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Much to the chagrin of the world's leading paleontologists, there's a good reason why Leonardo DiCaprio and Goldie Hawn have face recognition and they don't. Dress a movie star up, spread a few rumors about them being cloned and all that's lost is some ink and a few pages of the National Enquirer. Do the same to a mammoth-cicle and 23,000 years of data may end up forever frozen in order to appease the desires of the masses...
...Later that day, my impulse flight provoked a stern reprimand from my parents, now deprived of the satisfaction of a neat set of 3x5s. And though I felt a slight pang of guilt when my father pointed out that he still had my six-year-old face in his wallet-window, regret quickly passed. To be honest, I have always been camera-shy and the lens has never been particularly kind in return...
...cyclist: Their hard exoskeletons make them a force to be reckoned with. As a general rule, they are always going the opposite way that you are, and will not alter their path even in the face of imminent collision. Try to gain eye contact with the beast, then hit the deck. Take care not to antagonize the cyclist--too-tight shorts and poorly-designed bicycle seats make them particularly ornery...
Expect the most muted of fireworks. Al Gore and Bill Bradley finally get to face off live on television Wednesday night, but in a game of Horse rather than one-on-one. Rather than hold a direct debate, the two largely centrist policy wonks will appear side by side at a Democratic party town meeting. "The real excitement," says TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty, "will be the degree to which they're drawn into interacting." And if Gore's pregame trash-talking is anything to go by, he?s ready for a professorial rumble - in the weeks preceding the face...
Serbia and Montenegro don't like living with each other, but neither side is quite ready to face up to the dramatic consequences of that fact. Talks on Montenegro?s proposals to substantially increase its autonomy failed to produce any agreement Tuesday, but both sides pledged to keep talking in order to avoid plunging the region into a new war. Despite the Montenegrins? threat to secede from Yugoslavia if they?re not granted substantial independence from Belgrade, neither side is ready for such a confrontation. "It?s like an unhappy marriage in which the husband and wife are being kind...