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...victory also validated the old rule that the Editing Oscar is the savviest predictor for Best Picture. The theory is that people, even Academy members, don?t know much about the craft of editing-the extent to which the cuts in a film are determined by the script-so they vote for the movie with the most stuff going on. Crash was certainly the busiest film nominated. And the noisiest. Whereas the other four nominees (Brokeback, Capote, Munich and Good Night, and Good Luck.) kept seeking reconciliation within their social and political conflicts, Crash let its arguments bubble over, like...
...shows that mothers are often more concerned about weight than their children,” she said. In addition to parental influence, Field acknowledged the presence of other variables that often impact teenage attitudes towards weight. She said that her research showed that media influences ranked first as a predictor of weight concerns in teenage girls, peer influences ranked second, and parental influences ranked third. Field said that she hopes to continue research on the relationship between mothers’ and children’s attitudes toward health. Some of her current research focuses on looking at a mother?...
...waists--are 12 times as likely to develop Type 2 diabetes as men measuring 29 in. to 34 in. around. Studies also supported the contention of many experts that the waist-to-hip ratio is a more accurate measure of obesity and a better predictor of heart-attack risk than the widely used body mass index...
...realizing this.” Panelists singled out the Internet as a particularly important new political tool. The survey also identified the 18-24 demographic as particularly religious, with more than one-third of respondents identifying as born-again Christians. “Religious affiliation is almost the best predictor of partisanship,” said Bill McInturff, who was a pollster for the 2000 presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. Other panelists included Diane Felsman, who worked as a pollster for the 2004 presidential campaign of Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., and John de la Volpe...
...PREDICTOR Psychic ''Mystic Meg'' in the supermarket tabloid Globe PREDICTION Fear of disease will prompt Madonna to remarry Sean Penn and become ''the new Julie Andrews of the film world.'' WHAT HAPPENED Sean Penn and Robin Wright had their second child. Madonna starred in Body of Evidence, an S&M bomb...