Word: fusses
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...current flap start? Japanese leaders have made private pilgrimages to Yasukuni without causing a fuss, but in 1985, Yasuhiro Nakasone became the first Prime Minister to visit the shrine in an official capacity, prompting outcry from other Asian nations. his successors avoided official visits for the next 16 years, until Koizumi came to power promising to resume them?which he has done, visiting the shrine each year since 2001. China, along with other Asian countries invaded during World War II, insists that for Japan's leader to visit a shrine where the war's masterminds are worshipped as gods...
...into his religion in 1999 for Bash: Latterday Plays, in which three people - who just happen to be Mormon - confess to heinous acts. The performances were well-received, but the church was not amused. "A bit of a falling out" led LaBute to resign his membership last year. The fuss has died down of late, but that doesn't mean LaBute wants you sitting comfortably. Like a giant, mischievous child poking a dog with a stick, he delights in seeing what he can get away with before the audience turns on him. In his quest, he's worked through...
...devices worth the fuss? Only a few hundred have been sold, according to their U.S. distributor, Kevin Morse. And Haridopolos, like other anti-AWOLers, admits he hasn't seen them used--let alone abused--by his constituents. Nor are their powers all they're cracked up to be. When AWOL is used, ingesting the equivalent of half a shot of liquor takes 20 minutes, according to Morse. "It's nearly impossible to get drunk with it," he says. A bar owner in West Paterson, N.J., even returned the gizmo because it didn't offer enough of a buzz. Mothers Against...
Stevie Wonder had a vision. In a music-industry first, the video for So What the Fuss, the single from the blind balladeer's album due next month, is enhanced with narration for the visually impaired. As Wonder performs the song onscreen, raspy rapper Busta Rhymes describes the visuals: "Stevie's playing a pearl-white drum set ..." he tells listeners. Calling the project a "breakthrough," Wonder says he's enlisting other artists to add descriptive narration to their videos as well. Before it catches on, we'd like to warn the visually impaired: Christina Aguilera sounds a lot better when...
...what's all the fuss about? The latest CDC paper estimated that 112,000 extra deaths each year are associated with obesity. That's a pretty big number, but a year ago, a different group of researchers at the CDC, using older data, put the toll for poor diet and physical inactivity even higher, at 400,000 deaths. Earlier this year, they admitted that they had made a mistake in their calculations and that the correct number was closer to 365,000 deaths. "It's really an evolving science," says Dr. George Mensah, acting director of the National Center...