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...anything left to say to women about the do's and don'ts of dating? Absolutely, says Giuliana DePandi, 30, the co-anchor with Ryan Seacrest on E! News and author of Think Like a Guy: How to Get a Guy by Thinking Like One (St. Martin's Griffin). DePandi gives 66 tips for dating success for women of any age. And they work, she promises: she declares herself "head over heels In love" with her Mr. Right, who she says is not allowed to read the book. DePandi spoke with TIME's publishing reporter Andrea Sachs between broadcasts...
...might have believed it to be yours too. At 65, he has lost a little breath but gained restraint, and Nashville, Burke's album of country covers (out Sept. 26) finds him undersinging and inhabiting songs (Tom T. Hall's That's How I Got to Memphis, Patty Griffin's Up the Mountain) in ways he never did at his vocal peak. The aging musician doing his best work is a modern cliché, as is a collaboration with contemporary artists as a form of tribute. But Nashville is a great way to discover a legendary voice, and Burke's guests...
Comedy writers are always fighting the last war. And people who book commercials on cable channels don't pay a lot of attention. Those two universal truths meant that, as of Thursday, stations were still running the Sierra Mist ad in which Kathy Griffin and Jim Gaffigan play airport security agents who pretend that their handheld metal detectors are being set off by Michael Ian Black's soda bottle - so they can confiscate it and drink it themselves. "You're just going 'wah, wah' when you put the thing over the soda!" Black protests, as the guard played by Gaffigan...
...officers are doing the same. General Ben Griffin, the head of Army Matériel Command--the service's central procurement organization for equipment--has dramatically cut the number of meetings, reports and briefings. He installed seven senior officers around the world, in part to track progress on Lean Six Sigma, and gets Army-wide operational updates every week by videoconference rather than in-person meetings. Griffin says his command alone saved $110 million last year, and military sources expect that to be doubled this year...
...oversee repair work on transmissions for BAE's Bradley. Working together, the BAE--Red River team increased output from 1.5 to 4 units per shift. In many Army facilities, the physical work, or "touch labor," is done by military staff, "but the crucial technical support is private industry," says Griffin of the Army Matériel Command. There are more than 300 such partnerships throughout the Army, and Griffin says they accounted for $225 million in cost savings last year alone...