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...This should be the year that made clear the distinction between the publicity-hungry, irremediably ego-needy actual denizens of show business (like myself) and the way more grotesquely hungry and ego-needy residents of the show-business underworld known charitably as 'reality TV' ... It was obvious something was adrift, or ajar, when the phrase 'reality-TV star' began to be written and uttered with no trace of irony." --11/27/09...
Authors of the new study theorize that the actual effects of testosterone, a hormone produced by the male testes and female ovaries that is linked to brain development and sexual behavior, may be somewhat neutral in nature, leading to what researchers call "status-seeking behavior." Under certain conditions, status-seeking could lead to increased aggression - in prison populations, for instance, where studies have shown that inmates in high-security prisons have elevated levels of the hormone - when fighting seems the only way to the top. (Read "Successful Traders: The Testosterone Effect...
...help cover the cost, which got him into a public feud with the press over the notion of museums selling their treasures to buy new ones. The controversy brought on an investigation by the New York state attorney general, who concluded in the end that, if nothing else, no actual wrongdoing was involved in the transactions...
...News organizations particularly value high placement, since it translates into potential ad revenue. But Examiner.com, though rated by Nielsen as the fastest-growing Internet news site in the U.S. in August, does little actual journalism. It is not a news organization so much as a network of more than 24,000 individuals throughout North America, known as Examiners, each of whom cover a particular geographic or subject area. With that many correspondents, no beat goes uncovered; along with Examiners for world news there are those for fanboys, auto-brokers, celebrity cars, drinking games and doll-collecting, to name...