developed into...
...financial officer Andrew] Fastow, who charged her with finding some assets to sell off. But everywhere she looked she found the same thing: fuzzy off-the-books arrangements that seemed to be backed by nothing more than now deflated Enron stock. No one she asked could?or cared to?explain what was really going on. Knowing that others had got into trouble after challenging Skilling, who by then was CEO of the entire company, Watkins began scouting for a new job ... But on Aug. 14, Skilling abruptly quit, and Lay invited employees to put any concerns in a comment...
...actuarial trainee and worked as a guitar instructor before his “kudalini experience,” or life-changing experience, at age 26.He became inexplicably ill, losing 65 pounds and experienced constant diarrhea over the course of a year and a half. Doctors were unable to explain what was going on, and Pacelli was unsure what to do.“I didn’t know what the heck was going on,” Pacelli says. “It was both frightening and blissful at the same time.”The illness acted...