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Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is likely to quiz Leavitt about the EPA's post-9/11 announcements on air quality near ground zero. Last month the agency's inspector general determined that the White House added "reassuring statements" to EPA press releases despite the presence of toxic contaminants...
...After failing a pop quiz on the Beatles, six Brazilian tourists were told to get back home by immigration officials at London's Heathrow Airport. The tourists said they were headed for a tribute to the Fab Four in Liverpool, but missed simple questions about the band; they were unable to identify Yoko Ono and claimed wrongly that Ringo Starr was dead. So officials refused entry. The tourists blamed their poor showing on fatigue, youth and a preference for Brazilian music...
Jaundiced views of the U.S. are a proven crowd pleaser in London. Michael Moore, the insurrectionist documentarian, got booed off the Oscar stage for criticizing Bush's foreign policy, but in London late last year, his one-man stage show--with bits like a nightly "Stump the Yank" quiz--was a smash hit. Even the American plays that are increasingly shoving aside Shakespeare and Stoppard on the West End (often with big-name U.S. stars in the cast) seem to be reveling in the worst of the U.S. In the current hit revival of David Mamet's Sexual Perversity...
Concerned seniors should ask themselves some tough questions: Do traffic distractions at intersections confuse me? Does glare bother me? Do I get lost a lot? Am I taking any medications that could affect my alertness? For drivers over 55, the Automobile Association of America offers a quiz on the Web (at aaafoundation.org/quizzes and over the phone (407-444-7913). Senior drivers.org offers an even more user-friendly site. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety makes literature available (call...
...were wondering how online dating became acceptable, even almost fun, blame Emma Taylor and Lorelei Sharkey. Four years ago, they invented the Nerve com questionnaire, which replaced communicating your charms in hieroglyphic SWF-form with a Cosmo-style quiz. You got to name your most humbling moment, choose your favorite sex scene in a movie and come up with words for lines like "Blank is sexy; blank is sexier." Desperate contractions were replaced by insta-wit and faux self-deprecation. Taylor and Sharkey's questionnaire is now used by more than 150 newspapers and websites and has been filled...