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Biologically speaking, it might still be worth the humiliation of trying to squeeze into a size-8 suit if the payoff were a guaranteed increase in reproductive fitness. According to the most recent beauty research, this should indeed be the case: the standards of beauty that men bring to the beach, scientists claim, are innate and universal and involve, among other things, a waist-to-hip ratio of about 0.7, which was apparently taken as a reliable signal of female fertility in the Pleistocene epoch. So if you have any ambition to propagate your genes, this theory goes...
...200s--make that 19--and 51 consecutive 400s--make that 52--and this July he will attempt to become the first man to win the 200 and the 400 in the same Summer Games. Olympic and international track officials had to rearrange the schedule to accommodate Johnson, but the payoff for both him and them could be immense: acclaim as the next Jesse Owens, the rebirth of track and, oh, yes, gazillions of dollars...
There's an artistic payoff too. Today's rockers, as they strive to re-create the glory days of the B side, can squeeze more material onto a CD single than performers could in the era of 45s and 78s--including remixes of hits, extended versions of current songs, and, increasingly, brand-new songs. The new Smashing Pumpkins CD single, Zero, has six previously unreleased tracks; one, Pennies, could have been...
...midst of one of the most impressive power grabs ever seen in Washington. At one point during last week's hearing, intelligence chairman Arlen Specter said the committee was "trying its best to strengthen the hand" of the director of Central Intelligence. It was a sweet payoff for Deutch's schmoozing with Specter and other power brokers...
...exercise didn't payoff, as she was killed early this week on her way to class...