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...Leno, the Grover Cleveland of television, commenced his second nonconsecutive term on March 1. His transition from prime-time failure to once and future host of The Tonight Show lasted about a minute and a half. The cold open had him waking up in a sepia-toned sequence à la Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. In the monologue he said, "We were off for the last couple of weeks--kind of like the Russians at the Olympics!" And then it was back to what could have been a Leno monologue from before The Jay Leno Show--and before...
...radiation increases the chances of developing brain cancer, it should show up in long-term studies of cell-phone users. But many epidemiological studies have found no clear connection, including a 2007 Danish Cancer Society study of 421,000 cell-phone users, which led many in the media to conclude that mobiles are harmless. To date, "peer-reviewed scientific evidence has overwhelmingly indicated that wireless devices do not pose a risk," says John Walls, a spokesman for CTIA, a global wireless association. (See how to prevent illness...
...that has spanned 45 years, he has regularly sidestepped doom. Specter's most celebrated swerve came last April, when he switched parties to avoid a Republican primary against a conservative challenger he had barely beaten in 2004. He acknowledged he could never win the GOP nomination for a sixth term after voting for Barack Obama's economic stimulus package - a move that was one heresy too many for the shrinking Pennsylvania Republican Party. (See pictures from the Pennsylvania Senate race...
Thus far, Sestak has failed to meet expectations; he was 24 points down in the latest Quinnipiac University poll. But the same survey revealed that Specter has vulnerabilities. More than half of the Pennsylvanians surveyed said their senior Senator does not deserve another term; among Democrats who know the candidates well enough to have an opinion of both, Sestak led Specter 54% to 37%. "My challenge is name recognition," Sestak says. "That's the one challenge I have." If so, it is one Sestak may be able to surmount once he starts tapping a campaign war chest that has grown...
...Tuesday night, Beck faced a foe unlike any other, a pasty, disgraced former one-term Democratic Congressman from New York, Eric Massa, who had resigned only hours earlier amid an ethics inquiry into allegations that he groped and sexually harassed some of his male employees over the years. Massa, who has maintained that his main reason for not running for re-election in the fall is a recurrence of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, arrived at the Fox studios with an X-ray of his chest and a photo album of pictures from his Navy service that, he announced, "looks like...