$80 million

Estimated cost of outfitting about 30,000 McDonald’s employees in designer get-ups by Russell Simmons, Tommy Hilfiger, or P. Diddy, an idea the corporation is exploring to go along with its "I’m lovin’ it" campaign.

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Grams of botulinum toxin that, when released into central milk-storage tanks, would be enough to poison half a million people, according a new Stanford University report that was initially quashed by US authorities last month but released unchanged last week.

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"I’m the preteen Maggie Smith — if Maggie Smith had a stripper name."

— 11-year-old Dakota Fanning, star of War of the Worlds (as told to MovieJuice.com)

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Ranking of Evan Bayh (D-Indiana) in an online poll on www.hottestussenator.com, which posed the question, "Who is the Hottest U.S. Senator (Not Counting Obama)?"

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"Bush, not being in his usual bubble, may have felt the stress, and his inability to confront the truth has become first nature for him.

— From James Wolcott’s blog, speculating why Bush was "blinking like a madman" during an ITV pre–G8 Summit interview with Trevor Macdonald.