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...pink nail polish. It ain't easy being the metrosexual pinup boy, but Beckham doesn't flinch from the term. With seemingly a different hairstyle each week--he has gone from skinhead to fauxhawk to dreads to a ponytail--he keeps hair salons worldwide flooded with followers eager to mimic his style...
...Culture, Verba, Almond and their team performed a cross-national survey, a method which would become fundamental to political science. For his second major work, Voice and Equality, Verba surveyed 15,000 Americans. The approach made waves in the field of political science, prompting theorists across the country to mimic Verba’s method...
...found that drinking 600 ml of tea every day for at least two weeks doubled or tripled the immune system's output of an infection-fighting substance called interferon gamma. The coffee drinkers registered no difference in interferon-gamma production. Apparently the body metabolizes the tea into molecules that mimic the surface proteins of bacteria, jump-starting the immune system so that when real bugs show up, they can more easily be dispatched. But keep in mind that although a few large epidemiological studies support these claims, others do not. Smaller experiments, like the Brigham and Women's study, only...
...away cigar ash from pages of fresh copy. Blair twice refers to the 1994 classic, The Paper, which is itself a throwback and perhaps the greatest newspaper film ever made. And as he recalls his reporting for the Times metro desk, Blair often assumes an annoyingly theatrical tone to mimic the gritty feel of The Paper. “I soon found myself deep in the woods,” he writes, “cutting a path through American and English elms as I walked toward the area where I saw the most police activity...
...area would mimic the popular mezzanine area of the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC), which can support—or quickly be converted to support—a variety of activities...