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...years ago. This past summer, an Australian grad student won a grant—$17,000 a year for three years—to get to the root of the dumb-blonde myth. You can even purchase apparel from a line of clothes called “A smart blonde” (which, I know, is meant to be empowering, but really, do we need the qualifier?). Carol Channing made a career out of playing a dumb blonde. “I didn’t have to be bright,” she said in an interview in Ladies...
...Pretty smart for a universal remote, the 676 relies on a Web wizard to get you set up, instead of making you punch in those annoying codes. Three changeable color plates are included. logitech.com...
...standard iPod is tough to beat, but at $250 Apple's 4-GB Mini is facing some serious competition. Virgin's new Player 5 GB ($250; virginelectronics.com has smart playlists, an FM tuner and twin headphone jacks. Creative's 5-GB Zen Micro ($280; creative.com) with its radical touch-pad face, comes in 10 colors, twice as many as the Mini. The 5-GB Dell Pocket DJ ($200; dell.com may have fewer frills, but it also costs fewer dollars...
...Portman is also incredibly smart (at Harvard, law professor Alan Dershowitz gave her his highest grade in two classes). She's elegant, unpretentious, unguarded and kind. She's an ethical vegetarian who has used her star status to talk to John McCain and Hillary Clinton about micro-financing for women in developing countries. So the men whose idealization is a little creepy have a lot to hide behind. Clive Owen, who plays opposite Portman's stripper character in Closer, seems to have the excuse down: "We had a scene, which is probably the longest in the movie...
...Pelle is a very smart hockey player,” Donato said. “He’s in the right place in the right time. Yeah, he scored the goal, but he made another five or six real good decisions with the puck on the power play...