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Posted August 8, 2012
Michael Phelps is the man of the hour. Heck, maybe the year. It?s not often one guy walks away from the Olympics with four gold and two silver medals. It?s even less common (so less common that it?s never actually happened before), that one guy can claim 22 Olympic medals to his name. In fact,
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Posted August 7, 2012
I’ve been saying for years that the best possible life is that of a D-list celebrity. It may not be glamorous, but you’re usually always working and you’ll probably have a cult following that slobbers all over you at conventions and, unless you have a drug or gambling problem, you’ve got enough money for a
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Posted August 7, 2012
Have you ever craved a comedy no matter what? A compulsion so strong that you might try anything just to let that laugh stuck deep down in your gut a chance to bellow forth? You may look at the Google listings of all the movies in your area, comb the ?Comedy? section of Netflix instant
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Posted August 2, 2012
Part of the fun of exploring new places comes from adapting your expectations for pleasure and enjoyment to your surroundings. To put it in clich? form, ?When in Rome, do as the Romans do.? If you?re in the Rockies, those words mean skiing, hiking and outdoor concerts. For Miami, I?ve always imagined those words mean
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Posted August 2, 2012
While looking up entrepreneurs to profile in future columns, I stumbled upon? this list of leadership lessons from Jeff Bezos, space-obsessed billionaire and chairman/CEO of Amazon.com. I was impressed that anyone as immersed in corporate culture as Bezos would even think to say things like ?we are willing to be misunderstood for long periods of
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Posted August 1, 2012
Feet pounding pavement.? Arms pumping back and forth. Buckets of sweat. Steely determination. This isn?t some scene from the London Olympics; this was me last night as I ran down my suburban street. I may have run over a dog turd or two, but I felt like a freaking champion. As of Friday, the 2012
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Posted July 31, 2012
If you’re interested in science, you’ve probably heard of 17th-century astronomer Johannes Kepler, since he came up with the laws of planetary motion and all. But you might not be as familiar with Tycho Brahe, the Danish noble and sixteenth-century astronomer whose findings were the basis for much of Kepler’s work. That alone would be
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Posted July 31, 2012
Every once in a while, I come across an actress in my research and the first thought to cross my mind is, ?How do I not know more about Julie Delpy?? It?s an especially strange thought when I research Catherine Tate. However, because I am researching Julie this week, the thought makes much more sense.
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Posted July 26, 2012
George Lucas doesn’t make too many lists of notable entrepreneurs, but he really should. I mean, I can understand why he doesn’t ? he’s mostly known as the filmmaker behind the hugely successful Star Wars and Indiana Jones film franchises, each with its own rabid, vocal fanbase that has spent the last ten years questioning
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Posted July 26, 2012
As I?ve been researching many different cities and combining my personal knowledge with that of the internet, I realized something. I?ve been doing big cities. Austin and Portland have been the only cities I?ve examined without a major league baseball team. Obviously I love a city with a baseball team, but there are so many
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Posted July 25, 2012
You know how football teams dump tubs of Gatorade over their coach at the end of a winning game? You should probably follow suit and dump all yours out immediately. According to a joint investigation by BBC Panorama and the British Medical Journal, there is very little evidence that sports drinks actually improve athletic performance.
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