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...reality show is perhaps not the genius career move it seemed to be. If you're lucky, post--15 minutes, maybe you get to host a show on the TV Guide Channel. If you're less lucky, you get to co-host The View. Maybe you just swallow your pride and do the whole thing over again, as on the oxymoronically named Big Brother: All-Stars. But more likely, you eat a few bugs, you win a few bucks, you date Flavor Flav, and pretty soon you're back on the couch with the rest of us zeros, without...
...More than 2,500 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq by the very insurgents for whom indemnity is being considered by a U.S.-backed government, and giving them amnesty would be a bitter pill for the U.S. to swallow. For Maliki to publicly offer such an amnesty right now is politically unacceptable to Washington...
...rates among the very young, researchers are looking into the critical period between breast or bottle and the school lunchroom, when lifelong food habits take shape. During the first year of life, experts say, babies self-regulate how much they eat; infants who aren't hungry will refuse another swallow, no matter how much parents try to feed them. But in the second year, babies, like adults, begin responding less to hunger pangs and more to social cues: Is Mommy giving me more? Has everyone else at the table had seconds? I want to snack in front...
Those findings are hard to swallow because they fly in the face of our most compelling intuitions. We love our children! We talk about them to anyone who will listen, show their photographs to anyone who will look and hide our refrigerators behind vast collages of their drawings, notes, pictures and report cards. We feel confident that we are happy with our kids, about our kids, for our kids and because of our kids--so why is our personal experience at odds with the scientific data...
...only 11 shots, it saw its own chances on net dwindle to five. The defensive effort kept St. Lawrence, which entered the game with the second best offense in the country, off the board for over forty minutes. “It’s a tough loss to swallow because we got more scoring opportunities even though we lost,” Saints captain Kate Michael said after the contest. As the two teams entered the last twenty minutes of the crucial game, the Harvard offense finally began to click. The momentum built through the final period, culminating...