There's a reason "South Park" remains a high-rated show, why "The Simpsons" is the longest-running sitcom in history, why a third installment of "The Hangover" is being released: A lot of people like dumb, frat-boy humor draped in fantasy.
Obama's correct reading of history is why he's made the decisions he has in his first term -- even when they were politically unpopular.
Perhaps this explains (with a few other intervening bits of history) why even today it is principally American companies that have developed and derived benefit from the Alberta tar sands.
So in the country with the most prolific free enterprise system in world history, why not allow the public to buy into the for-profit businesses that generate the game they so passionately believe in?
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You sign up and start posting information about yourself: photographs, employment history, why you are peeved right now with the gummy-bear selection at Rite Aid or bullish about prospects for peace in the Middle East.
If you are pro- Israel, you can claim that how the poor humans are hunted down, killed, or used for scientific experiments is an illustration of Jewish history and why the Jewish people need a safe and secure nation of their own.
Preserving that history was precisely why the Amber Trail Greenway was constructed.
It's hard to talk about Afghanistan's history without explaining why her friend's daddy and a huge portion of the U.S. military are there.
Our work also contributes to our understanding of ancient history, elucidating why some cities were abandoned or why mature societies suffered decline, and confronting the enduring attraction of fault lines in luring peoples, ancient and modern, to settle along persistent danger zones.
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This is why the history of tax rate changes and subsequent stock market returns is mixed.
Then spend five minutes taking a Wikipedia history lesson to understand why Ford really paid above-market wages.
History and politics explain why some countries will not take part in the bombing, though some critics deride their sensitivities.
He suggests studying the role of violence through history instead or analysing why the knife-carrying Baroque painter Caravaggio is still valued as an artist despite his frequent brawling.
This is why our history has so many civil rights victories come by way of Congress or the courts and so few if any civil rights victories by election.
This is the reason why our history, our culture go back together a long way, and we managed to go through these differences when necessary and have these ties that mean that when France and the U.S. come together we can make progress.
Yet why, through history, have so many thinkers looked to the hive for lessons about social organisation and politics?
Given its recent history, you can see why HP's boss might be cautious about spraying money around to little effect.
Its potent symbolism and strange history give some insight into why it remains such an attractive color for shoe designers and why they are willing to battle in court over its use.
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If you look back through the history of social networking (why not try this radio series by the way?) you will see MySpace as just one chapter in the evolution of the idea - and in retrospect it looks like a diversion.
But most of the history of the solar system--this is why the comet is so important--most of the history of this comet was spent out beyond Neptune, out where Pluto is at the very edge of the solar system, what we call the Kuiper belt.
Historians and social scientists have found quite a lot to say about why faith thrives in some places and periods but not in others why, for the first time in human history, there are now hundreds of millions of unbelievers, and why religion is little more than vestigial in countries like Denmark and Sweden.
Julia Lovell's excellent new book explores why this period of history is so emotionally important for the Chinese.
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History also offers a guide to why investing in sports teams is probably not a smart use of capital.
If you have a history and are on time, why would a lender not give an existing customer a current market rate?
This theory could help explain why eminent artists throughout history, from composer Robert Schumann to poet Sylvia Plath to Wallace -- suffered mood disorders.
Local resident Patrick Allen is setting up the Friends of Langham Dome in a bid to preserve the building and turn a piece of RAF Langham's history into a museum - but why?
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