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...identifying displays of sex, drugs and violence: Have you ever downloaded a picture of a gun or posted a photograph of Al Pacino in Scarface on your MySpace profile? Yes? You're violent. What about completing a sex survey and displaying the results? Or using a Playboy bunny icon to represent you? Well then, you're probably promiscuous. Is your profile picture one of you drinking or smoking? You're an addict. Evidently, this is how the study's authors determined which profiles displayed "risky behavior" and which didn't. Obviously, there are many problems with such an approach...
...roughly 3.3 million Americans who have nut allergies, about 150 die from allergy-related causes each year, notes Christakis. Compare those figures with the 100 people who are killed yearly by lightning, the 45,000 who die in car crashes and the 1,300 who are killed in gun accidents. As a society, Christakis says, our priorities have become seriously skewed, and it's largely a result of fear. "My interest is in understanding [the reaction to nut allergies] as a spread of anxiety," he says...
Caballero’s posh protective apparel, sold in the more affluent part of Mexico City, can withstand ammunition from weapons including a nine-millimeter pistol, a submachine gun, a .44 Magnum, a 3.57 revolver and even knives, allowing customers to escape gunshots and stabs with little more than a bruise. According to Caballero’s web site, titled “High Security Fashion,” his multiple lines of fitted jackets and elegant collared shirts provide the opportunity to “minimize…risk and preserve…life.” In fact...
...rampaged through some of the city's most storied sites. From the infernal glare of smoke and flame that wreathed the Taj Mahal Hotel and the nearby Oberoi came harrowing tales of the demonic cruelty carried out inside. Hotel guests were lined up against walls and sprayed with machine-gun fire; then, according to some accounts, the terrorists placed grenades in the mouths of fallen hostages as traps for pursuing security forces. Hospitals are still filled with the wounded as social workers grapple with the trauma of those left alive...
...skilled in finding young actors and locating their emotional acuity. Mulligan directed Paul Newman in his second TV appearance (Suspense, 1952), and three years later in the Vidal TV play The Death of Billy the Kid, which Newman replayed on the big screen as The Left Handed Gun. Steve McQueen, Sidney Poitier, Walter Matthau, Rosemary Harris and George C. Scott did potent early TV work under his guiding hand. Scott made his Broadway debut in the only play Mulligan directed, the 1958 Comes a Day. He was no slouch with veterans either, winning an Emmy in 1960 for directing Laurence...