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...that the public has tested these newfangled contraptions, time can only tell who will win this round of the ongoing health vs. style debate. In this round, it seems as if health is winning out, but unfortunately, the healthy way is not always the coolest of cool, and ultimately we know that fashion is fickle and cool rules the school...
Dubbed "Big Government vs. Big Tobacco: Do the government lawsuits have merit?," the debate featured Cogan Professor of Law W. "Kip" Viscusi '71, who has testified for tobacco companies, and Professor of Law Einer R. Elhague '83, who has advised Janet Reno on the Justice Department's lawsuit...
...Money vs. Morals...
...noted after his Michigan loss, the McCain team admitted to the calls only after the polls had closed and the day's stories had been written. McCain doesn't appear to mind twisting the truth if it serves a larger purpose. In a battle he sometimes views as good vs. evil, he can get himself to a place where he thinks the end justifies the means--and he has come to think that Bush is a bad guy. Never would McCain say such a thing in public, but he blames Bush for the venom that poisoned South Carolina...
...just as walkers will reassert their natural gait, a clap-happy audience will fall in and out of synch repeatedly. According to a study of ovations in Romania and Hungary, this back-and-forthing is due to conflicting needs: the wish to make the most possible noise (random clapping) vs. the urge to clap in unison. People switch from one to the other by consciously adjusting the speed of their applause. Why do some folks seem to play this game with such gusto? According to the study, published last week in Nature, it may be a function of how closely...