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...there's a higher ick factor to dust than you might think. And there's a science to how it gets around - a science that David Layton and Paloma Beamer, professors of environmental policy at the University of Arizona, are exploring. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's in Household Dust? Don't Ask | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

Mine flew....onto the bed! Ick...

Author: By Aparicio J. Davis | Title: Currently Raiding your Dorm | 3/7/2009 | See Source »

Hotel for Dogs takes full advantage of this ick-free wholesomeness. The children rig together such amenities as an old-shoe vending machine, a herding room and an open-car-window simulator. There's even groom service. They give the dogs the home the children can't find for themselves. For those who feel a little powerless--like kids or a nation in the middle of a crippling economic crisis--dogs represent something singular: a being even they can help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema's Best Friend | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...really hard would do it, as if most of us who grew up gay and evangelical hadn't tried that every night as teenagers.) Homosexuality, Pastor Warren explained in the virtually content-free language of the dogmatist, is "not the natural way." And then he went right for the ick factor, the way middle-school boys do: "Certain body parts are meant to fit together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Problem for Gays with Rick Warren — and Obama | 12/18/2008 | See Source »

...easy. It's even harder when your protagonist is a 13-year-old girl, and your subjects are sex and race. Ball's film is as cringe-inducing as an after-school special but with a larky tone that invites the audience to feel complicit. One word: ick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Things You Should Know About | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

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