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There's a 12-in. doll coming out that I'm pretty excited about. I'm a fan of toys. I have three boxes of the Austin Powers one, two of the Buffy [the Vampire Slayer] ones...
...parents once a year. During the school year, Xu also attends a couple of hours of class a day, but she admits she's often too tired to pay attention during the evening academic sessions. On a scorching summer afternoon, Xu is wearing a shirt emblazoned with a Barbie doll, and her hands are covered with calluses and blisters. "Weight lifting isn't too much fun, but it's my job," she says. "My coach tells me that no matter how many times you fail, if you succeed once, that's good enough." Watching Xu shuffle up to the barbell...
...ended in 2001, followed 35,000 male doctors and found that kicking the habit reduced mortality rates on a sliding scale. Quit at 60, and you gain three years of life; quit at 30, and it's almost as if you never smoked. Take it from Sir Richard Doll, 91, who quit at 37 and co-authored the original paper as well as last week's update. While 50-year studies are rarities in medicine, researchers who survive them are even rarer...
...career and character." Last week the prince issued a written "clarification" in which he effectively apologized for his comments, but the furor has focused Japan's attention on its unhappy princess, a Harvard-educated former diplomat whose fairy-tale life has become a nightmare. "She is really just a doll in a doll case now," says Toshiya Matsuzaki, a magazine reporter who covers the royal family. "She cannot take advantage of her career experience or do what she wants. The palace has just proven too different from her former life...
...leap. Tian, the reigning Olympic champion in platform diving, zips around in a Mitsubishi Pajero suv and has a closet full of Versace and Armani. His rock-star mane and six-pack abs have helped cast him as a pitchman for Amway and Bausch & Lomb. Guo, with her porcelain-doll features and two silver medals from the Sydney Olympics, is an equally alluring marketing phenomenon: she has won ad and sponsorship deals with McDonald's and Budweiser-not, of course, that she'd be caught corrupting her slim physique with a diet of beer and Teriyaki McRib burgers. Rumors...