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...American history: 1 • Fat people: 4 • Angry Germans: 2 • Transvestite midget: 1 • Videos longer than five minutes: 5 • Videos shorter than 30 seconds: 12 • Celebrity videos: 7 • Wedding videos: 2 • Videos of people dancing: 9 • Ad for an office product that seems oddly sexual: 1 • Performances inspired by Star Wars: 3 • Freaky Tom Cruise moments: 2 • Things from Japan: 4 • People with too much time on their hands: 37 • Grown men who may never know the love of a woman: 12 • Bonus NSFW links hidden...
...Stability and Growth Pact set up in 1997 amid German concerns over budgetary discipline in countries about to join the euro zone. Designed to discourage governments from destabilizing the euro zone by borrowing too much, the rules limit national deficits to no more than 3% of gross domestic product. Countries that go over that limit can face fines. (See pictures of Europe in peril...
...spell and a mouthful to pronounce - though they are. It's that they strike us as downright dangerous. That, at least, is the conclusion of a new study published in the journal Psychological Science - and it's a study that ought to give pause to any manufacturer with a product to brand or parent with a baby to name. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...Insurance companies and food manufacturers may value safety, and easy-to-process names would appeal to their consumers more," says Song. "Adventure-travel packages and risky sports such as bungee jumping might want to use harder names." When a product like the Scirocco folds, it might have been done in not just by the nonintuitive pronunciation of the name (shi-rock-o), but also by its definiton: a hot desert wind. That's a double-dose of danger that could simply be too much for safety-conscious consumers. (See TIME's special report on the environment...
...called "helicopter" parents fit into your conclusions? Parenting practices are a product of the culture. Just in my lifetime, the philosophy of parenting has undergone a complete reversal. I was born in 1938, and my parents didn't worry about my self-esteem: they worried that too much praise or attention would "spoil" me and make me conceited! Parents showed very little interest in their children's schoolwork in those days - that was the teacher's business, not theirs. And of course, physical punishment was used routinely. Despite these sweeping changes, personality traits have not changed - people today...