Word: smiling
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Altmire welcomes the rematch. "I can't imagine people wanting to go back to more of the same," he told supporters in front of the Ambridge Pic 'n Save supermarket, flashing his boyish smile. Altmire is betting that the votes on Iraq will not only bring around Republican lawmakers but also turn the tide of public opinion on the war as a whole. When General David Petraeus' plan to add more than 30,000 troops to stabilize Iraq was announced in January, Altmire's office was fielding calls split down the center for and against the so-called surge...
...environmental policy is good economic policy." Then he pauses, and his almost perpetually worried look gives way as he thinks about how making those changes could change his nation. "We've got to put in place the ability to be the best we can be," Rubin says. A small smile emerges: "The best we can be might actually be pretty good...
...think violent or explicit games can negatively influence young children? -Reinhart Klein, SEATTLEThe obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences. Violence is one means of doing that, [though] I look to make people laugh or smile. But the more we have parents playing video games themselves, the more they will understand the interactive world and how to deal with games that have a tremendous amount of violence...
...most vivacious movie musical in ages, and Travolta is a big reason why. Encased in a foam-rubber fat suit, and channeling Blanche DuBois and Miss Piggy, he reveals his feminine side in a way that could have made Stanwyck smile in appreciation. And though Edna hasn't quite the agility of Saturday Night Fever's Tony Manero, Travolta is still a dancing champ at any weight...
...single woman. He listed a series of apartment complexes that maintained unofficial policies allowing them to lease "only to families." Owners don't like the parties young men and women hold, he explained, nor "other mischief," which he wasn't willing to name, but hoped his shy smile would explain. The second agent was even more emphatic: A single woman would find it almost impossible to rent an apartment in Delhi. Owners would "have to be convinced of the fact that you're not a 'wrong' person," he explained. And any single woman wanting to live alone would be hard...