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...model for the rest of the Arab world. Saddam turned out not to have nuclear weapons, and Iraq turned out to be more prone to civil war than democracy. It runs the risk of becoming a failed state from which terrorists run global operations, and/or breaking into ethnic mini-states that inspire secessionist trouble throughout the region...
Jetting into Jordan for a mini-summit on Wednesday, President George W. Bush will have dinner with King Abdullah II, then breakfast the next morning with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki before holding a news conference and flying home to Washington. White House officials say there will be no big announcement after those meetings...
...spot a car sporting the license plate LOLITA or MINI-PIMP, change lanes. Psychologists at Colorado State University have found that people who give their car a name or gender are more likely to express road rage, a growing problem that causes some 370 deaths and more than 20,000 injuries each year. "Anything you do to make your car feel like your territory will make you more upset when someone steals your parking space," says Jacob Benfield, a co-author of the study. In fact, a vehicle's aggressive persona was a better predictor of road rage than...
...onto Facebook Mini-feed these days and you’re bound to be notified that one acquaintance or another has uploaded photos of herself and her five thousand (marginally cute) friends. Inevitably, she has titled her photo album something along the lines of “Hotness!!!” or “All my favorite girls!!!” Actually, you yourself have probably made such an album at some point—almost all of us have, I am afraid. Maybe you titled yours “H-Bomb,” since that?...
...Wind It Up,” the first single from her upcoming album “The Sweet Escape,” Stefani manages to transform Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music” into an adults-only show. The mini-musical opens with the camera panning up a lamb-dotted, astro-turfed hill that settles on Sister Stefani, dressed in nun garb and yodeling the opening lines from Julie Andrews’ famous marionette tune. The second act puts “My Favorite Things” to shame with a noticeably...