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...hiding something - and, just as bad, he appears to be behaving as if he should be exempt from the kind of police scrutiny most plebeians would expect after trashing public property at 2:30 in the morning. (And if Florida police aren?t careful, they risk looking as if they???re handling a celeb with kid gloves.) Moreover, "we expect greater disclosure from a celebrity like Tiger Woods because he is so familiar to us," says Ida Cook, a sociologist at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. "When we're denied that, it doesn't feel right...
...Lockerbie jetliner bombing. But those are generally the exceptions. "Putting a sanction on a country always seems to be an inexpensive way to address the problem," Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana has said. "Unfortunately, almost none of these sanctions have brought about change." That's particularly the case when they???re leveled unilaterally. A 1997 study by the Institute for International Economics found that since 1970, unilateral U.S. sanctions met their stated goals less than 20% of the time, while costing the U.S. at least $15 billion annually in projected export revenues...
...options like going to a movie. When that goal is eating well, they're better at resisting distractions like ice cream and pizza. But when a virtuous choice is actually made available, the goal may feel fulfilled even when it hasn't been. Once they have that illusion that they???ve satisfied their healthy-eating goal, they give themselves permission to indulge. "They fail to activate their real goal-fulfillment reaction in response to the threat," says Wilcox...
...Those of us who founded Space Adventures are, generally speaking, the same people who founded the X-Prize. And the X-Prize is what created the opportunity for Burt Rutan to go build SpaceShipOne, and Virgin Galactic came in and paid to have ?Virgin Galactic? painted its tail. They???re a latecomer to the party, but an extremely valuable participant; they'll probably fly the first commercial suborbital flights...
...That job fell to his wife, First Lady Laura Bush, who seemed to be bristling under that perfect demeanor at the dissing of her man. Offering "a little straight talk" on the Bush record, she extolled education reform ("test scores for minority students are at the highest they???ve ever been"); the appointment of conservatives John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court; the "50 million people...living in freedom" in Afghanistan and Iraq. "You might call that change you can really believe in," she said, in a sly swiping of Obama's slogan...