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...Larry the Cable Guy character has become considerably less political since Whitney created him on the radio as a kind of southern Archie Bunker in the early '90s. "You want the biggest fan base you can get," says Whitney. "There's a lot of comics who just like to make their friends laugh. Audiences like seeing a comedian who doesn't talk to the back of the room. He talks to the front of the room...
...After months of excessive coverage of the Iraq war and the 2008 U.S. presidential election - issues that, while pertinent to the world, don't have the same level of urgency for southern Africa - it was heartening to see such a major disaster highlighted on the cover. Characterizing the situation in Zimbabwe as political oppression would be putting it mildly. The stories being told by many Zimbabweans now living in South Africa seem to be straight out of a Hollywood horror movie. When they return home to Zimbabwe, they find that their family members are afraid to speak out for fear...
...picked a select group of states that could elect nominees before Feb. 5, 2008. But Florida, which wasn't one of them, is now set to break the party-approved barrier and move its primary up to Jan. 29. South Carolina, which the parties picked to have the first Southern primary, says it will move its G.O.P. primary even earlier to keep that distinction. New Hampshire, scheduled for Jan. 22, requires its secretary of state to move its primary to stay at least a week ahead of the pack. Iowa, always the first caucus, would follow suit. That means Americans...
Democrats brought this on themselves. Last July they added Nevada and South Carolina to the pre--Feb. 5 balloting in hopes of mixing Western and Southern diversity into the plain-vanilla tradition of Iowa and New Hampshire. Big states like California and New York had always felt they weren't getting the respect--or campaign promises--they deserved from candidates, and when they saw the shuffle of dates begin, they moved their primaries to Feb. 5. At last count, more than 25 states were considering voting on or before then...
Subha Patel, Kaiser's counterpart at IFF, has journeyed to Kenya and Guangzhou in China. In Southern India, she drew smell samples from cardamom flowers, local tea and fresh red clay. In lieu of bringing back buckets of samples or dead flowers, Patel records her findings chemically. Her primary tool, a solid-phase microextractor, is a $100 penlike device that can record the specific molecules present around anything with a smell. Fennel, cucumber, melon, tomato leaf, black plum and hydroponic celery might soon start to show up as notes in consumer fragrances. Scent notes of Japanese ginger, Indian mango, lantana...