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...feeling self-conscious about the size of their breasts is nothing new?as members of the Seinfeld generation will recall, the episode in which Kramer invents "the Bro," or the "Mansierre" to tame oversized "man boobs" first aired in 1995. Yet, according to the BBC, in recent years discomfort over what are colloquially known as "moobs," is prompting increasing numbers of men to go under the knife. According to the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, the number of men who underwent breast reduction surgery in the U.K. increased from 323 in 2008 to 581 in 2009, a jump...
Lessons from Flight 253 The recent attempted attack on Flight 253 gave me a feeling of déjà vu [Jan. 11]. The information about the suspect was available; U.S. agencies didn't coordinate. Wasn't the Department of Homeland Security created precisely to prevent such situations? Adam Brostow, EMMAUS...
Gibson, 54, who seven years ago turned from starring in hit movies to directing The Passion of the Christ, the all-time top R-rated and foreign-language film, became more notorious recently for being an off-screen road warrior. His 2006 drunk-driving conviction, and the slurs he made about Jews to the arresting officer, dented his rep and put a big question mark next to his chances for returning to the superstar class. Edge of Darkness, based on a 1985 Brit TV drama about a cop searching for his daughter's killers, bears a resemblance to last year...
...Peru's San Martin department, where Tocache is located, wants to put itself on the map as the chocolate capital of the world. Located in the lush tropics where the Andes mountain range gives way to the northern Amazon rain forest, San Martin has a wilder reputation from its recent past: for years it was a bastion for the rebels of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement and the much more violent Maoist fighters of the Shining Path. Hand in hand with subversion came drug trafficking, with the surrounding countryside perfect terrain for coca, from which cocaine is processed. (See pictures...
...energy, not real momentum, but enough to buoy hopes of progress, with Karzai reaching out to some of those currently outside the government camp at the tribal jirga assembly he plans to convene within weeks. He also plans to convene an international conference in Kabul in the spring, although recent Taliban attacks in the heart of the capital have raised security fears over that event...