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...celebs use disguises to escape their bubble. What's been your worst? In Vancouver, shooting New Moon, I tried something. They have this thought that no one there wears hoods except for problem people. It's the only city in the world where hoods are not fashionable. It's like if you're wearing a hood, you're going to mug people. So it's a boring disguise, but it worked when I wore a hood. And then I'd sort of spit on the ground a little bit and do a little bit of shaking around...
...William Dunkelberg, chief economist with the NFIB, says it's all about consumer spending, not credit. "The biggest problem is there's no sales - that's the real killer here," he says. Only 4% of those surveyed [by the NFIB] named credit as the problem. "Capital-spending plans are at 35-year lows and inventory-investment plans are at 35-year lows. They're just not borrowing - they're not asking for it," he says...
...second straight year, the U.S. earned dismal marks in its effort to reduce the national rate of premature births. The March of Dimes, which issues an annual state-by-state report card on the problem, gave the U.S. an overall D on Monday...
...Karzai government's poor standing among the Afghan people is generally acknowledged as a problem in that not many Afghans are going to be willing to risk their lives to defend it. Karzai is as aware as his people of the limits of control on the ground by NATO forces and the certainty that they'll leave at some point. And so he has been protecting his interests by making deals with some pretty unsavory characters who wield real power on the ground - and that often requires turning a blind eye to corruption and other transgressions. Washington is looking...
...Mercedes Coloma, president of the Madrid-based Confederation of Parents of Students, the problem lies less with the content than with who is distributing it. "This is a clear usurpation of parents' rights," she says. "In their publicity, [the government] talks about creating a space for exchange and dialogue about sex. But that space already exists: it's the family...