We've heard of wax figures, but what about jelly bean portraits? George Clooney is getting the sweet treatment thanks to Jelly Belly Gourmet Jelly Beans, which has created a likeness of the actor with 10,000 jelly beans. The tasty piece of art will be on display, too, at the company's gifting suite at the Luxe Hotel in Beverly Hills, just in time for Oscar week. Oh, and ladies, you can look but you still can't touch! – Brian Orloff .

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The suspect also had a goatee.

On Sunday, February 24, 2008, at 12:08pm, Travis County Sheriff's Deputies were called to 16406 Stewart Road in reference to a missing person. Witnesses told deputies that a man was last seen going to bed, on a boat that was docked at the marina, at 1am and when they woke up between 5 and 6am he was not there.

What the candidates stand for

Hillary Clinton: 47 million Americans lack health insurance. The New York senator, who came to grief in 1994 with a complex plan as First Lady, has proposed a scheme that requires everyone to carry health insurance, offering government subsidies to help reduce the cost of coverage. Cost of the plan is $110bn (£56bn).

Barack Obama: Also wants universal coverage, but would keep the private insurance system. He would inject cash to expand it to cover everyone. Insurers would not be allowed to refuse coverage because of pre-existing conditions. Campaign aides put the cost at $50-65bn a year, financed largely by eliminating tax cuts for the rich.

John Edwards: Seeks to insure all Americans by 2012. Wants businesses, government and individuals to share responsibility, make insurance more affordable and reform the market to improve choice and quality and cut costs.

How immigration and inflation are linked

None of the three remaining major-party candidates for president has a realistic plan to resolve immigration's contribution to the problem.

Inflation moved from minor concern to major concern this week for the Federal Reserve Board. Chairman Ben Bernanke has aggressively cut interest rates by 2.25 percent since September to try to prevent an economic implosion. But he has to balance recession concerns against the possibility that deep interest-rate cuts might also pump up inflation, as the January report on consumer prices showed a surprisingly steep rate of 0.4 percent. Wall Street fears deep cuts in interest rates might serve to trigger inflation while simultaneously failing to spur growth. Then Americans could end up hearing a revival of a word we haven't heard in a few decades: stagflation.

Michelle Obama, her pride and ‘Beatlemania’: A sign of things to ...

Already, we're getting a taste of what's in store for the next nine months. One side will insist on speaking in French. And the other will listen only in German.

"The reason why I think this isn't going to go away, unless she apologizes quickly, is because it plays into a stereotype about the left wing of the Democratic Party, that it blames America first, that they don't see the greatness of America, and it really makes me wonder if somebody who is roughly about Barack and Michelle's age, what country she grew up in.