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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...
...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?...
...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...
...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...
...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...