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...days," she says. "So we decided to take pictures of them in the jerseys they wore in the Super Bowls." Easier said than done, however. Former Minnesota Viking Alan Page of Super Bowl XI, now a special assistant to the Minnesota attorney general, and former Los Angeles Ram Fred Dryer of Super Bowl XIV, now an actor on the TV series Hunter, were not interested in re-creating their gridiron days. "I appealed to Dryer's sportsmanship and persuaded Page by telling him to pretend he was being photographed for the Pro Football Hall of Fame," says Golon...
Marissa bursts in with her ear to her phone. She’s in some trouble, and she’s trying to reach her attorney, a former client. She pulls out the lounge’s blow dryer, squatting in her platform heels to look in the mirror...
Self-examination for signs of skin cancer is simple, requiring little more than a full-length mirror, a hand mirror to see one's back and a blow-dryer to examine the scalp. "The ability of people to detect skin cancers is tremendous if they're motivated," observes Dr. Robert Friedman of N.Y.U. Indeed, many newly motivated Americans went scurrying to dermatologists last week, just as Reagan's colon cancer sent them to gastroenterologists. "We had five patients walk in off the streets who identified their own basal-cell carcinomas," says Friedman. "Four of them were right." --By Claudia Wallis...
Vladi, a senior at the University of Florida, was lounging around at his Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house when he remembered the laundry he had left in the Laundromat overnight. His forgetfulness was about to land him a job. When he grabbed his clothes from the dryer top, the first thing he noticed among his socks and boxers was a black thong. "I was like, 'Well, this isn't my size!'" says Vladi, 22. Then he read the white lettering on the front: DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE THE NEXT AXE AMBASSADOR? "I said...
...Health, it can still make you sick. Some 30 million Americans are exposed to daily noise levels that will eventually impair their hearing. Moreover, those who were destined to go deaf are doing so decades earlier than expected. Although it takes noises louder than 85 decibels (a typical hair dryer hits 90 db) to cause hearing loss, even softer sounds, like a ringing phone, can lead to hypertension, stress and depression...