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Mike Huckabee's campaign manager, Chip Saltsman, stopped shaving last week, like a superstitious quarterback not wanting to jinx the big game. He will be wearing a lucky baseball cap on caucus night, and a pinky ring with a smiley face on it. "It reminds me to be happy," he says...
...with the debates is that there are too many. Every interest group under the sun, must, of course, have a special themed debate in their honor, and if the candidates don’t attend the media depicts their absence as apathy. In September, for example, PBS personality Tavis Smiley hosted a debate on minority issues, which the top tier candidates, including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney, Arizona Sen. John McCain, and Thompson, skipped. “Top Republicans scolded for skipping black debate,” and “Smiley: GOP ignores...
...small study, the researchers scanned the brains of 26 men as they each performed a simple task: choosing one symbol from a pair of symbols. After each selection, the participant was presented with a smiley face or sad face, depending on the symbol he had chosen. All men were equally good at learning to pick the symbols that won them a smiley face, but some men were worse than others at avoiding the ones that resulted in sad faces. Those men, it turns out, had a particular gene variant, or allele, that reduces the density of receptors for dopamine...
...ball of fur that slept on the foot of my bed.It’s weird being here at school without a pet. Freshman year, I illegally kept a hermit crab named Hubert in my Grays common room. My roommates and I adored him (and his shell, with a smiley face painted on it) but when he died in February, we cremated him, tossed his crabby coffin into the Charles, and moved on. Now I can’t imagine having a pet, seeing as I can’t even remember to water plants.The only animals I come across...
...born with the doubly optimistic name Destiny Hope Cyrus. Her father, achy-breaky country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, nicknamed her "Smiley," which was quickly shortened to "Miley." On her Disney Channel sitcom, she plays Miley Stewart, an ordinary girl with a secret identity: pop-superstar Hannah Montana. On Oct. 18, Cyrus--who has sold millions of very real albums--begins a concert tour, performing as Montana and as ... Miley Cyrus...