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...know, dictator) of Cuba for more than thirty years, transferred his governing powers to his brother in July 2006 due to illness. Despite having a foot and a half in the grave by all reports but the Cuban government’s own, Castro’s charisma, healthy facial hair, and daring sartorial choice of 24/7 combat boots and fatigues have created a larger-than-life image that will almost certainly outlive him. America has hoped for years that Castro’s death will leave a vacuum that the U.S. can fill with some of that democracy we?...
...plan? To forever change our way of life by inducing us to watch a certain television program, evilly titled “Aqua Teen Hunger Force.” The perpetrators of this plot, who—much like Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri—have facial hair, calculatedly placed light boxes with sinister circuits of wires, batteries, duct tape, and a lighted cartoon character in strategic locations throughout the city. The danger posed by these devices is almost too terrible to contemplate: In the alternate universe where al-Qaeda terrorists hide bombs in Lite-Brite toys...
...look and behavior of living creatures, a form of engineering known as biomimicry. A robot designed by David Hanson, president and director of Dallas-based Hanson Robotics, to look like Albert Einstein can hold a plausible conversation (it understands 130,000 words) accompanied by convincing hand gestures. Its subtle facial expressions are facilitated by Frubber, a patented polymer that simulates facial skin...
...propaganda effort to weaken the government of President Hamid Karzai. As a prelude to the spring offensive for which NATO-led coalition forces are bracing, the Taliban late last year released a 30-point code of conduct for its soldiers, prohibiting smoking, looting, and taking "young boys with no facial hair onto the battlefield or into their private quarters." The movement that once ruled Afghanistan at gunpoint has also written its own version of constitution for the country...
...even more provocative result comes from a study undertaken in 2005 by UCLA developmental psychologist Mirella Dapretto and her colleagues. They found that autistic children, compared with other children, showed depressed activity in their premotor cortex while imitating or observing facial expressions--and the more severe the autism, the more depressed the activity was. The results did not surprise Dapretto. A central problem in autism, after all, is an impaired ability to understand the feelings of others, and it seems plausible, if far from proven, that a deficiency in the mirror-neuron system could be involved...