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...Outside, we decide to play at being real reporters. A crowd has begun to gather below the window of the TRL studio. We zoom into two girls, fourteen or fifteen years old, with C-A-R-S-O-N written across their foreheads. So, we ask, why do you love Carson Daly...
...shuffled to the front of a line of about twenty girls, who I think look to be about fifteen, all decked in fuscia tube tops, black stretchy pants, and enough hair gel to last John Stamos but a few weeks. They look old, but you can tell that they are still pubescent, if only because they are still at that blessedly skinny age where their metabolism digests fudge like mine does celery...
...eyes start to droop. I start to get jealous of the girls in tube tops because my turtleneck is starting to get really hot. And itchy. But, alas, finally, my turn comes to request my song. I haven't been so nervous since my sixth grade flute recital. My fifteen seconds of fame. My fifteen seconds of fame. My fifteen seconds...
...smaller group of about fifteen activists from the National Organization for Women (NOW) and four members of Harvard Students for Choice (SFC) hold signs that ask passing cars to honk for choice and try to drown out Catholic hymns with their chants...
...tenant farmer, MacRae is a newfangled sort of celebrity. In centuries past, those who handled sheepdogs were known as shepherds, and their occupation was so humble that many fled to America to escape it. These days, however, competitive sheepherding ranks among the fastest-growing outdoor sports in the U.S. Fifteen years ago, perhaps a dozen sheepdog trials were held each year; now there are more than 250. Tens of thousands of prosperous suburbanites, like those here, spend every weekend training their dogs to usher scatterbrained sheep into formations of almost military precision. And each handler dreams of being the next...