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...There is a careless and undisguised way of talking about gross vice," Charles Astor Bristed wrote of the attitude among his classmates in his diary, first published in 1852. "It is talked of as a thing which is on the whole natural, excusable and, perhaps, to most men necessary...
...Those pleasant achievements, or happy accidents, kindled hope for Bedtime Stories, the season's only live-action comedy with a kid-approved PG rating. Well, as Emily Dickinson wrote, "Hope is the thing with feathers." After sitting through this fractious fairy tale, we feel as plucked as a Christmas goose. The star and his director have surrendered to their old bad habits, in a movie that will nonetheless provide - as Sandler's character does - a balky babysitter for children in search of a new-style fairy tale...
...sharper photos, and model B took ones that were more vivid. They were shown examples of photos taken with each camera, and told they'd never print a photo larger than the sample. Twenty-six percent of people chose model A. Yet when another group was told the same thing, and given the additional information that model A was a 4-megapixel camera while model B was a 2-megapixel version, a full 75% chose model A. "People say, I don't trust my own experience, but I trust those numbers," explains Hsee. How information is presented can also have...
...easy the remote is to use. You'll get a better feel for the overall experience of each TV if you look at one and then leave the store for a few minutes before coming back in to look at the next. And if it turns out the thing that was attracting you to the 46" was how nice that number sounded and nothing more, then you might just save yourself some money in the process...
...holds the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with Santa Claus bringing up the rear. Black Friday shopping gets underway bright and early the following day and just over a week later comes the lighting of the nation's most famous tree in Rockefeller Center. But Americans might learn a thing or to from the Spaniards; although the Christmas season doesn't really get started until Dec. 22, they do it in style. On that date every year, children from the San Ildefonso School (once an orphanage for boys) sing a three-hour Gregorian chant in which they pick and announce...