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Sure, it's easy to call Seacrest glitzy and vapid. Heck, let's do it: he is perfect for Idol because he so gamely embodies its glitziness and vapidity. Everything about his precision-moussed pate and cliffs-of-Dover grin screams, You are watching a show about show biz! But this is why the man can afford the finest hair gels and dentrifices: the successful host is wise enough to be the fool. There are exceptions, like the beneficent and vengeful god Oprah, but America tends to like its TV hosts risible: fussy Alex Trebek, funny-haired Donald Trump, screwball...
Another example of new research refining old ideas? Not this time. The change had less to do with medicine than with marketing. "Our concern," explains Russell Pate, an exercise physiologist at the University of South Carolina and lead author of the CDC report, "was that a very large percentage of the adult population was not meeting the existing standard." Reasoning that the guidelines were just too intimidating for most people and that a little exercise had to be better than none at all, Pate and his colleagues decided to lighten up the message. "The recommendations do not say," he emphasizes...
...Jordan (athlete), one might say, or Vin Diesel (self-explanatory), or Jesse Ventura (athlete-turned-politician), or Dwight Eisenhower (president)? Donato’s only 36, after all—that’s 10 years younger than Summers when he was named president—and an unadorned pate “gives Coach a little extra age. That might bode well with the office he’d be sitting in. They’d see a nice bald guy—maybe get him some glasses...
...accent? Check. Tuxedo-ready shoulders? Check. Minimal prior blockbuster experience? Check. Liverpudlian DANIEL CRAIG, 37, possessed all the prerequisites to collect the next license to kill from the producers of the James Bond films last week. He also brings one novel quality to the $4 billion franchise: a blond pate--less obvious here, thanks to hair gel and lighting. The naming of Craig, best known for his roles in last year's gangster caper Layer Cake and as Paul Newman's son in 2002's Road to Perdition, ends the papal-succession-like speculation about who will play Bond...
...Losing a single tile can do you in," says Stanford University's Elisabeth Pate-Cornell, an engineer and risk-management specialist who once led a NASA study about all the ways shuttle tiles could fail. "Once you have lost the first tile, the adjacent ones become much more vulnerable...