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Montgomery is known for his cockiness, claims that his mother once chased a rabbit until its heart exploded and has ordered a vanity plate that reads 9.75, which is three-hundredths of a second under his world-record time in the 100-m dash. His Rocky-style ascent to the top of sprinting came after he gained 28 lbs. and increased his bench press by 80 lbs. in just eight weeks. In two years he went from being No. 8 in the world to breaking Maurice Greene's 100-m world record. Jones' times, as her lawyers keep reminding everyone...
...general manager of AOL Music, says, "You'll have to leave the country if you want to get away from Usher this summer." Usher's third single is about what happened when his "chick on the side said she got one on the way." The chick on the entree plate was Chilli from TLC, so gossip alone will help keep this on playlists through September. It's also a perfectly acceptable bit of I'm-so-sorry-baby R. and B. It'll have chart competition from U Saved Me by the unkillable R. Kelly, but Usher should have enough...
...callus-blasting microdermabrasion. Savvy strutters whose feet are sore from their Manolos are hobbling to doctors to get the balls of their feet injected with collagen, Restylane and Botox. The extra cushioning allows for hours of pain-free high-heel wearing. Salons too are stepping up to the plate, with fake nails for tootsies. Dashing Diva, a Manhattan-based nail boutique and spa, offers Tip-Toes, ready-to-wear nail falsies (kits are $10). You can order Levine's foot-facial kit ($50) at www.footfacial.com or, for less cash, try Burt's Bees ($10), a foot-care kit that contains...
...lined up in the early-morning hours hoping to get first crack at the baccarat, poker and blackjack tables. By the time the casino was opened to the public at 3 p.m., more than 15,000 had gathered in a pulsating scrum, ready to rush the lobby. Three sturdy plate-glass doors were ripped from their hinges and several little old ladies were nearly trampled in the ensuing stampede before police restored order by forcing stragglers back to the main street. As night fell, hundreds who failed to get in during the first wave disconsolately waited outside behind police barricades...
This is a shame, because in retrospect it would be useful to understand such phenomena were I ever to find myself in the middle of some serious plate action—living in Los Angeles, for instance. But there were a host of problems involved in trying to teach something outside most students’ spheres of experience and confidence which need to be considered more explicitly before still more such classes are foisted upon the much-beleaguered student body. Big issues like the fact that the enrollment represents wildly divergent background knowledge and high-school science curricula...