Word: superstar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...medicine should entertain the idea that evolution might not apply to humans. Indeed, the question was almost predictable, since the room was filled with Harvey Fellows, high-performing young academics devoted to bringing a Christian presence to fields where Evangelicals are underrepresented. And Collins, that rarest of raritiesa superstar evangelical biologistand author of the new book The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (Free Press; 304 pages), was perfectly qualified to answer. He did. That notion "gets you into a series of real problems," he replied. He sketched one out: the human genome contains nonfunctional elements...
...fair. At all. Remember the highlight clips, the posters from the 1980s, when a skinny Michael Jordan soared above the seven-foot stiffs of the day, his knees knocking their noses, for a ferocious, "did that just happen?" dunk? Well, as amazing as he is, anointing Miami Heat superstar guard and NBA Finals MVP Dwyane Wade the rightful heir to His Airness is just silly - just as it was before with such flameouts as Harold Miner, or stars in their own right like Vince Carter and Kobe Bryant...
...isolation game is a setback for a league that had only recently, with the help of rule changes, brought back the beauty of old-fashioned team basketball - the kind practiced by the Detroit Pistons, San Antonio Spurs and, yes, Dallas Mavericks. But most are just happy to celebrate a superstar unique in his own right...
Likewise, Philbin's carefully crafted irascibility is what allows the wealthy superstar to double as your crotchety 74-year-old uncle. At a recent Live with Regis and Kelly taping, he groused about sitting in first class on a flight from Italy, getting clocked in the head by people hauling their luggage to the back of the plane. "Nobody checks bags anymore!" he expostulated, while the audience--tourists in sweatshirts still damp from waiting for tickets in a pouring rain--hooted and laughed as a millionaire lectured them on how properly to fly coach...
...recent days a number of names - actually, noms de guerre - have surfaced as potentially rising stars. (Al-Qaeda in Iraq constantly changes its commanders - and switches their names - for security reasons and to throw the U.S. off track.) Whether any of these personalities will attain Zarqawi's superstar-jihadi status remains to be seen. But TIME spoke with Abu Bara, an insurgent commander in Zarqawi's organization, and came up with these assessments of the most prominent commanders...