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...self-identification is often misleading; do kids really know what it means to be liberal? The GSS data are instructive here: Kanazawa found that more-intelligent GSS respondents (as measured by a quick but highly reliable synonym test) were less likely to agree that the government has a responsibility to reduce income and wealth differences. In other words, intelligent people might like to portray themselves as liberal. But in the end, they know that it's good to be the king...
...maybe we should all start embracing this side of ourselves, rather than passing it off on someone else—an alter ego or just an inebriated self that does things our sober persons would never do. Perhaps everyone else has come to terms with this, and I’m just the last one holding on, too terrified to take the blame...
...photograph was first published in last January’s issue of Science as part of a paper detailing the properties of a self-assembling polymer, whose tiny hair-like fibers can act as an adhesive...
...doing a decent job elsewhere. McChrystal's plan calls for 80 prepacked governments to take root across Taliban-ruled territory over two years, but Afghanistan simply doesn't have that many clean, qualified and experienced bureaucrats, policemen, doctors and teachers. Besides, parachuting officials into former Taliban strongholds may be self-defeating; Pashtuns rarely trust anybody outside their own tribe and clan. It can hardly be reassuring to the residents of Marjah that their newly appointed mayor, Haji Zahir, has only recently returned from 15 years of living in Germany. (See the top 10 news stories...
...storm, the Pringles guy does his mustache justice by creepily hitting on the Esso girl, and Ronald McDonald hold the Big Boy and the Haribo boy at gun point, before launching a storm of bullets on the Feds. Perhaps it’s a statement on the self-destructive nature of major corporations or maybe it’s a clever ploy to get sponsors. Nevertheless, it’s strangely engaging to watch all your favorite cartoon characters beat each other...