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...Tad J. Oelstrom, director of the KSG’s National Security Program and a retired U.S. Air Force general, served as a panelist...
Even by the racy standards of South Korea's red-hot movie industry, one of the many bedroom scenes in Too Young to Die was a tad risqu?. A woman fondles a man and bends over him, initiating oral sex. After banning the movie, Korea's censors relented last month on the condition director Park Jin Pyo obscure the scene by digitally turning down the lights. It wasn't the act that scandalized Koreans, it was the actors. The stars of the movie are in their 70s, and in conservative Korea, nobody was ready to witness granny and grandpa having...
...says Prada's Ovidi. "As well, you would be creating something new for Europe and building public awareness of this competition." It would also potentially give other European syndicates, sponsors and broadcasters a better tilt at the spoils of victory. Some teams, mind you, may already have tilted a tad too far to grab those spoils. Even before racing started, Seattle's OneWorld syndicate was found in possession of three other teams' design secrets. In August OneWorld told the America's Cup Arbitration Panel the designs were stolen by a former employee. Unconvinced, the panel docked OneWorld a competition point...
...Palmdale High students were suspended for distributing an underground newspaper on campus. Ignorant of the California Education Code, the principal demanded to approve any new flyers. The students published more, and got suspended again. Sure, some of the material was immature, calling the principal “a tad queer” and a security guard a Nazi. But inappropriate or not, California law offers broad protections for underground student publications...
...penchant for making unhealthy choices might be enhanced by the abundance of particular foods. Consider the results of an experiment recently conducted at Philadelphia's Monell Chemical Senses Center. Rats given one cup each of fat, protein and carbohydrate were found to make balanced diet choices, eating a tad more protein than carbohydrates and a tad more carbohydrates than fats. But rats presented with more cups of fat and carbohydrates than protein dramatically increased their consumption of the former while sharply curtailing their intake of the latter--to the point, in some cases, that the rats became protein deficient...