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This spring Rebecca Romijn plays a news reporter in the WB's Pepper Dennis and a shape shifter in X-Men: The Last Stand...
Honey, however, is hardly the only example of puritainment out there; there is an entire genre answering some unspoken yearning of viewers to have their TVs whip their decadent couch-potato butts into shape, or at least to watch it happen to someone else. Nanny 911, Supernanny, The Biggest Loser, Celebrity Fit Club, Wife Swap, Cold Turkey--in all of them, someone comes in to impose "tough new rules" on participants who stand in for us in weak-willed lumpy America. Lose weight! Quit smoking! Be a better parent! Millions of Americans gladly, masochistically sit down to be lectured...
...elevator banks in the Dirksen building as the last of the jubilant business lobbyists was leaving and walking slowly down the hall toward a meeting with the rest of the Republican leadership and Senator Specter, Frist admitted the committee vote had altered his plans: "I'm sure it will shape my thinking," he said with understatement...
KING PROTEA It is the national flower of South Africa, just one among the many spectacular members of the large family of flowering plants named after Proteus, a Greek god capable of changing his shape at will. Scientists fear that more than a third of all Proteaceae species could disappear...
...There is no secret, no silver bullet," says Navratilova. "Everybody can do it." That means you--flabby you, middle-aged you, gym-loathing you--can get into shape and, like Navratilova, stay in shape. After years of giving advice ad hoc, Navratilova has written a book explaining how. In Shape Your Self, Navratilova argues that healthy food can taste good, getting fit doesn't require physical pain and joining a health club isn't necessary to get results. The bottom line, she says, is "you have no excuse...