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...someone use it in a lighthearted way and play with people’s passion for him. Shaq often offers tickets to the first person who can find him in a particular location—“tag me and say yur twit u hv 20 min.” Both punny and generous? You are too kind, Shaq. Then again, maybe I am fascinated with Shaq’s Twitter because it offers a glimpse into the daily affairs of a “celebrity.” But I’m not sure this...
...while social unrest itself is unlikely to threaten the Communist Party's dominance, with the Hu administration so heavily invested in social harmony, it could become vulnerable to infighting if grassroots unrest gets significantly worse. Scholar Min Xinpei of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington D.C. argues that the real danger for China is likely to come from discord among the top leadership rather than street demonstrations. As Pei writes in a recent Foreign Policy article, internal Party turmoil could render authorities "less capable of containing social instability and thus creating a vicious cycle of events that could...
...Xanadu's location, amid the confluence of some of the country's most congested road arteries, should also help. Surely a few curious drivers will want to check out the mega-mall. Plus, the state has built a rail line to the site; it's now just a 23-min. ride to Xanadu from Manhattan. Traditionally, city residents without cars cringe at the thought of crossing the Hudson to the Meadowlands, since public transportation to the site has been so abysmal. (See 10 things to do in New York City...
...speaking, on the upward slope, alcohol has a stimulating effect - "social lubrication," says Nixon. But on the down slope, as the alcohol is metabolized, its effects are more sedating. To measure the relationship between people's actual and perceived impairment along this continuum, researchers tested subjects twice, at 25 min. and 75 min. after they'd begun drinking. The two motor-skills tasks used to measure actual impairment were akin to connect-the-dots, but slightly more complicated. The first test simply required participants to draw lines between numbered dots in order; the second required them to alternate between numbers...
...expand its base. Last fall Gibbons put out the latte-table book Watching the Watchmen. The story is also available on DVD in "moving comic" form--very limited animation of the drawings, with a narrator reading the text--that runs about twice the length of the 2-hr. 40-min. Snyder version. (Read an interview with Watchmen creator Dave Gibbons...