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A team of flyers risks their lives to deliver the mail in a mountainous South American country.

Vanity Fair put Amy Adams on it’s November cover, in a homage to Hollywood’s classic leading lady, Rita Hayworth, in Cover Girl and Gilda.

The Last Youth Standing - What the West and Islam share are elites detached from their own demographic realities Mark Steyn - November 20, 2006 I was watching Mansbridge One on One the other day. Don't ask me why. May have been an "encore presentation." Or more likely an encore presentation of an encore presentation. For a 24/7 news network, there's an eerie timelessness about CBC Newsworld: one would be only mildly surprised to switch on and find Mansbridge One on One with Lester B. Pearson or Sir Charles Tupper. Anyway, this week, the one he was on was the...

This personification business applied to disaster has gone too far. It affords the anchors too much elan to refer to "Rita" as if she were a girlfriend waiting out in the car. The moniker "Rita" is especially abhorrent because it reminds adult males of one Rita Hayworth, the "Love Goddess" of a score of forgettable movies (and a couple worthwhile) who could do more to win a war while posing in a nightgown on a bed than Oppenheimer could do with that little gadget in New Mexico. So stop. Stop maligning the memory of Margarita Carmen Cansino, the 5' 6"...

Why Men Prefer Pretty Faces So you think beauty is in the eye of the beholder? Think again. According to new research from the University of Exeter in Great Britain, the preference for pretty faces over ugly ones is embedded in our brains from the moment of birth and possibly prior to birth. Newborn babies come fully equipped with built-in preferences, including a preference for an attractive face, that help them make sense of their new environment, report the BBC News Online and Newsweek magazine. The Exeter researchers showed more than 100 infants two images that were placed side by...

Scottsdale Republican Congressman J.D. Hayworth is criticizing the Mexican government over a controversial pamphlet for migrants and undocumented immigrants looking to enter the United States. The Mexican government has put out a new booklet titled "Guide to the Mexican Immigrant." The guide gives Mexican migrants information regarding how to cross into the United States safely. There has been a substantial number of deaths of Mexican immigrants in the Southwestern desert in recent years. Also, the smuggling of some of those immigrants into Tucson, Phoenix and other U.S. cities has resulted in other illegal activities, kidnappings and violence between rival smuggling...

As I write this column, a bit of harmless, racist, fluff is transpiring on the TV screen: The Hispanic Day Parade. A celebration of Latin "pride." The hosts are alleged journalists Jim Watkins, who is white, and Lolita Lopez, who is Hispanic, with Hispanic reporter Matt Garcia working the street (the announcers note that reporter Marysol Castro, who worked with Garcia in 2002, is on vacation in Costa Rica, or she’d be there, too). The parade this year was dedicated to the memory of Latin singer, Celia Cruz, who died on July 16 at the age of "around 79." Lolita...