As someone who only lifts diamond chandeliers on filaments of platinum while wearing gym shorts made out of hand-tamped gold leaf with ruby and emerald trim (no shirt, of course) and quenching my POWER thirst with baby-protein infused angel-tear smoothies, this article about homemade gyms in Haiti was shocking to me:
Technique is one thing [...]

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That picture makes me LO loud. Apparently the best time to talk to your child about AIDS is when you happen to run into them at the morning keynote address at the Davos G8 summit.

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Ban Ki-moon: Hey!
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono: Oh, hey.
Guy on the Left: WHAT UP!
Ban Ki-moon: What’s up, you guys?
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono: Hey!
Guy on the Left: WHAT IT DO!
Ban Ki-moon: I like your shirt.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono: I like your shirt.
Guy on the Left: Man, check out our shirts.
Ban Ki-moon: Climate change, you guys.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono: Let’s [...]

What have I been saying for years? That’s right. I have been saying that children are the cause of all our problems. Ebola? Children. Blood Nose 2007? Children. Iraq? OK, maybe not Iraq, but definitely Afghanistan, which is what gave Bush the confidence to go into Iraq. So in a way, yes.
“We know one of [...]

Two studies this year, one published in The Journal of the American Medical Association and another in The Journal of Pediatrics, found that weight problems among high school football players — especially linemen — far outpaced those of other male children and adolescents.
Now coaches and researchers fear that some young athletes may be endangering their [...]

Before [Brian Grazer] makes most decisions, he engages in an informal survey to garner the opinions of his friends. “I try things on people to test them out,” Mr. Grazer said. “Before I made ‘Eight Mile,’ I was nervous that I might be empowering someone who was not only misogynistic, but homophobic. So when I [...]

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Aw. Now that’s a riot police even children will love. Collect them all.

Most men consider shaving a chore worthy of Sisyphus, who was damned to push a boulder up a mountain only to have it roll back down.
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly shave his face every morning, whence the facial hair would regrow anew. They had thought with some reason that there is [...]

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Jeremy Carpenter (Ben Affleck) has a good job, and a loving family, until a freak accident on a paintball thing leaves the love of his life, Melissa Carpenter (Laura Linney), dead. Now he’s got to raise two kids on his own (Judd Apatow’s actual daughters), while simultaneously cleaning up the streets using nothing [...]

In today’s New York Times, A.O. Scott is given the impossible task of reviewing the most highly-anticipated movie of the year, Good Luck Chuck. But what can you say? If you’ve seen the previews, then you know that it does more for laughter and peace in the Middle East in ONE MINUTE than A.O. Scott [...]