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...agree with him. He tapped General David Petraeus, whose counterinsurgency skills helped stabilize Iraq, to head an Army board asked to sift through colonels to identify those who merit promotion to one-star general. "An institution can always beat one or two people," Gates said recently, "but it's tough to beat four or five...
...start of the game, Johnny is acting as the leader of a biker gang called the Lost while the real boss, Billy, is in court-ordered rehab. When Billy gets out, a power struggle ensues. Johnny and Billy have different visions for the gang. Johnny is a tough guy, but he's got a cool head; Billy, who looks like Ron Perlman and talks like Dennis Hopper, is the wild man who wants to push the Lost deeper into drug-dealing and gang warfare. (See the best and worst Super Bowl commercials...
...have we caught the hug bug? Mental-health professionals cite everything from increasing population density to community spirit among millennials. Some theories point to 9/11 bringing the country together and to The Sopranos showing that tough guys can hug too. More recently, the hit show Entourage prompted fans to "hug it out, bitch" (a tagline now immortalized on T shirts). "I'd always welcome a hug," says Aaron Schutte, a senior at Iowa's Wartburg College and founder of the 2,500-member Facebook group I Love a Good...
...ensure that state budget cuts don't deny their children the chance to experience the thousands of books that are now quite literally behind closed doors. "Technically, the PTA is supposed to put icing on the cake and not provide the cake itself," she says. But when times are tough, some cake is better than no cake...
Darwin proposed that natural selection could gradually transform a species. Scientists have observed thousands of cases of natural selection in action. They've documented that beaks of finches on the Galápagos Islands have gotten thicker when droughts forced the birds to crack tough seeds to survive. They've observed bacteria develop resistance to drugs that were believed to be invincible. Now biologists are applying DNA-sequencing technology to natural selection, which lets them identify the individual genetic changes that boost reproductive success...