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...creator Larry David, who declared there would be no hugging and no learning on his show, Ray drew up criteria for every segment: there could be no crying or finger wagging; it would have useful information for viewers of every age and class, and it would make the audience laugh. "I hope people feel more alive around the edges after they watch us," she says. Either that or they'll feel exhausted...
...What else boosts math scores? Well, don't laugh, but teaching on a whiteboard with dry-erase markers is better than blackboards with chalk. Students can simply see better. Another study showed that humming fluorescent lights are particularly hard on students - they make gifted students test "ungifted." And light blue paint on the walls of a kindergarten lowered misbehavior...
...therapy disguised as sorcery. As lyrical as a bedtime story, but also caustic and earthy, the novel grapples with big issues - social inequality, corruption, aids - along with more subtle signs of Africa's insecurity, like envy of the West or the loss of a national language. And it's laugh-out-loud funny. "Dictatorship is tragedy that manifests itself in comedy," says Ngugi, 68. His ability to put that into words is part of what turned him into a literary hero in Africa - and made Moi very nervous. Ngugi first started writing in the '60s, under his original name, James...
...Stephen Colbert Funny? If you didn't laugh at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the bloggers insist, you're a White House lackey...
...turned the Dublin-based carrier into Europe's most profitable airline by cutting airport turnaround time to a minimum to keep his planes aloft as much as possible. That means discouraging any behavior that can slow his planes down, including checking baggage. But O'Leary may have the last laugh. Unlike regular airlines, Ryanair charges a fee for each bag that is checked: up to $9.50 apiece, if passengers register bags at the airport rather than paying for them in advance when buying their ticket. According to Ryanair's website, that fee is set to increase by 40% in September...