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...need to have my license before we hit the road,” Droste explained after postponing our interview for a dash over to the Department of Motor Vehicles. “Otherwise my band is going to shoot me, because I can’t drive...
...years ago, a trendy, fragrant hair-care line and a gritty, testosterone-infused sport like NASCAR would have mixed as well as water and motor oil. But last week Garnier Fructis signed on to sponsor hot young driver Brian Vickers, following deals inked last fall that paired Elizabeth Arden scent Halston Z-14 with icon Jeff Gordon and Avon with phenom Kasey Kahne. Women make up 40% of NASCAR's 75 million viewers, but they aren't the prime target. The new marketers are going after the increasing number of urban and urbane male fans who gel and spritz...
...HUPD officers were sent to the Stadium Complex on reports from witnesses that a motor vehicle fled the scene after causing property damage. Officers located the driver—who, upon investigation, was determined to be “impaired”—and was taken away by an ambulance for treatment...
...will pursue regime change in Tehran. "Don't show your teeth if you can't bite," says Amir Mohebbian, political editor of the conservative Resalat newspaper. Observing U.S. difficulties in taming the Iraqis, Iranian leaders are far less worried than they were two years ago that U.S. forces might motor on toward Tehran. Some commentators are mocking Washington's tough anti-Iran rhetoric, confident that no U.S. allies have the stomach for a new military venture. The mullahs seem sure that Bush doesn't either, despite his "axis of evil" talk. They know U.S. forces are stretched tight...
...that changed once scientists knew which kind of memory to study. Over the past couple of years, Stickgold has teamed up with Matthew Walker at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to investigate sleep's effects on procedural memory for motor skills. They asked right-handed test subjects to type a sequence of numbers (for example, 4-1-3-2-4) with their left hand over and over again as fast as they could. No matter what time of day they learned the task, their accuracy improved 60% to 70% after six minutes of practice. When subjects who learned...