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...Edwards was looking at a whole new crop of students from the ones he addressed here nearly four years ago to the day. "Really? I was there?" Edwards asked laughing when I reminded him Tuesday he'd visited the school before, his voice hoarse from the all-night, 36-hour bus tour he finished earlier that morning. "I wish I could remember that clearly, but I don't. I've done too many campaign events this week...
...need to dry-clean your tuxes, George and Denzel. Thanks to the Hollywood writers' strike, Sunday's Golden Globe Awards has shrunk from the usual celebrity bacchanal of red carpet, dinner, ceremony and after-parties to a one-hour news conference broadcast on NBC. The highly-rated Globes is the first awards show to fall victim to the strike, and February's Academy Awards may be next...
...with females; researchers, who studied the monkeys for some 20 months, found that males offered their payment up-front, as a kind of pre-sex ritual. It worked. After the females were groomed by male partners, female sexual activity more than doubled, from an average of 1.5 times an hour to 3.5 times. The study also showed that the number of minutes that males spent grooming hinged on the number of females available at the time: The better a male's odds of getting lucky, the less nit-picking time the females received. Though primates have been observed trading grooming...
...drivers, are less likely to pass sluggish vehicles and ultimately take longer to complete their commute - researchers estimate that such distracted drivers lengthen the average car commute by about 5% to 10%. That amounts to only a few extra minutes a day, but those minutes add up. Say your hour-long commute were cut by 10% a day - or 6 mins. - in each direction; the savings would translate to an entire weekend of free time a year. An additional 30 to 50 hours of yearly commuting time per person costs society broadly too - in fuel consumption, poorer air quality...
...face of higher prices. Economy Minister Christine Lagarde has announced that inflation in 2008 will probably exceed 2% - higher, in any case, than the government forecast of 1.6%, due to escalating prices of oil and foodstuffs. Laws passed to allow employees and businesses to sidestep France's 35-hour workweek limitation and heed Sarkozy's call to "work more to earn more" have largely been ignored as too complicated, and even some fellow conservatives question the wisdom of the $22 billion in tax cuts passed last July when - as Sarkozy himself acknowledged last month - "the coffers are empty". Little wonder...