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...Meghan, do you think that anyone would be talking to you if you weren't kind of cute and you weren't the daughter of John McCain?' Conservative talk-show host LAURA INGRAHAM, calling Meghan McCain a "plus-sized model" who uses news website the Daily Beast as her "dating LiveJournal...
Melee breaks out at America's Next Top Model tryouts, prompting mass squeals of 'Not the face...
...significantly raised its fuel-economy standards for the first time since they were established in 1975. Passenger cars will now be required to get 30.2 m.p.g. (up from 27.5), while the standard for light trucks will increase from 23.1 m.p.g. to 24.1. The new rules apply only to 2011 models; the Obama Administration is still debating how to apply them to future model years, given the U.S. auto industry's precarious financial situation...
...drug laws, some of the earliest statutes in the nation to lay out mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders. Critics and activists hailed the pact, arguing that mandatory minimums contribute to prison overcrowding and recidivism and incarcerate addicts who should instead receive treatment. The original laws, which were a model for much of the legislation passed at the height of America's War on Drugs in the 1980s, mandated minimum sentences as long as 15 years for certain drug offenses--the same as those for second-degree murder...
...Only time will tell whether Ankara has accepted that in order to be a "model partner," in Obama's words, it must also implement democratic reforms and address the murkier aspects of its history. On Tuesday, a nationalist Turkish leader said he wouldn't "tolerate the U.S. President's lack of courtesy" in calling on Turkey to reckon with its past, resolve its dispute with neighbor Armenia and reopen their shared border. But for now, "this is the best foreign policy opportunity Turkey has had in years," says Rusen Cakir, a Turkish expert in Islamic affairs...