put those lucky charms back, you're hideous.

Startling Scientific Breakthrough.: as reported in the NYT.

"Parents would certainly deny it, but Canadian researchers have made a startling assertion: parents take better care of pretty children than they do ugly ones.

Researchers at the University of Alberta carefully observed how parents treated their children during trips to the supermarket. They found that physical attractiveness made a big difference."

Somewhere, the Olsen twins are fighting over who got more attention and who was uglier, failing to realize that no study could ever take into account their magnitude of what's commonly referred to as "yuck."