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...Idle, naturally, demurs. "I wouldn't describe myself as self-confident," he says. "I was just totally ignorant.... Performing is a good way of hiding... hiding in the spotlight." It was also a swell way to be noticed. In just over four years he'd gone from the orphanage to Cambridge to the leading TV satire show. As he recalled: "To be 23 and on The Frost Report was really cool...
Finger-pointing is not a recognized weight-loss exercise. But you wouldn't know it from the vigor with which they do it in the fashion industry. Particularly when the subject of skinny models comes up. And recently it has come up a lot, what with one malnourished South American model dying when she stepped off the runway, the Madrid fashion shows barring models who are too thin, and the scary walking chopsticks who came down the runway in New York City this month...
...Hands up, any-one who knew Madrid even had a fashion week.) But it had a ripple effect. Edinburgh, the biggest fashion center in all of ... Scotland, announced it would do the same for its fashion shows. The mayor of Milan, where the shows are this week, said she wouldn't be opposed to having that restriction in her city. No one took her up on it. Ripple effects don't have much of a shot against the surging currents of fashion...
...necessarily a causal relationship, between teen gambling and higher rates of drinking, drugs and suicide. He estimated that there are 5 million youths in the U.S. and Canada who have some kind of gambling problem. Parents are a big part of that problem, he said. "Just as you wouldn't sit down and have a beer with your 10- or 11-year-old child, you shouldn't gamble with them, either...
...only would Pedro draw Hispanic (and other) fans to Shea, but his leadership would attract other top-tier Latino players to the Mets. Carlos Beltran, coming off a torrid postseason for the Houston Astros, signed a seven-year, $119 million contract one month after the Martinez deal. "Beltran wouldn't have considered us without Pedro," Minaya says. Before this season, Minaya traded for Beltran's close friend, slugger Carlos Delgado, who has hit 38 home runs. Delgado eased Beltran's burden in the lineup, contributing to his MVP-caliber resurgence...