| Street Sweetie finds out who's really boss
I don't know if the comparison is flattering [to either one of us]," she said. But she did so safe in the knowledge that a poll by Wall Street website dealbreaker.com just a month earlier had crowned her as the hottest financial news anchor, receiving 37pc of the votes to Bartiromo's meagre 13pc. And so Burnett's star ascended, bringing in stellar audiences for both the shows she anchors, including Squawk on the Street, which airs on CNBC Europe. That was until this week, when news emerged of a somewhat jocular interview Burnett had given to Men's Health magazine - where else for a woman known to fans as the "Street Sweetie?" - concerning what impresses her in a man. High on her list of eight ways to woo her is "hiring a personal chef to prepare meals for the few nights a week" she is home.
TRAVELERS’ CHECK : Boozman sends note on airport
Kelly Johnson, the airport director at XNA, said Boozman's letter is worth a shot. "Will we ever eliminate 'Fayetteville' being used ?" she said. "I'm not sure it's possible. " I hand flight attendants my business card, and I ask if they see the word 'Fayetteville' on there anywhere. We try to educate. It's just one of those awkward, strange transitions, but you'd think after nine years it would be getting better.” One would think. Robert J. Smith's column about people on the move in Northwest Arkansas appears each Monday. He can be reached at rsmith@arkansasonline. com. .
U.S. marine-mammal experts fear for Arctic
Global temperatures have not risen other than trivially for the last six years. How is that anything but stable? Sure, it has not (yet) cooled to the average between 1960-1990, but that doesn't mean it's still warming. Posted 24/12/07 at 4:15 PM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
Moss Helps Launch Tsunami Charity
Supermodel Kate Moss has helped launch a new charity set up in remembrance of her friend who died in 2004's Indian Ocean tsunami. The British beauty was devastated when she learned model booker Samantha Archer Fayet, who she befriended early in her career, had died in Thailand along with her 6-month-old daughter Ruby Rose. The SamandRuby charity, which has been set up by Samantha's husband Patrice Fayet, will be funded by sales of a new rose created in their memory. Moss says, "Sam was one of my oldest and closest friends. If my support for the charity helps kids get a better education and start in life, it's the least I can do in memory of Sam and Ruby Rose." .
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Iowa State University researchers determined earlier this year that 45 percent of 3,683 state linemen surveyed in 2005 were overweight, according to the body mass index, which compares weight to height.
There's more evidence that an increasing number of players at the state's 361 football programs are at greater risk for diabetes, as well as cardio and joint problems. The Des Moines Sunday Register Elite all-state team ballooned to a record average 224.2 pounds per player last year.
Register Elite all-state linemen weighed an average of 258.9 pounds - more than 50 pounds larger than their 1960s counterparts.
Hansen weighed 290 pounds as a junior, then lost 40 pounds from his 6-foot-4-inch frame after cutting down on soda pop and candy while increasing time working out.
Electoral Finance Bill - the Green position
Protecting free speech and fairer elections From Green MP Metiria Turei and Green Co-leader Russel Norman Please forward this email to as many people as you can to get the truth out there. www.greens.org.nz/campaigns/electoralreform/ Many of you will have seen media reports and even paid advertising about the Electoral Finance Bill. Given the controversy around this Bill, we thought it was important that we wrote to you directly to explain the Green position. The Electoral Finance Bill deals with one of the most important issues in our democracy - controls on the financing of election campaigns to protect the integrity of the ballot from the inequality of the wallet. .
Beautiful Miss Idaho in LCHS Parade
On top, another of Granati's fine photos. Below, Family Phil's shot of historic downtown Wallace. BTW, Phil has a Little-Ears-Have-Big-Windows post here. *HBO's still trying to figure out what Stebbijo/Your Choice means by done-r here. *CDADave/Thin Air is trying out a new look as he prepares to return to the HBO blogosphere in a big way on Monday. He's asking folks what they think here. *Amy Crooks/That's Life. Life Goes On sounds as though she's been working hard for her money and not blogging too much here. *Marianne Love/Slight Detour has some fascinating historical info about Bonner County, including how Hoodoo Creek was formed and how Sagle got its name after losing out to Eagle in southern Idaho here. Also: Herb Huseland/Bay Views puts in his 2 cents about the inheritance tax here, Digital Fog has another fine parody here, ErinG/Idaho Native is getting nervous about the birth process here and Cis Gors/From A Simple Mind analyzes an online quiz she took here.
Race row Nobel scientist James Watson scraps tour after being ...
A Nobel Prize-winning geneticist has cancelled a string of speaking engagements in Britain after being suspended from a prestigious scientific laboratory for claiming that black people are less intelligent than whites. James Watson is on his way back to the United States to "sort out" his job at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Long Island, NY. His comments caused a storm of controversy. The scientist, who won the Nobel prize for his part in discovering the structure of DNA, was quoted in an interview in The Sunday Times saying he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really." Although Dr Watson tried to quell the row with an apology last night, he was too late to prevent widespread condemnation of his comments.
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