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...stars' gowns has turned much of the Oscar Night audience into Mr. Blackwells: What are these beautiful people wearing and how awful do they look? And, this year: How can they go to so much trouble finding chic clothes but forget to apply a little mousse to tame those loose curls (Penelope Cruz) and split ends (Annette Bening)? It was a Bad Hair Night all around...
...other hand, the other big number from Friday, the PPI, means that inflation is very tame. Which leaves him room to err on the side of easing if he wants to cut more than 50 points...
...real name) is in fact an Internet jockey, or IJ. The show is broadcast on the popular Enterchannel Web TV station: her audience communicates with her through keyboards, she responds via microphone and Webcam. She poses, dances and, yes, sometimes slips off her bra?nothing more. It's pretty tame stuff by the standards of Japanese and U.S adult sites. But it's enough for the guardians of Korean morality to get their knickers in a twist...
...result, the conversation that has occupied scientists and ethicists for years, about how much man should mess with nature when it comes to reproduction, will drop onto every kitchen table, every pulpit, every politician's desk. Fierce debate over issues like abortion and euthanasia will seem tame and transparent compared with the questions that human cloning raises...
...signals to sense who or what is in the room. If it's a predator, the bug might decide to fight, gaining strength with each match it wins. Touch its antenna, and it will scurry away to flock with other bugs. "You can train them, but you can't tame them," says creator Richard Yanofsky, who claims that B.I.O. Bugs are roughly as intelligent as cockroaches...