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...Scott Brown we have an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, tea-bagging supporter of violence against women and against politicians with whom he disagrees." - Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC's Countdown, in a virulent rant against the Massachusetts candidate...
...presenter, he heard a wince from the audience as he remarked, apropos The Reader, that "The trouble is, with holocaust films there's never any gag reel on the DVDs." Since the HFPA invited him back to preside over the whole thing - indeed, Gervais was the first host since 1995 - he took that as a license to kill, with his trademark acid wit, the stars he was introducing - especially if they'd been known to take a tipple. Making a solemn declaration against "prejudice and stereotype," he then said, "One stereotype I hate is that all Irishmen are just drunk...
...With a host of companies trying to tap into baby boomers' fear of senior moments, the growth in cognitive-fitness products has as much to do with aging consumers as it does with the discovery that adult brains can generate new cells. At least six weeks of sustained, intense learning generally results in increased brain thickness. This finding has fueled a hot theory in Alzheimer's research: the more you work out your brain, the more you accumulate what is referred to as cognitive reserve. (See more about the brain...
...beyond subsistence and for the profit of others who hold them through fraud and violence. While most are held in debt bondage in the poorest regions of South Asia, some are trafficked in the midst of thriving development. Such is the case here in Africa's wealthiest country, the host of this year's World Cup. While South Africa invests billions to prepare its infrastructure for the half-million visitors expected to attend, tens of thousands of children have become ensnared in sexual slavery, and those who profit from their abuse are also preparing for the tournament. During a three...
Earlier that day, I spoke with Luis CdeBaca, who was visiting South Africa on his first foreign visit as President Obama's ambassador-at-large to monitor and combat human trafficking. "Dedicated cops, prosecutors and victim advocates are fighting the traffickers in several host cities, but they're largely doing it on their own," he said. Obama has pledged to make the fight to abolish modern-day slavery a top foreign policy priority, but the U.S. currently spends more in a single day fighting drug trafficking than it does in an entire year fighting human trafficking. So CdeBaca, whose office...