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...project, it seems, springs less from an urge to soak up information than from a desire to confront his Oedipus complex. His brilliant lawyer father, who is so competitive that he holds the record for most footnotes in a legal article, once attempted to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica but quit in the B's. But even more important to Jacobs' emotional maturation than one-upping his dad is dealing with the tension of failing, over and over, to get his wife pregnant. Although, really, you don't expect a guy who goes to the Britannica headquarters in Chicago to report...
...election expected next year. More video footage of British hostage Kenneth Bigley pleading for Blair's help, this time wearing a Guantánamo-style orange jumpsuit in a cage, kept Iraq's chaos in the newspapers. The cumulative burdens helped explain Blair's surprise pre-operative pledge to quit before the end of his next term - assuming he gets re-elected - probably around his 10-year mark in office. This officially starts his transformation to lame duck. At least he'll have somewhere to retreat to: the Blairs have just bought a $6.5 million house in a posh London...
...even the Ying Yang Twins could get anyone but me and Juice to twerk their shit. People even got mad at us for leaning back during Ma$e’s remix of the Terror Squad song, and the Italian lady’s husband told us to quit brushing up against his jeans. “Hey nerd, we’re just dancing,” Juiceboxx yelled back, turning towards the girls on the right and pulling them an “Am I right, ladies?” through the gap in his teeth. He gave...
...Worst of all was the number of smokers with asthmatic children who didn't even try to quit or at least limit themselves to smoking outdoors rather than just moving to another room or the garage. Secondhand smoke has been proved, over and over again, to be a major trigger of asthma attacks. Many smoking parents purchased expensive air filters that have what Cabana called "questionable utility...
...Stuck In Reverse Gear British luxury carmaker Jaguar called a halt to production at its historic Coventry plant, axing hundreds of jobs. The Ford-owned marque also said it would quit Formula One racing at the end of the current season...