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...hotels, she maintained a constant habit: walking. "It was the one thing that kept me relatively fit--and sane," she says. As exercise methods go, walking requires not much in the way of accessories, yet Parks often found herself wishing for snazzier pedometers, age-appropriate shorts and a walking pal or two in a strange city. Her aha moment came in 2003: "This, I realized, was my passion." She quit Kinko's and started WalkStyles, a Web company offering equipment, apparel and networks to walking enthusiasts...
...soon realized he was unsuited for the big game. He raised a million dollars and built a good organization, but he found that the little things got to him. His fund-raising dinners, Cheney told aides, "weren't substantive enough." He didn't care to pal around with donors. He therefore called it off and never ran on his own again. This removal from people, from politics, from the sensors that make leaders responsive to people, turned into Cheney's Achilles' heel. And it actually deepened when he became Vice President. Bush picked Cheney because Cheney would never run again...
...pal Nicole Kidman tell each other the best New Zealander jokes, like, ever...
...anything, DeGeneres' sexual orientation may help her as a host. To straight women--who are socialized to be more intimate with one another anyway--she's a kindred spirit and funny pal, without the complicating factor of sexual competition. To straight men--if they think about her--she's a sharp comic with a hot girlfriend (actress Portia de Rossi). What guy has a problem with that scenario...
...needs to cut its budget, but it will be a shame if cops like Miyamoto are lost in the process. "Police officers are always in uniform so there's usually some distance from us," says Kawano the grocer. "But he wasn't like that. He was more like a pal." He was also a hero. Reported by Yuki Oda/Tokyo