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...tabloid math, the only thing better than a picture of a celebrity is a picture of a celebrity with his or her cute kid - or in some cases, just the kid (see Suri Cruise). There's no bigger celebrity at the moment than President Barack Obama, who has already been on the cover of such august political organs as TV Guide and Entertainment Weekly. As luck would have it, Barack and Michelle Obama have two of the cutest - and therefore potentially lucrative - offspring on the planet. Beanie Babies maker Ty has already released Sweet Sasha and Marvelous Malia dolls...
...that moment, it would have been easy for the Crimson to lose hope. It would have been easy to slide back into the team’s recent habit of staying down when down. Instead, Harvard took a step in another direction...
...Gist: Bernie Madoff and Co. have, for the moment, dislodged attorneys from the doghouse of public opinion. But a world without tort claims and padded billing would still be many people's idea of heaven. Howard, an attorney and author of the best-selling book The Death of Common Sense, chronicles a society in which rules have run amok and litigation looms as a constant threat. Among his egregious examples: a Florida teacher wary of restraining a hysterical child gets the cops to slap handcuffs on the kid instead; a New York City high school prohibits nurses from calling ambulances...
...writes regularly on the science of cooking for The New York Times, and, along with physicist Davide Cassi, also participated in the panel. "If it were called something else, it wouldn't make you think there's something there you don't know or can't trust. But the moment you start talking about molecules, about these particles that you can't see, people begin to get concerned...
...Well, yes, actually, he did misinterpret the Games' cultural significance - namely, that they came at a moment when a good chunk of young people were getting a little bored with football and baseball, while even more were on skateboards practicing their Ollies in mall parking lots across the country. ESPN spent a reported $10 million on the 1995 X Games, drawing some 200,000 spectators to the competition held in Rhode Island. Hailed (by ESPN) as a huge success, the Games, originally planned to be biennial, were quickly rescheduled to be held every year. In 1996, marketers promoted the remonickered...