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...response to a series of questions about ongoing cuts—such as the 25 percent reduction in House budgets—Smith and Hammonds pointed to various instances where the administration had elected to keep certain commitments...
...danger is wasted time, which can cost businesses revenue if workers stay home out of fear. Waste can also come in the form of purchasing unnecessary antiviral drugs or face masks, which are basically ineffective against something as small as a virus, anyway (though they may keep out globs of mucus where viruses tend to be concentrated...
...advocating that information about potential epidemics be hidden in order to keep the public docile. We should still warn the population at large and try to quarantine diseases before they spread, because, even though swine flu will likely turn out to be mild, our species remains highly vulnerable to rapidly communicable diseases...
...People's Sexiest Man Alive in 2005 and one of the magazine's Hottest Bachelors a year later; serves as spokesman for the beef industry ("Beef: It's What's for Dinner"); runs a clothing line, and a children's foundation, called j.k. livin, after his life motto "Just keep livin'"; and doesn't use deodorant or cologne - but we'll bet he could market his musk...
...older you do get," he said in his breakout movie, the 1993 indie comedy Dazed and Confused, "the more rules they're gonna try to get you to follow. You just gotta keep livin' man, L-I-V-I-N." That edict has nurtured McConaughey from his early prominence, in the John Grisham drama A Time to Kill, through some ragged adventure sagas (the arid Sahara) to a welcome cameo as Ben Stiller's agent in Tropic Thunder. As McConaughey scholar (and my niece) Diana White tells me, he's more than the sum of dimples and muscles. But anybody...