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...rungs up the looks ladder are rock stars or rich or have, I don't know, beautiful penmanship. Women who marry up, well, they're deluded. Their husbands must be gay or have really bad bacne to even look at them. And the standards are ridiculous. Deborra-Lee Furness is a charming, spirited, good-looking woman who happens to be married to Hugh Jackman, a freak of nature. Hence rumors circulate that Jackman is gay. Had there been an Internet in times gone by, they probably would have swirled around Queen Victoria's and Eleanor Roosevelt's husbands as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Your Spouse is Hotter than You | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

Jamestown spawned four centuries of myths. The wreck of a reinforcement expedition in Bermuda inspired Shakespeare's magic play, The Tempest (1611), complete with Caliban, a savage aboriginal; a passage in one of John Smith's many promotional tracts inspired a verse in Peggy Lee's song Fever (1958)--"Captain Smith and Pocahontas had a very mad affair." In reality, Jamestown was a hardheaded business proposition. The 104 English settlers who stayed when the ships went home--gentlemen, soldiers, privateers, artisans, laborers, boys (no women yet)--were late entrants in the New World sweepstakes. Spain had conquered Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jamestown: Inventing America | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

MARVEL COMICS: Created in 1962 by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby (and originally tinted gray), the Hulk is nuclear scientist Bruce Banner, whose gamma-ray experiments accidentally unlock the rage-driven monster within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 7, 2007 | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

ERIC BANA played Banner in Ang Lee's poorly received 2003 film. Overshadowed by his massive, computer-generated Hulk persona, Bana didn't attract many fans. Will Norton fare better in what Marvel calls a "do-over"? Don't answer; you might make him angry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 7, 2007 | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...don’t think that they’ll ever go away entirely,” she says.What Goldin sees, though, is that today these different ways of life often result from the different choices men and women make, rather than from discrimination.For her next project, the Lee professor of economics will study men and women’s transitions into and out of work and why they make different choices about work and family.“Equivalent men and women, who go to the same college, graduate from the same law school, get the same job after...

Author: By Sophie M. Alexander, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Goldin Demystifies Gender Economics | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

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