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Second, endorsing beauty products sets up a new avenue for income. For recording artists, who have taken an economic hit from lagging music-industry sales, a hefty contract is a coup?extra exposure that may help fill the seats on their next tour. And a lucrative beauty contract can allow an actress like Revlon's Julianne Moore, a fixture on the independent-film circuit, to choose satisfying roles in low-budget films by compensating for the financial...
...peculiarly American theology but turbocharged. If Puritanism valued wealth and Benjamin Franklin wrote about doing well by doing good, hard-core Prosperity doctrine, still extremely popular in the hands of pastors like Atlanta megachurch minister Creflo Dollar, reads those Bible verses as a spiritual contract. God will pay back a multiple (often a hundredfold) on offerings by the congregation. "Poor people like Prosperity," says Stephen Prothero, chairman of the religion department at Boston University. "They hear it as aspirant. They hear, 'You can make it too--buy a car, get a job, get wealthy.' It can function as a form...
...before the stadium's grand opening on Aug. 12, he says the extra revenue that Cardinals Stadium will generate each year is already helping the team attract and keep top talent. That includes former Indiana Colts running back Edgerrin James, 28, who just signed a four-year, $30 million contract, as well as breakout stars like wide receiver Anquan Boldin, 25, who got $10 million in signing bonuses when he re-upped his contract last year through...
...might be. Unlike the old-fashioned belt exercisers that just shifted skin around, the Power Plate uses whole-body vibration, or WBV, to contract muscles 30 to 50 times per second. While you stand on the moving plates in the bent-knee position recommended for beginners, the continual vibration causes you to tense and relax your muscles to keep your balance. Even without the vibration, you would involuntarily tense and release just to hold the pose. But the WBV forces you to do so up to 50 times more. That's quite a workout for so little effort...
...reality is that we are regulated by 50 different states. They place regulations on us in terms of what we can charge. They regulate the form of the contract. They regulate where we're allowed to write, where we're not allowed to write...