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...Show for nearly 30: enough time for a baby to be born, grow up and have babies of her own; enough time to span a real historical era. He took to the air in 1962, weeks before the Cuban missile crisis. He departed in 1992, just months after the breakup of the Soviet Union. The greatest Presidents have mere administrations. Johnny Carson had a reign...
...public-health experts as "core transmitters." (Think prostitutes, NBA stars.) Another surprise was the absence of tightly closed loops in which a foursome trades partners--what co-author Peter Bearman calls the Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice phenomenon, after the 1969 film. Teenagers seem to shy from such post-breakup swaps. Bearman, who heads the sociology department at Columbia University, suggests that dating the former boyfriend of your ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend may involve a loss of status or cross a line of loyalty. "It's an incest taboo of sorts," suggests co-author James Moody, an Ohio State sociologist...
...domestically down 21% this year through September--may also be a victim of kids growing older at younger ages. Barbie has been badly rattled by Bratz, a line of hip, trendy dolls launched in 2001 by MGA Entertainment. Mattel's turnaround plan for Barbie has entailed everything from a breakup with Ken to trendier fashions to launching a girls' line of Barbie clothing and perfume--even enlisting Hilary Duff to talk her up. For all that, Barbie still seems stuck. She is trying "to out-hooker Bratz," says analyst Sean McGowan of Harris Nesbitt...
...others before a police officer shot and killed him. Abbott, who was playing with his new band, Damageplan, was known for his short, explosive solos and for melding speed-metal with blues and other genres. Some witnesses said Gale was screaming at Abbott, blaming him for Pantera's 2003 breakup...
...Blunkett, 57, the country's chief law-enforcement officer and one of its most powerful men. He admits that "many people will be bewildered and confused" by the tale. The basic outline of what happened is clear. Blunkett and Quinn took up together in 2001, 11 years after the breakup of his first marriage, but less than three months after her (second) marriage, to Stephen Quinn, 60, the publishing director of British Vogue. Quinn reversed a vasectomy; she underwent fertility treatments. A son, now 2 years old, was born, and Quinn is now seven months pregnant - except that Blunkett insists...