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Scientists often warn against anthropomorphism - the attribution of human characteristics to animals or even nonliving things. But it's hard to resist the charm of Labroides dimidiatus, a species of fish otherwise known as the bluestreak cleaner wrasse. These colorful little critters make their living in coral reefs by setting up cleaning stations where larger fish - often predators that might otherwise gobble them up - can stop by to have their skin cleaned. The wrasses busy themselves like car-wash attendants fussing around a sports car, nibbling off parasites, dead tissue and other blemishes and nourishing themselves in the process...
...small Namibian city of Swakopmund - known as Swakop to the locals - has a discernible Germanic flavor and design, dating back to Namibia's colonial days as German Southwest Africa. Today, the trappings of a beach resort are mixed in with that Old World charm. Imagine Bavaria by the sea. There's even an Oktoberfest...
...startling presence on the big screen. Large-featured, rail-thin and well-toned, she always looks as if she's just completed a session at the poshest workout spa in the gulag. But her sinewy perkiness makes an appropriate contrast to Grant's soft features and stammering charm. They are the opposites who might conceivably attract. As moneyed Manhattanites Meryl and Paul Morgan, she's a homegrown real estate agent and he's a lawyer from Chicago. But since this Grant makes no more serious an attempt to hide his English accent than Cary did, Chicago sounds more like Chichester...
...lifestyle," says Fred Gardaphè, Distinguised Professor of Italian American Studies at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute at Queens College. "Guido itself is not a derogatory name." He explains its origins from a stereotype: "It's a real handsome, uneducated kid who gets by on his charm and his looks and doesn't really have much going for him." But, says Gardaphè, the wave of negative response to Jersey Shore come from what he calls "irony deficiency" in the Italian-American community. These peacocking kids, he says, come from a long history of exaggerated characterizations in Italian...
Because the Hurricanes won so many national championships, a lot of South Florida sportswriters still celebrate thugball as an oh-so-misunderstood facet of the Magic City's rambunctious charm. Fortunately, the university's current president, Donna Shalala, former President Clinton's health secretary, and the Hurricanes' coach, former UM player Randy Shannon, have set the program and the school in a new and more mature direction. By putting academic stature before gridiron grandeur, Shalala has moved Miami, once known as "Suntan U," into the top 50 of the U.S. News & World Report national university rankings. Shannon, meanwhile, has proved...