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Beth (Kristen Bell) is bright, nice, pretty and the youngest curator at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. She has just about everything a 20-something could want; but, since this is a standard contemporary romantic comedy, her life is empty because, she says, she hasn't discovered a man wonderful enough to make her want to chuck her job. She soon finds one, when she takes a two-day break from the big exhibition she's preparing and goes to Rome for her sister's wedding. There she meets the groom's best friend Nick (Josh Duhamel). In rom-com terms...
...Charmin’s “Ultra Soft”, a bathroom tissue befitting a patrician, is a reasonable 83¢ per roll. That extra seven cents is an investment in the comfort of the next Emerson, and will allow us to once again raise aloft a standard of obscene luxury that Yale and peer institutions will again struggle to match...
...television networks have toned down the glorification of violent collisions, which is a positive development. Yet during the Jan. 24 telecast of the NFC championship game, Fox repeatedly replayed images of Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre being brutalized. The most powerful media outlet in sports, ESPN, should set the standard for concussion awareness. "I think that's fair," says Chris Berman, ESPN's lead football studio host. "We've done it and will be a little more cognizant of the fact that a 10-second comment, for a 13-year-old or high school player watching, might be helpful...
...iMac - the company's consumer software has failed to keep pace with the evolution of cloud computing. Both iWeb and iPhoto have lagged behind competitors' photo- and Web-editing tools: iWeb is struggling to win over novice bloggers, while iPhoto lacks many of the capabilities that are now standard for Web-based photo-editing and storage services. (See a gallery of Apple's hits and misses...
...that 80% of the Toyotas sold in the past few decades are still on the road - company executives are clearly concerned about the fallout from sharply rising recalls. Another sign of their anxiety: the automaker is stepping up plans to make some expensive safety options, like electronic stability control, standard in all its vehicles. (See the history of the electric...