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Though it borders on creepy, it's not an entirely surprising idea. And from a scientific point of view, it was intriguing to Gabriel: Could science actually measure the psychological benefit of celebrity worship? Gabriel enlisted a group of 348 college students, one-fifth of whom admitted to having a celebrity crush. She gave all the students an 11-item self-esteem questionnaire; their responses allowed researchers to rank the participants according to their baseline level of self-esteem. Next, she instructed the students to spend five minutes writing an essay about their favorite celebrity, an exercise designed to bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Celebrity Worship: Good for Your Health? | 9/15/2008 | See Source »

...said. Like all good teams, however, Harvard was able to bounce back. A brief rain delay only postponed the inevitable, as every Crimson player competing for the team bettered her first-round score. Captain Ali Bode (77-74-151) finished in fourth, and junior Claire Sheldon (79-73-152) fifth. “We were afraid we were going to get rained out [and finish in third], so when we got to play, we were really excited about having the opportunity to show we were the best team there,” Harvey said. “We certainly don?...

Author: By Jay M. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Takes Three of Top Five Spots in Victory | 9/14/2008 | See Source »

...shows and, above all, gossip. In updating the original, English - who was responsible for the estimable TV series Murphy Brown - has been fairly faithful to her source. Once again, the husband of Mary Haines (Meg Ryan) begins an affair with Crystal Allen (Eva Mendes), a perfume salesperson at Saks Fifth Avenue, which launches an arch and endless chatter that naturally makes a bad situation worse. A divorce ensues, and it requires what seems like 15 hours of screen time before a happy ending is achieved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Women: Sex Crime | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...grit of her story. Whatever its relevance to working in the White House, there is an undeniable power in the tale of a woman who knows how to carve up a moose and can give a speech while leaking amniotic fluid, just hours before giving birth to a fifth child. Still, her first week on the stump clarified some things: She never banned library books, though she raised the possibility in a conversation with a librarian. She never joined a political party that openly discussed Alaska's secession from the U.S., though she did address its members. On the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sarah Show | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...Just three days later, new insulin-secreting cells started to show up. By a week after that, more than a fifth of the virally infected cells started making insulin. That shows "an amazingly efficient effect," commented Richard Insel, executive vice president of research at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation...

Author: By Associated Press | Title: In Breakthrough, Harvard Lab Causes Cells To Change Type | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

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