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The New Star Trek Will Leave You Beaming
After 43 years, our relationship with the Franchise had grown so familiar and worn that we’d quietly moved into separate bedrooms. If we’d had the energy, we might have signed divorce papers. Nonetheless, every few years, the Franchise put on a new outfit and twirled around hopefully.
Latte with Fries? McDonald’s Takes Aim at Starbucks
The recession has been good to McDonald’s. As consumers trade down to cheaper, faster food on the go, McDonald’s has kept up its growth during the downturn. Same-store sales rose 4.3% for the quarter that ended March 29
The Father Cutie Scandal: Sex and the Single Priest
If only it were the worst thing that a Roman Catholic priest has been caught doing. The Mexican celebrity magazine TVnotas recently published 25 paparazzi photos of the Rev
Twittering in Obamaland: The Social-Network Administration
The first tweet the White House Twittered was not about the weather. It had nothing to do with how the President was feeling, what he was doing or what he wanted for lunch
The Skimmer: How Sex Works
How Sex Works: Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel and Act the Way We Do By Dr. Sharon Moalem 274 pages; Harper The Gist: At this point, is there anything we don’t know about the biology of sex Never before has a populace had as much access to information about how their bodies operate.
The GOP Plans a Rebirth, with Pepperoni and Protests
If House and Senate Republican leaders have their way, Saturday’s gathering at Pie-Tanza, a strip-mall pizza joint in Arlington, Virginia, will be remembered as the beginning of the rebirth of the Grand Old Party. In addition to pizza, the venue, selected by the freshly born, center-leaning National Council for a New America , served up symbolism: suburban areas like this one, on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., were GOP bastions not so long ago, and they’ll need to come back to the fold for a Republican resurgence.
Mosquito Coast Bites Nicaragua’s Ortega
A separatist attempt to form a breakaway nation of indigenous people on Nicaragua’s jungle shores has the legendary Mosquito Coast buzzing once again — and posing a dilemma for leftist President Daniel Ortega.
Murder Mystery: Who’s Killing Hungary’s Gypsies?
Jeno Koka’s killers shot him in the chest moments after he had bid good night to his wife Eva and stepped from his house on his way to a shift at the nearby pharmaceutical factory where he worked. The 54-year-old grandfather bled to death only a few paces from his doorstep. Although Koka’s wife said she never heard the shot that felled her husband, hundreds of thousands of others across Hungary did
When Fixing Government, Beware of the Brainiacs
Rotten economy? Not if you’re in the business of radically overhauling American government.