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Sounds serious? Not really. Beijing traditionally raises the menace quotient in its rhetoric when Taiwanese politicians start talking independence, which is a political staple in electioneering there (the Taiwanese go to the polls on March 18). Of course the Taiwanese find plenty of congressional allies during U.S. election seasons, and bashing the incumbent over a China policy that's remained largely consistent from administration to administration since Nixon has become a tradition in campaigns for the White House - Clinton and Gore beat up on Bush the elder over Tiananmen Square; Bush the younger beats up on Clinton and Gore over...
...class in glasses and their pajamas all last semester, I'm attractive goshdarnit!" This is no mere New Year's resolution, it's a complex game theory in which costs and balances have been calculated more carefully than the hours-per-class ratio or reading-to-exam-work-expenditure quotient...
Likewise, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, produced by Animal House director John Landis and featuring Jennifer O'Dell, needs to up the babe quotient and tone down the silly adventure plots. But a couple of shows for next year look to have more potential. Former Baywatch star Gena Lee Nolin will star in Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, in which she will morph her body into animals'. That can't be bad. The only catch is that Sheena will focus on saving the environment, which means the show will have to include a lot of leopard morphs...
...wouldn't be willing to say for certain, though, that the sudden prominence of so many peach-fuzz millionaires has not raised the angst quotient among the parents of my younger friends. Twenty years ago, baby boomers were written about as if every one of them had as a life goal making enough money to accumulate the same superfluous material objects that everyone else had. Now that those boomers are feeling an occasional twinge in the lower back as they take that big step up into the driver's seat of the sport-utility vehicles they worked so hard...
...standardized test of human intelligence in 1905. But it was an American, Lewis Terman, a psychology professor at Stanford, who thought to divide a test taker's "mental age," as revealed by that score, by his or her chronological age to derive a number that he called the "intelligence quotient," or IQ. It would be hard to think of a pop-scientific coinage that has had a greater impact on the way people think about themselves and others...