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...What's it like growing up with a girl's name? -Mark Fleming, Dublin I think that's part of the reason why I'm funny, because kids on the playground would make fun of my nose and my name. When kids are making fun of you in the schoolyard, you go get your big brother, and he comes back with you and he turns into the Incredible Hulk. But my oldest brother was born with cerebral palsy. So I had to develop a sense of humor. (See the top 10 post-SNL careers...
...Runny nose, persistent chill, fever, fatigue - these symptoms are all familiar evidence of influenza. But what about a heart attack, suffered 60 years later...
...fear that Iran is on the verge of bolting the global Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and developing not just nuclear energy but a nuclear weapon, a charge Tehran denies. Venezuela's ties to the Islamic Republic, as a result, have taken on dimensions beyond just tweaking Uncle Sam's nose. (See the 10 worst-dressed world leaders...
...crack Prussian army, famed for its lockstep discipline. Armies around the world copied the German kingdom's methods of mustering and marching, its salutes and drills. Some of the strict measures applied to troops marching in Beijing on Oct. 1 - like the precisely prescribed distance between an infantryman's nose and that of his colleagues on either side - can be traced to the diktats of Prussian tacticians...
...signal that he would be welcome" at the embassy, says Paulo Sotero, director of the Brazil Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. - Brasília finds itself in the kind of diplomatic spotlight it once shunned. Chávez never misses a chance to thumb his nose at U.S. influence in Latin America, and since he'd grown impatient with what he considered the Obama Administration's too tepid efforts to lean on the Honduras coup leaders and get his ally Zelaya returned to power, he decided it was time to bring Lula deeper into a banana...