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...tech-addicted Asia, even a day without Internet access can trigger withdrawal. "I am depressed, very much so," wrote a blogger who calls himself Hong Kong Phooey after a Dec. 26 earthquake disrupted telecommunications across a wide swath of Asia. "No online games for me," wrote Phooey, "cannot download any new songs for my new player, cannot access my fantasy football league, no YouTube, cannot read or write blogs, and cannot get on Xbox Live 360." Another Hong Konger, 32-year-old consultant Josh Tse, reported feeling "some pain, some hollowness" after he found himself unable to update his blog...
...that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger / And finally drank away her memory.” –Brad Paisley, “Whiskey Lullaby?...
...episode highlights the hair-trigger sensitivity to Islamic issues in Britain today. While the presence of parallel legal systems in ethnic communities may alarm the British, it's the perceived growth of a parallel Islamic culture that causes most concern. Hence, the slightest suggestion of Sharia law on British turf hits the headlines in a flash, and the debate over Muslim women wearing the veil rumbles on. (A poll this week found one in three people would support a ban on face-covering veils in public places...
Happy trails to the 100,000 people who visit the Branson, Mo., shrine to the western royal couple. Displays include the actor-singer's golden palomino, Trigger, mounted on its hind legs...
...upended the then-conventional wisdom that it was a child's response to inadequate parental affection. An adviser on 1998's Rain Man-his son was a model for Dustin Hoffman's Oscar-winning turn as an autistic savant-Rimland also controversially claimed food allergies and some metals could trigger autism, and vitamins could help treat...