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Critics describe NASCAR as watching cars go in circles. Has the growth of NASCAR's popularity surprised insiders like you? -C. W. Roberts, Pittsburgh, Pa.Absolutely. Growing up racing, seeing a thousand people was a big deal. It was like, 'wow, I got a great crowd tonight.' I went to the Indianapolis 500 as a kid; that, to me, was just mind-boggling. Then when you get on the NASCAR circuit, and every weekend is like that, you're absolutely blown away. I've been blown away for so many years. I love bringing people to the track who haven...
...three weeks of stubble are adorning male faces. In some particularly trendy areas, facial hair has become as essential an accessory for would-be chic men as oversized totes are for their female counterparts. "Beards are back," says Allan Peterkin, a pogonologist (a.k.a. beard scholar) and author of One Thousand Beards. "It is an act of rebellion. Men are trying to prove that they are no corporate slave...
...whether their country uses the euro. However, there is the potential for voter fraud through multiple votes by those with more than one email address. And in a blatant attempt at trying to make this a popular poll, the Commission will award a set of gold coins worth "several thousand euros" to one random person from those who chose the most popular design...
...after the launch of shareliverpoolfc.com, the website where fans can register their interest in eventually putting up cash, it's difficult to gauge the appetite for a buyout among the club's 25 million supporters worldwide. Overwhelmed by visitors - the site was attracting a thousand hits a second - its pages crashed out of action seven minutes after going online, but was back up Friday afternoon...
...fact, that's already happening. Several thousand troops involved in the surge have quietly begun to pull out. For now, Petraeus and Odierno are sticking by their plan to draw down U.S. forces by roughly 4,000 troops a month through July. Left unchanged, that would return U.S. forces close to their pre-surge level. But both men caution that it could be halted if violence flares up. Petraeus says further withdrawals depend on a matrix of unknowns: military and economic conditions, and whether the Iraqis are showing signs of governing themselves...