Jessica Brazeal and her mother were at the kitchen table studying and talking one night when she heard a tap on the window. As the sound grew louder, Brazeal looked up to see two eyes staring back at her. Then, Brazeal said, she opened her mouth and screamed. Her fear of dark windows was born.

Anyone with a pulse knows what happened on Feb. 1 during the halftime show of Super Bowl XXXVIII. (Which, in light of current events, might be better labeled Super Bowl XXX.) Toward the end of the halftime show, which featured crotch-grabbing galore and the desecration of Old Glory, viewers were shocked to see Justin Timberlake expose Janet Jackson's right breast.

More than 50 years ago, the United States helped establish a country for fleeing Chinese nationalists on an island known as Formosa. It holds free elections and has a free market economy, in spite of the fact that few countries, including the United States, formally recognize the country now known as Taiwan.