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...Shira Gabriel, a psychologist at the University at Buffalo, conducted a series of three studies on celebrity worship, focusing specifically on how admiration from afar may affect the admirer's self-esteem. "It was seven or eight years ago during the Michael Jackson trial," she says, "and I was fascinated by the people who were obsessed with him, who flew to the trial and made banners. I thought, What would bring somebody to do something like that?" One possible reason, which Gabriel decided to explore, was the vicarious pleasure that regular people get from following the lives of famous people...
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...
...based climbing shoe maker Five Ten, who flew in from California to watch the event. Confident in the sport's potential, the firm has designed shoes for free runners, and is even looking into sponsoring top athletes. Free running "needs to be treated like a sport," agrees Gabriel "Jaywalker" Nunez, the 25-year-old from Los Angeles whose flips and twists eventually earned him the inaugural title of world champion, beating Britain's Shieff into second. "Everyone trains like athletes." Ridiculousness, after all, doesn't come easy...
...compete head to head for mass-market gamblers with Adelson's Venetian, situated right across the street. Adelson, too, is bringing even more options to Cotai, including a Four Seasons hotel, which opened in late August. "In the beginning, [City of Dreams] may have a tough time," says Gabriel Chan, a gaming analyst at Credit Suisse in Hong Kong. Ho, though, says he isn't worried. "Unlike some of our competitors who have cookie-cutter projects from the U.S., my vision has always been to create unique 'Wow' experiences," he says. The hockey player could yet keep the big boys...
...feel about the Hello Kitty imitations? -Thomas Du in San Gabriel, California Personally, I don't mind that much, but I am always wondering why they are doing it when everybody else can see that they are fakes and fans are not going to buy them. Kitty looks simple but she is not. She is very hard to imitate and I am sure that fans can spot it immediately...