| Hiccupping Paula Abdul shows up late, blames jet lag.
Sarah "Lady Morgue" Whitaker is a Cheshire Cat-grinning, Seacrest-smacking, former professional-wrestling goth force to be reckoned with, and sang like she just took a huge hit of happy gas. Only one of these tough ladies made it through to Hollywood. Which one do you think it was? Most Unexpected Tribute to Robert Altman: Samantha Sidley In the midst of a (kinky?) role-playing game where Simon asked Ryan and Paula to switch jobs for a minute, home viewers were treated to a cacophony of voices as the three judges and Seacrest argued with one another, overlapping their dialogue Altman-style (or, for the less cinema-minded, like "The View" when Rosie was still on it). The kerfuffle was all about Samantha Sidley. She had zero stage presence and sounded like Norah Jones with a head cold, but there was something there that Simon liked, and once he set sail on the S.S.
Morgellons mystery: figment of imagination?
Sue Laws remembers the night it began. It was October 2004, and she'd been working in the basement home office of her Gaithersburg, Md., brick rambler where she helps her husband run their tree business. She was sitting at her computer getting the payroll out, when all of a sudden she felt as if she were being attacked by bees. The itching and s tinging on her back was so intense that she screamed for her husband, Tom. He bounded downstairs and lifted her shirt, but he couldn't see anything biting her. She insisted something must be. To prove there was nothing there, he stuck strips of thick packing tape to her back and ripped them off. Then they took the magnifying eyepiece that Tom, an arborist, uses to examine leaves for fungus and blight and peered at the tape. "That's when we saw them.
The power of public opinion: How much does public opinion matter in ...
In Michigan, the car industry is powerful enough that politicians almost always vote favorably for it regardless of what else is on a bill. Dole Plantation and Chiquita Bananas have so much invested in trade relations with Latin America that in 1998, the Clinton administration slapped on a 100 percent tariff on more than $500 million worth of European goods because they refused to import bananas. Democracies are built on public opinion. The idea of responding to a constituency group is critical to a healthy local-federal relationship, as well as establishing the longevity of an office- holder. However, a fact that is often overlooked is that public interest groups and public opinion matters not only in democratic countries, but also international with authoritarian governments.
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