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Beauty sleep exists; the best apps for holiday travel; Claire Danes and the Latisse controversy; Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg named Time's Person of the Year; and Ms. G goes public with her story.

The real cure for the common hangover; a holidaying Canadian alleges she was sexually assaulted by Mexican police; Apple CEO Steve Jobs takes medical leave; how genetics play into your friendships; and Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have had a baby via a surrogate mother.

A young man from Hong Kong has smuggled himself into Canada using an elaborate disguise, and now authorities are questioning why he wasn't spotted by airport security. Photos published by CNN show the passenger boarding a Canada-bound flight in Hong Kong as an old caucasian man, and deplaning in Vancouver as a young Asian fellow. The man was detained and his prosthetic old-man face confiscated, but now Canada's Defence Minister Peter McKay is asking questions, namely, did no one notice his supple young-man hands? (Answer: yes.)

If it seems to you like lately American politics are a bit of a joke, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Rally to Restore Sanity this past weekend likely did little to remedy the situation. The Comedy Central mock-news anchors hosted the Washington D.C. rally this past Saturday in an effort to restore some sanity to the American political system and the media that covers it. The event was part comedy shtick, part rock concert, and part serious bipartisan plea for reason in the face of the extremist ideologies that are dividing the country. Various news sources estimated the crowd at around 200,000, thought Colbert was more generous, claiming via Twitter that it was somewhere in the ballpark of “six billion.” Check out an amazing gallery of the many creative and hilarious homemade rally signs here.

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