Melissa Kit Chow, a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, designed a garment that will only fuel our Facebook addiction: Chow's "Like-A-Hug" vest gives you a physical hug whenever one of your Facebook friends "likes" your status update.

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One male student asked for a hug as the audience cheered on, another had the 64-year-old sign his yearbook and a young girl got an autograph for her mother.

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Creed gave her a hug before we left, and one last reminder.

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The same streets that have embraced the roar of Fomula One will now invite a new class of race car to hug the turns of the famous track.

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One of the first people to hug Manuel was West Virginia's Geno Smith, a popular prediction to be the first QB drafted.

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And it's a fair bet the case was at least one of the reasons for Gates' congressional group hug.

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As one critic put it, appearing before the TV press is the equivalent of the displaced NBC host diving into a giant hug.

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